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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

show me the muddy

a few years ago i was reading Adventure magazine and saw the add for the Muddy Buddy race. if you've never heard of it, visit their site. really, it's a blast. so i wasn't able to do it that year cuz i saw the ad too late. but nacho and i signed up for it the next year and went up to Chicago to run it with our 2 "Foster Kids" and another couple. we had an awesome time. this race is like so many others in that they hold it at various locations around the country. for whatever reason, i think because we go there so often for snowboarding, i've always wanted to do the one in Colorado. well, today i signed me and my dearest friend up for it. she lives out there so that makes it super convenient. and she's going into it kicking and screaming...she has no idea she'll come out of it that way too! it's not until Aug, but i couldn't wait to post something about it so she can't back out! and btw, this post's title is our team name: Show Me the Muddy! wish us luck!

Friday, April 11, 2008

a beautiful thing

quite possibly the urn i will ask to be placed in

Thursday, April 10, 2008

and this is the table

big momma watching

okay, sometimes a web cam is not your best friend. i'm sitting at work and it's really crappy weather here. a co-worker mentions rain and it occurs to me to check the web cam at home. i can tell right away something is wrong cuz there's a chair tipped over on the deck. but the bigger problem is/was the fact that i can see right through the patio table top. i shouldn't be able to do that! panic begins! it finally dawns on me to call my neighbor - the guy renovating the house next to us - cuz he's always there. so we all sit here glued to my monitor at work, watching my neighbor walk all over my deck picking things up. he calls to let me know everything is generally okay, but the storm must have picked up the tempered glass top to the patio table and it's shattered into "a million little pieces" (except my story really did happen). if i start gluing now, i might have a table by the end of summer!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

this is just plain insane!

i'll stick with my crappy little Jingle Bell Run thanks!

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/13903

Readin' Ain't FunDamental

B: you know we don't have any book stores in Pekin!
T: you have Morrey's
B: like i said, we don't have any book stores in Pekin!
D: so do they put up a road block when the book mobile comes to town?
Br: yeah, i have to hide my magazines
B: as long as it's Guns & Ammo or Modern Meth you should be okay
Br: or Field and Stream

Thursday, March 27, 2008

one of the best birthdays ever

for many reasons, but this is one of them

birthdays

oh, i am the worst at this. i woke up one morning thinking it was one friends birthday and nacho informed me that isn't until 2 days later. then i remembered another friend who has a birthday in Feb, but i don't know the date. probably makes you question exactly how i define friend right? it's a loose definition at best and seems to have more to do with being willing to take a ranting irrational call from me at some obscure hour of the morning or understanding my "electricity comes from the sun" speech than actually knowing any significant dates of my life or me of yours.
and because i have learned at 38 pride is a useless virtue, i called this 2nd friend to say "hey, when is your birthday?" to which she responded "it was last Friday". i'm right on time then. this then led us to the typical birthday perspective (hers not mine) that "it's just another day". DAMN IT IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY!!!! WEDNESDAY IS JUST ANOTHER DAY (unless it's your birthday). YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THE BEST DAMN DAY OF THE YEAR. NOW GET EXCITED!!! i'm a little fanatical about birthdays aren't i? and yet, i can't seem to remember anyones. hmmmm

so that got me to remembering my mom's birthday. she too held the belief that it is just another day. well, it's probably a good thing, cuz i never could get my mom's bday right. see, i had this friend way back from elementary school who's day was Nov 5 and my mom's was Nov 7. but i never could remember who's was when. so i would call my mom on Nov 5 and say something like "well, i thought before things get too crazy i'd go ahead and call and wish you a happy bday". never once did she ever say "you're a little early dear" or "well that's not for 2 days". mom's are awesome - she knew i didn't know the exact date. a the year before she passed away, i called my sister on Nov 5 and asked what was the date, the 5th or the 7th. to which she and my brother both responded "well, we were hoping you would know." thanks guys big help. so i sucked it up, called my mom that day (the 5th) and admitted to not being able to get her date straight. she knew! and then she gave me multiple ways to remember it: (1) it's always the day you vote and (2) the 7/11 store. since i waited much later in life to actually vote, option 1 wasn't as helpful as it could have been. but option 2, now that's a different story! i haven't missed a happy bday since!

oh, and if you subscribe to the notion that "it's just another day", good for you. you're welcome to it. not me. MY BIRTHDAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE WHOLE FREAKIN YEAR AND PEOPLES FROM ALL OVER DANCE AND REJOICE ON MY DAY!!!