My brother’s wife delivered a healthy baby boy this evening.
Happy Birthday, Linden !!!
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2010 Snow in Mizzo
Our vacation in Colorado came to an end, as all great things do. We did make it to Breckenridge on New Years day! I took a bad tumble on my first run down so that slowed me down the rest of the day but I still enjoyed myself. I got a snowboard of my own but I did not try it out in the mountains. However, there is snow in Missouri right now!
Liquid spent the evening of the first day we got back mounding up as much snow as he could against the pump house. So, you climb the ladder, stand on the pump house to strap on the board and go down the steep bank, hopefully clearing the jump at the end and sailing slowly onto the pond.
This was highway J this morning, en route to work.
My snowboard is in the car and I’m finding some hills during my lunch break.
Haha! :: Results!
Vail For New Years Eve
We arrived around 10 and got done with our last run at 4:45. We boarded down quite a few black diamonds which I wasn’t expecting but it went well. One time I tried going through the trees, through the super thick powder (3 feet?), couldn’t make it due to slowing down and I couldn’t walk back out to a path so I had to slide down on the board on my stomach for a little ways until I could stand up and cause a mini avalanche before coasting down to a main path.
And the waxing afterwards…
Oh yeah — Happy New Year.
Dude, I Can Snowboard For Real This Time
Out in Colorado for almost 2 weeks — so far we went to Eldora Mountain Resort and the plan is to go to Vail and Breckenridge before the week is out. I snowboarded the whole time at Eldora and really look forward to more of it. I’ll save the skis for when I want to go really fast and/or through the trees. I didn’t take any photos while at Eldora. For now, check out backyard snowboarding:
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Almost 5 Years With This Phone!
This is the Nokia 6800. I first bought one early 2005 and have been using it ever since. Sure, I’ve gone through 3-4 of them because I straight wore them out or dropped them in water, but I’ve not cheated on it with any other models. Why? Because no other phone on the market is so cheap (I can replace the phone on ebay for $30-$50 all day long, used) and has such an awesome QWERTY keyboard. When the keyboard isn’t flipped out it looks like a regular (’oldschool’) Nokia phone and acts just like it, but when the keyboard is flipped out, Oh boy! I can type like a mofo.
However, sometime in Jan or Feb I’m hoping to buy an iPhone. Eeep!
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Copper Art! Part 1
Incense cones + Burner = No burnt furniture, etc.
Available on Etsy
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5 Days Until Expiration — Help!
Flickr Pro. I can’t live without it. Oh won’t somebody help me? Friends were gracious enough to help me out for the past few years. Why stop now? (;
Give the gift of Flickr! :: Virtualdistortion
I will print any photo you like and send it as a thank you.
(Hopefully that hooks you.)
A Moment In Kansas City
Liquid especially likes this one:
Finds.
This list comes to you only because my job forced me out of bed (early) this morning and nothing else besides cruising the internet is of much interest.
I forgot my camera at home today.
Waffle maker makes waffles that look like keyboards!
Panda Bread – cute. I want to make some! This idea could be morphed into so many other things. Hmm. Making bread has been high on my cooking to-do list lately, I just need to make the time.
NSFW: Visual inspiration!
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Sometimes Life Happens.
I’ve got a lot going on. Too much going on, actually. I have a lot of thinking to do about just about every aspect of my life. I’m not in the best place right now .. but it’s all in hopes for greater happiness.
I am leaving my place of employment in ~1 week (was going on 2 years there) and am planning on living under the bridge in a van, pretty much. A dark, monotonous office job is not where I dream of being to say the least. I’m going to pursue my art.. photography, sculpture, graphic stuff.. and see how that goes.. keep my eyes open for other opportunities. I’m not sure if I’ll stay in Missouri at this point or not as it was not my dream to be here exactly either.. but I love my friends and I think I could be happy here if I fix what is inside and what my patterns of life are. This winter is/was really rough. I’m really ready for spring and freedom. It was 65 degrees yesterday and I spent hours outside jogging around doing animal chores at home. Hehe. Some bad news on the animal front though is that, for the past couple weeks, Liquid and I have been keeping our dogs primarily with us in town and not out at the house… so something (one night, all the sudden) destroyed 4/5 ducks and the remaining chicken. “Marble” duck is all alone and I don’t even know what to do about it.
I’m thinking of giving my dog, Della, to my brother and his family. I love her so much that it’s going to kinda break my heart but I think it would help me discover more freedom. I’ve been hanging out with her a tremendous amount of time lately. I will bring her with when I go up there in the spring. I am also thinking of finding a new home for my cat .. and the horses. ugh .. all of this pulls on my heartstrings so. And also may come as a shock to some of you I’d hope, as I am a major animal lover.
Change is inevitable.
I actually want to live in a toy hauler trailer down by the river but we’ll see how that goes.
I didn’t post at all in February on here. That’s the first time I think that I’ve missed a whole month of blogging in however many years this thing goes back. I’m fairly dissapointed in myself for it. I want to write more, especially since I will have more time soon. No promises though.
I bought my name domain .. I need to start developing that as my portfolio !
Other news? — I got an iPhone 3GS and I love it.. love love love it.
I went up to Minnesota the weekend of February 21st for my brother’s 30th birthday celebration. That will be my next post. (;