i spent today driving through kansas on our way to reno. we're going to reno for our annual national usbc women's bowling championships. i'm currently in limon, colorado. it's super exciting here as you can imagine.
there wasn't a lot to see as we rolled through kansas. but we came across these windmills that reminded me of the teletubbies. i thought they were pretty cool.
enjoy!
tomorrow we'll go through colorado, to wyoming, then utah. i think the plan is to stop around salt lake city before heading into nevada on friday.
more to come!
what am i up to?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
cheetos, cheetos everywhere....
my regular readers (all four or so of you) are no stranger to the fact that i have some neighbors who are completely and utterly crazy. as today is mother's day - happy mother's day by the way - the crazy neighbors have crazy family gatherings with other crazy family members.
i've written on more than one occasion about the neighbor who we call "lazy ass". the one who parks her car in front of our house for days on end when there's plenty of good space in front of her own home. i think she does it just to spite us.
anyway - she and her husband have a bunch of crazy kids - and they in turn all have a bunch of monstrous children. which is why i found myself sitting here on my peaceful mother's day listening to these kids who have clearly taken a class in screaming bloody murder. at any given time i expect to look out my window and see one of them beating another with a stick but instead find they are just driving their big wheels down the steps.
that was - until the cheetos came along.
i don't know where they came from. but all of the sudden jeff was laughing because they had spilled the bag of cheetos they had been sharing all over the porch and steps. interestingly enough, they spilled evenly across 3 out of 4 steps. they almost look like someone poured them across each step. the kids were suddenly very quiet.
now i must tell you that i fought every urge that i had to take a picture of this with my camera. i was certain it was probably wrong. the sight of the bright orange across each step alone was something to see though.
so jeff and i sat here and watched as these five kids - the oldest of which may be five herself - contemplated what they should do about the fallen cheetos. the oldest was picking them up one by one off of the top step and putting them back on the bag (which was ripped all the way open). the rest just kinda watched for a good three minutes.
then the oldest went inside for thirty seconds. and came back out followed by grandma (aka lazy ass)and a bowl. it wasn't actually a bowl. it looked more like a corning ware casserole dish. but grandma instructed them to pick up the cheetos and put them in the bowl. okay. i can kinda see that. but when i realized that grandma gave them a bowl so that they would have a more stable container to hold their snack and watched the oldest sit down on the sidewalk with the bowl and start to eat the cheetos - i then lost my cheeto related appetite.
one of the boys chose not to eat the cheetos but instead chose to stomp on the remaining cheetos on the steps creating a lovely cheeto dust to go with the pollen dust. yummy...
and so these are our neighbors. i really hope a normal family moves into the unoccupied house next to them. we only have one set of normal neighbors on the whole block. we are completely outnumbered. and this scares us....
i've written on more than one occasion about the neighbor who we call "lazy ass". the one who parks her car in front of our house for days on end when there's plenty of good space in front of her own home. i think she does it just to spite us.
anyway - she and her husband have a bunch of crazy kids - and they in turn all have a bunch of monstrous children. which is why i found myself sitting here on my peaceful mother's day listening to these kids who have clearly taken a class in screaming bloody murder. at any given time i expect to look out my window and see one of them beating another with a stick but instead find they are just driving their big wheels down the steps.
that was - until the cheetos came along.
i don't know where they came from. but all of the sudden jeff was laughing because they had spilled the bag of cheetos they had been sharing all over the porch and steps. interestingly enough, they spilled evenly across 3 out of 4 steps. they almost look like someone poured them across each step. the kids were suddenly very quiet.
now i must tell you that i fought every urge that i had to take a picture of this with my camera. i was certain it was probably wrong. the sight of the bright orange across each step alone was something to see though.
so jeff and i sat here and watched as these five kids - the oldest of which may be five herself - contemplated what they should do about the fallen cheetos. the oldest was picking them up one by one off of the top step and putting them back on the bag (which was ripped all the way open). the rest just kinda watched for a good three minutes.
then the oldest went inside for thirty seconds. and came back out followed by grandma (aka lazy ass)and a bowl. it wasn't actually a bowl. it looked more like a corning ware casserole dish. but grandma instructed them to pick up the cheetos and put them in the bowl. okay. i can kinda see that. but when i realized that grandma gave them a bowl so that they would have a more stable container to hold their snack and watched the oldest sit down on the sidewalk with the bowl and start to eat the cheetos - i then lost my cheeto related appetite.
one of the boys chose not to eat the cheetos but instead chose to stomp on the remaining cheetos on the steps creating a lovely cheeto dust to go with the pollen dust. yummy...
and so these are our neighbors. i really hope a normal family moves into the unoccupied house next to them. we only have one set of normal neighbors on the whole block. we are completely outnumbered. and this scares us....
Friday, May 08, 2009
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
cinco de mayo
let us all pause for a moment to celebrate what an AWESOME holiday cinco de mayo is.
sure. i may not have a FULL understanding of the holiday. but i'm happy to celebrate anything that lets me split an entire pitcher of margaritas with my mom...
sure. i may not have a FULL understanding of the holiday. but i'm happy to celebrate anything that lets me split an entire pitcher of margaritas with my mom...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
self education
so i googled the words "what is swine flu?" - you know - cause i was curious. i don't think i've read a single article that really has said what it was. so i once again employed intern google.
this is what i found: http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/20061101/swine-flu-faq
it's quite helpful. especially the part where it says i can still eat bacon. that's a good thing. almost everything is better with bacon.
so i just thought that i would share with everyone the answer to the "what is swine flu" question. i think if you read this - and not the articles on the major news webpages - then there's a chance that people everywhere may be just a touch less panicked about it...
Monday, April 27, 2009
just not sure i can handle this "growing up thing".....
you know. many years ago i had this little bitty baby. really little. like five pounds, 10 ounces. tiny. and she was cute. and she cooed. and she squawked. and sometimes she just downright screamed. but it was okay.
then when she was 15 months old she started to walk.
and when she was about 2, she started to babble.
and then when she was 11 she spent an entire weekend driving me crazy asking me every five minutes if she could call her boyfriend and stomping away when she didn't like the answer.
and now i have a strong desire to trade her in for a kitten....
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