yay! lots of blogs to read today!
i stayed late at work (5:00) so i could get my office rearranged. i forgot how heavy office furniture is. hmm. no matter, i'm a professional heavy item lifter after our riduculous concrete-moving weekend! it felt really good to get it all done and have the space look bigger and more organized.
matt is a basketball zombie now. but he made skyline dip, so i'm going to go invade his space!
some messages to fellow bloggers:
michelle-i too, am watching american idol. however, i have nothing to compare it to, since i only caught about 2 total episodes before. i also like the pen salesman kid. a lot of them of pretty good! i agree, leah is horrible--i'm so glad she got voted off last night--she never should have made it as far as she did. i like fantasia's personality more than her voice (although her voice is good, it's not my personal favorite style--but most of them aren't!). i love that redhead's voice but there's no way he's going to win... unless the only people voting are middle-aged women!!! anyhoo, it should be interesting.
mike- you go ahead and grow that hair out, girlfriend!
mare-such a great picture of casey and his doggy friend bo in front of that lake! that's a frame-it-and-put-it-on-your-desk type of picture. i can't wait to get a real dog (funny enough, we also have an ipod dog!).
i would write more but i'm hungry.
so farewell people!
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
why must we clean every single day???
that's one of the major things i am looking forward to in heaven--never having to clean again! also, seeing jesus is going to be good, too. :)
i enjoyed reading the new blogs today--michelle-nice one!
i wish i could hear baby hannah sqealing as she puts herself to sleep!
i'll get to see her soon enough. hopefully uncle matt will, too!
matt and i have been researching wood floors, since his allergist recommended them. i think we would have installed them someday anyways (they look so nice and they increase the resale value of your house), but it's more motivating to do something about it now. well, not now. but as soon as we have some cash saved up and as soon as we have a more permanent status for matt's job. so apparently i've had wood floors on the brain because i had a dream about them last night. such a weirdo!!!
anyhoo, i've been running again. i've been working it in slowly, a couple of miles, 2x/week. and i feel really good! i'm still going to my physical therapy appt on march 30th, though. but my next goal is the mission bay triathlon (500meter swim, 15k bike, 5k run) in october--anyone else want to join in on that one??? i thought about doing something in cincy this summer, michelle, if you want to get in on that. i'll do some more research.
i think we're going camping in joshua tree this weekend, so that should be great. we went about this time last year with joel and the andy's and had such a fun time. joshua tree was pretty desolate, but it had some amazing rock formations that i'm looking forward to climbing on (not hardcore, though). oh yeah, i had a graduation party for one of my girls today (when i met her last year, she couldn't say her "r" sounds so she said, "my name is tewwa nova (terra nova). my mommy says it's special because it means 'new ewth' (new earth)." ha! total drama queen in a way that entertains me every time!!! anyways, her parents came to her graduation party and we started chatting about things and they were saying that they bought property up in joshua tree. very cool. but even better is that they have a buffalo that lives there, too! apparently, he is wild but he just hangs around their yard, chewing on plants and staring at them with giant eyes! i hope i see him when we go!
welp, i must get back to the neverending lifelong job of housework.
have a great rest of the week everyone!
that's one of the major things i am looking forward to in heaven--never having to clean again! also, seeing jesus is going to be good, too. :)
i enjoyed reading the new blogs today--michelle-nice one!
i wish i could hear baby hannah sqealing as she puts herself to sleep!
i'll get to see her soon enough. hopefully uncle matt will, too!
matt and i have been researching wood floors, since his allergist recommended them. i think we would have installed them someday anyways (they look so nice and they increase the resale value of your house), but it's more motivating to do something about it now. well, not now. but as soon as we have some cash saved up and as soon as we have a more permanent status for matt's job. so apparently i've had wood floors on the brain because i had a dream about them last night. such a weirdo!!!
anyhoo, i've been running again. i've been working it in slowly, a couple of miles, 2x/week. and i feel really good! i'm still going to my physical therapy appt on march 30th, though. but my next goal is the mission bay triathlon (500meter swim, 15k bike, 5k run) in october--anyone else want to join in on that one??? i thought about doing something in cincy this summer, michelle, if you want to get in on that. i'll do some more research.
i think we're going camping in joshua tree this weekend, so that should be great. we went about this time last year with joel and the andy's and had such a fun time. joshua tree was pretty desolate, but it had some amazing rock formations that i'm looking forward to climbing on (not hardcore, though). oh yeah, i had a graduation party for one of my girls today (when i met her last year, she couldn't say her "r" sounds so she said, "my name is tewwa nova (terra nova). my mommy says it's special because it means 'new ewth' (new earth)." ha! total drama queen in a way that entertains me every time!!! anyways, her parents came to her graduation party and we started chatting about things and they were saying that they bought property up in joshua tree. very cool. but even better is that they have a buffalo that lives there, too! apparently, he is wild but he just hangs around their yard, chewing on plants and staring at them with giant eyes! i hope i see him when we go!
welp, i must get back to the neverending lifelong job of housework.
have a great rest of the week everyone!
Monday, March 15, 2004
hello gang!
and happy belated birthday to justin!!!
somehow i have mustard on my shirt and i know i didn't eat mustard today. hmmm... maybe it was transferred in a messy child hug!
anyhoo, glad to see that mary is not joining the ranks of ryan good- blogwise, i mean!
also, i must know how the clay aiken concert was! ha! that's got to be worse than hootie, seriously!!!
this past weekend matt and i helped our friends transfer concrete from their back yard to a uhaul. we were machines!!! by the time we were done loading, the uhaul was seriously lowered and the top portion of the tires were nowhere to be seen. so the four of us hopped in the front of the uhaul, ready to ride to the city dump. as we were driving away, we heard a horrible sound of tires scraping on the bottom of the truck. this would be our background noise for the rest of the trip. our excursion also involved hitting a giant pothole, having a guy pull up and tell us that our axle was about to snap, and having the lady at the dump weigh our vehicle and say, "oh my god!" apparently, we had 6 thousand pounds of concrete in that deal! we really were praying the whole way that we would make it unharmed and that the truck would be unharmed. which was what happened, thankfully. after burning the brakes and the tires, of course!
we're still so sore!!!! i've got to get a workout like that in more often!
welp, i have a dentist appt to pick up my nightguard so i don't grind my teeth into oblivion. farewell.
14 more days of work until spring break!
(let the school countdowns begin, mare...)
tracey
and happy belated birthday to justin!!!
somehow i have mustard on my shirt and i know i didn't eat mustard today. hmmm... maybe it was transferred in a messy child hug!
anyhoo, glad to see that mary is not joining the ranks of ryan good- blogwise, i mean!
also, i must know how the clay aiken concert was! ha! that's got to be worse than hootie, seriously!!!
this past weekend matt and i helped our friends transfer concrete from their back yard to a uhaul. we were machines!!! by the time we were done loading, the uhaul was seriously lowered and the top portion of the tires were nowhere to be seen. so the four of us hopped in the front of the uhaul, ready to ride to the city dump. as we were driving away, we heard a horrible sound of tires scraping on the bottom of the truck. this would be our background noise for the rest of the trip. our excursion also involved hitting a giant pothole, having a guy pull up and tell us that our axle was about to snap, and having the lady at the dump weigh our vehicle and say, "oh my god!" apparently, we had 6 thousand pounds of concrete in that deal! we really were praying the whole way that we would make it unharmed and that the truck would be unharmed. which was what happened, thankfully. after burning the brakes and the tires, of course!
we're still so sore!!!! i've got to get a workout like that in more often!
welp, i have a dentist appt to pick up my nightguard so i don't grind my teeth into oblivion. farewell.
14 more days of work until spring break!
(let the school countdowns begin, mare...)
tracey