Specifically today.
#154
Five Reasons I’m Happy For The Day:
- NPR and Youtube streaming from Bonnaroo.
- The World Cup is fascinating.
- No more blue room in my house!
- Family reunion planning.
- MK’s off rounding up a ton of furniture, etc. Finally!
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Good Days Are Great
Get Motivated
So when we met up with MH she invited me to a seminar with motivational speakers she was going to for work. I had to say yes since I knew that MK thought I couldn’t get up that early the next morning after our crazy night out.
I really don’t think I have been up at 6am in four years. But I did it. And showered and was ready by 6:30. I rule. I got a coffee in the car, and a water when we sat down. Energy Solutions Arena was packed. I got to hear Gen. Colin Powell, Rudy Guliani, John Walsh, and Mitt Romney speak. It was interesting. As long as you take what you hear with a grain of salt, those things can serve the purpose of a little reminder to pump you up about life or work or whatever goal you’re trying to achieve.
On the other hand, the thing was super religious (perhaps because of where we were), super patriotic, and super sales pitchy. Fine for me, but I was hoping the other people there didn’t put all their eggs in the basket of the guy promising to make them rich with stock or real estate investments.
Also, in spite of Rudy Guliani telling people to get with it technologically, no one was tweeting. I kept checking searches to see what people were saying. Like I mentioned, there were tens of thousands of people there. I thought it was strange that there were maybe three people tweeting their thoughts. Totally gave MK proof it’s not as major a resource as I keep trying to tell him.
It was a big adventure for me to be out all day, people watching and remembering what it was like to be all done up in business attire. Reminded me of lots of good times in Austin. Almost made me want to get back to a career and busy business stuff. Almost. 
Taco Tuesday Torture
You know we are big old fans of Taco Tuesday. We don’t eat out all the time, and when we do it’s virtually impossible for me to finish a huge serving size of anything. So we end up doing small snacky things and appetizers. Taco Tuesday is a cheap way for me to get a little snack and MK to eat as much as he can. We went on the prowl for some yummy cheap eats on Tuesday night. We started at Windy Ridge. I had one 2$ taco, MK had 2$ taquitos, but the margaritas were 4.75. MK remembered Davanza’s did tacos, so we went there, and were told they DON’T do tacos. Pfft.
We had a drink at Easy Street, which was DELICIOUS and NOT CHEAP. MK wanted more food so we tried a new place called Reyes Adobe. They didn’t have a bar. The call themselves a restaurant and margarteria or some crap and didn’t have a bar. In Utah that means you HAVE to order food to get a drink. We should have left. The taco MK got was gross, the tortilla soup I had to get was gross, and the drinks were even more gross.
The soup was like pureed rice in tomato broth. I gagged it was so bad. Kind of a bust, we won’t be going back there! We learned we should have just stayed where we were.
In other news of the day, I thought Momm would like to see what the mountains look like:
And we ran in to TB and the kids and went back to their place with them to visit for a bit. It was super exciting because I forcibly got MK to hold the baby:
We went to O’Shucks and had a drink with MH and watched the Celtics suck. It was kind of a 45 hour day.
House Things
We’re back to work. Now that it’s warm and dry we can get so much more done. MK rented a trailer and we took two runs to the dump. There was 1700lbs. of trash in our garage! Including the woodstove, the pipes, the wood we’d taken down in various closets, and just some random trash. We swept and cleaned out the garage and it looks great now. MK also went and bought two large trees for the side yard, and some patio furniture for our front deck!
Lot of Crap
The second trip
I put the furniture together while he ran around. I also cleaned the front and back yards and decks, weeded, seeded and watered the yards. I’ve never really done that much yardwork before, it was tough, probably good exercise. We planted some small shrubs last week, and they haven’t died yet, so I’m calling that a success.
We turned on the hot tub and shocked it. We’re cleaning it to hopefully sell. Those things are way too much work and trouble, and we never used it.
We spent a day at ikea buying a bunch of decorations, got them home, then brough half of them back. We have two floor standing vases with sticks in them. Whatever.
We have a huge list of furniture to order and get brought to us, but first we needed to finish our room! Remember this post? Where I called it a big reveal, pfft? And said coming soon? Well, now it really is. It’s been sitting like that looking crappy for two whole months. But I just got done respackling, sanding, and priming my wall. It’ll be gray tonight. MK has to do to the knockdown on the big wall and ceiling. It should be gray soon. We’ve picked out a dresser to go along the wall, a huge canvas to hang on the wall, and a TV to hang over the canvas. It’s gonna look coooool.
We painted MK’s closet in his office, pulled down junky shelves, and moved one of my big library shelves in there. Which means I had to rearrange my office. It looks a little empty but it works. I’m planning on painting it this weekend.
Pictures! From My Droid!
The best thing so far about this phone is the quality of the photos it takes. They only come out bad if you’re not still (which is the case on many of these). I also am obsessed with the apps that change the color quality and type of photo the camera takes – since Tosh.0 taught me everything looks cooler through a fish-eye lens. Since it’s my phone, I have no excuse not getting this done sooner – other than I was also waiting to see what MK had on the cameras. But since we’re never going to see those, I spent the morning finding photos for you. Now I’m off to spend the afternoon ordering! tons! of! furniture! (FINALLY!)
The problem was figuring out how to get them off the phone. As a matter of fact, I’m so attached to this phone I’m hardly ever on my laptop anymore either. Took me long enough, since they are all nearly no longer relevant…
here’s a bunch of photo albums (@snapfish, so you might need to sign in. It’s free)!
First – pictures of the house from the winter until now.
Then – just a few pics of JB and I at Solitude. The trip was amazing but that’s one where MK has all the pics other than these, so I don’t even think I did a full blog post about it. We ran up and down Main St, skied all over, and shopped and decorated the house (that part I mentioned here). MB switched from snowboarder to skier amd MK taught JB to ski at the Canyons and Solitude. The snow was gerat and hanging with them is always awesome.
Also – pictures of SXSW 2010.
This album is a couple things with our friends in PC – a couple nights out, including the infamous Ten Pin Party, where MK got us kicked out of a BOWLING ALLEY for bowling the WHITE LIGHTNING, the weirdest band I’ve EVER seen (and I’ve seen some weird bands) and MH’s moving into her new condo party. This is by far the funnest craziest group of people in PC and I’m looking forward to many more parties and a few less blurry photos with them all.
And some random extras:
handsome hubby
Trivia Winnings
- JB’s pool; with dolphins
Last, but not least, we took technically four trips to Vegas in the last three weeks or so. Since these are just phone pics, I lumped them all together. One was to see some SD friends, one just us, one with our family for CH2′s 21st birthday, and then one just us again. Man I love it there. The album is entitled “VEGASES”.
Fill In The Friday Fives
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#153
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- This week was __________.
- My seven letter personalized plate should say __________.
- Something you’ve been thinking about a lot is __________.
- Your favorite song right now is __________.
- Something coming up that you can’t wait for is __________.
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