Morning Excitement

I live in a neighborhood that some might find a little 'sketchy.' I normally don't feel threatened living here, and the only time I've ever been scared was when we had some crazy people living next to us that we worked hard to get rid of.

But this morning on my way to work, I called 911.

It's like this - I walked to work (I live 4 blocks away from work) and coming out of my driveway I saw a young guy walking down the main street we connect with. Well...I take that back, first I heard him yelling obsenities, and then I saw him. He looked at me and yelled "what are you looking at? I'm going f... somebody up." wow...so I felt a little threatened. I let him get way ahead of me, he's still yelling at no one, at himself at other people along the road, and I decided someone needs to get him off the street.

So that's when I called 911. Normally, I'm not squite so apt to call and might have just let it go. I run into questionable people now and then, but I felt threatened by this guy.

Needless to say, I was late to work...not so shocking considering how slowly I was walking to stay way behind this guy.

I'm wide awake - that's the good thing! :)

Weekend Fun Part 2

Jeni's here! And we're having a great time. We picked her up at the airport Saturday night. Sunday morning we went to church (which was a great sermon this week) and then went out to lunch and headed home.

We are watching John's parent's dogs this weekend, so we let all the critters out and packed some snacks and headed to Wasilla. We went kayaking on a lake out there - it was beautiful. The sun came out as if on que and we just floated around checking out different parts of the lake.

It had been a gloomy day so it was so great getting an hour or so of sun.

After the kayaking, we climbed the rock climbing tower. It's 35 feet. It didn't seem so tall...at least not at first. We got all geared up and John went first. He just flew up the wall - oh I thought, it's not so hard.


So then it was my turn..I climbed to the little window and then had some issues...I got stuck. I had to stay there and think for a while. But I made it to the top! :) It was so worth it. Belaying doing was very fun I recommend trying it to any one! The harness is so flattering...ha! It really just accentuates your fabulous fluffy parts!!!

Jeni went third and she did great too. She got a little stuck a the window as well, but made it to the top. Watching her belay was a riot. I laughed so hard...and then she watched the video we took and had good laugh too...it was great.

Weekend Fun Part 1

John and I rearranged our bedroom...big time. Those of you who have been to our house know that we had a really - and I mean really tall bed. We were both growing weary of how much space our huge bed took up in our room and tired of having to literally climb in and out of it every day...so we got to work.

We had a lot of stuff stored under our bed so it took a long time to unload all of the stuff and find places for it...and then we took the bed apart...yeah huge job. Above is Izzy checking out the situation as we cleaned things up and got ready for the main event.

We are currently borrowing a queen sized bed from John's parents to see if we can survive in a queen before we commit. I think we'll make it, and we'll get our own bed soon. I like it so much better - it's much more roomy and more like a bedroom. AND I can have my book on the nightstand next to me even! How cool is that?

So - here's the look so far. We'll probably move things around a bit more...and I'm not sure if we'll keep our current bread spread, etc. It's okay, but not it's HUGE on our little bed. As you can see Izzy approves.

Getting Excited

My sister Jeni is coming to see me for the next week or so and I cannot wait for her to get here. It's so great to have family visit and I love that she's willing to come all the way up here to hang out with us! :) I'm not sure what all we're going to do but I'm sure we'll find something to do - having a hiking buddy is going to be fab!

I have to brag for two seconds. I have the most incredible husband...for real. That's all. I'd like to say more but I'm fairly certain I'd really embarrass him.

I suppose I should get moving already...

BIG bummer

I thought it was too good to be true - my $100 was counterfeit. That's right - I found funny money...bummer! I hadn't really spent it in my head yet, so that's a good thing!

Bella and $100

John and I just wanted "Bella" a movie recommended to us. It was an incredible movie - I HIGHLY recommend it - to anyone. Clean, beautiful story, great acting...it was just an amazing story.

Also - I found a $100 bill today when I was walking the dogs. That was very exciting. I picked it up off of the street when I was picking up some trash this morning...pretty sweet, eh? I'm not even going to try and think of where it came from and whose it was...that takes too much imagination, or maybe not enough!

A crowd draws a crowd

Maybe it's because I have a BA in sociology...maybe it's because I analyze things too much...not really sure. Whatever the reason, I am fascinated by theories - I have a few of my own and I'm going to share one of them.

It's not like I made up "a crowd draws a crowd" but I have seen in proven many times. I have some good friends that I used to travel with and we liked to go to theme parks - I think we went to Disneyland twice and Magic Mountain once or something like that. Anyway...we would walk up to a line and there wouldn't be anyone there but as soon as all 8 (or however many of us there were) got in line it was like the skies opened up and dropped people from the heavens. The line would suddenly double or triple. We had so much fun on those trips...but I digress.

So I decided that maybe the crowd draws a crowd theory applies to more than just people. Maybe it applies to trash too. I live in a somewhat shady part of town, I don't really notice it, and am totally comfortable walking my dogs around my neighborhood, but others aren't so comfortable here. Anyway, there was a TON of trash on this one stretch that I walk most days so I decided I'd pick some of it up. I only picked up the big obvious things like Mc D's cups, Taco Bell nachos thrown out of a car, huge bottles of beer (empty of course), etc. I filled up a kitchen trash bag completely in three blocks. Wow.

This morning I walked to work on the same path and noticed that while there was still some small trash - that I missed and maybe some that has gotten there since I picked up - there were no big chunks. My theory is that the crowd of trash drew a crowd of more trash...I'll fill you in on if my theory holds or not - I'm sure everyone is just riveted at my discovery.