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It's almost like I planned this trip!

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more pictures

The Bozeman



downtown explosion


I'm getting better. Took 30 photos and and only really liked 2 of them. And by like I mean I'm okay with showing them to people. Hopefully the success rate will increase in the next two weeks. :)

good words of a wisdom

good words of wisdom from Spooky...

Mulder: You've never hit a baseball, have you, Scully?
Scully: No, I guess I have, uh... found more necessary things to do with my time than... slap a piece of horsehide with a stick.
Mulder: Get over here, Scully.
(Mulder hands Scully the bat, then steps behind her and wraps his arms around her tightly, also holding the bat around her hands)
Scully: This my birthday present, Mulder? You shouldn't have.
Mulder: This ain't cheap. I'm paying that kid ten bucks an hour to shag balls. That's not a bad piece of ash, huh? The bat — talking about the bat. Now, don't strangle it. You just want to shake hands with it. 'Hello, Mr. Bat. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.' 'Oh, no, no, Miss Scully. The pleasure's all mine.' Okay, now, we want to... we want to go hips before hands, okay? We want to stride forward and turn. That's all we're thinking about. So, we go hips... before hands, all right?
Scully: Okay.
Mulder: One more time. Hips... before hands, all right?
Scully: Yeah.
Mulder: What is it?
Scully: Hips before hands.
Mulder: Right. We're going to wait on the pitch. We're going to keep our eye on the ball. Then, we're just going to make contact. We're not going to think. We're just going to let it fly, Scully, okay?
Scully: Mm-hmm.
Mulder: Ready?
Scully: I'm in the middle.
Mulder: All right, fire away, Poorboy.
(They hit a foul)
Ooh! That's good. All right, what you may find is you concentrate on hitting that little ball...
(They hit the ball again)
The rest of the world just fades away — all your everyday, nagging concerns. The ticking of your biological clock.
(Another hit)
How you probably couldn't afford that nice, new suede coat on a G-Woman's salary. How you threw away a promising career in medicine...
(Another hit)
To hunt aliens with a crackpot, albeit brilliant, partner. Getting into the heart of a global conspiracy.
(Another hit)
Your obscenely overdue triple-X bill. Oh, I... I'm sorry, Scully.
(Another hit)
Those last two problems are mine, not yours.
(Another hit)
Scully: Shut up, Mulder. I'm playing baseball.

and it's getting closer.... that's what she said?

Up
So this week flew by, especially the last couple of days. I'm not really sure what I actually accomplished this week, and I feel really bad for missing spinning both Tuesday and Thursday. I tried to go on Tuesday, but Thursday was a hopeless cause. I also had to buy a new charger for my laptop this week, and so I've been having laptop withdraws, and also the thought that a new charger was 1/12 the cost of a new laptop.... Evil evil thought, and probably the reason why I was having issues.

New toys
So I made the plunge and bought a slr digital camera. I've been talking about it for a while, and the Europe trip finally gave me the excuse I was looking for. And I bought it used, so it's not like I went out and spent a lot of money. PLUS, I want to make sure I get a few good photos of the trip. I haven't really had time to practice this week, but I'm going to spend some time Saturday taking pictures. Of course I had to take a picture of my favorite model (Mols is such a good sport)....



Je voudrais un café au lait. s'il vous plaît
So on the Europe front I've had to make some changes. Well I didn't have to make the changes, but the more I started thinking about it, and research I realized that I was trying to do way too much. So I'm going to cut down on the trip a bit, and by that I mean I'm going to spend more time in just a few places, rather than a little time in a bunch. I mapped out the travel days, and times, and if I hadn't made the change basically towards the end I would get to a city, settle for a few minutes, and then have to be on the run right away. And I just didn't want to deal with the stress, which to me you should avoid on your vacation.... Besides the whole language thing is going to be stressful enough. With that said, the updated trip is going to be Frankfurt, Paris, and London. I'm super super sad about having to drop Dublin, and even sadder about Rome, but I think it's for the best. This way I can focus on spending time doing a bunch of stuff in those cities. I'm still thinking about this plan, but I have a self imposed Sunday deadline to finalize everything.

Wildlife tour
Jessie and I went on a walk today and noticed the wildlife of summer has returned.... Enough on that one, other than to say I was squeamish the rest of the day. Thank goodness Jessie was playing attention, because I wasn't and I didn't even understand why she grabbed my arm until we were already turned around. shutter


And....
Hopefully this is the last time I say this for the next 4-5 months, but I really really hate SNOW! Although it does keep the wildlife dominate..... bald eagle would do the trick too though.

Okay off to watch some my name is earl. I've really started to like that show, Jason Lee cracks me up. I'll post some of my photo adventure at some point this weekend.

wow its been a while

updates
So today at work someone pointed out that I should blog my upcoming adventure, we'll get to that in a minute, and I pointed out... I already have a blog. I haven't written on it in a while, but I do have one. Welcome back blog...

adventures
So here it is... the adventure... May 25 through June 3 I'm heading to Europe.

The map shows all the places I've traveled.... the new locations are all in Europe.... 5% of the world... eek.

It has taken me a while to figure out exactly where I wanted to go, but I'm 95% sure the trip is:

Frankfurt -> Dublin -> London -> Paris (via the Chunnel) -> Rome -> Frankfurt -> Home (11 hr flight between Paris and Salt Lake).

At first I thought the trip was to long, but as I'm starting to plan more and more I'm realizing that I probably could use a few more days. It was tough, but I came to the realization last night that there was just no way Prague was going to happen. Which is really sad in a way, but in another way it just means I'll have to go back again.

life
To catch everyone up on life.... not a lot has been going on. Looking back at the last time I posted something it looks like sadly there really isn't anything new to report.... I did end up buying a new heart rate monitor. And I've been running and going to spinning pretty regularly. I've actually really enjoyed going to spinning class lately, and there are signs that I'm actually starting to get into decent shape. The first softball practice of year was on tuesday, and I can't believe it's been a year already. And soccer signups are on the 26th, and I'm really looking forward to the start of soccer season... although it's on the same days as spinning class. And then there's work.... got nothing really to say about that. At some point things will settle down, but for now I'm just trying to keep my head up. Chewy sprees have helped. And it's almost cold stone season again, I'm a horrible influence on Jessie.

The Plan
As I start figuring out more and more about the europe trip I'll update the blog.... And I've decided to take my laptop with me so I'll update it as I go along too. I'm pretty excited, but it's still a month away, and I know I have a lot of work (both work, and trip planning) before then so.

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

in other words...

yesteryear
I'm still working on getting the formatting correct with the new blog and I still haven't tried the blackberry post function, although I have a feeling Molly will be a test subject for that. :)

So Ryan pointed out not so long ago that when he joined facebook he suddenly discovered all of these people he hadn't heard from in years and years. I've been going through a similar effect recently. Man there are a lot of pictures out there from high school, and I'm starting to regret not making more of a effort to make it to the 10 year reunion. I'm also starting to regret not being more social in high school, because I see a lot of pictures of events that I was invited to go to, like the sws retreats, that well for whatever reason I never went to in 4 years of high school. I think the first year I had a good reason, but then after that.... But I guess that's in the past and I shouldn't dwell on it.

Training
So it officially, my heartrate monitor is gone, never to be seen again. It kind of makes me sad because I had just figured out all of the buttons, but on the positive side I get to buy a new one. I think I'm going to stick with Suunto if for nothing else than I know how to use it, and it seems like a quality product too. I think Jessie might buy one too because I talk about it so much.

HDTV
So for christmas/my birthday this year I bought a new tv. Man is it ever cool. I just bought Planet Earth, and its unreal to look at. I even have molly staring at the tv, altough I'm not really sure what she sees, it might just be the sound that is getting her attention.

Netflix
Blu ray and netflix haven't mixed so far. Its been 3 weeks and I still haven't seen a blu ray disc. Maybe I'm just netflix queue stupid, but I don't appear to be getting any closer to seeing one.


And.....
Is it sad that the only reason I like the superbowl is for the commercials and I know that spring training is just around the corner.


And with that I don't have anymore updates. Well I'm sure I do, but I really should stop procrastinating and start laundry for the week. Hope everyone is doing well.

goodbye myspace

So I think I'm done with myspace. Nothing against it, but I actually keep up with my facebook page, whereas my myspace page.... not so much. Plus its just one less time drainer.

More to come later.... Plus I setup instant blogging via my blackberry.... scary.