Salt Lake City

Hmmm.. so far the trip has been an adventure. Of course I made it to ROA just in the nick of time to park, check bagage, and work through security when we heard them calling our names for the flight :) opps!! Flights were uneventful... a little bit of turbulance on the altanta to SLC leg. They showed PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN which was fun since I had never seen it. Of course I listened to the first 15 min on the spanish chanel. I just figured they spoke another language a bit.. after 15 mins I tried to find another channel. Amazing how much easier it is to understand in ENGLISH :) haha. We hit up Hard Rock for dinner, pool, and Golden Tee. Yes I scored a +2 after 18 holes on GT2004!!

Tues started out great! I showed up at Enterprise and found out we were getting an free upgrade cause they didn't have any SUV's, just suburbans..... well I made a joke what I really wanted was that Dodge Ram out front :) They were like do you really want it... you can have it :) haha. So yes I rented a Dodge Ram Quad Cab 2500 grey!!! WOOHOO!!! Then it was off to Snowbird. Wasn't crowded at all. Jeff and Larry rented their boards and off to the slopes. It started off slow... jeff and larry were learning how to turn.. just couldn't get the whole stopping thing down. We still made it to the bottom though. I went up the lift to check out the run before taking them. Well as I come to the bottom I see them starting up the lift.. OH NO! But yeah we can do this :) Unfortunately when I made it to the top Larry was sprawed out on the snow :( He had fallen while getting off and hurt his shoulder.. the EMT people got him on a sled and took him down while jeff and I slowly made out way down. Jeff ended up walking most of the way.. he was freaked out after watching Larry get hurt. Larry and Jeff headed to Alta Hospital while I enjoyed a bittersweet day of riding. The slopes were long and not too difficult. Of course I stuck to blue and green.. no diamonds for me!!! It was really fun! I am way out of shape though! Met some cool people and almost managed to hitchhike my way back to my hotel :) haha.. Jeff and Larry came back to get me after Larry was drugged up, had his shoulder put back in place and attached to his body in a contraption. They were kind enough to drive me up to ALTA so I could get some cool gear!!

We hit up a bar called PORT O CALL for dinner and fun. They had a supper ubber cool flat screen version of megatouch 2004 with a jukebox too!! That of course had Gary Allan :) haha

Ok I will fill ya in more later.. off to my class. That is the real reason I am here.. right :)

It's FRIDAY!!!!

WOoohooo!! I know I need to get better at this. I always have tons to say.. just don't around to it!!

So for today's entertainment... I got back to Blacksburg on tuesday night and went to turn on my computer... hit the button.. nothing... hit it again.. nothing... again again again... still nothing! Gosh dernit!! So instead of getting real frustrated I ignored it and planned my bible studay and went to sleep. Thinking.. really God knew it would distract me and I really needed to focus on the bible study and sleep. I tried it again in the morning... still nothing. So wednesday night... I decided to spend a little more time checking it out. I already knew everything else in the power strip was working... so I just change the slot it was plugged into.... BINGO it came right on! Stupid things. I guess that one plug on the power strip is down.. RANDOM! But hey my computer works now!! Woohoo!!!

Last nights blond moment.. making hot chocolate. Got the powder in the mug. Got the hot water.. Got the milk. What do I do?? Pick up the milk and start pouring it into mug thinking it's the hot water! Man I need help sometimes :)

Today's blond moment.. I am crusin to work.. singin along to the radio. Getting close to the gate... so I decide to get my badge out. Hmm.. where is my badge?? CRUD! I left it in the coat I wore yesterday.. Well screw it I am almost here I will have to deal with the slow wackenhut people and get a temp badge. CRUD! I don't even have my drivers license! I left it in VA Beach last weekend. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. UTURN. 45 min later.... I arrive at the gate.. badge in hand. And I thought I was going to be early this morning!!

Should I retitle by BLOG... BLOND MOMENTS?? :)

My new name: SLACKER

I will try to be better about keeping this thing up to date.... there is never a shortage of crazy or stupid stories in my life. Like Rex says.. who needs reality TV when my friends lifes are way more entertaining!

Cris, Abby, and Angela were in town this weekend. We had a blast at Rob's Amazing Fantastical Halloween/Beat Miami Parte! Jeff's drunk friends were starting to sketch Monica out.. but overall a good time :) They are great guys.. just typical when drunk :)

Abby reminded us how exciting it is to be a Hokie and be in Blacksburg.. kinda like being around a kid at Christmas and follwing suit in their joy and happiness :) What an awesome weekend to be a hokie!! Beating MIAMI is up there on my list of great HOKIE MOMENTS :) That is the kinda of excitement every game should be filled with!

Of course sunday was LAZY. Major recovery mode :)

This week has been insanely busy!! Only made better by the fact I found out tuesday is a govt holiday. I already had friday off, so I took monday too. Now I have a five day weekend, which I will split between Norfolk and Fairfax.

My pops went to the oncologist today. Good and bad news. The doctors are optimistic. He starts Chemo tomorrow. I will send out a more detailed update later by email... my family would love to be included in your prayers!

It's me :)

Sorry I've been slack! Let's rewind..

The weekend at Rockbridge Alum Springs with Blacksburg High School was great! Young Life at BHS has exploded this year and it was a great chance to spend time with these kids and get to know them! I didn't even know half their names before we left. The weather was wonderful. Played some SIGNS. I had upperclassman in my room so there weren't any real late nights ;) We had a couple friends accept Christ.. and a couple more recommit their lives :) and some that are really starting to give this some thought :)

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night have been great! No big commitments or things to plan. I've had the chance to catch up with my roommates and spent some time catching up with long distance friends via phone and IM. It's been nice! I've even gotten some laundry done! I am looking forward to a couple more nights of the same!

Guess what! This weekend is MIAMI! Lots of people will be in town including ABBY who I haven't seen since DEC! The weekend will kick-off with Rob's Amazing Fantastical Halloween/Beat Miami Parte! Followed by raking leaves and coaching soccer Saturday morning. Tailgating, THE WALK, watching the HOKIES stomp the HURRICANES! If there's any energy left we might take a hike to Dragon's Tooth after church. I can't wait for Thursday at 6:30 pm :)

Here's a link to get you ready for SATURDAY

So today marks 4 :) Sorry REX, looks like you're going to lose :)

Hokie Football

What to say... I still love you hokies.. but sometimes you make if difficult :) Do me a favor.. compose yourselves.. practice hard.. show Miami what's up :) Let's break the cycle and not let this carry through the rest of the season. I know you can do it :)

H - O - K - I - E - S HOKIES!!!!

Where does my time go??

Ok so this is kinda a deep thought blog.. or at least as deep as my thoughts get. Everyone knows I lead a bit of a busy life :) And really if I didn't.. I think I would be completely lost. But sitting around with a couple friends last night catching up and having our weekly (really monthy with our schedules) small group.. I realized that I don't get to spend as much time with them as I want. As much time relaxing and doing things I enjoy really. So maybe I should carve out some time every week where I don't try to fit in laundry, cleaning, paying bills or any other of life's necities... but instead do something I enjoy. Read a book, put together a puzzle, work on my quilt, spend time with a friend etc. So that's going to be my goal :) You guys can hold me to it! I think this week might involve carving pumpkins with my roommates. My roommates that I don't spend nearly enough time hanging out with :)

The Fried Pickle

Yes there really is a new restaurant called The Friday Pickle north of Roanoke on 220. Don't have the details on how long it has been open.. maybe a couple months. So mom and I met Larry and his family there for dinner. Of course before I even get there I tell my mom "I hope they sell t-shirts" My new thing is restaurant t-shirts.. don't know why.. I just like them. I think it all started with my California Dreamin shirt I loved.. then my Pat O'Brians shirt from the trip to New Orleans for the national championship game. Now I have Cheers from Boston, Dirty Ernies, Rod N Reel Pier, The Sandbar.. I just like em :) Of course I need a fried pickle shirt to add to the collection. Larry had asked a waiter before I got there and they didn't have any.. but they did have the shirts they wore (all black with 'the fried pickle' and an atom looking thing on the left chest) maybe I could sweet talk the owner into selling me one of those. (me.. sweet talk someone :) ) So I talk to the owner.. a really cute older gentleman. He says they have some ordered which are going to be nicer with the image from the menu. Two dressed up pickles dancin on a plate. (kinda corny) So I talk him into selling me one of the black ones :) I now have a fried pickle t-shirt :) Woohoo!! I know.. You're jealous :)

Oh yeah.. another goofy story. My wonderful mom is taking a photography class.. they have assignments. Well one of her assignments involves taking three objects and photographing them - showing depth of field. My mom decides to use some of my ducks as her objects. Ok so this seems normal so far. Well she forgets to bring the ducks on our 3 hour photography trip around campus... so she throws them in the car when we run over to Macado's for dinner. While we are waiting for our take-out order.. mom sets up her tripod in the Macado's parking lot and sets the ducks up on the trunk of the honda. YES we did get many looks! She's a crazy woman :) We had a great weekend!

Tailgate

Uneventful - sorry guys. No more fun sorority stories. I went to the tailgate saturday with Jill. Talked to a bunch of sisters... never met Robyn. Forgot to even look for her cause I was too busy talkin to people. It was fun.

Angela reported back on the actual Reunion. Her quote "You didn't miss anything". I'm glad I didn't go :)

SEE IF I CARE :)

Here's a good Gary Allan interview :)

http://www.cmt.com/news/feat/gallan.100803.jhtml

TGIF!!

The concert was a blast! Our seats were great. We had a great view of all 5 sexy guys :) Hot country guys singing love songs... what else can a girl ask for :) They were taping the show for a CMT special too which was cool. Who knows how many cities will be included in the special. They musta have said 'Salem Virginia' about 50 times.. that was getting old! I just want to hear them sing too.. I don't need all the extra comments to make girls scream.. oh well :) It's show business. They musta spent about 5 min talking about JoeDon's butt... that was 5 min too much :) I think Chris Cagle was my favorite act. My fav songs.. Brian's 99.9% sure and Chris's EVERYTHING :) Yeah I'm sappy :)

So most of you know my nice digital 10X optical zoom Olympus broke this summer. It will take pictures still... but there's no more zoom... and the whole point. Anyways.. it's gonna cost at least $160 for Olympus to look at it.. and that might not even cover the repairs... so currently it is retired to the shelf in my closet. Well I had bought a couple disposables.. and the past week my mom gave me one of her point & shoot zoom 35mm's to borrow. I was pretty excited I would be able to take some decent pics again finally! Didn't think about one really big problem!!! The artists are always running for here to there and turning their heads etc. So you are trying to snap the perfect picture looking right at you... catching their smile. *CLICK* Wait did I get it.. Did he turn away before I clicked.. Were his eyes closed???? Doh... you don't know with a normal camera until you get your film developed... man I miss my digital. Well you think I'll just have to take a couple more to make sure I get the perfect shot... but darn I am used to being about to take 400 pictures.. now I only have 24!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! 3 hours of concert and only 24 pictures?? I lacked in preperation for sure!! I did manange to make the 24 pics last through the night.. but you better believe I took the whole role. I guess we will find out in a couple days what they look like :) Stupid old school technology! (but I am thankful my momma's letting my borrow a real camera.. really I am) :)

I guess it would help if I read my own blogs and realized KK wouldn't have the pumpkin spice cake dooughnuts until OCT 13. So I was a little disappointed last night when we rolled into KK. BUTTTTTTTTTTTTT... they were giving out free samples.. so I got 3 HOT ONES.. for the price of 2!! (also.. just in case you were wondering.. there is NO restroom in KK.... if you have been holding it for 2 hours so you didn't miss any of a concert this is BAD)

FYI - decision has been made... I am attending the THETA tailgate.. invited or not :) Stay tuned for a full report :)