Joining the Thanksgiving Comes First Brigade, because I know I'm not the only one who gets kind of miffed when I walk into Fred Meyer (a slightly more classy version of Walmart, if you squint a little and it gets bonus points for having a coffee shop that *isn't* Starbucks inside of it) two whole weeks before Halloween, and the first thing I notice ( Read more... )

In an effort to get out of the office today, myself and one of my co-workers went up river to 55 Mile HMU - the last irrigated HMU Ice Harbor is responsible for. It's a bit of a drive to get up there - about an hour or so from the dam (farther if you're leaving from Tri Cities) and the entire drive is a whole lot of rolling, wheat covered hills ( Read more... )

I just watched The Lion King for the first time in at least 12 years. There were multiple times where there was inappropriate laughter because I *still* knew every line, word for word, even after more than a decade (and I did *not* cry, but only because I made it a point to go look for something down stairs during That Scene). I pretty much ( Read more... )

I am eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Ants on a Log. My childhood is calling, and apparently it's demanding an "after school snack!" Even if it is technically my lunch.

1) I miss Rainbow Falls. It was a small but awesome water park here in the Point/Plover area with reasonable prices and kick-ass waterslides that we went to *every summer*, at least once, pretty much from First Grade up to 6th grade. It was tore down in the late 90s, though ( Read more... )

Mandy was feeling down, so we went shopping! Well, she went shopping and I drove. It wasn't so much *shopping* shopping as picking up a few odds and ends that might come in handy in Central America when she heads there at the end of the month. There was No Boyfriend Talk Allowed for an hour and I made her tell me about her favorite holiday ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was fun. Went to Ripon for dinner at my grandparents and spent lots of time building towers out of building blocks (the *Original* main stream building blocks made from wood with painted letters and numbers on them that *my* parents played with when they were little. In fact, almost all the toys at Gramma and Grampa Meyer's are the ( Read more... )

Cutting this because I have a feeling it's going to be long

( my issues, let me show them to you )

Interviewed by Verena (I have a Verena in one of my swim classes this cycle! I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME RIGHT!), so answers are as follows ( under here )

Nick linked to The Surrealist Compliment Generator. It amuses me greatly.

( In which I compliment thee in a Surrealist manner )