So I went home and stuff yesterday cause I had to go to Marshfield for some tax-and-insurance-stuff, and after that was taken care of, it was only another 15 minutes to go visit parents. It was also hot and I was super stressed and figured I could really use some parental comfort, so home I went. Got to the house about 2:00 ish, talked to my mom ( Read more... )

Back in Point. There was a bit of a "Hey, is it supposed to do that?" with Coyote's coolant system, so I didn't leave parents as early as I had planned, but I got back here in one piece without any car issues, so hopefully all is well in the automotive department ( Read more... )

Went to Marshfield yesterday to meet Luke at the annual Rock, Gem, and Mineral show, which is totally any geologist's dream. I got a new pair of earrings, Luke got a big glass emerald cause he's weird like that (something about Sonic and chaos) and we generally just got distracted by shiny objects, which is always fun ( Read more... )

Today was actually pretty decent aside from an insanely sore throat (I feel fine otherwise, but my throat is really scratchy and sore, especially around the nasal passages. Not sure if this means I'm getting sick, allergies are making themselves unpleasantly known, or if it's just some sort of bug/virus/whatever that goes for the throat. It's no ( Read more... )

Yesterday Dad came to drop of some of my tax information and buy me lunch (mmm, Cousin's Subs). After lunch, he decided to follow me to Schmeecklee to help me map out my transects for Biogeography. Let me tell you, it is way easier to do with two people. He also loaned me 300 dollars so I can pay for to take the class/internship Professor ( Read more... )

My parents are awesome. I don't say that enough, but they really are ( Read more... )

Earlier today I ran across an article for one of my assignments about how a paper written in 1955 on the extremely low probability of life in Hadean Period (for those of you not familiar with the Geological Time Scale, the Hadean Period starts at the beginning of Earth's life cycle way back 4.6 billion years ago and goes until about 4.2 billion ( Read more... )

You know you have cool parents when you're skimming through the pictures on Natalie's pic spam post and they notice several of your friends who they know (not to mention yourself) have posted pictures down their shirts and the parents just laugh, glance at some of the other pictures, laugh again, and go on with their business ( Read more... )

WHEEEEE!!!

My mother just came over and handed me this *HUGE* Symphony bar!!! Pure milk chocolate, baby! Sweat and creamy and melt in your mouth chocolate, *SO* much better then regular (but still good) Hershies bars!!!
Wheee! Happy Maren!!!
::happily munches her nummy chocolate::

My father is literally marching around the living room singing...
Have I mentioned that I come from a rather strange family? :)