Charlie the Unicorn

Yes, I've been neglectful of my blog. I have no excuse. I also can't think of anything that I could have written about for the past week. But just so I can say I posted something, here's an absolutely insane, nonsensical video that I was introduced to earlier this week. I want to know what possessed the person or people behind it to make it.

Amelia is 1!

Yesterday afternoon we went to Laura and Aaron's house to help celebrate Amelia's first birthday. It's really hard to believe that it's been over a year since I shared my office with Laura, and it's amazing how much Amelia has grown!

Later, after dinner out at Stanford's, we played some Rock Band with Pete and Court and watched Hitman until everyone pooped out.

Today I finished clearing all the stuff I want to save from my old laptop so that we can get it reformatted and sent off to its new owner. We're going to swing by a furniture store that's going out of business and check out their King beds. We've been thinking that our Queen is in need of an upgrade... I already use King size sheets, but I'm not sure we're going to want to get a whole new bed and mattress... so, we'll see.

Let's get ready to ROCK

Yesterday we bought a PS3. And Rock Band. Today we bought a new TV (it's huge!!). We are SOOOOO ready to rock.

An outline of our weekend

Friday
After work. No happy hour. Boo.
Jo and Andy came to town. Yay!
I got to take a 20 minute nap before we picked them up for dinner. Yay!
Dinner at the Rogue. Yay!
Boiler Room too crowded. Boo.
Driving around downtown like idiots (boo) before stopping at Blitz. Yay!
Adam and Shelly joining us there. Yay!
Playing shuffleboard. Yay!
Going back to Adam's place to play Rock Band. Yay!
Not leaving there until 2:30. Hmm.
Not going to bed until 3:30. Boo.
Marc sleeping on the couch because I couldn't get him upstairs. Boo.

Saturday
Waking up in an empty bed about five hours later. Hmm.
Finding Marc asleep on the family room floor. Funny!
Marc missing out on good grub at Russell Street BBQ. Boo for him.
Doing next to nothing the rest of the weekend. Recovery.

An exciting Thursday

Yesterday was an eventful day. They fed us tons of food at work, which is always cool. Fruit, juice, and granola bars for breakfast... pizza for lunch... and then dessert during our team meeting time. Except this wasn't your usual team meeting. First we competed in teams to build the tallest tower out of toothpicks and mini marshmallows. My team didn't win. But then we had a pie-eating contest. I basically volunteered Peder to be the pie eater, and I was the blindfolded feeder standing behind him. He ate the whole freakin' thing--or at least as much as I was able to scoop up with my spoon. I spilled some of it onto the table. Regardless, we won. Yay!

Then, at the food bank yesterday afternoon, we found a tiny little mouse in one of the boxes, which startled a few of the people. A little later, one of the boxes fell apart and a huge container of teriyaki sauce exploded on the floor. That was our cue to start cleaning up.

Tonight Andy and Jo are coming down from Washington, and we get to hang out with them and grab some dinner. Woot!

GUMBY!

I was up at our neat local toy store this afternoon picking up a gift for our nephew. As I waited for them to giftwrap the box, I noticed a display of a bunch of small little toys--tiny pigs (like from that Pass the Pigs), elephants, frogs, and so forth. That's when I spied the bin full of mini Gumby and Pokey figures! YES! I remember being totally obsessed with Gumby and Pokey for a period of time when I was a kid. My brother Tom had a huge inflatable Gumby--I'm talkin' 4 or 5 feet tall--that I always wanted to steal but never did. Somewhere in this house, I'm pretty sure I still have a little Pokey like I saw today, but Gumby is long gone. When I have some cash, I'll be marching back into that store to reclaim Gumby and Pokey for myself.

A Spring Resolution

I've slacked off on my running lately. While Marc's over here running a marathon's worth of miles every week, I've been lucky to run even once a week.

Today, that changes.

I'm back on the treadmill or (as weather permits) back on the pavement. I'll likely stick with the treadmill at least until I finish watching the last season of 24.

And speaking of weather, WOW at the snow that's fallen back in KY and OH. I'm totally jealous.

A Nice Day on the Slopes

Our initial plan for the day was to go to Ski Bowl. As we were heading down 26, we drove past Chris and recognized her car and license plate. She and Ashby were heading up to Mt. Hood, too, for some snowshoeing. Turns out she had a buy one get one free voucher for Timberline, so we pulled off at an exit to pick that up from her. Ski Bowl wasn't open anyway, so Timberline it was! The sun didn't come out as much as we expected, but it was warm, dry, and uncrowded. Except for one good fall that I'm sure is going to leave a huge bruise on my hip, it was an awesome day.

We stopped at the Huckleberry Inn for our traditional omelet and huckleberry pancake, and then made it back to town before rush hour traffic got too bad. I might have to see if there's another day I can take off work in the middle of the week so that we can do this again.

Friday on Wednesday

I decided to take tomorrow and Friday off work. It feels good to know that I have a long 4-day weekend ahead of me. Tomorrow we're going up to Mt. Hood to ski (Marc) and board (me). YAY YAY YAY! I can't believe that we haven't been once this season. And, to top it off, it's supposed to be warm--45 or 50 degrees--tomorrow, so it'll be interesting figuring out what to wear so we won't burn up.

Now let me take a moment to rant about how idiotic the "contestants" on the newest inane game show, The Moment of Truth, are. In case you've missed this gem of a show (please pick up on my sarcasm), the basic premise is that these people have gone through a lie detector test ahead of time and then they answer the questions during the show while gambling for money. They have to answer a series of questions at each level to win money. Each level is worth more. They can stop when they achieve a level but not in the middle of one. If at any point they are caught in a lie, they lose all the money they've amassed to that point. All of it. Gone. So here are these people who are well aware of the questions they had to answer, whether or not they lied, and how damaging the answers could be to their personal relationships--and they're ruining everything for a shot at some money. It's the ultimate in disgusting guilty pleasures. It boggles my mind that these people are so desperate to win money (or maybe they're sure they can beat the polygraph) that they'll answer questions like, "Since you've been married, have you have sexual relations with another person?" while their closest family and friends sit a few feet away watching. Sheesh.