tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32977354367944571252024-02-07T04:34:42.252-07:00Roy + EllThe NewlywedsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-5884276319550898882012-05-22T23:36:00.001-07:002012-05-22T23:36:14.608-07:00NEW BLOG ADDRESSHello.<br />
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So you may have thought this blog was reaching the end of its life. For the last few months you’ve watched it sputtering, winding down, slowing to a pathetic crawl. Maybe you {my few beloved readers} have even given up reading.<br />
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The truth is, our family record hasn’t been dying. It’s been gearing up. Gathering its strength. Wanna know why?<br />
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Because our family blog is about to explode with high adventure and hilarious disaster.<br />
In fact, the makeover goes deep enough to change our blog address! Because from here on out, it’s not just Roy and Ell’s adventures. <br />
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Should I stop beating around the bush?<br />
Visit <a href="http://buckmasterdisaster.blogspot.com/">buckmasterdisaster.blogspot.com</a> to get to my point…<br />
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This blog address will disappear within the next month, so go check out the new one.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-28174607617552019342012-04-24T13:58:00.000-07:002012-04-28T14:11:03.930-07:00McMaster Spring Break AdventuresDid you know that Roy tried to be an ice cream man once?<br />
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It's true. In fact, it played as one of his tactics in trying to get my attention when we met. He and I and our friend LeAnn chatted it up before and after class every day. Okay, and sometimes during class too {Sorry Professor Gee!}. And he would tell us about his best friend Kenny and how they were starting up an ice cream business together. I thought it was a great idea. It was high time we had the jingling little ice cream music playing through the streets of Rexburg.<br />
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He told us they located a run down little cart in Oregon, hauled it to the Burg, ordered ridiculous amounts of ice cream and popsicles, got a business license, and began refurbishing their little motorized vehicle. I'm going through Roy's old pics but I can't find a picture of the thing. You would be impressed.<br />
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And obviously he was hoping that<i> I</i> would be impressed. Not long after LeAnn dropped the class, he invited me over to his sister's house where they were keeping their ice cream cart/thing in her garage. <br />
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"You should come over and see it. It's pretty much finished," he told me in class, getting out his iPod. "I even wired in a speaker and I'm going to plug it into my iPod and play this music."<br />
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Okay, not really the ice cream man music I grew up hearing, but it was jingly enough.<br />
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I decided to go ahead and go over and check it out. I was curious how he was going to pull this off, and I may or may not have thought he was cute. I mean, aspiring to be an ice cream man is totally attractive, right? This man knew how to play his cards. {HA!} <br />
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Little did I know that I was going to meet two people who would be in my life <u>forever</u> from that point forward.<br />
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My future sister-in-law<br />
And Kenneth McAffee.<br />
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Aaaand I have no idea who that guy in the yellow shirt is. No idea. Again, from Roy's old camera.<br />
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ANYWAY, you want to know first impressions? Kirsten pretty much terrified me like any good big sister should when her sibling brings over an interest. Good work, Kirsten.<br />
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And Kenny... well I realized right away that he and Roy completed each other. Together they called themselves, and named their new company, The McMasters. Combination of the last names. Aw, how sweet/creepy! <br />
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Even though on their first day of sales their ice cream cart sputtered out along with their hopes and dreams, it took no time for them to find other adventures and wild ambitions to dominate together. <br />
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You know, like meeting two awesome girls and embarking on the wild adventure of tying the knot.<br />
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Even though they both love their wives, I think it was an adjustment for both of them to give up being roommates and being together 24/7. But that was nothing compared to the devastation we all felt when Roy and I had to move to Sahuarita. :-(<br />
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But 700 miles isn't gonna stop this bromance. Nope. Kenny and Andrea drove 12 hours just to spend a weekend with us!!!<br />
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So here is our week of McMaster Spring Break adventures in southern Arizona!<br />
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They arrived sometime in the early morning on Thursday. Early morning as in hours before the sun came up. I vaguely remember hearing Roy and Kenny's voices and getting all excited before I slipped under again. I had to get up in a few hours for work, and my body just wouldn't let me get up.<br />
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But they still had a warm welcome from me. :-)<br />
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And I put little chocolates on their pillows along with a note welcoming them to the Buckmaster Bed and Breakfast. <br />
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The next morning I snuck out of the house without waking anyone. I'd been given permission to run in and jump on their bed and tell them goodbye, but I happen to know just how exhausting that drive can be. So I left them alone and drove off by myself.<br />
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Usually Roy carpools with me, but he was on spring break. I was jealous he got to stay home and do fun stuff with the Macs, but someone has to bring home the bacon, right?<br />
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While I was gone Roy gave them the grand tour or Sahuarita. And they went to the copper mine!<br />
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I remember a field trip here from second grade. So I was okay missing out.<br />
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They said they were the only ones on the tour who weren't in retirement, but they had fun. Of course the boys couldn't get over the size of the trucks. There could be a whole 'nother post about these boys and their experiences with heavy machinery. I'm glad they never had access to these things.<br />
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I can just hear this conversation. <br />
Kenny: "Andrea, go stand by that truck!"<br />
Andrea: "Why?"<br />
Kenny: "So we can tell how big it is!"<br />
Andrea: Raises her arms up. "Ta da."<br />
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Then Roy took them to my favorite, then San Xavier del Bac mission!<br />
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Luckily on Friday my boss let me take half the day off so that I didn't miss out on <i>everything</i>. Nice guy. So they came to pick me up at work and we went and grabbed some food and made a game plan. Our game plan ended up being to go to the park by our house and play sand volleyball and go swimming in the pool.<br />
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We didn't take any pictures, but it was fun. Andrea was in Heaven laying out under the sun. And I totally know what that's like. I remember how amazing it was when the four of us went to sunny <a href="http://royandellzadventures.blogspot.com/2010/11/up-and-go-to-disneyland.html">California</a> around the same time of year- when you're sick and tired of the clouds and the cold in Utah. Arizona is a good place to be November-April.<br />
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That night we took them for some authentic Mexican. La Parilla was our first obvious choice, but we decided to branch out a little. We'd heard amazing things about a place a lot closer called Manuel's.<br />
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It was here that Kenny learned to fold a burrito.<br />
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Success! And Andrea is so proud.<br />
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Saturday we took the Macs to Sabino Canyon for some desert hiking.<br />
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And Roy had the camera, so there are a lot of weird pictures of me... enjoy.<br />
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We had a slight dilemma. We needed to find something awesome, but doable for a pregnant lady.<br />
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She was 14 weeks and just baaaarley showing a tiny little bump. But just because she didn't look much different doesn't mean she didn't feel any different. Still, if you know Andrea you know that she was totally down for anything and was determined to keep up. I mean... she's married to Kenny... she's been scrambling after him and all his crazy stunts for almost three years now.</div>
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Destination: Seven Falls.<br />
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These are my <a href="http://ellzadventures.blogspot.com/2009/12/highlanders-us.html">Scottish hiking boots</a>. They were absolutely necessary in the crazy conditions we were exploring in when I bought them in '09. It was cold and wet and slippery. But now I have these humongous, real deal mountain dominators and hardly an excuse to use them. So... I went all out and looked really cool. Why not?<br />
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Roy was trying to get me to pose with a butterfly but it flew away. So it just looks like I'm REALLY excited about this rock.<br />
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I spy, with my little eye, something venomous. <br />
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And of course Kenny was all but climbing up the rocks to get a closer look. Later he grabbed another, non-venomous snake's tail. And he caught a lizard and chased butterflies... he's always entertaining.<br />
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He found a cactus skeleton. <br />
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Finally-- Seven Falls in the distance.<br />
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The boys being adventurous and climbing up top.<br />
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Andrea's sunburn. No remorse, she loved every little lobster line.<br />
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The boys, together again.<br />
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Kenny and Andrea, we miss you guys already.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-33375380364621030682012-04-09T21:34:00.000-07:002012-04-10T22:21:24.247-07:00Double Adorbs<div style="text-align: center;">Last week's self-pity post was a reaction to something GREAT!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Quick post to commemorate that event. </div><div style="text-align: center;">March 5, 2012, my office mate had her twins!</div><br />
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They were born perfectly healthy and beautiful. Eryn is doing great.<br />
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I'm all alone in the office for three months!<br />
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But they <i>are</i> ridiculously adorable....<br />
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Okay okay, they can stay.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-60373823546803815182012-03-28T23:08:00.007-07:002012-03-28T23:19:38.145-07:00Office Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The window blinds in my office are broken. It's like a cage with no breathing holes!</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I don't dislike the office. But sometimes I wonder whether I'd actually prefer physical labor. Okay, you're probably already laughing, imagining me wielding a jack-hammer. You're right, maybe not that intense. But in high school I was a nanny for two and a half years. Trust me, <i>that</i> is physical labor. I went straight to their house every day after school and stayed until 8ish, covering everything from snacks to naps to games to baths to bedtimes. There were four kids. Originally a 6-year-old boy, a 3-year-old boy, and then a set of newborn girl twins. No, it wasn't a picnic. I always came home with crazy hair and stained clothes {peed on clothes, once}, out of breath and with sore muscles. But I felt fulfilled. I could see the impact I had on that family every day. And chaos seems to help time pass more quickly. Even though it was hard, and I got paid next to nothing, I loved it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There are other things I can do when I'm not at the office to fill whatever empty chasm has been developing lately. Roy keeps me on my toes and is always making sure I make time to feel fulfilled.</span><br />
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A race where you and eleven teammates tackle 200 miles split between you, with someone always on the run, even through the night. You bring sleeping bags and try to scrape a few hours of sleep when you can. If you're not running or sleeping, you're in a van cheering on your teammates and bringing them water.<br />
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Sound like torture? I know, I know. It's kind of hard to explain why Ragnar is AWESOME. So here is an extremely detailed account. Maybe my love for Ragnar will be able to surface through the details. So let's start from the beginning.<br />
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Roy packed for me. He just wanted to make sure I got <i>all</i> my safety gear in there. Plus he wanted me to take his huge hiking backpack, complete with sleeping bag and pad. Mostly he probably just loves getting out his outdoors stuff. But he was somewhat concerned I would not be able to survive two days without him. :-) He was also concerned I physically wouldn't be able to handle this thing. I had a full blown uti at the time. But hey... what can you do?<br />
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Ragnar del Sol winds from Wickenburg to Phoenix--so a little drive away from Sahuarita. There are two vans per team {six runners in each} and I was assigned to van one, which meant we were kicking off the race. We needed to be at the starting line at 5:00 am! AAH! So we left Thursday evening and got a hotel in... <i>SURPRISE! </i><br />
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First, dinner. Then we had a fun time meandering through the sketchiest areas of SURPRISE! in the dark of night as we looked for our hotel. We managed to arrive without getting mugged {thank you GPS} and found the place swarming with runners. In the parking lot we saw huge white vans that some teams had rented and decorated the bejeezus out of. Ragnar gives out awards for the best dressed teams and decked out vehicles, and some people really go all out.<br />
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Not to be outdone, we were down in the parking lot with big bottles of paint, smearing the stuff on with our fingers. The theme: Soles. Our team name was Sol Sisters. Double play on words, whaaat?!<br />
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It was late by the time we got up to our room, with paint crusted all over our hands. And then there was figuring out who was sleeping where, constructing makeshift beds, and taking turns using the sink. I don't remember exactly what time it was when the lights were finally out, but I remember thinking that we really only had a few hours to catch some z's. Our alarms were set for 3:30 am.<br />
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But z's eluded me altogether. I was hot in my sleeping bag, but cold outside of it. I'd have dreams about waking up late, missing the race, or running on the dirt without any shoes on! Every noise was amplified and shook me awake every ten minutes. When the alarms went off {all buzzing and ringing at the exact same moment} I literally shot out of my sleeping bag on the floor, "FINALLY!" <br />
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An hour later we were in the park where it was dark, freezing, and we were munching on bananas and trail mix for breakfast while we waited for safety orientation.<br />
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Here's the drill: wear your headlamp, taillight, and reflective vest when you are running between the hours of 5 pm and 9 am. Anyone else who gets out of the car for any reason during those hours is also required to wear a reflective vest. Brutal, huh? <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">He gave us our numbers to pin onto our shirts and let us gather around the starting line. Elisha was first up, our Runner 1. Nine or ten other teams were starting as well, and they all lined up while we stood around the sides and cheered.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">There was some dude in an orange full body suit under an orange tent playing music and heightening the excitement. "Team Sol Sisters!" We screamed, cheered, flashed out headlamps. And then suddenly the countdown was over and the race was on!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">As far as we could see, Elisha was leading the pack! We scrambled into our Sol Sistermobile and headed down the road, looking for her. Man she was fast--I couldn't believe how far she'd gotten already. And then when we did find her, I couldn't believe the hills she had to climb! It was her hardest leg--nine miles I think--and the sun wasn't even up yet. Yeowza!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We parked about halfway through her leg and waited for her in the car. It was weird how not-tired I felt after getting absolutely no sleep. Our adrenaline was just palpable. It didn't seem like we even got to hang out that long before she came trucking up the hill. The only runners in front of her were freaky-good career-type runners with calves the size of my waist. So she was pretty much dominating. <br />
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After jumping out of the car to give her water and encouragement, we headed to the first exchange. Cars/vans are all parked and people are hanging out, waiting for their runners. We were there, dancing to "Hey Soul Sister," and cheering for her when our runner crossed. Runner 2 was ready-- vest on, headphones in--and as soon as Elisha slapped the bracelet/baton onto her wrist, she ran off.<br />
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During her run we got to enjoy the sunrise. <br />
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Same thing, we stopped halfway and gave support. Met her at the second exchange. Runner three took off. We all clambered back into the car. We had a seating system going, where the last runner got shotty, since no one wanted to be rubbing shoulders with the sweaty one.<br />
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And suddenly I was next to bat. I had crazy butterflies, and I couldn't figure out what I was so nervous about. Since we were with the first group to start the race, there really weren't that many people around us yet. It's not like I'd have an audience! Still, I couldn't help it.<br />
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Luckily, there was plenty of craziness going on at the exchange to keep me from breaking under my self-imposed pressure.<br />
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I was ready to go. {Yes, please do note the headlamp and vest. It was 8:50 am, still safety gear time.}<br />
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Rennie slapped the bracelet on my wrist and I started running. There was no one <i>anywhere</i> around me. No runners, no vehicles, it was flat, faceless landscape. Definitely nothing to entertain me... and I hadn't had the sense to actually get my iPod shuffle read to go. So I wasted a lot of energy at the very beginning trying to untangle the headphone cords from around my wrist, pop in the headphones, find where I was at in my audio book, take the dumb handkerchief off of my face, and still keep up a good pace.<br />
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As soon as I was settled, the Sol Sister's suburban whizzed past with sisters hanging out of the windows and cheering. Don't ask me why, but that got the adrenaline pumping harder. The sun was shinning, it was cool with a slight breeze, my book was <i>so</i> good, I was going fast, and I got a trucker to honk his horn as he rumbled past. I just felt GREAT- a major endorphin high.<br />
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After a mile I spotted a sequence skirt ahead of me. I recognized her as one of the runners from the van that had "Does this skirt make my butt look fast?" scrawled across the back windows. Other than the occasional Ragnar be-speckled van, truckers, and cows, there was nothing but us.<br />
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And then even the red sequence was gone! I passed her! And you know what that means? I made my first "kill." Big deal, as most vans display their kills on their vehicles to let other Ragnarians know how intense they are.<br />
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OK, we maaaay have exaggerated a little bit. But hey--at least two of these were legit, because I killed two people on my first leg! {Don't worry about my ego. When other teams caught up to us later that day I got murdered more times than I could tally.}<br />
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Having van support is the bomb. I don't like to stop once I've started, so when I did the half marathon I was totally choking on those little paper cups of water that they provide. My own water bottle handed to me at the halfway point? Way better.<br />
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I credit the adrenaline, but I was running the fasted mile for a long distance race I ever have. Nine minute miles. For most other Ragnarians, that would be pathetic. Or at least their average. But for me that was a new record. In my mind, I was haulin'.<br />
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Toward the end of my six point something miles, I started to feel that familiar stab in my knee. I knew right then that I probably shouldn't have pushed myself so hard on my first leg, but oh well. This beautiful marker popped into view.<br />
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It's kind of bittersweet, when you see these things. There's a tiny part of you that doesn't want the adrenaline feeling to go away. But there's a much bigger part of you that wants to plop down in front of the AC.<br />
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Marcy was waiting and I slapped the bracelet on her wrist.<br />
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And then we supported her.<br />
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The cycle continued until we all finished our first legs. Then we met Van2 at the first "major exchange," I think it's called. By this time we could see that all of those crazy fast teams had caught up to us. There are even some "ultra" teams which consist of six people, which means they do twice the running as we do. No big deal, they were just <i>blowing</i> past us!<br />
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Here we got free food and water. It's amazing how much food you eat when you're so exhausted. During this race I found myself just shoving fuel down my throat. <br />
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At this time we also learned that we had been given the wrong team number. There was another all-female team called the "Sole Sisters" who were scheduled to start at 7am. Makes sense, huh? There was switching of numbers and figuring things out... we just kind of winged it.<br />
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People rested while they waited for their last runner. You kind of sleep where you can. And hey, why not get a tan while you're at it?<br />
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And we got to check out more costumes.<br />
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</div>Our 6th runner slapped the bracelet onto the 1st runner in Van2, and then we got our break. I was really feeling the exhaustion from getting like fifteen minutes of sleep the night before, plus we all knew we'd be up really late tonight. We had to get some sleep. But where?<br />
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GPS, baby! I looked up "LDS Chapel," knowing that there would be grass we could crash on. There was one nearby, and it did indeed have grass. And even some shade. So we treated our blisters, rolled out our sleeping bags, and conked out. <br />
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The cops drove through the parking lot a few times, but I guess we didn't look <i>too</i> much like vagabonds because they let us be. I slept hard and dreamless. Loved it. When I woke up there was another Ragnar group occupying the other side of the grassy lawn. Funny they had the same idea as us. We chatted it up a little and found out they were an older group. All 55 and older! They said it was their fourth or fifth Ragner. How about that for a reunion with your besties twice a year?<br />
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Feeling rested and quite like peanut butter and jelly wasn't cutting it for us anymore, we packed up and went to Subway. After Subway we grabbed ice for the cooler and also for sore knees. All along we were in contact with Van2 and knew exactly when they were going to be at the next major exchange.<br />
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By the time we got there the sun was setting. I don't remember what time my second leg was--maybe around 10pm? After like ten strides I started limping a little bit. I knew it was going to be a long 5.5 miles. I got murdered a bunch and the only kills I made were of other limping people who were smarter than I was and decided to walk rather than irritate their injuries further.<br />
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At the end I probably looked like a complete cripple, but I made it. I don't remember much else from that night in the suburban while the other girls ran. I think I was in that weird place between awake and asleep. We were so looking forward to the "covered sleeping" advertised in our little Ragnar magazines.<br />
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Turns out that "covered sleeping" means a tarp thrown over a patch of random desert.<br />
HA!<br />
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I changed into my running clothes for the next day in one of the orange Ragnar port-a-potties. I drank hot chocolate and snuggled into my sleeping bag with snoozing strangers all around us. And then I slept. Harder than ever! And I barely was able to open my eyes at 4am when we needed to get back on the road. My body wanted to just keep sleeping with those desert rocks digging into my hips.<br />
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But some spicy mustard almonds woke me up. Awesome breakfast, you should try it.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">There was a lot of city running during our last leg. We were really digging deep for energy to cheer, but we did it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We'd just gave van support to one of our girls and then were parking at her exchange. We got a phone call from the Ragnar headquarters saying that we had a runner down. So we freaked out and drove all around looking for her, wondering what could have happened in just that short time since we'd seen here. Then someone realized that they may still have us confused with the other "Sole Sisters" team!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sure enough, our poor runner was just mulling around the exchange looking for us when we got there. The mix-up really set back our time, but we were worried about this random girl that was down and needed to be taken out of the race. We had to call the headquarters and let them know the other team's number so that they could find their own injured runner. {We found out later she tore her ACL. Eek!}</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Speaking of knee injuries... the girls in the car had a bunch of "essential oils" and had been letting me use them to soothe my knee after each leg. For my final leg someone suggested I put the oils on first. Maybe it would prevent a little? So I did. And then I decided to also wear my knee brace.<br />
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Basically what I did was I trapped the oils onto my skin. I suffocated my knee. When I was running I thought my skin was on fire! But it was a little 4.2 and I just really didn't want to stop. Especially now, there were runners <i>everywhere</i> and people watching and cheering and the positive energy was just awesome.<br />
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But when I crossed I didn't even have time to celebrate with everyone. I sat down, pulled off my shoe and then ripped of my knee brace. My skin was bright red, and even a little purple in some spots. It hurt.<br />
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Ten minutes under the AC cooled it off. Easy fix for feeling like my skin was burning away.<br />
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And then the two girls after me ran and our van was done! It was such a great feeling, we couldn't stop smiling. Or talking about food. So we grabbed some carbs.<br />
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And then went to meet Van2 at the finish line. There was a party going on. We got free Jamba juice, there was a DJ and booths and everything. <br />
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Um... I found a spot on the grass with a scrap of shade cast by a twig and slept. Sad, I know. And then we got some free pizza and I ate AGAIN! My body was spent, but I loved it. I saw for the first time how your body <i>needs</i> things like sleep, water, and food to survive. I felt like I'd explored those limits and understood my own body so much better.<br />
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And then the moment came. We got to cross the finish line! <br />
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All together, all 12 of us.<br />
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And we got medals.<br />
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Go us!<br />
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200 miles! I just ran 16 of them, but it felt amazing. We got something like 34th out of 38 in our division {all women's team division} which I think is sweet! <br />
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I'm already planning the next Ragnar. I had so much fun doing it with mostly women I had only recently met. They were great and it was a blast. So I can only imagine how much fun I would have with Roy and a bunch of our close friends/family! So hey--if you love blisters and sleep deprivation and running, join our team! Haha! Seriously, though, you will love it. We want to run the combined men and women division for the SoCal Ragnar April 2013. Plenty of time for me to get this knee fixed and train again!<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-51227807819679654472012-02-29T23:41:00.001-07:002012-02-29T23:51:58.500-07:00LeapingToday my boss had his eleventh birthday.<br />
He's pretty mature for eleven.<br />
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What did I do on my leap day? Worked, taught art class, and won a soccer game. Lots of leaping going on around here.<br />
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Like leaping to drive my co-worker to the maternity ward, mere days away from delivering twins.<br />
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Leaping to try and save my student's curly locks from soaking up all the red paint.<br />
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Leaping in front of the hugest guy on the field to "defend" the goal. My leap ended up being more of a ricochet onto the ground.<br />
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As crazy busy as I am, I <i>need</i> another day to catch up on things. Like this blog! Oh leap day, what would I have done without you?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-60613209055402325612012-02-23T00:40:00.003-07:002012-02-28T21:53:59.631-07:00Valentine FailOh, I'd been planning Valentine's Day for a while. And let me tell you, I had big plans.<br />
Big BIG plans that were too crazy for me to rein in, actually. <br />
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Roy's favorite food in the universe is pizza. I was going to go all out and make a homemade pizza and cut the pepperonis into little hearts.<br />
'Cuz, you know, I have lots of time to meticulously cut pepperonis into tiny hearts!<br />
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Anyway, that's just an example of my imagined greatness. Hopefully my visions will be realized over the next several upcoming Valentine's Days. This year, we ended up going out to Mexican with my parents and brothers. Romantic, right? Well, we had fun, that's not the valentine fail. Read on.<br />
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After Mexican we went home and did our own thing, just the two of us. It would have been pretty close to perfect.<br />
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Roy and I use AmazonPrime, which gives us free shipping on items we buy off of Amazon. Naturally, my husband is now obsessed with ordering everything we need from Amazon. I mean, down to toilet paper! He just loves it.<br />
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Earlier this month I took a sick day from work. Before he left for school he said mysteriously, "If anybody drops some boxes off... don't look in them."<br />
And he slunk out of the house all giddy with anticipation. When the boxes came he couldn't wait for three seconds, much less Valentine's Day! So he opened up my gifts to show me.<br />
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They are the most beautiful set of books! He knows how obsessed I am with gilded covers and inside cover artwork. I'll post a picture here in a few days. They are gorgeous. And they are the best of the children's classics: Grimm's Fairytales, Hans Christian Andersen, The Chronicles of Narnia.<br />
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I already read Andersen's <i>The Little Mermaid</i> in one sitting. It was really interesting, but um...<br />
I think Disney did us all a favor by making the story a little less depressing. Like how the Little Mermaid doesn't die at the end while the prince marries someone else. Good move, I think.<br />
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But I digress.<br />
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I saved my gifts to Roy for Valentine's Day, and this is where my epic fail comes in.<br />
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Gift #1, a Lover's Journal. Basically a place to finally keep all our love letters in one place.<br />
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Gift #2, three frames depicting a kind of map of our journey. Look how he's trying to smile and look excited but at the same time he realizes something is a little off.<br />
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One of these things is not like the others!<br />
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But the idea is supposed to be that these frames depict important locations in our life together. They read "We Met" {Map of Idaho} "We Wed" {Map of Oregon} "We Live" {Map of Arizona}. So close to being cute but... <br />
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Valentine FAIL! When I wrapped these and snipped off the excess wrapping paper, I chopped off the ribbon too! Blond!<br />
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Other than that, though, our little celebration was good. We decided we're still pretty crazy about each other, even if my gift didn't do a very good job of showing that. :-)<br />
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And in celebrating love, I thought I would dedicate a little section to Weasley.<br />
Who ever knew that someone could love a fish? To Roy, Weasley might as well be a loyal dog or something. (That's as close as we're going to get to a dog or a cat for a long time.)<br />
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A while back he said, "Weasley needs something else in his bowl. It's boring in there."<br />
I thought he was joking. But a while later I walked back into the kitchen to see the new friend Roy stuck in there for our fish. Weasley hides under the bear's chin all the time and Roy says, "See? He likes it."<br />
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The other day I was going through my checklist of things to do while Roy was studying. I read aloud, "Clean Weasley's bowl." <br />
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I went over to bring the little guy into the kitchen but Roy popped out from behind his text book and asked, "Wait, you're going to clean his bowl?"<br />
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"Yes."<br />
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"Oh... maybe I should do it."<br />
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"What? You don't trust me with your fish?"<br />
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"I'll just do it," he said. And he took the bowl from me. How hilarious is that?<br />
Just look how much he loves his pet. <br />
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Love is in the...<br />
water!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Don't you just feel so welcome after seeing that? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the front entrance. No, there aren't any pictures in those frames yet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Look to your left and you will see our kitchen!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Complete with a horribly painted purple ceiling that I can totally live with.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And back here is our table.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">And remember in our first place I got a little shelf and decorated it? Well that was in a much smaller space. So, naturally, I had to add a little something. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And a little something over here. Merry Christmas to us! Okay, mostly me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ah, and let's not forget my stalking window.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yeah, it got a little awkward not having blinds or curtains, and being so close to our neighbors.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">But we are busy, and for some reason I put decorating the kitchen wall higher on the priority list than getting the windows covered. So luckily Roy is resourceful and... well now we are <i>mostly</i> hidden from view. Now when the neighbors come out their front door and I'm eating breakfast, they can only see me from the chin down. HA! At least we've eliminated awkward eye-contact!</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">If you head on out of the kitchen, you will see our study nook. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is where Roy burns holes into textbooks with his eyeballs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here is our living room. Along with our TV with the glitchy red line that runs through it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">His name is Clifford.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Big Red Line.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">At the back of this room is our back door, which leads to our garden.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is where I grow weeds as tall as the house.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Look, flowers! Kind of...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">But as you can see, there is that perfect shady little corner I told you about earlier. That's where my legit garden is going to go in a few weeks. I've been drawing up plans. Any suggestions for desert growing?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">It might be cool to have an orange tree, like our neighbors. Of course, if that doesn't work out we can still benefit from their green thumbs. Look at this last orange on the tree. If we get a good gust of wind it could drop in <i>our</i> backyard! Mmmm!</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Let's go back inside, it's getting a little warm out here for February. <br />
Through the living room and down the hallway. Let's check out the bathroom, shall we?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Here is our guest bedroom, furnished with the bedset that I've had since I was in fifth grade.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cherries will never go out of style, right?</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> And here's our second room, the one I should probably be embarrassed to even post online. But hey--we aren't in any serious rush to unpack. Right? We're taking our time. So this room is the "room of objects yet to have a place."</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And our bedroom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> At the very end of the hall you come upon a tiny little room with a washer and dryer shoved into it. Nothing interesting there.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We love living in this town, and we love renting this house. We're a lucky pair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div> So you've officially had a tour! Now even my sister, who is doing a study abroad in Austria, can feel like she's been here and seen it all. Gotta love technology.<br />
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If you'd like a real tour {maybe after the very blue room is a little less crowded} come on down to see us! Maybe I'll show off my domesticity and cook something! <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-14462492199623887072012-01-26T23:13:00.003-07:002012-01-27T11:15:10.881-07:00The New Hood<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day One:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We didn't see any neighbors out and about at all today, but I'm really excited to meet them. I mean, we're in a <i>real</i> neighborhood. There will probably be block parties and kids getting their ball stuck in our backyard and everything!<b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Three:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one has come to welcome us into the neighborhood yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It kind of fractures my image of the American suburbs, but I guess I could be jumping the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe they’re waiting for the wall of cardboard boxes to subside from the windows—a sign that we are less hectic with unpacking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considerate of them, really.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Five:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe this house is haunted, and no one dares to brave the property to warn the unsuspecting newcomers. I haven't seen anyone anywhere near our street.</div><div class="MsoNormal">But maybe so many people have come and gone from this property {it’s been a rental for a long time, I think} that it’s not worth developing a relationship when they’re likely to disappear in a relatively short matter of itme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Meh...I'd rather this house not be haunted, thanks.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Seven:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I spotted a neighbor for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was in his front yard on a ladder taking down the icicle Christmas lights from his rooftop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was kind of relieved to see him out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a little while I thought we’d moved into Stepherd or something… perfectly quiet, no faces in the windows or kids in the driveways. </div><div class="MsoNormal">He was proof that we weren’t the only living souls around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was relieved for another reason, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Christmas decorations were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">awesome</i> {giant inflatable Santas and such} but tiny high-pitched Christmas tunes played continuously from somewhere in their yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, um, probably won't miss that too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time I went outside I had to resist the urge to barrel through his yard, locate the source of the music, and rip the thing apart.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Luckily, I have great self-control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure that would be a good way to make friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And oh, I’m stoked to make some friends here.</div><div class="MsoNormal">So I tried to make eye contact with Mr. Christmasmusicman when he climbed down from his roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was sitting at our table eating breakfast and we don’t have any blinds on our windows so… well, I was pretty hard to miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The houses are so close together he was practically standing at our front door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">I thought maybe he’d wave?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smile?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nod?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grimace?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come on, something!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you miss the trailer stuffed with furniture and boxes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have new neighbors!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledge us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">But he avoided me and my creepy attempt to catch his eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An hour later I walked into the kitchen and noticed his son out there pulling anchored decorations out of the ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they have a teenager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wasn’t any more eager than his father to bring over some baked goods or anything, but if I keep this up I think I’ll get to know them pretty well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll just keep slinking around and staring out our windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally normal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Nine:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I got up early and went for a run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s still night dark at six a.m., but it’s not so cold that you can see your breath fog out in front of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Once I was outside I wished I had some headphones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stillness of the neighborhood is really eerie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’d think you’d at least see shadows in the windows or something, people moving around inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">In those thirty minutes a few cars pulled out of garages, which made me feel a little better, but I still didn’t see any actual people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where is everyone?!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Next time I’m going to see if Roy will go out with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Eleven:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On tonight’s late run I saw a lanky shadow slip out onto the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It scared me so bad I almost tripped!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never seen anything bigger than a cat moving on these streets!</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was a neighbor walking out to his car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a faceless silhouette in the dark, but at least it was a live neighbor.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Day Thirteen:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our doorbell rang! We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> had our first neighbor come and visit, a friend of the Buckmasters who happens to live a street away. He assured us that there are nice people living all around us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Hmmm... I'll be the judge of that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Day Sixteen:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>An adorable seven-year-old girl scout showed up on our doorstep in uniform with a wagon full of cookies. Sure, she was after our money, but at least she included us in the neighborhood. Ah, those mint cookies really made me feel like part of the community. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Day Nineteen:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-I'm on a soccer team with a bunch of adults in the community! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-Roy and I hung out with my cousin and her family that lives just a few street away! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-I have a workout buddy at the gym who is an exercise science grad! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-I met the other girls that I'm running the Ragnar relay race with and they all live within running distance! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-It's getting warmer and kids are riding bikes on our street!<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span>When Roy was outside pulling weeds (we got a warning! oops!) two different neighbors stopped by to welcome him to the hood. So sure we didn't get any cookies we didn't pay for, but I'm thinking I'll like this neighborhood. I think we just scared everyone into hiding at our abrupt entrance with 30 people helping us move. Slowly, the neighborhood is coming back to life. I'm stoked to be a part of it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-71998626592254681142012-01-21T17:24:00.000-07:002012-01-21T17:24:35.102-07:00We've Moved!!!!Ever feel like you’ve been hit by a train? I’m still reorienting myself, figuring out which way is up and which drawer has the silverware in it.<br />
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Luckily, though, I’m not talking about a literal locomotive. Those days of rumbling, blaring trains barreling through our front yard are far behind us. We’ve moved! We’re in a real house with a real neighborhood and we have a real kitchen and bedroom and everything! And there is a train… but it’s a good ten miles away. Far enough to still be sentimental, but out of earshot.<br />
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For six months we’ve been wanderers, graciously accepted into different houses. The last few were with my parents. Every night we came home from work and school and there was a good, hot meal on the table. Living with your parents definitely has its perks, I don’t care what people say.<br />
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So now that we have our own place and food isn’t magically generating anymore, it seems like we’re playing house—like it felt when we first got married. Me cleaning our own bathroom, Roy fixing our own furniture. The hubby is still on his break from school, so I came home from work one evening and he’d made macaroni and cheese from scratch! It was scrumptious. We did the dishes together; just two plates, just two cups. Just the two of us.<br />
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It’s quiet. At first I wasn’t sure if I liked that. At Mom and Dad’s there was always something going on. Even in our old apartment we could hear the couple below us screaming at each other, the dude to the right of us bumpin’ his tunes, babies crying, chairs scraping, doors slamming.<br />
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We’re not sharing any walls now. It’s quiet.<br />
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Hey—now we can be as crazy as we want! We won’t need the subtitles on our movies anymore, we can turn up the volume, we can laugh loud, we can have a dance party, and no one is going to slam their broom handle {thump thump thump} under our feet. I’m liking this quite a lot, now.<br />
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The Buckmaster and Collett clans joined forces to help us move in. I love the help, love it. I can’t, and don’t want to imagine how much time it would take to move all our junk on our own {how have we accumulated so much junk already?}. But honestly, I also find it a little awkward. Um, don’t mind all of our personal things strewn out everywhere. Yes, I still want to keep that Spiderman bobble head, Dad. I know I have a lot of shoes, Zac. Thanks for your slave labor, Kirsten.<br />
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Hopefully these people know that we have their backs forever. We will be there for moves and hospital visits and whatever else comes in life. We love you guys.<br />
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Roy’s family stayed at our new place, sleeping on air mattresses and couch cushions, using whatever blankets have been gathering dust in the storage unit for the last half-year. What troopers. I tried to get them to go out and do something fun in Tucson, but they were set on helping us get settled. Without them I’d still be organizing the kitchen right now, I’m sure. They’re awesome.<br />
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Even with all that help, we’re still putting things away. There are a few boxes in a pile, waiting for me to go through them. And yes, it takes me hours because every little thing I pull out has to be properly admired and I have to tell whatever story connects with it: Awww, this is that card Lynn made me when my cat got eaten by coyotes!<br />
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Don’t you feel kind of bad for Roy? Me too.<br />
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What else is on our checklist? Painting the hideous purple ceiling in the kitchen, getting shelves for the garage {we have a garage!}, and putting blinds up on the windows. Our landlord is pretty awesome, and doesn’t mind whatever alterations we make. ;-)<br />
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OH! And we have a backyard! Some people would consider it a box of dirt, but it’s our first back yard! Between noon and one o’clock there is a little sunlight that peeks between the close rooftops and hits the dirt. What is this perfect for? My first garden.<br />
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Seriously, there’s an especially shady corner of the yard where several weeds are just thriving. We even have a few weedy flowers that have sprung up just in the few days we’ve been here. Maybe I’m ignorant {and in denial about living in a desert again}, but I’m determined to have a garden we can eat out of. Squash, watermelon, carrots, the works! Whatever hardy fruit or vegetable can survive in Arizona soil is going to be planted back there soon. <br />
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Or maybe the real issue will be whether they can survive Buckmaster caretaking. When Roy and I were dating he got me a “love plant,” which was a potted cactus. We killed it in three weeks flat. But Weasley has stayed alive so… maybe we’re getting better?<br />
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Our neighbors have an orange tree which billows up over our wall and drops occasional gifts. I like that. Maybe we could get an orange tree too. I’ll start saving seeds J. We’ll have a whole jungle back there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-89641760014775821662012-01-17T23:15:00.000-07:002012-01-17T23:15:48.601-07:00¡Feliz Navidad!When the Buckmasters told friends and co-workers that they were going to Mexico for their Christmas vacation, they didn’t exactly get positive reactions.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Why would you go there?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">“They’re killing Americans down there, you know?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Be safe!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">But Dennis rebounded with, “Well you gotta die sometime, might as well be together in Mexico.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Yes. And with that philosophy we happily crammed into the car and drove down from Phoenix, through the border, and to the oh-so-very-Americanized Puerto Penasco (Rocky Pont). We’re glad they weren’t easily deterred, because it was a great trip.<br />
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Once we were actually in Mexico, one of our first stops was the local mercado. Honestly, I haven’t been to one of these in a long, long time. It made the experience of Mexico a little more foreign. The Buckmasters were eager to get out if “Rocky Point” and see the real Puerto Penasco, and it really inspired me to have a more Mexican experience when we go down from now on. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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We also found a little panadería that sold tortillas and bread. The shop was attached to a house full of kids. The madre came out to us, really shy and sweet. She spoke zero English, so it was fun to use some of my retired Spanish skills.<br />
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We visited that panadería twice more, I think. Best tortillas ever!<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">December is a great time for a trip to the fish market. In the summer you’re shoulder to shoulder, being carried through the town in a river of tourists and vendors, everyone sweaty trying to keep in the shade. But in the winter, and first thing in the morning, it was just us. Of course, this means you get special attention: vendors calling out to you from their shops, kids following you with their boxes of bracelets. But it was nice!<br />
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Yes, the weather was as perfect as it looks.<br />
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Art gallery.<br />
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We got a few souvenirs.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">We found a church! Yay, Elliot’s dream come true!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Everyone indulged me, let me scamper around inside and snap a few pictures.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">When it was time for lunch, we opted to try one of the restaurants. Dennis made a "friend" out of one of the many waiters that pummel you with "special deals for you." It was called...<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Yeah, Beto's Place wasn't a good idea. But we didn't know that yet. Look how happy and unsuspecting we are!<br />
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Maybe I should have been clued in by the fact that our little plastic table was on top of the roof... if you could call it that. We were really just on a couple of wood planks.<br />
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Let's just say that very little sleep was had that night in our condos.<br />
Maybe it's not fair to blame poor Beto, though. Jamie, Leah, and Kelsey never got sick. So maybe it was a 24 hour flu?<br />
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Whatever it was, I felt bad that the Buckmasters had to deal with it on their vacation. We will choose our restaurants more carefully next time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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Another cool cultural experience was at the railroad tracks. Because it’s public property, people can stake out a little square and set up house for free, right there on the side of the tracks! Cool deal! That is, if you don’t mind cardboard walls and barbed wire everywhere.<br />
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Kelsey was pretty much adorable with them.<br />
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Laura was grilling up a storm!<br />
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Jamie and Leah worked really hard getting the condiments right. Through head nods and shakes, they were able to figure out whether each person liked mustard.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">I did see <i>one</i> kinda cute dog, though. But not as cute as the little boys holding him!<br />
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A group from Utah had brought down all kinds of lightly used clothes and toys to share with their Mexican brothers and sisters. Some people got some great finds. Like this little turtle dude:<br />
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Or this guy!<br />
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It was a success! And an awesome experience. I was sorry some of us were still too sick to make it out.<br />
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As their silly game wore on, more and more random strangers joined in until the whole pool was playing. Old ladies, little kids, even people outside of the pool, stretched out on lawn chairs, were crying out “Polo!”<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anyway, there was one person—ONE person—within a fifty foot radius who wasn’t playing. His white hair was slicked back, his sunglasses were on, and he was just relaxing on a step in the pool. Either he was sleeping or he had no emotional capacity—because how can you not smile at a pool of strangers in a game of Marco, Polo?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jamie was “it.” Out of all the tons of people playing, Jamie found this guy’s flabby chest. It looked like he got his fingers all tangled up in the man’s curly white hair before he opened his eyes.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">“I don’t think you want me.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Oh. Sorry.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Meanwhile, everyone just peed in the public pool because everyone is laughing <i>that</i> hard.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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On the last full day Uncle Rod let us borrow his quads and took us out on the sandrail!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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Jamie got stuck once, but luckily my cousin Shane and I were following them around in his car, ready to jump start anyone who needed it. <br />
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Who knew there was wet mud out in the desert?</div><br />
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And then, of course, there was shopping on Shack's 5th Avenue.<br />
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The end of the trip came too quickly. We didn't even have time to finish our Christmas puzzle!<br />
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You know what I had to say about returning to the states/work?<br />
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But Friday came anyway. As our last act, we took an ugly Christmas sweater pic {a Buckmaster tradition} Mexican style.<br />
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The drive back was way more eventful than I thought possible. First of all, we locked the keys in the car at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. Literally, it would have taken a locksmith all day to get to us. But apparently this sort of thing happens a lot at this little place. The manager got out his whole break-into-a-locked-car-kit and Roy had the situation figured out in no time flat.<br />
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About thirty minutes on the road after this little event, Kelsey had to go to the bathroom. Bad. We’ve all been there before, right? Willing to squat behind a bush to avoid wet, warm pants. Unfortunately for Kelsey, there weren’t a whole lot of bushes around. And there’s not much you can do to hide from the border patrol helicopters either...<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">To make matters worse, Kelsey had a run in with Nature. Apparently Roy told Kelsey to be careful as she ventured out for a good spot to go, but we should have been more specific. The girl has never been out in open desert before! So of course she tripped over a knee-high cactus and had stickers all over her leg. Lovely Arizona souvenir.<br />
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And that's our Christmas vacation, told really fast with lots of things I've forgotten, I'm sure. It was definitely one of the best weeks of the year!<br />
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¡Hasta luego, México!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-17829049188670729812011-12-27T20:43:00.046-07:002012-01-10T22:04:38.962-07:00Another Christmas Come and GoneSanta needed a little helper on Christmas Eve, and I volunteered. Yes, Santa still visits the Collett home, even though there aren’t any “children” left in it. Instead, it was full to bursting with teenagers/young adults.<br />
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Mason and Alexa returned from school in Idaho several days before Christmas. Mason had a room waiting for him. I’m sorry I can’t say the same for Lex. She’s currently sleeping in the library on an air mattress with one of Mom’s three Christmas trees towering over her. Poor thing misses her bedroom that Roy and I have been occupying.<br />
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With Zac, Simon, Alexa, Mason, Roy, me, and Dad to set up Christmas for, Mom was planning on staying up all night. So while everyone slept she and I wrapped, taped, tied, and {in one case} cut up and arranged a garbage bag to resemble wrapping paper.<br />
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By three o'clock in the morning we were obviously getting a little loopy:<br />
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Zad?<br />
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Of course earlier we did all of our Christmas Eve traditions. I thought I’d record them here, because traditions are made to be passed down and to bring family closer—even closer to generations past.<br />
First, we have our Christmas Eve dinner. Instead of your typical ham and peas, the last few years we have switched to shepherd’s pie, in honor of the shepherds in the field who saw the angel and followed the star to the stable in Bethlehem. {Did shepherds actually eat shepherd’s pie? Probably not, but that’s not what matters, is it.} Sometimes we have it outside, around a campfire and under the starry sky. This Christmas was unseasonably cold, so we chose to keep in indoors. Grandma and Grandpa Reay usually attend, and we were happy they were with us again.<br />
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Then we read the true Christmas story in the Bible. This year I read it in Luke. Short and sweet—the biggest event in the history of the world.<br />
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Then we get to open three presents. When we were little it was two, but Mom has added a Christmas-related book, which of course I’m totally in favor of. This year I got a true classic, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Roy got an anthology of Christmas stories that has been passed down in my family.<br />
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Then we open our ornament for the year and our PJs! Our ornaments were nutcrackers, and our pjs were leopard print. Haha-ok only mine were leopard print. Roy hates pjs {and leopard print}, but the set mom got him is probably the first he’s ever liked. Seriously, he’s even worn them since!<br />
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Normally at this point we would make eggnog shakes, set out the cookies, and settle down with Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. If you couldn’t tell, that’s a staple story in our family.<br />
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We’ve watched the movie together pretty much every Christmas since it came out when I was in sixth grade. Oh, and we can all quote it word per word {unfortunately for Roy and Simon, who probably would have preferred hearing the dialogue from the actors.}<br />
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This year everyone dropped off a little early. Roy, Dad, and I were the only ones still watching when the credits rolled. But then they went to bed and I helped Santa. I also set up a table for Roy, his own little corner for the day. We’re going to have to make our own traditions for his birthday<br />
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At midnight, before Roy was all the way asleep, I heard Simon go into the bedroom and wish Roy a happy birthday. Right at midnight. He beat me! It was cute, though.<br />
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In the morning when Roy walked downstairs we sang happy birthday, and then everyone dove at the main tree. Look who joined our Buckmaster family!<br />
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Meet St. Nicholas Weasley Buckmaster. Roy wanted a dog or a cat but… we’ll start with a fish.<br />
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We also gave each other a cool printer!<br />
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We gave and we got until we were all drowning in a heap of wrapping paper and tissue.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was an inadvertent hat theme this year. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Wow. Don't we all look chipper in the morning? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Then it was church time, where I sang in the choir with Grandma.<br />
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Afterward it was officially Roy’s birthday, with no more distractions. Dad was picking up Roy’s big gift from where it had been hiding in storage, so I tried to distract Roy on the drive home: Wouldn’t it be nice to go for a drive up the mountain a ways? Yeah, let’s do it. Yes, we’re doing it.<br />
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He caught on that something was up pretty fast. Roy always likes to pretend he doesn’t care about his birthday and he would rather people just forget about it and focus on Christmas… but as soon as he knew he had a birthday surprise I could see that tiny little smile and the gleam in his eye. He was secretly really, really excited. That made my whole day!<br />
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROY! I covered his eyes and led him into the room while everyone sang happy birthday again. Me, his parents, and my parents all pitched in and got him a bike! Remember when his got stolen at our old apartment? Ever since he’s wanted a good bike. So thanks to our parents, that dream was possible.<br />
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Nothing is better than making Roy that happy. That’s the best.<br />
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He had requested that we not do any more dessert for the day, so we nixed the whole cake thing. We were already making ourselves sick with Christmas goodies and whatever we found in our stockings. I wonder how I can curb that in the future. Roy being a Christmas baby is actually a fun, interesting challenge. Unique to us.<br />
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To top off his birthday we were able to see his family that night, who flew into Phoenix. We stayed at their cousin’s house that night and then woke up early to hit the road. Passports in hand, heading for Mexico.<br />
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And that, my friends… is a hilarious story for another time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-15208376737222845912011-12-12T00:06:00.002-07:002011-12-12T00:11:40.778-07:00Chestnuts Roasting and Roy's Brain On FireRoy is in the middle of his first wave of law exams. Or, more appropriately, his first <i>tidal</i> wave of law exams. The entire semester rides on these scores, nothing else counts towards final grades. No pressure!<br />
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I'm amazed by him. Days ago I would have dropped into the fetal position and started crying. Although he's talked about how hard it is, he hasn't complained or tried to find ways to procrastinate, like I'm sure I would. There were several days this last week where he studied twelve straight hours in the library, with a one hour break for lunch. Seriously.<br />
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I've been using my own lunch break to run him Wendy's or Subway sandwiches, reminding him that he needs to refuel. When I missed a day because I couldn't get out of the office, Roy went without. He just stayed in that cave of a library and roasted his brains. So you see how important my job is. <br />
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Even with Christmas decorations going up and all the holiday excitement, Roy refuses to be distracted.<br />
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He says it won't really feel like Christmas until he's able to yank his head out of those books. But he's surrounded by Christmas craziness, all the same.<br />
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Mom and my aunts put on a gingerbread house making party for the great grandkids in the family. {Mom being the only one without a grandkid!} I didn't get to see the event, but what was left by the time we got home still looked adorable. Before she whisked away the leftovers, Roy and I put together our own little gingerbread house.<br />
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It's our Christmas decoration in our bedroom. Being at my parent's house for the whole month of December brings back childhood memories. For example, Mom puts these wintery bedspreads on everyone's beds right after Thanksgiving. It wasn't until I left Tucson that I realized the rest of the world switches to flannel sheets to keep warm! At mom's house we do it to be cute and Christmassy. Roy was stoked we get our own little tree too.<br />
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My parent's advent calendar is another childhood decoration I had to document. This thing has been around for even my earliest Christmas memories. <br />
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Mason, Alexa, and I used to fight over who got to stick the daily figure onto the felt tree. I remember waking up, running down the hall, and skidding into the kitchen trying to beat my little sibs to the calendar.<br />
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Even though a few elbows were thrown, this was one of our favorite Christmas traditions. Roy and I better get something like this for our own family next year.<br />
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As far as the rest of <i>our</i> decorations, it will be so fun to open our boxes of them next year, since it will have been two years since I saw them. I'll have forgotten most of them, probably, and they'll feel like new presents! <br />
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Tonight Roy had to lock himself up to study. Zac, Simon, and I made gingerbread men and rocked out to Christmas music. I'm bringing some of the cookies to work tomorrow. The office had a guessing contest to predict the genders of my expecting co-worker's babies, and I said I'd make cookies for the winners. Lucky them, they get these beautiful creations. {PS, she's having two girls, if you were curious.}<br />
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When baking gingerbread men, be careful they don't come to life. They'll run away and you'll have one less cookie to eat.<br />
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One more final exam for Roy- wish him luck!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-9662135237316556192011-12-06T00:01:00.003-07:002011-12-06T14:07:20.119-07:00Thnx GvngHere's the thing about <i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">law school</span></i> and having a <i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">real world, full-time job</span></i>:<br />
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You can't just skip town whenever you feel like it.<br />
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Roy and I had stayed put for about five months, which is basically a decade in Buckmaster years.<br />
We were both restless, itching for a road trip. As soon as we got time off for Thanksgiving, we hit the asphalt.<br />
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My family was bummed we were going to miss out on the turkey, but they were pretty understanding. Thanks guys. We missed you, but we had an awesome week and I'm <i>so</i> glad we were able to go.<br />
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Even if we did eat ourselves sick. <br />
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We're hoping that the damage isn't permanent...<br />
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Thanksgiving is about getting together with family, right? We'll Roy and I had left a whole army of family back in Tucson, so we were doing things a little bit backwards. The only family Roy has in Utah is his sister and brother-in-law, Leah and Jamie. But it had been a reeeeeally long time since we'd seen them. Probably since last May.<br />
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So it was awesome to hang out with them. Originally we didn't have any plans. In fact, we were all considering going out to eat. You know, Denny's or something ;-).<br />
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But Kenny and Andrea intervened. No friends of theirs were going to have Thanksgiving dinner at Denny's!<br />
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So we were taken on by the McAffee family for the day. I was hesitant to barge in on another family's feast, but Roy is basically like an adopted son of theirs—so I'm adopted by default.<br />
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We love this fam!<br />
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In the morning the guys all went and played football. Leah, Andrea, and I cooked. OK, mostly goofed off. The cooking didn't really get rolling until Kenny got back from football. <br />
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The food was great! Ah! I've never been a big fan of turkey, so I really don't know a thing about it, but this looks like some expert carving to me. (Taylor is studying this art of carving <i>very</i> intently, as you can see.)<br />
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This is Beth and her granddaughter Brynne in the steamy, good-smelling kitchen. Brynne is adorable. I hung out with this little cutie tons of times when we lived in Utah, but she didn't remember me at all. Neither did her little brother. They were shy toward me, and I was lucky if I could get them to smile when I was behind the camera.<br />
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Yet they remembered and loved Roy. Um excuse me, what is up with that?<br />
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The holiday wouldn't have been complete without Andrea's traditional turkey call. <br />
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Mmmm...<br />
And people act like I'm some weirdo for not liking turkey...<br />
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Ok, trying not to be a total baby stalker, but Dione and Taylor have the cutest little kids. Check out how photogenic this little boy is!<br />
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After a most delicious dinner {Every year I overdo it on the mashed potatoes. Every year.} we met up with more extended family to eat <i>more</i> and play games. I wasn't prepared for how many people know Roy. Kenny's grandparents, uncles, aunts, I mean seriously... these boys spent way too much time together before they met their wives. Ha! Love it.<br />
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We played a cracker-busting game which I so thoroughly enjoyed, I have decided to make it a Buckmaster tradition. We will play every Thanksgiving, and I will kick butt every year, even when I'm a grandma.<br />
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You tie soda crackers to your belt loops, one on each side. Then you roll up a newspaper as your weapon. You and everyone else run around trying to crunch as many crackers as possible, thwacking people your weapon. The last person with a cracker in tact wins the game! <br />
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Honestly I think I won because no one knew me well enough to smack me around with a newspaper. The first half of the game I mostly watched, and then reached out and thwacked if someone backed into my corner. It was working pretty well. But when it got down to the last handful, no one held back anymore. I lost two different newspapers in the battle!<br />
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It got down to Beth, Kenny, and me. A little cousin offered me her weapon, since mine had both crumpled. Kenny saw it and shouted, "NO!" <br />
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Quite dramatic. But after one smack I realized why he didn't want me to have this one. The little girl had fortified her newspaper with ridiculous amounts of tape. I wouldn't be surprised if she'd hidden some PVC pipe in there! <br />
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In the end, I had a tiny scrap of cracker left, which made me the winner. Kenny had four welts on his left leg and a purple spot on his eyelid.<br />
WOW! I <i>really</i> didn't mean to do that. I didn't remember coming even close to his eyes {seriously, the crackers are on your belt loops, not your ear lobes}! But I blame it on that totally illegal weapon. Don't trust me with those things!<br />
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Um... thanks for inviting us to your Thanksgiving, I'm sorry I beat the crap out of you.<br />
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Later that night we four headed over to Carson and Shellena's. They kept Story awake late just so I could see her cute face that I hadn't seen in almost six months!<br />
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Did you just melt? <br />
Yeah, I was basically a puddle for the whole week.<br />
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Story is a smiley one. Really all you had to do to get her to crack a grin was to smile at her. So precious. Last time I saw her she was just barely learning to roll over—I can't believe how fast babies grow!<br />
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Laura, I got a picture of her playing with that book you got her!<br />
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And tearing the book...<br />
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And eating the book...<br />
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Pretty sure she loved it.<br />
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We spent the rest of the week between Kenny and Andrea's house and Carson and Shellena's. It was like old times. There were several moments when I felt like Roy and I were going to jump in our car and head down the street to our apartment in Springville.<br />
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But since we didn't really have our apartment in Springville, we had limited time to hang out together. That meant every night was a late one, taking advantage of our short visit.<br />
And late nights can get a little crazy. Once night we stayed up and played Dare Dice.<br />
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Let's just say it involved batteries on your tongue, ice cream in your fist, and socks in your mouth... the late night, delirious humor of middle school.<br />
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Roy rolled the lowest number about 70% of the time, no joke. Poor guy. I believe three of us laughed ourselves to tears at some point. <br />
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We had such a great time. We went to the movies, went to the park, went to Temple Square, met up briefly with a few other friends in Salt Lake {we love the Smedleys!}, did a little black Friday shopping, did a few other things—but we always had the most fun just hanging out and talking or playing games.<br />
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We brought our Christmas gifts up for them. They had huge red tags on them that said "Don't Open 'Til Xmas."<br />
*cough cough, Andrea*<br />
But we let Story open hers early.<br />
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YEAH! ARIZONA!!!!<br />
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See how much she loves being a wildcat? <br />
We thought we were pretty hilarious getting her this little U of A shirt. We took about 20 pictures with her and our three matching "A"s. <br />
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In fact, I took about a billion pictures of Story throughout our time there, but I didn't get a <i>single</i> picture with Carson and Shellena. SAD!!!! Sorry guys, that's what happen when you have a smiley, adorable kid. She kind of takes the spotlight.<br />
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But for real, we miss our besties! It was so much fun to be able to spend the week with them. Pretty soon Carson and Shellena will be moving to California for film school and our reunions will be a little more complicated, but we'll make it happen.<br />
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Grateful for good friends.<br />
Grateful for great family.<br />
Thanks everybody who took us in and made our Thanksgiving unforgettable!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-85547281401594631012011-12-02T23:53:00.001-07:002011-12-03T00:13:57.872-07:00My Coming OutSome people know this about me. If my mom has ever cornered you and bragged about me, then you probably know. {And I'm sorry you had to endure that.}<br />
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Or if you've ever had an English class with me in the last few years, or if you've ever been a roommate—having sleep deprived, deep conversations over homework and hot chocolate...<br />
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then you already know this about me.<br />
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But I've never come out and said this in a public place. It's not like this is Twitter or Facebook or the State of the Union Address... but this is still a kind of coming out for me. So here it goes:<br />
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<b>I want to write and publish children's books. </b><br />
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Phew! It's not something I've broadcasted because I don't usually like the reactions I get. But since you guys can't really talk back, I'll continue. :-)<br />
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Writing children's books is my favorite hobby ever, but it would be cool if I could actually get one published someday. Just for fun. So I write a lot, and this is one of the reasons why I sometimes fall behind in my blog. The blog isn't the only thing I write. <br />
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I have an awesome mentor, a YA author named Carol Lynch Williams. Maybe you've read something by her. She's been publishing since the 90s and has written lots of <i>great</i> stuff. My favorite: The Chosen One.<br />
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Anyway, she asked me to write something for her blog on writing. Her blog is a bit more popular than this one {HA!} and I was kind of nervous. Compared to her and the other published writers that post, I know squat. Seriously. I have no idea why she asked—but she inspires me and I'll jump on anything she suggests.<br />
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So I went ahead and gave it a shot. I just wrote about something I've been experiencing a lot in my own writing. Re-reading the post now, there are things I would change for sure. But hey, it was like my first leap into cyberspace as someone who even has interest in children's literature.<br />
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If you want to check it out, you can find it here: <a href="http://throwingupwords.wordpress.com/">http://throwingupwords.wordpress.com/ </a><br />
You may need to scroll down to find it. <br />
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And if you don't want to read it, you don't have to. I won't even know ;-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-44221732797089641722011-12-01T23:03:00.001-07:002011-12-01T23:19:22.925-07:00San Xavier del BacTwo weeks ago {yes I'm falling behind on our blog a little} Roy and I decided to be tourists for a day. I was raised in Tucson and yet I'd never been to the San Xavier del Bac.<br />
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It was a good excuse to practice my "manual" camera skills. So prepare for many pictures. <br />
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The drive there was trafficky... and Roy loves traffic.<br />
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We could see the church form the I-19. From that distance it's like a white castle in the middle of flat nothing. Pretty cool. This mosaic greeted us when we took our exit.<br />
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The Spanish began construction on this church in 1783. That's old for Arizona. In fact, it's easily the oldest European building in the state.<br />
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There are parts of the church that have been restored, obviously. There was an earthquake in the late 1800s that did some damage. But <i>most</i> of the church is all original. Look at this stone, it's so warped and faded. I love it. Reminds me of Europe :-)<br />
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This Catholic mission was begun in the late 1600s by Father Kino. I vaguely remember learning about him in elementary school. They were basically the first European settlers of the Tucson area, trying to convert the O'odham people who already inhabited the land.<br />
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The office I work at is near a road named Kino. It has a statue of him in like a poncho riding a horse. Looks like a good guy.<br />
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But it was a Franciscan missionary who began construction on this beautiful building, decades after Kino had left. I love the ceilings. <br />
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This ceiling is just a smattering of flower petals, which have little scraps of bright paint remaining on them.<br />
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The interior was a mix of Spanish {baroque} and Native American art and influence. None of the artists are known, but they were most likely people from both nationalities. The colors were awesome. They said that the colors were exactly as they would have been when it was first completed.<br />
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Still a working church. There used to be O'odham clay houses all around outside of the church. Now there are little huts where Native Americans sell fry bread and other goodies. But their actual houses aren't too far away.<br />
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When we first walked into the church I was really surprised at how loud it was. People were practically shouting at each other from across the building. I even heard this lady shout, "Hey Toots!"<br />
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But after ten minutes or so it seemed like most of the tourists filtered out, and worshipers filtered in. They lit candles, prayed, etc.<br />
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Meet Saint Francis. People would kiss his wooden face, leave tokens on his chest, pray, etc. It was interesting. You can go on their website and have a prayer printed and placed on his chest if you are too far away to do it yourself.<br />
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We also read in the museum that people lift his head when they pray to him {hoping that he will pass their prayer on to God} and they believe that only the pure in heart can life his head. Roy said he saw someone lifting the head. I must have had my eyes stuck behind the camera somewhere.<br />
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Holy water. Love the colorful walls.<br />
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Reminded me of a mini Arizona version of <i>Winged Victory</i>. A favorite sculpture in the Louvre. <br />
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Roy thought this little guy was kind of creepy. So this picture is dedicated to him.<br />
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I loved this wall painting because it's so European.<br />
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Mesquite wood door!<br />
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I saw a lot of rats and cats represented. And the rattlesnake handles on the door are one of a kind, I'm sure. <br />
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</div>This smaller chapel is even older than the rest of the church.<br />
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Everything was in Spanish. It made me feel bad for the O'odham! People were always showing up speaking different languages and trying to teach them those languages.<br />
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One of the original books they used to read from during worship.<br />
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Another.<br />
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Courtyard.<br />
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Exit.<br />
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That little ranch house Roy and I were staying at had ceilings like this. <br />
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There was a pathway and a grotto on a hill beside the church.<br />
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Lions!<br />
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Who knew there was a little piece of Europe hiding out in Tucson? I was in love.<br />
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I'm so glad Roy can put up with my nerdy obsession. He was so patient when I {of course} had to read like every plaque in the museum, even though I'm not going to remember most of it in a few months. If I had more time I'd write it all down here... but alas—I need about four more hours in a day. Hours <i>not</i> spent at work.<br />
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It was one of the funnest things we've done in Tucson. Roy takes about a quarter of the time that I do to look at everything. But he spent the rest of the time in a pew looking up things about the church on his phone, and then telling me all about it.<br />
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Love that boy.<br />
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We'll have to keep hunting down the good stuff for when Roy's family or any friends come to town. We'll resume scouting after Roy's done with finals. Wish him luck!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-37791177248141124202011-11-16T18:15:00.004-07:002011-11-16T22:36:36.183-07:00Stay PositiveRoy and I have it pretty good. Really, <i>really</i> good. But sometimes I forget that, even over the stupidest things.<br />
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Yesterday morning Roy and I were trying to run out the door to school and work. My boss has asked the admins to arrive at the office five minutes early every day, and you wouldn't believe how that has thrown us for a loop. I barreled down the stairs out of breath, still putting my hair up, and sweet Roy knew I wouldn't have time to make myself some breakfast.<br />
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"Here, you can have my cereal," he said. Frosted Flakes- YES! So I downed the cereal as fast as I could while Roy stared down the clock.<br />
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"You better hurry."<br />
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"We gotta go."<br />
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"We're gonna be late, Ell!"<br />
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"Alright, let's go," this time Roy took the nearly empty bowl out of my hands while I had a spoonful of milk suspended between my mouth and the bowl. Of course... the bowl clinked against my spoon... and of course I got a puddle of milk on my shirt.<br />
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You'd think I would laugh at something like this. It <i>is</i> funny. But yesterday it wasn't funny.<br />
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<i>I really wanted that last little bit of sugary milk- why did he have to take it away from me? My shirt is going to smell like rotten milk all day. Even if I had time to change my clothes, I don't have anything to change into because all of my warmer clothes are still in storage. I have to wear the same sweatshirt every day because the rest are packed away and have been for almost six months and we're never going to find a place to live and even when we do we're going to have a nasty mattress because it got wet and stained during the monsoon season and I wouldn't be surprised if moths have eaten all the clothes in there and my life sucks!</i><br />
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We spent half of the car ride in silence before we both just started laughing at the whole thing. <br />
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What does it mean if you cry over spilled milk?<br />
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It means that you have a pretty amazing life. You're lucky that spilled milk is the worst part of your day. All you have to do to be <b>perfectly</b> happy is stay positive.<br />
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Sometimes Roy and I eat lunch together. I drive over to the law school and bring sandwiches and we eat at the picnic tables or go for a walk around campus. Yesterday on our walk we found this little message spray painted onto the sidewalk. I had to take a pic because it went too perfectly with what I'd been thinking about all day.<br />
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Stay Positive. I'd like to have it spray painted onto my brain! With this as our motto, Roy and I will be an invincible pair. It's simple, but it makes life so much better, happier--it helps me realize how ridiculously blessed I am, how much I've been given. <br />
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This morning Roy accidentally bumped my arm while I was drinking a glass of milk...<br />
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and we laughed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-7748858170968235292011-11-05T18:15:00.005-07:002011-11-16T22:25:09.010-07:00Halloween at WorkI almost forgot to post this picture.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Yes</b></span>, I'm keeping my sucker held up with a binder clip.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-27314981402568948512011-10-31T16:33:00.149-07:002011-11-02T23:12:02.805-07:00Photo Boo!thAlright, I've accepted it. It was difficult, and a little heart breaking, but I've come to terms with it.<br />
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Roy is not as obsessed with Halloween as I am. It's just not his favorite holiday. It's more like his eighth favorite holiday, right there after Labor Day.<br />
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Of course he totally supports my love for Halloween, wants me to decorate and all {um, eventually we will have a place to decorate} and he'd go along with anything. But I'm learning to make some adjustments, just so he doesn't have to suffer through my insanity.<br />
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For example, last year I <i>begged</i> him to help me carve a pumpkin. And we did have fun, but digging his hands in sticky pumpkin guts is probably his least favorite things in the world. This year I skipped the begging and Roy just worked as the official camera man.<br />
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This is us trying to figure out what we're going to do with our pumpkins. We all planned to enter them into a pumpkin carving contest that weekend, so we had to think creative.<br />
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Last year Roy took me to a pumpkin patch because he knew that I love the whole hay ride, snip-your-own-pumpkin thing. This year I was satisfied with browsing through the produce at Safeway. We'll hit up the real deal again for sure, but maybe not every year. It'll make it more exciting when we do go!<br />
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Roy is pretty good with that camera, isn't he? And you know, he did actually carve about a quarter of one of the eyes, like a champ.<br />
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Here's how they turned out...<br />
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Zac's: {the seeds hardened into a perfect mohawk}<br />
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Simon's: {complete with blood} <br />
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Mine and Roy's:<br />
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Fun times.<br />
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Then Saturday night we went to the Halloween party at our church. I signed us up to run a booth, just for fun. I hadn't been to one of these parties in five years or so, but I remembered the gist. Game, prizes, etc. But I had no idea what we were going to do.<br />
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It was Roy who came up with the Photo Boo!th idea. We recruited Zac and Simon to help us out, and we actually got pretty into it. The idea was to have a spooky backdrop and take some nice pictures of kids all in their costumes. We figured parents would love that. We planned to have an iPad with us, and email the pictures to the parents right there on the spot.<br />
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So we transformed a Sunday School classroom from this...<br />
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To this!<br />
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But the guys took it a little bit further, and decided it would be funny to scare a few people too. You know, catch the moment of terror on their faces. The only problem was figuring out how young was too young to scare.<br />
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We needed to have someone in there who was 100% not scary. So that's where my costume comes in.<br />
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I'm the princess. Roy is the pea. {Another Halloween adjustment for me... low maintenance costuming! Nothing but the letter P and an old prom dress.}<br />
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But in the Photo Boo!th, Roy was a little scarier than a pea. <br />
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He hid behind the backdrop with a werewolf mask on his face. Zac also took a turn with the mask during the night. Once the scarer was hidden, I would welcome in the group. If Zac was doing the scaring then Roy was helping traffic people, and he insisted on saying, "Welcome to the photo boooooooooth," in a ghostly voice. Love that dork.<br />
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So the group would shuffle inside and I'd set them up against the backdrop.<br />
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"You look great. Just scoot back a little bit, between the tables so you don't cover up the decorations."<br />
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{Yes, closer to the curtain! Muahaha!}<br />
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Then "3... 2... 1..."<br />
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And Roy or Zac would grab someone's arm and growl or scream as I took the shot. The result was hysterical. I have to show you some of the shots, but I've purposefully chosen the blurrier ones just in case someone would rather not have the disgrace of being featured on my blog.<br />
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I just realized that all the pictures I've included are of teenage girls. But we got plenty teenage guys, adults, little kids— no one was safe!<br />
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But we didn't want to make the little ones cry. Luckily, the princess getup worked like a charm. Roy would just poke his scary head out and it was enough to send them running toward the princess. I'd get down to their level, point at Roy and say, "Who is that? Look, it's just silly Roy!"<br />
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Roy would take off his mask and give them a goofy smile and wave. This always made them laugh and forget that they'd just peed their pants about three seconds ago.<br />
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Overall, the Boo!th was a success. Some emails ended up not working, and then there were a couple of families that wanted a legitimately nice photo taken of them. Whoops! But we had a blast putting it all together. <br />
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Here is my only picture of Zac and Simon, which I took on my phone. Proof that they were there, they helped set it up, and they helped run it. I sent the picture to Mom and Dad in New York. Mom was so happy the boys were entertained, she didn't say anything about me jacking all of her decorations from her house. :-)<br />
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Holed up in the booth, we missed the rest of the party: dinner, costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, etc. But Roy and I were able to make it to our trunk for the trunk-or-treaters. Chilling in the back of your car for an hour and getting to see a whole parade of costumes at once is way nicer than getting up and answering the front door every five minutes. <br />
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Two huge empty bags of candy later we were cleaning up the booth. That's when I learned that my pumpkin won the category of "Scariest" in the competition. Woohoo! Too bad I wasn't there to get my prize, or even to claim bragging rights. Oh well. Roy is sure that his handiwork on a quarter of one of the pumpkin's eyes is what pushed us to victory. What would I do without him?<br />
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By actual Halloween, Mom and Dad were home, and Mom wasn't about to let us go out the door without some kind of costume.<br />
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You can see where I get my insanity from.<br />
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I was already wearing the t-shirt, but Mom pulled together random things she had decorated the house with and really completed my look. Mom had Roy put on the shirt, but luckily for him she didn't have any huge glasses on hand. <br />
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I walked into work with this awesome witch hat and broom and earned some laughs. The UPS man appreciated my dressing up too. Out of all the offices he'd delivered to that day, he said not enough people had dressed, maybe because Halloween was on a Monday. There's like some unspoken rule about not enjoying yourself on Monday, I guess.<br />
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Poor Roy was the only person on the whole U of A campus who was dressed up. But hey, maybe people saw him and just thought he always parts his hair down the middle. Hehe!<br />
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{If you can't read it very well, his shirt says "Assistant to the Regional Manager." He's Dwight from the Office.}<br />
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Though Zac and Simon were both equipped with Teletubbie costumes...<br />
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NIGHTFALL at Old Tucson! With Austin Farr, a family favorite friend of Zac's.<br />
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Warning: if you are going to take your kids to Nightfall, do not go to any of the shows unless you're okay with them learning about incest and just about every curse word there is. Of course we expected the blood and stuff, but they tried way too hard. And you know what? The explosions aren't even that cool.<br />
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Other than that disgusting, braincell damaging half hour, we had a great time. There are several spook alleys or haunted houses to walk through, which is always a favorite for me. I like the thrill as long as Roy is right there {and he's resisting the urge to contribute to the spooking}.<br />
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For some reason Zac felt less freaked out when he had me in a headlock and dragged me along beside him. The first two spook alleys I really didn't see much beyond Zac's armpit.<br />
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We all agreed that our favorite part of the night was watching mom book it through the dusty streets, trying to evade the costumed creeps that were constantly singling her out.<br />
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There was a dead cowgirl wielding an ax, there was a masked man with a chainsaw, a clown on bouncy stilts- these workers were everywhere. Their job was to make people scream.<br />
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I can understand why they'd pick on mom. There's not a lot of cute little ladies walking around, noses nose stuck in a map. Without fail, every time one of the creepers was near, they went after mom. She would jump, scream, try to hide behind someone else, run around in circles, and the rest of us would just stand there laughing our heads off. <br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>Happy Halloween!</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-17050097411247422032011-10-24T20:22:00.001-07:002011-11-02T23:15:24.544-07:00Busy Playing ParentsOh, hello! It's been a while! How have you been?<br />
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Us? We've been busy. Really really busy. Even now I'm pounding this out {only half paying attention} before getting to some things that really need getting done.<br />
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We're on and off taking care of Zac and Simon as Mom and Dad go on their wild adventures to New York, Canada, etc. Talk about a taste of parenthood. Yuck!<br />
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I'm joking. Teenage boys, eh- they aren't so hard to take care of. Give them a bag of Oreo's once a day and they're happy. Oh but I have made legitimate meals a few times. <br />
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Roy and I have been going on a lot of bike rides lately, if the sun is still up by the time we are done with dinner. Sometimes Zac will longboard with us. Caught the boys with the iPhone:<br />
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It makes me want our own bikes, we have so much fun. One thing better with biking than with running: you can outpace mean dogs.<br />
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Part of the whole parenting gig is protecting the house, and it took Roy and I weeks to take down this potential threat.<br />
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No, it's not a Halloween decoration. I was thinking brown recluse?<br />
For those of you that are squeamish with spiders, I'm sorry I had to document this. This little spider was so tricky! And the webs were even more enormous than these pictures can depict.<br />
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Roy sprayed Raid on that web I don't know how many times. But it always seemed like the next day there would be a new massive web somewhere nearby! The little booger just kept relocating!<br />
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Finally the other night I spotted it, right dab in the middle of a web. Roy grabbed the can and we chased it around the garage, probably looking really cool.<br />
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We got him in the end. Now our boys can walk around barefoot again. :-)<br />
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Last Saturday was National Make a Difference Day. We went with our church to clean, paint, and fix up the Tanque Verde High School. It was once Emily Gray Jr. High, where I attended 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Man, the memories were just flooding back while we were caulking windows.<br />
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That's about all I have time for. But I have a funny lake story I want to share later, so brace yourselves.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-66350081818957147002011-10-10T21:07:00.000-07:002011-10-10T21:07:28.977-07:00Nerds in Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndCStIQ4cTr40rWo6Q47nJ5ahnLsYT9RMDHQNesO-jtF0LloNXaKImSlf7e7d0mgAaDR3cL-6s7C_upLHf23_teR05SSaofxBq41uz1sEItBX3x1_EUrhchpk-p47FZuQpyNMdzPfs_S5/s1600/photo-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgndCStIQ4cTr40rWo6Q47nJ5ahnLsYT9RMDHQNesO-jtF0LloNXaKImSlf7e7d0mgAaDR3cL-6s7C_upLHf23_teR05SSaofxBq41uz1sEItBX3x1_EUrhchpk-p47FZuQpyNMdzPfs_S5/s400/photo-4.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br />
Disclaimer: I didn't think that up all by myself. But isn't it hilarious?<br />
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So that's like the only picture I've taken in the last two weeks. <br />
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So that's my post.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-29653646546021977842011-09-26T20:49:00.002-07:002011-09-26T20:54:33.117-07:00Football Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2l5IA6anuIvEmJvnXWCAWLUtZe0c3ZPEtGMdJLk97G0pq0gFJ5wfgczrnpXauAbIOxweDyCZxuyy2FMEirWKDFJyob-pIi3YAB1GvWRY3sAHDDt-r1oaRc1h7Rmt1ET8BWlkaN_ey9M2z/s1600/photo-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2l5IA6anuIvEmJvnXWCAWLUtZe0c3ZPEtGMdJLk97G0pq0gFJ5wfgczrnpXauAbIOxweDyCZxuyy2FMEirWKDFJyob-pIi3YAB1GvWRY3sAHDDt-r1oaRc1h7Rmt1ET8BWlkaN_ey9M2z/s400/photo-2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
There are only two things that get this look of anxious intensity out of Roy:<br />
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Football and basketball.<br />
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I like basketball--but football? Yeah, that's usually when my glazed look shows up. Football interests me for about ten minutes and then I'm bored. The bleacher seats get immediately uncomfortable, the sun gets too hot or the lights too bright, there's hours of downtime when players are just standing around, and I'd rather be anywhere but a football game. Or at least that's how it used to be.<br />
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I just went to the first football game in my life where I actually enjoyed it 100% of the time!<br />
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Dad invited Roy and I to go with him and Zac. It was a game he was considering ditching out on, despite his season tickets. Apparently the ducks are pretty good this year. And Arizona is not. But Roy was all over this game! He will always love his home state of Oregon.<br />
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I agreed to go, but only if the guys would go all out, wear the shirts and the stickers and everything. I had to get <i>some</i> enjoyment out of it, right?<br />
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GO CATS! <br />
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During the game, Roy {disguised as an Arizona fan, but secretly smiling every time Oregon kicked our trash} patiently explained everything to me from fourth downs to penalty yards. I've had guys attempt to explain the rules out of the corners of their cheering, screaming mouths. But Roy is a quieter sports fan, which makes him a lot easier to understand. Not to mention a lot more enjoyable to be around. :-) <br />
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So something clicked. And even though Arizona was put to shame by a bunch of ducks, I enjoyed every second of the game.<br />
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See? I even had an intense face to match Roy's:<br />
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Official football fan over here.<br />
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Earlier tonight, I listened to the Cowboy's and Redskin's game on the radio while I was cleaning. And Roy wasn't even there :-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-57034966834407685822011-09-24T05:00:00.000-07:002011-09-26T20:56:31.960-07:00HomemakerStill working on it.<br />
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Sometimes a success.<br />
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Glad my family occasionally lets me practice on them, despite bad past experiences.<br />
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But the guys aren't quite used to this segregation yet. They've been using that same bathroom for years, and the new sign with the triangle-shaped lady on it doesn't seem to deter them from continuing to use it.<br />
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So Eryn and I devised an evil plan.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See if they can stand being in the women's bathroom NOW!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3297735436794457125.post-45364483367233581112011-09-18T23:22:00.002-07:002011-09-18T23:25:44.391-07:00Life As a BetweenerI'm so <b><span style="font-size: large;">between</span></b>, it's not even funny.<br />
Let's start with the basics...<br />
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I'm <span style="font-size: large;"><b>between</b></span> a Collett and a Buckmaster.<br />
Haven't changed my name on my driver's license, but I'm known as Mrs. Buckmaster for a lot of different things. Sometimes it's hard to keep track: wait, am I Collett or Buckmaster for this?<br />
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I'm <span style="font-size: large;"><b>between</b></span> a college student and a working woman.<br />
My poor college diploma is floating around in the mail somewhere. Somehow my BYU account reverted back to our old Springville address and so they sent it there. I went to lengths to get the cell number of the woman who is currently living in our old apartment.<br />
"Um, excuse me, but a piece of paper I spent four years working my butt off for is on it's way to your home. PLEASE FORWARD IT TO ME!"<br />
It's hard to feel done with college before having that diploma in my hands. Not to mention I still get every single English Department email from my old school about classes and events. So <i>then</i> there's the moral dilemma of whether I should still use my school ID to get the student discount at the movies. ;-)<br />
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I'm <span style="font-size: large;"><b>between</b></span> being a kid and an adult.<br />
This kind of goes along with the previous idea. I mean, I work like a regular adult. Go through stacks and stacks of papers every day.<br />
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But then sometimes I get carried away with the stamping.<br />
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And eat cupcakes like I'm the one pregnant with twins, and not my co-worker.<br />
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And some of the people I work with are quite often reminding me how young I am. Or maybe I'm reminding them to remind me. <br />
"Wait, who's <b style="font-weight: normal;">Barbra Streisand?"</b><br />
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And of course... <br />
I'm <b><span style="font-size: large;">between</span></b> homes. All the time.<br />
Currently we are staying at a family member's home, watching it while they're out of the country. We packed up our suitcases {for the third or fourth time since June} and moved into our "new home," where we'll be staying for three weeks before we pack up and move again.<br />
We're loving it here, but all this bouncing around is just getting plain comical. So I got us a little something to make everywhere we go "ours".<br />
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Dollar section at Target, baby! Every time we get to a new "home" I'm just gonna slap that puppy on the wall. Wherever we are, we are home <i>sweet</i> home. <br />
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Being <span style="font-size: large;"><b>between</b></span> is flying by the seat of your pants, going with the flow, and trying not to look too ridiculous as you're grasping for some kind of stability. I'm still working on the not-looking-ridiculous part.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">PS All of these pictures were taken with my phone! I love the iPhone! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1