Ode to the snow

Because of my recent physical deformation it is not possible for me to go snowboarding this season. This is particularly devastating because it's a "la nina" year which means a ton of snow for mountain climates. Andrew has been banned from talking and/or discussing anything snow or snowboard-related as it is just too painful to hear. I have identified some other activities which should not be engaged in till next year as well. These include:

1) gazing at the snow-covered mountains for longer than 30 seconds.
2) trying and re-trying on boarding gear.
3) pretending the cats can board and taking them on "runs" down the stairs.
4) using the cats to practice boarding tricks such as a backside 1080.

Next year's boarding season cannot come soon enough....*sigh*

I took the drawer out for a second...

random happenings

Thai food with the labmates



A LOT of yogurtland....well until they got rid of red velvet cupcake batter.

A super cute Ping cat



and a super fluffy Jay

While Andrew was helping someone move he saw this adorable cat.

Andrew and I spent a good portion of yesterday priming our soil for planting, cleaning up the backyard, planting our veggies in peet pots to get them started and exploring just how much damage we had done to those poor worms in the wormery.
Last year I posted about how we started a wormery for our leftover table scrapes and such. Well it didn't take long before we completely ignored them. I figured they had all died but Andrew took a look inside (2-3 months ago) the bin and found lots of worms that had survived the winter and our lack of attention. So we finally got around to cleaning out the bin. We then added a new coconut brick (for their bedding) and tried to transfer as many worms as we could find back into the bin. I think we will have to get another batch because there weren't too many left....so that's about it!

I love flying!!!

My amazing experience started off by being randomly accosted by a TSA member at security. This just after I told Susan I would make a great drug mule because I never get pulled aside. On my flight home though I experienced a whole new level of annoying.

In front of me was a young girl traveling by herself that asked the flight attendant about every 5 seconds for her backpack out of the cabinet above her. Next to her was another little girl (accompanied by her dad) who apparently was not able to speak in an appropriate decibel. She pretty much yelled everything she said including,"Are we going to crash?" (multiple times). Later during the flight she started teaching the girl in front of me how to make extremely loud popping noises with her mouth. Yay!

On the other side of the aisle was a tween-aged girl who aspires to be a drummer. She wisely used her flight time to practice her beats by slapping her hands on the tray table.

Next to me was a philosophy grad student from the university of Utah who explained his whole life story to the lady sitting on the other side of him. After that came his analysis of Lady Gaga and Beyonce's 9 minute music video and pertinent commentary on Jersey Shore. Each story came with grand hand gestures.

The lady he was talking to decided that making smacking and kissing noises at her baby was more entertaining. Apparently the louder you are the more entertained the baby is.

My migraines tend to heighten my sense of smell and sound. I was ecstatic when all three men behind me ordered multiple cups of coffee. To keep myself from throwing up I leaned forward on my tray table and concentrated on the smell of my napkin.

One good thing on my flight was getting a second bag of cashews after the flight attendant thought it would be funny to chuck the first bag at me. I then searched frantically for the first bag because it was after all cashews.

I'm not sure I have ever had such a unique airport/flying experience.

unemployed snowboarding

I have to admit, one of the first things that popped into my head after Andrew told me he lost his job was snow. I saw 2 weeks of severance as two weeks dedicated to working on that double McTwist 1260. So after a bit of sulking I was able to get Andrew up the mountain. We had a blast, as always but Andrew definitely had a much better boarding day then me. He was hitting jumps left and right and scoring fresh tracks on quite a few runs. My experience was a bit different. First, some 15 year old came out of nowhere and rammed me from behind sending me rolling for quite a ways down the hill. He's lucky he picked himself up and jetted faster then me because I was pretty irritated. Then, as the snow started to melt (it was after all in the 60's) I wasn't paying attention and got stuck in someone else's tracks for a split second which sent me sliding quite a ways down the hill on my side. The accompanying mountain rash looked pretty sweet after it started bleeding but today it has disappeared. So there is no cool injury photo to post. Here's to unemployment!

Boring Updates

So I guess it has been awhile. Andrew and I suck at blogging!

Andrew: Newly unemployed after brief employment at cramster, Andrew is using his open schedule to program a new application. It's top secret although at least 7 people already know about it. If your curious, ask someone.

Heather: Still in school with the hopes of being done at the end of summer, Heather is leisurely enjoying bouts of lab work before the next quarter begins and she has no time.

Jefferies: Ah Jefferies. Still fat & furry. Still alive, still eluding actual people (except for a brief sighting by John and Janet). Keeping up his rigorous sleep schedule with intermittent wrestling matches with Ping and snuggles with Andrew.

Ping: Ping has recently taken up furniture and closet climbing as a sport. She easily jumps 6 feet high to gracefully land on top of Heather's oak dresser. She then likes to eat Heather's paper flowers. She will probably lose a limb soon if she doesn't stop. Ping also enjoys climbing into the hangers in the closet. She then uses her keen ninja skills to get to the top shelf. This is the current theory of how she gets onto the top shelf of the closet as no one has actually seen her do it.

Hope everyone is doing well and we will try to update you when we do something interesting.