sunny grass

Don't Eat Me!

this sad corn showed up in a co-worker's soup today at lunch...

flickr group

Hey, look! I started a little group just for the fun of it and I actually have 2 members!

You know those big plywood or cardboard standee things? They've got pictures of people painted on them, with the faces cut out? Those things.

My friend, Ben, wrote the description for me... we couldn't figure out if there was a common name for them or not. The icon is a picture of Jen in a pineapple cutout at the Dole plantation.

 

go there...

Karma is Dawg of the Day!

Check it out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/akey333/48460730/

In case that link doesn't work, here's what was posted:

   dawgpak says:

  great shot... posted as dawg of the day at dawgpak.com.

Salmon Watching

Took Ben and the boy wonder Gus to see the return of the salmon in nearby Issaquah.. Here is photographic evidence (click the word fish to see the album):

fish!

sheesh

Ok, again, it has been waaay too long.

Notice in the left sidebar I have posted my "43 things"... this is a site where you post your goals and other people can "cheer" you for encouragement. Plus, you can check them off when you accomplish them... as you can see, I am down to 40! Woo hoo! They have also recently added 43 places and 43 people.

In other news, check out this little cactus biosphere I am growing at work.. I only started it last Friday and look at it!

Grow, little cacti, grow!!

Hello 35!

Another fabulous birthday.. thanks to Jen :) She booked us into the fancy shmancy hipper than you'll ever be Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland. We were able to bring the doggies with us and they supplied them with comfy dog beds, toys and treats. Other than barking at every noise they heard in the hallway at 5am I think it worked out rather well...

In the evening we met up with Jen "the weav" Weaver and ate dinner at Southpark. Much laughing, eating, drinking and impressions of Canadian cavemen ensued...

Afterwards, we went back to the hotel and I opened more awesome gifts from weav.

As you can see, Butch, my first ever Cabbagepatch Kid (thanks jen!) accompanied us and helped us check out the digs....

see more....

Catching up

Sheesh! Has it really been almost 2 months since I posted anything? Where to begin??

Let's see... I got a motorcycle finally.. about a month or so ago. I've been venturing out further and further as I learn to control the bike and actually rode it to work twice last week. It's so great to be able to hop on the carpool lane and get home in 15 minutes, rather than 45 minutes to an hour! Also, it costs about $2.50 to fill the tank!

Click here to see photos of my fabulous bike and some random shots of local scenery and stuff...

We've been taking the doggies to nearby Sammamish lake for exercise for us and them

Jen and I have been enjoying playing tourist in our town. Here we are eating dinner at the Space Needle. We also picked up some fine tacky souvenirs and I have officially started a floaty pen collection.

Speaking of  the needle, my friend Rosie came to visit for the weekend and we took her to EMP (at the base of the needle) and went on one of the surprisingly exhilarating roller coasters.

On July 4th, we took a shuttle to a celebration in Issaquah and had AMAZING seats for the fireworks...

My company's softball team started their season last saturday. I got to design a logo for us and they had t-shirts printed up. I also picked the winning name: The B&M Bookers. heh. We had our second game tonight. Actually, we play double headers each time, so we've played 4 games already (2 saturday, 2 tonight). All the rest of our games will be on Monday evenings. On saturday I was playing catcher and had a foul tip hit me right in the face so Jen had to rush me to the Urgency Care clinic for stitches. There was blood EVERYWHERE... I'm just thankful I didn't lose any teeth. Needless to say, I will not be playing catcher ever again and all future catchers have to wear a mask. I get the stitches out tomorrow.
Thank GOD.
Tonight's game. Jen played with us! :)

A couple of weeks ago I took a day off from work and went to Silverwood Themepark in Idaho for the day. It was half regular theme park and half water park. The rides were some of the best I've ever been on. One of the coasters plunges you underground 7 times, one time through the gift shop! I was able to get some short movies of some of the rides with my phone. I put 'em all together here.
Michael had put an on ad craigslist.com looking for people who like to go on rides, and Kerri was one of the people besides me who answered the ad. I met them for the first time when they came to pick me up at my house at 5am. It was a 5 hour ride to Silverwood so I'm glad we had something in common besides a love of roller coasters! ha. As a matter of fact, we had such a great time together it was like we had known each other for ever... :)

Ok, I guess that's enough for now..

Dad is so hilarious!

I sent Nate all his old stuff that mom had kept of his and among them was a report card from 1st Grade. On the back Nate found this:
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"Mr. Curry: Jason is making very good progress in all subjest areas. He has made exceptionally good progress in reading. He is a pleasure to have in the classroom.

Sincerely yours,
Mr. Curry

Dad: Mr. Curry, It is nice to know that Jason is doing so well and is a pleasure to have in your classroom. I'm sure his parents, whoever they are, are quite pleased. However, in the future, I would appreciate a report on my son Nathan's progress. It's a point of pride.

Marv Douglass"
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HA!

Comiclife

I am trying out this sweeeeet new program called Comiclife. It's so fun! You can make comic strips out of your photos and it integrates with iPhoto and publishes it directly to your .mac account! Too cool. Of course, the best part is that it makes comic-type noises within the program. :) Stretch a photo and it makes a "stretchy" noise, stuff like that. Ok, here's our trip to the lake:

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PHOTOS!

Sunny and 75 degrees today so we took the doggies to the  lake

Pictures Jen took of our house the day before we moved in

First exploration of our new stomping grounds