i think someone put a dirty rumor into the shoe designing circles that american women all secretly want to be strippers. you think that sounds harsh? i disagree. there is no reason to call something a boot when it has this many holes in it. do you really think we won't notice that you're trying to sell us ugly shoes, shoe designers? i really don't think there's any excuse to show off my toenails and the callousy back of my heel, though. but hey, at least wannabe-strippers who have an affection for the victorian era now have a shoe to wear - that was very generous of shoe designers to want to provide for them. and the prehistoric era ... the native american era ... the 1920's ... even the roman empire!
i'm not usually so anti-trendy, but there are just some outstandingly bad options out there right now. yeesh.
phone home
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so we finally caved and got a home phone line. cell service at our house has been patchy since we moved in over a year ago, but we both feel like it's gotten worse in the last few weeks - don't know why. anyway, we ordered it on sunday, it was supposed to be installed yesterday, so i stopped on my way home from work and picked up a phone at best buy, plugged it in to let it charge ... and we didn't so much have phone service. i wondered if maybe they just didn't install it yesterday since it was just an "estimated" start date, but when i called just now, the chick had a technician run a test on the line, and he said they got an error message, but they don't know if it's inside the house or outside. fingers crossed that it's outside. once this is all done with, though, it'll be so so nice to finally be able to talk to people without static - as long as they're local or call us, that is, since we're not paying for long distance.
fall is falling
whoops, it's been a while since i posted. two weekends ago we had my office's cubs tix for all 4 games in the cubs v. rockies series, and the cubs very miserably lost 3/4 games. i think between the disappointment of that and being overwhelmed by spending so much time around so many people, i didn't particularly feel like writing much of anything.
i've mostly recovered, though, and we spent this weekend camping with our sunday school class. it was very fun - we camped down near lake isabel in the san isabel forest, southwest of pueblo. we had a group site that would hold up to 60 people at night/120 during the day, and we only had 15 people, so we had plenty of room. it was a nice site, though - private (non-flush) toilets for our site, lots of big trees, plenty of fire pits and grills, big covered picnic area, and a nice creek that ran next to the site. plus, it was on a private road just for the 3 group sites, so there wasn't a ton of traffic running next to it. it was a good time - we cooked over the fire for dinners, and had a fun hike up to an abandoned mine and waterfall on saturday. a few people had trouble sleeping with the cold weather (lows in the low-40's both nights), but i think we've found a perfect system. from the bottom up: fleece blanket, foam sleeping pads, sleeping bags, quilt. oh, and i sleep with a fleece hat on - and our tent is a bit smaller than our friends, which keeps our body heat trapped a little better. it keeps us well insulated, cozy, and quite comfy.
last night when we got home, i noticed some leaves from our russian olives had fallen on the lawn, and it occurred to me that we're already past the middle of august. school is starting, nights are cool, labor day is three weeks away, we just finished our last summer vacation, and fall is just around the corner. i love fall, but it always makes me a little bit sad when summer is winding down. where is the year going?
i've mostly recovered, though, and we spent this weekend camping with our sunday school class. it was very fun - we camped down near lake isabel in the san isabel forest, southwest of pueblo. we had a group site that would hold up to 60 people at night/120 during the day, and we only had 15 people, so we had plenty of room. it was a nice site, though - private (non-flush) toilets for our site, lots of big trees, plenty of fire pits and grills, big covered picnic area, and a nice creek that ran next to the site. plus, it was on a private road just for the 3 group sites, so there wasn't a ton of traffic running next to it. it was a good time - we cooked over the fire for dinners, and had a fun hike up to an abandoned mine and waterfall on saturday. a few people had trouble sleeping with the cold weather (lows in the low-40's both nights), but i think we've found a perfect system. from the bottom up: fleece blanket, foam sleeping pads, sleeping bags, quilt. oh, and i sleep with a fleece hat on - and our tent is a bit smaller than our friends, which keeps our body heat trapped a little better. it keeps us well insulated, cozy, and quite comfy.
last night when we got home, i noticed some leaves from our russian olives had fallen on the lawn, and it occurred to me that we're already past the middle of august. school is starting, nights are cool, labor day is three weeks away, we just finished our last summer vacation, and fall is just around the corner. i love fall, but it always makes me a little bit sad when summer is winding down. where is the year going?
our friends' kids
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our friends keith and amy had their baby last night (natalie jean)! i was glad to hear the news, in part because i knew they were hoping to have her before next wednesday so that they wouldn't have to induce, and in part because i'll be able to remember her birthday (our anniversary)! also handy is that our friends abba and caleb's baby boy axel was born last month - on scott's birthday. kind of random that of the three non-national-holiday days of the year that are truly meaningful to us (our birthdays and wedding anniversary), two of them are now shared with good friends' kids.
we'll get to see both families at our friend andrew's wedding over labor day weekend, by which time natalie will be a month old, and axel will be two months old. crazy! (especially since they were originally due within a week of each other.)
we'll get to see both families at our friend andrew's wedding over labor day weekend, by which time natalie will be a month old, and axel will be two months old. crazy! (especially since they were originally due within a week of each other.)
anniversary recap
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anniversary celebration was fun! i got home at 6 to find scott cooking up a storm in the kitchen - he had made me dinner! and not just any dinner, but the dinner that he made almost five years ago when he proposed - artichoke and curry appetizer, lobster tails, cream puffs. yummy. and he bought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers (which included a blue hydrangea - our wedding flower), AND he got us a nice bottle of wine! when scott told me earlier in the week that he had plans for us for dinner, i had had a fleeting thought that it'd be wonderful if he made me a fancy dinner, but realistically thought we'd likely be going out somewhere, so it was a perfect surprise. he said that he had thought about doing a restaurant, but he didn't think that really indicated any sacrifice or thought on his part. say it with me - awwwwww.
and then my gift to scott was an anniversary book! let me elaborate: a few years ago, scott's dad suggested that we write down what we do to celebrate our anniversary every year so that we can remember down the line what we did. and one of our traditions on our anniversary date is that we sort of recap the last year and talk about what we did, and what our favorite memories were, etc. so i've been looking for a book that's set up to write down both of those, and while i did find a few options, most were super cheesy, or only set up for 10 years, or had fill-in-the-blank questions ... they just weren't perfect. not to mention that i have told scott that i expect at least 75 years of marriage out of him, since we got married young-ish and people are living longer these days. an anniversary memory book shouldn't stop at 25 years, or go to every five years at that point - every year is important! anyway, i decided to take matters into my own hands and make one! this week has been super slow at work, so i got to spend a fair bit of time playing with fonts and formats and printed out a few options for us so that we can decide on the final product together. just to show you how on the same page we are, scott said he'd had a thought of doing something similar, except more as a recap rather than something to continue doing going forward - but he didn't have the extra time to work on it. so he really liked my present! i'll get some pictures of it on here when we have the final product done.
and then my gift to scott was an anniversary book! let me elaborate: a few years ago, scott's dad suggested that we write down what we do to celebrate our anniversary every year so that we can remember down the line what we did. and one of our traditions on our anniversary date is that we sort of recap the last year and talk about what we did, and what our favorite memories were, etc. so i've been looking for a book that's set up to write down both of those, and while i did find a few options, most were super cheesy, or only set up for 10 years, or had fill-in-the-blank questions ... they just weren't perfect. not to mention that i have told scott that i expect at least 75 years of marriage out of him, since we got married young-ish and people are living longer these days. an anniversary memory book shouldn't stop at 25 years, or go to every five years at that point - every year is important! anyway, i decided to take matters into my own hands and make one! this week has been super slow at work, so i got to spend a fair bit of time playing with fonts and formats and printed out a few options for us so that we can decide on the final product together. just to show you how on the same page we are, scott said he'd had a thought of doing something similar, except more as a recap rather than something to continue doing going forward - but he didn't have the extra time to work on it. so he really liked my present! i'll get some pictures of it on here when we have the final product done.
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