Thursday, October 27, 2011

Kicking Down Shelves

Happy Thursday! It's like, really super cold, hold on let me close a window.

Okay that'll be better. It was FREEZING in my house this morning, and then I open the door and it's absolutely 75 degrees outside. Pretty wonky. And as soon as the sun goes down, it's back to freezing. Booooo winter.

Been showing Beth around town. This morning we walked to K.D Donuts which is the best donut shop in town. Right on Telegraph near the YMCA. I haven't been there in forever. I always get a chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting and chocolate jimmies because nowhere else makes 'em as good. I made Beth get a maple bar because I guess they don't have them on the East coast? And when she was there she couldn't find any, so she had to try ours.

Yesterday we went to the Maharaja, for the buffet. That place is so awkward, but the korma is sooo good it's totes worth it. And the buffet is only $7.95!!! Ugh you guys we have to go there all the time.

Um we window shopped downtown and went thrifting and had lunch at the Nature's Grill which is a cute little organic/vegetarian type place. I had a falafel pita which was actually in a pita pocket and had like three scoops of sprouts in it. Actually it was pretty good. I gotta try more of those downtown eateries.

Let's see, last...weekend I guess, we watched the first Star War with Carolyn because she's never seen the originals. Ugh, what, I know. And they're all out on Blu-Ray now, so now's as good a time as any. Before they come out in 3-D, right? lol. Gotta find time for the other two.

Still pretty busy at work, but that's good I guess. So I can afford things like a new fluorescent light hood for my fish tank. IT'S SO BRIGHT IN THERE NOW.

Um, Halloween is Monday, but what worries me is that November is Tuesday. I don't think I can muster up a novella this year for NaNoWriMo, guys. I'm just not prepared and I won't have half the free time that I did in years previous. I might give it a shot, or at least look back and do some editing, but there's no way I'm pulling out a whole 50k words this time around. I might just try to get some work done on finishing what I've started, though, how's that sound?

Well, best of luck all around~

-Steph

ps
oh yeah at work today I kicked down some shelves. Because it's time to get new shelves.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Typhlosion

Happy Thursday! I forgot that my keyboard's wireless, so I don't have to clear off my desk in order to use it!! Yaaaay.

Yesterday me and Beth explored downtown. I got this "pumpkin patch" soda from Rocket Fizz that tastes like Sunkist with some cinnamon Altoids thrown in. But we also got Jaffa Cakes from the British import store by the library, but the lady there is not too friendly. And I don't know what the consistency of Jaffa Cakes is supposed to be, but these were kinda crunchy.

We also went into that pawn shop by Rocket Fizz because it always has like banjos and mandolins in the window. But the window has all the cool stuff, and the rest is all, like, giant amps and surf equipment.

Um, and then Beth drove my car up to the cross and back, because I'm too afraids to drive up that road myself. It was foggy in the morning, but it had cleared up nice by then, so it was a pretty good view of everything. I was like that building is that and that over there is this. It was like Google Earth.

OH AND my sister just had a birthday! Now she supa old. Congrats!

Some bad movies I saw were Green Lantern and Perfect Score. I also watched Scott Pilgrim, for like the sixth time. It was very good.

I was about so say I've only had one day off since I last saw you, and that's why I don't have too many interesting stories, but that's not true. I had last Friday off, too, and me and Carolyn went to the Thai place by my work and had some good soup because I was still sick.

Speaking of, there's like a million Thai places in town. And I've only been to... four of them. There's also the new one downtown, and the Thai/Peru place and at least another on Main St. that we walked by. Yesterday I stir fried some spaghetti with some coconut milk/peanut butter for dinner just because of the over exposure.

Yep. Well that's about it! I'll see you again later.

-Steph

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Summertime at last

Happy Thursday! This morning it was like 85 degrees at 10 o'clock! FINALLY. I don't know about you guys, but I basically live my life for summer -- not for the school's out yay feeling of yesteryear, but for the weather. I can't stand this cold stuff, I need it to be hot out all day. But you may have noticed (probably because I keep telling you) that the summers here have been less than cooperative. But it's hot this week, so what more can I ask.

And you know what's a good summer time activity? Road trips. You know what the weather was like on ours? Pretty cold. So whatever. So what if we decided not to see the Grand Canyon because it was snowing and the low was going to be 19 degrees that night. Or that we didn't get to go into Joshua Tree because the roads were "flooded." :<

The funny thing is, though, that we survived the whole thing, and I got back to work on time and all that, but then we both got sick right after and we're still recovering from that. So much for coming back from vacation all refreshed.

Here's the highlights from my bank statement:
10/04 - Falafel King Boulder CO - $7.05
10/04 - Culver's Colorado Springs CO - $5.89
10/05 - Safeway Store Trinidad CO - $29.93
10/06 - Chevron Seligman AZ - $1.69
10/06 - Juanhijos Burit (the burrito counter next to the subway counter in the Chevron gift shop) Seligman AZ - $6.97
10/07 - Legends Classic Diner Glendora CA - $5.71

Why was a falafel pita so much!! Is my first response, actually. At the Safeway I bought a fruit bowl and a yogurt for breakfast, and some jerky and cheez-it for the road, and some pop tarts and some apples. They didn't confiscate my last apple at the border, but we did have to hand over the bag of bruised oranges the lady at Meteor City sent with us.

Well it sure was fun seeing the northern part of the southwest. Not quite as deserty as I had imagined. New Mexico started out positively Great Plainsy, that was definitely a place where the deer and the antelope play. Arizona had just as much non-desert, especially around Flagstaff where the mountains came down and there was just pine forest on either side of the highway for miles and miles and miles. California looked like California. There were Joshua trees everywhere except for Joshua Tree.

Driving through the major towns, though, was an experience. Here in SoCal, it's so normal to drive for two or three hours straight through city after suburb after city. When we first got into NM, we drove that long without seeing so much as a gas station. Santa Fe was a gift shop, and Albuquerquer came and went without much fuss. The towns in the desert are really more like hubs that the roads connect. Once we got into CA, it was almost obvious, it was just plain populated. Why is that? Literally one side of the Colorado River is a trailer park, and the other is a full fledged town.

It all seems like so long ago. I guess that's what 8 hour work days will do to ya. I wish I had better pictures, but when I pulled out my camera in Golden, CO, the battery was nearly dead. :< It must have turned itself on on the plane or something, so I ended up just using my camera phone. Which was alright, but rather limited. I just put some pics up on Facebook, you can see a lot of the same picture over and over. Road, a low row of mountains to the north, desert to the south, clouds straight ahead but never above. It was like we never moved at all.

-Steph

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Two Hours There, Four Days Back

Happy Thursday! I'm typing on my phone, so even though there's plenty to tell you about, this is probably going to be a little short.

Right now me and Beth are sitting in a motel in Needles, California. This morning we left a motel 6 in Winslow, Arizona, and the morning before that we were in an RV park in Trinidad, Colorado. And that day we started out up around Denver. Tomorrow we'll be home in Ventura.

Weather's been crazy. Most of the places we've been, it's been sunny and hot, but then it'll have a freezing wind. Up in Boulder it rained in the sun, which was awesome. But after that, it's just been raining everywhere except where we are. Like if we're on Tue highway, the clouds are all stuck up in the mountains all around, but above us is all clear.

But there was definitely snow up on the mountain leading to the Grand Canyon, so unfortunately we decided to skip it this time. :<

So on Tuesday we saw my brother and the kids, who are super tall. Yesterday we drove through the prairie and saw antelope. Today we stopped at Meteor City, looked at the grand canyon caverns gift shop, drove up a mountain to see a ghost town, saw some coyote, and I fed a wild burro ice cream.

We also watched an episode of Smallvile this morning. Oops.

So it's an adventure! I'll show you the pictures next time.

-Steph

Ps
Albuquracker Tracker. Oakaykes. What the helk. Antelope! Gusting winds may exist.