Monday, December 1, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Old School TV
Anyway, I was watching Dodgeball with Christine Taylor in it and it made me think of the old TV show "Hey Dude". So I wikipedia'ed it so I could see what the actors are all up to now, and GUESS WHAT. Season 1 is on iTunes. Seriously. But, Salute your shorts isn't. Sad. So I was trying to think of all the old school tv shows that I could possibly track down and watch again to remind myself how bad they really were. I do have Silver Spoons on DVD already. But I need help thinking of more of the totally rad TV shows we watched when we were little (I'm talking preteen years here people).
Bonus points to anyone who remember the original version of E/R (which even starred a then unkown George Clooney. Don't believe me? Google it. Type it with the slash)
Monday, July 21, 2008
I suck at updating this thing
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said: "NO!"
And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, drank martinis, ate chocolate, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, didn't have to worry about her weight, traveled more, had many lovers, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself. She went to the theatre, never watched sports, never wore friggin' lacy lingerie that went up her ass, had high self esteem, never cried or yelled, felt and looked fabulous in sweat pants and was pleasant all the time.
The End.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
1 Down, "53" to Go.
June 7, 2008 - Colorado Springs, CO
Defying all odds (and gravity) I made it to the top of my first "14-er"! Laura, Brian and I woke up at 4:30 on a perfectly fine Saturday morning (you already think I'm lying don't you?) to tackle the first 14,000 foot mountain of the season. Laura picked one of the few with enough snow melt that we could actually attempt it without snowshoes or ice axes (wait...wha?) Pikes Peak. This was especially good for me, knowing that if something TERRIBLE happened, there is a nice driveable road that I could hitchhike my way up/down as the situation was needed. Nice little safety net for me.
Here's a picture at the very beginning of the hike. Look at me...I look lost already. Looks like a nice and easy walk through the park from here. I can handle that no problemo. Little did I know that within the morning I would be fearing for my life not 1, not 2, but three times. Ahh...so clueless...
So we keep hiking on and on and on. Really there isn't much to report on. Me being the city girl that I am, wasn't interested much in "taking in nature" as I had my trusty ipod strapped to my head for the majority of the walk. Here's a picture of where we were trying to get to, once we got above timberline and past Devil's playground.
So we are hiking along trying not to blow away, still kinda of concerned that we really hadn't gained THAT much in altitude (maybe 2000 feet by then). When we rounded a corner past mini pikes peak (or whatever the name of it was, I can't remember) when I stop dead in my tracks. I can now officially say I've had a panic attack. Which is not a good thing to happen when you are 12000 feet in the air. See in this picture...
Right in the middle of the picture there is like a line of snow that starts up and to the left, then goes down the side like 45 degrees down and to the right? Yeah the side of that hill that IS COVERED IN SNOW and drops down into what B&L fondly referred to as "the bottomless pit". And we had to walk right across it. Anyway. I round the corner and see it. Snow covered slope falling away into nothingness. I sit down and freak out. Laura and Brian shortly come up behind me, and all I say is "I'm scared". Laura goes "That sucks I'll go first" and off they go. Luckily for her (and me) she did this, because I'm pretty sure that I would have sat there and thought about it long enough to talk myself out of it and turning around and going home. Honestly. 4 hours into the hike, I would have turned around and quit. That's how scared I was. But she didn't give me that opportunity and looking back, I thank her for that (I know you are reading this, so there you go, I admit it) Brian, being the helpful compassionate guy that he is changed the name for me to "topless pit" to make me feel better about it. Thanks Bri.
So I made it past that crazyness (please feel free to read all the comments, I'd be willing to bet that Laura has some input on how death defying it really was) and made it to the top! Woo-hoo!
Pikes Peak, Elev 14,110 feet
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Incline Round 2
Friday, May 9, 2008
Oh Sweet Incline, How I love thee, let me count the ways, one....one....I guess just one.
That's 2000 vertical feet in just under a mile. Not to mention it's from like 6800 to 8800 feet, not for you lowlanders. That's a lot of freaking stairs. And they aren't all evenly spaced and nice. oh no. The part on public land (shown here) is pretty well maintined. The part where you are technically trespassing is not. Oh no.
The incline is an old cog railroad near Pikes Peak and is pretty popular training location for local athletes. The record for this puppy (by Matt Carpenter) is 18 minutes. The dude is insane. Here is a link with more information: http://www.hikingintherockies.com/hiking/hike%20reports/manitouincline/manitouincline.htm
Anyway, we started off pretty slow, wondering what the heck we were trying to prove.
After you get about halfway up, it's really just going through the motions. About this time, I couldnt' turn around and look down, so don't expect many more pictures of "the view" because I swore I was going to tumble to my death. But here's Laura still somehow managing to look like she was having a good time:
But an hour and half later we finally made it to the top! Hooray! I couldnt' believe we did it on the first try! There is a bailout point about 2/3 the way up, but by the time you got that far, you may as well keep going.