Dear hippie guy below me...

If you are so desperate for a leak that you can't go inside the Walgreen's you are standing behind - it is insufficient to check if you can be seen by merely looking left, right, and behind you....

...especially when there is a 6 story apartment building next to you which houses an individual who enjoys her morning tea from the balcony, and always has her phone handy.

(Don't worry, I didn't take the picture until after he was "done", out of courtesy to you folks)

You also might want to perk your ears to people from above yelling the following:

"HEY DUDE! I CAN SEE YOUR WIEEEEEEENEEEEEERRRRR!"

Perhaps thought I was yelling at a different dude draining the pipes below my balcony?

Sincerely,

A woman put off her tea

P.S. I was unimpressed.

Summer 2011

Summer is finally ending, and it's been quite a doozy.

We moved to a new apartment - and we are really loving it, despite the decrease in square footage. Here's the view from our patio:

Pretty neat, eh?

I'll post some pics of the actual apartment when I'm done decorating (we're getting the place painted next week!) but until then, enjoy some more Duncan/Kif photos!

You know it's good if I bothered to post it...

Click, you won't regret it.

Whew!

News news and more news!

I feel bad that my posts have become so erratic, but as it turns out, when you work as a writer, the last thing you want to do in your free time is write! In all seriousness though, my lack of posting is due to good things, not bad!

Seamus and I continue to be engrossed in work... in a good way. I think that streak of Dad in me is really coming out now that I have a "grown up job", because I find myself very much at home in my cubicle of technical manuals and schematics...and of course the droves of Star Trek fans/engineers. It's even better now that the weather is good enough that the company bikes are out again, and I get to take a leisurely ride to my meetings, and to lunch with Seamus. I'm actually glad, for the first time since I graduated, that I'm working instead of doing graduate work. Of course, I'd rather be writing about history, but someone will actually read and care about the stuff I'm writing now! I can't say that for any of the stuff I was writing a year ago.

We are also moving. Yes, again. 4 apartments in as many years. I'd promise like I did last year that we will STAY PUT... but I'm not going to make promises that I have a very bad track record of keeping :P

This time, we're going with Seamus' pick (#1 and #3 were my choice, #2 was his, so we're back to him now, haha) but never-fear, we do not need help moving. We've been packing all month, and we're not taking most of it with us.

Also, I got a new car, a Honda Civic Si:



that's obviously not my actual car, but I don't have any photos. That photo is of the same model/year... but it doesn't have a tasteful spoiler like my own Lil' Grey Honda.

On a similar note, there is a private airport across from L3, and I like to try my luck racing the various rich jerks that are always on that road to get to their planes. They all look like this guy to me anyway:

(One of the private plane companies is named "MillionAir" by the way....GROAN.)

Anyway, YES , they usually beat me- but just barely! I beat a Porsche Panamera (I think it was a Panamera, anyway) though! OK, so it didn't know we were racing, but I still won!

Other news: we continue to miss our little friend Brandon, who extended his Visa, and now won't be coming back until JANUARY. He said THREE MONTHS MAX! That thin-boned-liar! Seriously though, we're just glad he's doing well and having a good time in Thailand.

Big Dan quit Fairchild Semiconductor to focus on school, and yes, it's a good thing! He's a very talented guy, and we're hoping he does a BS in EE so that he can come work with us. Other than that, he's just welding Zelda shields out of steel and stuff... you know, usual Dan stuff.

Tom is off to Merry Olde England tomorrow for his Drink Across Britain trip with his stepdad. We'll see how that goes.... they will be walking/drinking 15 miles a day to make the entire North-South journey. I hope they make it... but something tells me they're going to end up in a ditch in Yorkshire, being peed on by vengeful Leeds United hooligans. I gotta say, Tom gets lost in Salt Lake City while sober... and his step-dad has a tendency to pick fights with strangers... not sure how this is going to go.

Duncan and Kif are.... Duncan and Kif. They continue to be crazy, drive us nuts, and be ridiculously adorable at all times. Kif is probably a year old by now (the Humane Society didn't know exactly how old she was) and she sure has gotten big! Here are a few snapshots of Duncan, Kif, and of course Seamus from the past few months:

Need to kill some time?

Try this... I'm pretty much addicted.

Just click on the squares.

It's been a while!

Sorry it's been so long, but life has been busy (in the good way) and it's hard to remember to come on Blogger. Life has been a little nutty but overall very good.

The biggest news I have is that I got an offer from L3 and will be starting on the 24th as a Technical Writer. As a part of the job I must be a student, so I'm on campus yet again only this time taking CS classes. I will be transferring to the master's program (for tech writing) at USU's extension program in the Fall if I do not like CS, but until then I have to pay my dues here in the U's Engineering department. I know it sounds odd, but L3 insists I be a student in a "relevant field" the entire time in order to work there as a co-op, so here I am. Being back on campus, and on the "wrong" side of campus no less, has been difficult. It makes me miss the history department, but despite the melancholy I am very glad for the opportunity to get paid to write, and to work with Seamus and many of my friends already at L3.

Ready for Monday

It's been a pretty crazy weekend up here! I got a bout of food poisoning and spent the larger part of Saturday puking my guts out. I'm better now, thanks to Seamus taking care of me, but I think I pulled just about every muscle in my torso in the up-chuck process. I have to give huge thanks to Seamus for sticking by me in my grossest hour and doing everything he could to get me feeling better. After giving me foot rubs and wrapping me up in blankets with a heating pad in the TV room (with a bucket of course, haha), he went out to Smith's and got me pretty much everything he could think of to get me feeling better, popsicles, gatorade, lavash, chips, tea, rubbing alcohol (smelling it it supposed to help ease nausea, and it kinda works but I still ralphed) and a bottle of Pepto. Thankfully the Pepto eventually got me to stop puking, so I didn't end up in the hospital or anything scary like that, thanks to Seamus' diligence. I won the lottery with this man, he really is the sweetest man alive. I apologized to him today, as my puking kept him from going out with his guy friends, and you know what he said? He said, "It's OK. I wish you hadn't been sick, but I enjoyed taking care of you." Dang, I am one lucky lady. We spent the rest of the evening watching stupid movies and playing Minecraft, and you know what? I actually ended up having a good day.

I still feel cruddy today, probably from getting so dehydrated, but as I haven't thrown up since yesterday I'm going to call this a victory! However...

This morning, just as Seamus and I were reflecting on how nice it was that I was not puking, Duncan jumped off of the couch and hurt his paw rather badly. He was howling so much that we went straight to the ER Vet. Thankfully, it turned out to be a sprain even though they initially thought it was a fracture. The poor little guy can't use the hurt paw at all. :( He should be better in a little under a week, and we've got all kinds of medicines to help him stay comfy though. The cat is pretty sad that her playmate is so groggy and can't run and wrestle with her, but she's doing a good job cuddling him, grooming him, and entertaining him with her antics.

Somehow, we still managed to have a fun weekend. It's hard to be gloomy around Seamus, haha. I'm just so grateful that I have such a great partner. :)