Happy Holidays

Well happy holidays all!

My man and I just returned from renegading across a few states to Las Vegas, NV. We stopped over in Las Vegas to avoid some treacherous weather that was killing our dreams of climbing in Bishop, California.  We made it to Vegas, had some fun, did some climbing, and than thought it would be best to head back to bubble and try to make up some money that we blew on $11.88 cocktails,  and $7 bottles of water (it adds up pretty fast).  We did actually save a little cash by staying at a diamond in the rough hotel known as the Imperial Palace. The Imperial Palace is a special little hotel located within the Sahara hotel on the strip that we found for $25/night.. what a steal, not to mention the nostalgic feeling you get when walking into a place that hasn't been up dated since the late 70's and the entertainment looks the same.

Either way it was a real hoot and we had fun. Unfortunately we didn't make it to Bishop or win a $100,000, or find a tiger in our bathroom, or a little asian man in the trunk of our car but it was still nice to get out of town and do something different. This trip also gave me a friendly little reminder that I am getting a bit too old to be driving more than 8 hours at a leg.. I get so restless and would rather just fly.

Another exciting little thing that I just realized is that I really need to make some more money and time to travel. It's been far too long since I have had the pleasure of eating sketchy food in sketchy countries and just feeling free out in the wild. So I have decided that I may take next semester off and high tail it to Sayulita, Mexico for a little R&R, some hard core surfing, a sun tan, maybe a margarita or two,  and lots of fish tacos.

I've heard of this magic land through some friends that have ventured there with nothing but great things to say, so now I want to go and I want to go soon.  Plus I feel like all the vacations that I have taken over the past few years have been amazing, they have consisted of mostly climbing but we did take one trip to Bali and went surfing and I really liked it so I figure before another climbing trip I should probably try to get my feet wet again and hopefully not get eaten by a shark.

Another announcement that I would like to post is that my two greatest friends are getting married and I'm in both of the weddings.. I'm really excited for both of them and can't wait to witness their nuptuals front row, Congrats Nat & Corey and Kenny & Noelle.

And finally.. if you haven't tried the concoction 4Loko I suggest you go on out there and scoop up a can if you can find it.. It has recently been taken off the market for various obvious reasons and I think that everyone should try it before it is no longer in existence. The hangover is awful and you feel terrible while drinking it but I mean what the heck, you should try everything once right??

CHEERS!

ugh October........................

I hate the month of October..

As posted in my last blog I explained one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. There have been several other occurrences of bullshit that have happened during this month over the years of my life that I choose not to tell the world. I am someone that is slightly superstitious when it comes to things such as this, therefore I dread this time of year.

Four years ago I met my heterosexual life partner/Best friend.. We had both moved to Boulder at the same time, we both hated it, we both worked at the same place, we look very similar, we have the same personality bla bla bla... we just clicked very easily and soon became inseparable until I moved away, than moved back and than she moved out of the country. Not the easiest thing ever.. all happening in the month of October.

Than today as I was messaging my BFF I noticed many posts on her Facebook wall expressing gratitude and sending prayers her way for what had happened to her. I freaked...  a bit.

So I investigated her local friends and messaged one that I thought would know the most details.

She had been brutally beaten by a man with a 2 X 4 and is recovering from several head and hand injuries. I'm sickened by the thought of man doing this not only to a woman but to my best friend in the world. May he sit in jail for the rest of his miserable life and other bad things!

She is in intensive care and recovering but since we have no means on communication I'm left in the dark until she has an internet connection. Send all of your love and prayers to my sweet angel Lindsey! The most badass chick I know! I love you Lindz!! Get better soon Mama!

October 2009

I am amazed that a year has passed so quickly. 

This time last year my world came to a crumbling, crippling halt when I got a phone call from my Mom telling me that something was wrong with my brother. 

I was thinking that he was once again either back in jail or got into some type of trouble. Well.. here's the story. He had finally been sober for nearly three months and was peer pressured into going out to a bar with some friends that he hadn't seen since he stopped drinking so they went to a bar off the regular beaten path. At that bar he was jumped and beaten up by 5 army guys. Once the ambulance arrived they insisted on bringing him to the hospital because he was kicked in the noggin several times. After the MRI came back showing a mass in his right temporal lobe (not from the fight) and required surgery asap my parents got me on the next flight out of Denver. 

 After his surgery I flew back to Colorado and started really pondering the importance of my family and how special they are to me. Four days after I had been back in Colorado I got another phone call from my Dad telling me that my brother, his girlfriend, and my mom were in a terrible car accident coming home from the hospital. 

In rush hour traffic my mom was at a stop on the highway when a driver hit them from behind going 60+ mph while texting. After hearing this news I packed my shit and waited for my cousin to fly out to CO so that we could renegade across the country back to CT so that I could nurse my mom and brother back to health after their surgeries. 

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/09/24/study-texting-while-driving-responsible-for-16000-deaths-in-6-years/

I have never had feeling of such hopelessness in my life. I have always been extremely protective of my little brother and my mom is the sweetest, kindest woman on this earth and to think that I could have lost either one of them still tugs on my heart and tear ducts. Thinking back to this still sends me into a state of disbelief thinking that I could have lost my brother not to all of his crazy and dangerous behavior but to something that was completely out of everyones hands. And even though I have a few choice words for those 5 army guys that beat up my brother I'm thankful they brawled due to the finding of his brain tumor. I thank my lucky stars everyday that they are both happy and healthy now and I've realized how precious life really is. 

My brother had two surgeries following the first, each becoming more invasive and dangerous.  The end result being that he had 95% of a growing benign astrocytoma brain tumor removed and will now be able to continue living his life as a hilarious 24 year old man. 

I credit both my mom and brother for my new found realization that I would like to dedicate the next few years of my life to learning about the miraculous human body and becoming part of the medical field due to all the time I spent in the hospital with both of them. Thanks Mom and Bubby! xo

As you know I'm studying stuff that will lead me to a fantastic, exciting, successful career in the medical field. I have been feeling a bit discouraged as of late because I don't know exactly what path I will choose to follow? Well last week I was once again at work, surprise, surprise, and it was the busiest night I have ever had while bar-tending. We were short staffed and about 8 deep at the bar, for 4 hours I didn't lift my head from the well to speak to anyone about anything unless it involved mixing a cocktail. 

                                      

                                            And Than...... BAM!

 A shot glass shatters on the bar with shards flying into my ojo ;( 

We were so busy I barely had time to go to the bathroom and flush my eye with water. I thought for sure I was going to have to be a full-time pirate with a bedazzled eye patch. UGH! So after a few drinks I shook it off and decided I'd wait until the morning to go to the hospital, Not a good idea.. I repeat, Not a good idea.  I woke up and me ojo/eye was not happy. 

Phil brought me to the ER (very exciting, and inspiring) and the doctor numbed eye and flipped my eyelid inside out and bla bla bla.. bottom line, I can see!!! My eye is healing fine, and apparently they don't give out eye patches anymore which totally sucks! I mean they're so trendy right now..

Moral of that story is.. when in doubt go to the hospital to be re-inspired about a career in the medical field. 

and I'm back

Jackson was amaaaaaaaaaazing! It was hands down one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. I can't wait to get back there and play with buffalo and wild moose again!

I met some really cool aspiring photographers and learned a bit about photo snapping and lighting etc. The drive was pretty heinous but it was all worth it. The pictures came out great even after waking up at 5 a.m. The bouldering wasn't the best but it was enough to make the trip great. Just getting out of boulder for a few days was exactly what Dr. Pepper ordered.

Aaaand to top it all off I got a 90 on my test and 100 on my lab test (the reasons I couldn't stay up there longer.) So basically it was a grand trip. The Tetons are so beautiful they look fake. They are the most stunning mountains I have ever witnessed.

Photo W. Walker

My Fav photo. Taken by D. Anderson

So I got my hairs snipped before heading up into the wild and got totally Edward Scissorhanded! There are few things that I truly dislike, flying being one of them, haircuts are right up there. Both require a tranquilizer of some sort but I didn't have one so I braved it out and left nearly in tears. 

My hair is nothing to play with so when it is cut improperly or in a weird way she is not a happy mop. I am not someone that can get into the shower, wash my hair, and let my hairs go. My hair needs attention, love, and lots of maintenance so needless to say this haircut was not something that I should have signed up for. Now I need to style my weave every time I was it, not fun. 

And now a final thought.. if you hit my car with your car while I'm sitting in my car and than you laugh and drive away expect revenge BETCH! I'm on the lookout for a white Lincoln or Buick with Illinois plates that hit my car today and than drove away while I was sitting in my car.. I mean really? WTF is that? 

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It's been the usual lately, school, work, study, yoga, climbing, bla bla bla..
I'm actually going to Jackson Hole, Wyoming this weekend so I'm just a little bit excited to get out and see something new YAY!!

My friend is a photographer and offered me some photo time with a little cash incentive so I accepted the offer and can't wait! My friend Christian Griffith was also kind enough to manufacture some hot little athletic attire for me as well, check it : http://www.verveclimbing.com/

Yes, I'm nervous because that is just the person that I am.. I get a little anxious about the unknown sometimes, I mean I'm not the most photogenic person and I'm actually pretty effing clumsy.. I'll keep ya'll posted on how it turns out. I'm hoping I don't take a digger while pretending to trail run, ya know the norm.

 Ya I know.. it's a little vain.. but I've never been to Jackson Hole so that was what kinda sealed the deal. I've been itching to get out of the bubble and do a little adventuring and the weather is beautiful and the aspen trees are gorgeous and I love the fall, so come tomorrow I'm on the road for 8 hours to the Hole.

Than I'll be right back on the road back here because I have a silly little examination on the Integumentary System, so I need to get my brain synopsis's firing.. your epidermis/dermis is quite possibly one of the most important pieces of your anatomy friends so take care of it!

Ice Ice Baby...

Here's a Smirnoff Ice (grossies)

Pass it off to your friend, or someone who is not your friend in a discrete, creative way, and walla they have been "Ice"!

They than must drop to one knee and drink the entire bottle of Smirnoff Ice.

Of course there are rules and regulations and exceptions bla bla bla and if you are really that interested please follow this link:
http://yougoticed.tumblr.com/post/622691531/the-national-got-iced

So this has been my life at work.. Trying to "Ice" my co-workers in the best way possible and let me tell you, it is really that funny.. You should try it sometime.

Last night Fox Sport News decided to grace us with their presence and came on into Bacaro!

                                                                           Woo Hoo!!

It was great, people were excited, we had a good crowd, everyone at the bar was getting interviewed and than they came to the bar. Than the lightbulb switched on and was shining ever so brightly in my noggin.

I thought to myself, what a perfect opportunity to Ice my co-worker Danielle and have it be caught on tape and aired on t.v. So I did just that! Bwahahahaha!!

Keep your eyes open for Danielle, "The Ice Princess" getting "Iced"on the Fox Sports channel!
Rated PG-13
:)

Shopping

Sorry I've been dead air lately but with two jobs, volunteering/internship, school, trying to climb and trying to have a small social life I haven't 1. had much time to write and 2.  haven't had the most interesting shit to write about. 

But here's a funny little diddy for ya...

The weather is changing here in the Boulder bubble rapidly and fall is rapidly approaching (so exciiiiiited) which means that my skin is drier that the Sahara. So I head on over to Target, which is basically the only place that I ever shop, and went on a hunt for some lotion. I'm pretty particular about lotion because I don't really like a lot of them. They can't be too thick, or smell too sweet, or leave your skin feeling skanky.  So I'm sniffing a few of them to see what lotion that I can deal with and finally I went for the good ol' faithful; Jergen's Original. So I buy my lotion, which is kinda weird to just buy lotion alone, but I didn't think that the cashier should be giving me the bull eye like he was. 

I brushed it off and left. 

I get into my car and catch a quick glimpse of myself in the rearview and almost die!! I have lotion smeared all over the tip of my nose like a total kook! hahahahah Story of my life. 

Another interesting little thing is that Boulder is fire right now.. Literally a blaze just a few short miles away. The last fire that I witnessed here was a few years ago in the old apartment complex that I used to live at and on 4/20 (ironic??) both very intense! 

I wake up this morning and all I can smell is smoke and I start to freak out a bit in my delirious sleepy head thinking, Holy crap did I leave the stove on?? So I pop up with the quickness of a lightning bolt and go investigate.

My stove is about three feet from my bed so I'm sure I would have been a crispy marshmallow long before I would have a chance to notice if I left the stove on. Than I hop on Facebook because for some reason the news on t.v. is much less reliable than my friends on FB! I get the scoop, there is a blaze through 4 mile canyon, the road to Nederland has been closed and 4 houses and fire truck had been destroyed by the fire. Now.. I know you are thinking the same thing, how did that fire truck become a casualty of the fire when he was there to help extinguish the bitch?? Idk either. 

And the final kicker. Some people are funny, some people are rude, and other people are just plain dumb. So I'm working this evening and a party of three come into the restaurant. They sit down after scoping out the draft beer selection. I head over to the table and ask the folks if I can get them started off with a beer and one of the guys says with an Italian/French accent, "Ya, what is that Fattire' beer that you have?" I was totally stumped, never heard of it so I start looking around the restaurant at the bar and was thinking about starting to look under the ceramic tiles for what this guy was talking about. I thought he was talking about some kind of Champagne or Italian cupcake. So he keeps sounding it out, like four or five goes, "Fateer, Fashire, Fasheeray, Fattire" and than it hit me FAT TIRE!!!!! Omgggg C'mon Son!! Really? You can't read? Or you have never had the most popular local beer in Boulder/Colorado?? Geeezzz...

Reminded me of this one time that was working a super busy night and it was super loud (night club scene) and I get a typical sorositute at the bar, I ask what I can get her and she yells, "I need a shot of Pat Ron." Hmmmm... ummmm... is that a mixed shot I yell back?? She looks at me like I have 89 eyeballs and I'm mentally retarded for not knowing what she is talking about, like I have never heard of Jesus Christ or something. So she yells back with an attitude, "Pat-Ron." Still I'm thinking really hard and not getting it. Finally she points behind me and I see the bottle that she is pointing at... wait for it.. with a spanish tone.. Patro'n. Uhh ya. Sometimes I really worried for the future of this country.