Octizzard

What happens when you have a 2 day long blizzard in the middle of October? An Octizzard
From Tuesday night to Thursday night, we got over a foot of snow. Work was cancelled for two days and the four of us holed up in our house with movies and way too much food. And lots of playing in the snow with Zumi. That dog loves him some snow. In fact, on Wednesday night he wouldn't come in until 11, preferring to nap in the snow rather than inside.

I think this is Thursday morning.

By the time all was said and done, the snow was as high as Zumi's head. This is Thursday morning.

My snow puppy





Playing in the snow is hard work!

Sea Green

So a few weeks ago I finally decided on a wall color for our bathroom: sea green. Quite a departure from the brown stripes I was thinking of doing. The poor Winfield's still have not closed on our house, and Camille still hasn't found a job, so she's been all kinds of stuff around our house including painting the bathroom for us! She rocks! And the bathroom is so pretty now!

It's Zumi's Day!

Happy birthday to my Zoomster! He's a year old today!
To commemorate it, and also because we ran out of his food, we bought a bag of dog food. That's right, not puppy food, DOG food.
*Sniff* My puppy's all growed up.

Froota or Frooeeta?

Two weekends ago, James, Camille, Kurt, Zumi, and I went to Fruita, CO, for some mountain biking adventure. Well, Zumi had some sitting-in-his-crate-in-the-car adventure. I believe he loved every dang second of it. Fruita is directly west of Denver by 4 hours and apparently it's a mountain biking hot spot. Well, we love mountain biking and hot spots so it was the perfect destination for us.
We left on Friday after work and got in around 10. Kurt and I got there first and by the time James and Camille arrived, I was already snug in my sleeping bag.

The next morning the boys got up at 6 for some early biking while Camille and I slept in till 9, when I could pick up my rental bike. And we got delicious breakfast burritos from Nathy's. After getting my bike, we met up with the boys and biked it up in the 18 Road area.

I look so good in bike shorts!! (BAHAHAHA)

After that we went back to Nathy's for green chile burritos. Mmmmm, delicious. Just a little heavy. I think we were all feeling a little heavy after that, but it didn't stop us from hitting up one more biking area: Kokopelli. We didn't bring the camera along on this ride either and I'm so sad because it was absolutely gorgeous. We were on the cliffs above the Colorado river and it was just awesome. Well, I had an accident on this ride. I endoed (which means I braked too hard on my front brakes and went sailing over the handlebars) into a ditch, landing on my head and getting all kinds of scraped up. After Kurt saw that I was ok, he quickly assured me it was the funniest thing he'd seen all day. Glad I could oblige, babe!

I have a boo boo.
Then we took my bike back to the shop and headed home. It was a really fun, short trip!

Ode to Diet Dr. Pepper with Vanilla (light on the ice)

Qui.

So delicious.
So refreshing.
So sweet.
So satisfying.
You are the perfect celebration.
Or just-because.
Or I-need-caffeine-like-yesterday.
With just a teensy bit of vanilla,
your true colors really begin to shine.
[And don't forget about the light ice
--that way I get more of you!]
Rain or snow.
Sun or clouds.
I'll journey the 5 miles to Sonic through anything
for a sublime sip of heaven.
[Or maybe like a hundred sips,
but who's counting.]
Ah.

October Goals

My goals this month are:
-Get back to waking up at 6 am (struggling with that lately)
-Lose 15 pounds (believe me, I need it--one of my bipolar meds made me gain that weight in a ridiculously short amount of time... and I don't expect to lose all 10 pounds in one month, of course)
-Keep the apart--house clean
-Do well at work (As of Thursday, I'll have worked at Axa for a year. Craziness.)

Wish me luck cuz I'll definitely need it.

NEWS FLASH

I have been accepted to Converse College's MFA Program!!

Because I've been accepted to 2 programs, I'm going to choose one of them and not apply to the other 3. I'll keep you posted as to what my decision will be!!

Accepted

I have been accepted into the Whidbey Island Writers Association's MFA Program!!!

Time to celebrate.

From Placemats to Pillows

When I read this post, I knew I had to try it! So I hopped down to Pier 1 (which is 2 minutes from my house--glee!), picked out some placemats I like, bought 'em, and brought 'em home. Then I realized I didn't have a sewing machine. So I thought the pillow conversion would have to wait until February when I got my sewing machine.
Weeeeeeellllll, our friends James and Camille just moved here. However, they don't close on their house for another week and a half and we insisted they stay with us (they were planning on living in a hotel room for 2 weeks!). Camille has a sewing machine and she's been showing me the ropes! So I got to do my pillows! Lemme know what you think!



They look so good a) with my turquoise walls and b) on my black and red redone Pier 1 chairs! I seriously think redoing and converting and creating gives me a high. But it's a natural high, so it's ok.
PS--high school playlist is finally up!!