no so wok

i almost had another photo of Ozzy in the wok.. but he jumped out and ran away when Tim started licking his lips. mmmmm emergency food source....

lolcat

I iz in da sink.

Tim

i'm getting married.
in one month.

really i should be worried or ancy, or having second thoughts. i don't, I'm not.

I'm not just "ready to be married," because thats not it at all. asked that question and i would probably say no. But i am ready to be married to Tim.

vespa

i rode my scoot yesterday, for the first time in about 3 weeks...
i had been riding every day for a month and a half while i was out a car.

I've stopped riding lately because it has an issue with starting when its hot out, which leaves me stranded for a couple hrs until it cools down. i need to get this fixed.

i love my vespa. i have wanted one since i was about 7. i will have a vintage one, one day when i can afford to take on another insurance... or i convince Tim that it would be the bestist anniversary gift ever.. and he has the kind of income to support it. i would let him ride it sometimes....

there is something about the smell of the machine, that relaxes me, makes me want to start riding and only stop for sanwhiches.
it not just the iconism of the vespa and all it conjours, but the entire experience.

1 yr.

Its been a year.
emotions have been high this week. it dosent help that work has been stressfull and so forth.

so much has happened in a year.
i dont feel like going back into it. go back and read my blog, its almost a year it's self.

last year life turned a new corner on july 5th.

This year it turns a differnt corner on Aug. 11th.

NEW CAR!

HUZZAH!

sigh

mondays and tuesdays are lonely.

moving

in moving, we discovered a few things.

i, apparently, have a lot of chairs.... for those of you who helped us move i have 3 more that are not here yet.

we have a combined 7 pitchers and 9 sauce pans....

we still had no more that 1 decent knife.

new stoves make nasty plastic burning smells when you first use them.. and many other "our first apartment" stories that will be told till you are sick, and if you are not by then, we will force you to look at our lovie dove-y screen wallpaper. please aim away from the keyboard.

katten

i am beginning to think we should have named Ozzy "MasterCard."

because, for the love of god, he is everywhere you want to be.

roaming

today i walked thorugh a heard of dandylion fuzz as it rummbled across the parking lot, on its way to new and exciting adventures.

spain 2

yesterday we saw the castle on the mt.... which was really a curch, and very old, small amusement park.

also went up to national art museum of catalyna, on olympic hill. it was closed, but beautiful. we can go back later this week.

today the beach and placa de musica de la cantalyna.. and so forth.. rain this morning...

spain

amy and i are now in barcelona spain,
visited sangrada famili - and i will correct spellings of places when i get back-
and park Guell-
very fun. marta has been showing us arround. now we sit in an in and internet cafe.. we heard the fray.. and now someone else we know but dont know te name of.. not REM .. but close, i think.
very much europe. not quite china. good time none the less.
will be hitting the beach and mediterianian on monday.

xoxo
erin

todays the day!

today's the day Amy and i are headed for Barcelona, Spain.

rain

and so it rains tonight.

there are 2 thoughts in my head. one is the more basic of the 2. for once i am not out riding in it.

the other a slurry of memories and ideas.
i had heard at soime point that when it rains during a funeral it means god is drying adn the person is goin to heaven.
the problem with that statement is, if its not raining where you are on the day of a funeral, you might feel bad or something. I think it is really more to comfort those who do have rain during funerals.

it rained at columbine... for the week or 2 afterwards it rained, it seemed, everyday.
now this is not a subject that i bring up often, we heard too much bull shit about it in general.
but those families are still suffering the loss of loved ones. and that, is not fake. or media driven.

when columbine happened i sent out an email- reading something to the extent of: as it rains tonight we cry for those that were lost. it was poetic, i don't remember most of it anymore. with in an hr i had that email back. my name had left the bottom of it, but the forwarding had already reach hundreds of people.

when it rains in late spring i think of my grandfather, grandmothers, neighbors, friends and students- that seem to always go in the spring, and who i have never forgotten.

so i send this message into the deep void; none of you have been forgotten, you remain in my heart always.

when it rains, i cry and the memories flood back anew.

highway biology

i have been going to boulder a cupple times a week now for a while for soccer.

a cupple weeks ago i noticed a dead cyote by the side of the road.

every time i pass it is slightly more decomposed.

find me a car!

ok kids, i'm looking for a mid/late 90s subaru/ civic/ accord/ something else i find acceptable, for $5k or less.

let me know if you see something that sounds like this that lives a seditary life- that is to say it can be found in the same place of various occasions.

scooter

when i ride my scooter I feel like evil knevil.

might be the white jacket.

might be the goggles.

all i know is, i need a cape.

thanks

thanks to rosco for the homage to REX

goodbye

goodbye REX.

good times and bad, you were fun.

glad i got to kiss you good bye.

Oooooow... SPICY!

OK KIDS!

we are attempting to re-create "hot pot" as had in Chengdu. we have all the needed ingredients, and no recipe. So we're winging it!

Let us know if you are interested in having a good time and some hot food, Saturday night.