What do I know.

This is the situation. Several years ago when I was a senior in high school and thought I was going to get married as soon as I graduated, even though I wasn't dating anyone, I bought a large collection of chicken dishes. I thought, at the time, that these were the cutest dishes I had ever seen, and as new independent adult, how could I not want them. Some have chickens, some are green, some are blue, and some are checkered, they're perfect, right. So here I am, ten years later, and these dishes have been dumped in my garage from my parents old house, since they are currently homeless. This is the dilemma, what should I do with the chicken dishes. There are dinner plates and bowls, small plates and soup mugs, a pitcher and mugs, serving platter, serving bowl, giant bowl, small, med and large canisters, and even a spoon rest and fancy tile for hot things. It is a massive, massive collection. Who would have guessed that something you picked out ten years ago might not be some

I LOVE Seattle!! My work sent me there just before Thanksgiving for a Water Quality Conference. I almost crashed on the way into the city because the skyline was so beautiful at night. The rain made me homesick for Oregon, I walked around in it for hours and hours. It was very very hard to come home. The conference was kind of blah. So I have lots of pictures of the other places I went. =) Thanks, South Jordan! Pike's Place Market was awesome. I could have sat there all day watching people. If only the pig out front had a cushioned seat on top. I saw the World Famous Pike's Place Fish Market, with the World Famous fish mongers who love their job. I even bought one of their books, they threw it around to each other like it was a fat salmon and signed it for me. It was awesome!....the book is actually pretty good too. My hotel was only a few blocks from the market, so it was basically walking distance to every where. I saw all kinds of neat little tourist things and ev

So to escape Wendy's incredibly contagious and deadly swine illness ( refer to wendy's June blog post for details) I went to Aurora, Illinois for a wedding. Aurora, by the way, is just outside of Chicago (one of my very favorite big cities). Before I get into the wedding details, a fun blonde moment on my part. The Cubs are my favorite baseball team, I dream of the day I can go and watch a game at Wrigley Field. So knowing when the wedding was I looked up their schedule and was very, very disappointed to see they were out of town that week. Once I got there and we were enjoying the rehearsal dinner with the tv on, I found out that if I had just looked closer I would have seen that they were "away" playing the White Sox across town. I am very special. I digress. My trip was wonderful. I had a super great time. My friends Jeremy and Kate were getting married where she grew up, in Aurora, although she's currently teaching in NC. (Technical sidenote for Jeremy

So my intention is to post a sentimental sunday post every sunday. Just for me really, so I can write down some of my thoughts, and memories and stuff. But here is what happened today. My work radio went off at 6am (the good part about this is that I had been folding laundry in my sleep and so I was partially awake already). So even though I'm not on call, I was the lead worker on call, the on call worker lives in Morgan which defaults any emergency responses to me. He said that dispatch told him a fire hydrant had been hit by a car and it wasn't very bad, but it was bubbling up a little water. I'm not sure where she get's her definition of bad. I drove into work and picked up my truck and went to the address and that's what I found. A 30+ ft geiser of water. It was more fantastic than Old Faithful in Yellowstone, especially because it keeps going and going and going. Educational Sidenote: Fire hydrants in Utah are generally "dry barrels", which mean

Joey, my sister, loves to fill out all of the random questionaires that come through email, or on blogs, and she likes everyone else to fill them out too. I normally don't participate, unless I just send it to her. But she tried to convince me that this is different and everyone should do it. So here are 20 random things about me that I thought about while ignoring my marketing teacher drone on about people with lots of money. You should fill it out too, its interesting to see what people think of to write. 1. I am not a little person. 2. Blonde hair makes me not sad and depressed. In the winter I always want brown hair because its dark and sad outside. 3. Sometimes I wish I could swim in a giant pile of books like Uncle McScrooge and his money. 4. Staring at nothing for extensive periods of time is one of my favorite past-times. 5. Computers try to make me love them, but I refuse to let them win. 6. I love water, just about everything about it. Drinking it, swimming in it, bei