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...

My cousin Lynsie sent me this on Facebook. My first version was incredibly intuitive and matched up to every question and right before I finished my laptop died. So here is version number too, which is much more risque if you ask me. =) 1. Put your iPod on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS! 4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the meme as well as the person you got the meme from. IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY? Basket Case – Green Day WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY? Bring the People Together - Live WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? Bend and Not Break – Dashboard Confessional WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? I’m on my way – The proclaimers WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Duet from the Dead - Anadivine WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Questions – Jack Johnson WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? Unsaveable – faith hill WHAT IS 2+2? Your Smile – Toby Keith WHAT ...

Ok, these next few posts are completely out of order, but I feel ok about that. In May I went on a trip to Indianapolis, IN for the Annual American Backflow Prevention Conference. Exciting, I know. You're super intersted in hearing all about the advances in laws and regulations and everything but you'll have to ask me about it later. Although I have plenty of pictures of not at the conference, these were all on one day when I finally had a break from some meetings. No one even knew I was gone.... Ok so, first here is the view from my hotel room, there was a great little lake/pond behind the hotel. We walked around it later that week and there were a million little turtles in it, I had no idea. It was great. On my, "day off" from meetings and conference sessions I decided to go see everything I could find. Luckily I found it, even if it wasn't intentional. First I went to the Indianapolis Speedway. It was awesome, it was the Sunday before the Indy 500 so the...