If dogs can grin Toro was definitly grinning yesterday after our walk/run in Umstead. He had his little tongue out grinning up at me like "Aunt Kelly, that was FUN!"
aanyway, today is monday. it is 10am and I have already messed up my clothes. This morning I was carrying my what I thought to be empty smoothie cup into work and dribbled it on my lunch bag. No big deal, I'll just rinse it off. I noticed later that I somehow managed to get it down the front of my WHITE capris as well.. Oh well, the color matches my shirt almost perfectly!
Monday, July 31, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
One Month til Blastoff!
Its exciting and scary to think that in about a month we will be leaving NC for the west coast! I have been thinking about the things that I will miss (besides people) and here is what I've come up with:
* When the air is so humid and hot that it can't help but explode into a afternoon thunderstorm. The smell as the mist rises up from the hot asphalt as the temperature is temporarily cooled by the pouring rain.
* The beach!! According to annonymous sources west coast beaches are cold and rocky :(
Thats all I have so far..
I guess to go along with that I should make a list of things I am looking forward to in CA:
* Low humidity
* Public Transportation
* Being with driving distance of San Francisco, Wine Country, Lake Tahoe and probably other places that I don't even know about yet :)
* When the air is so humid and hot that it can't help but explode into a afternoon thunderstorm. The smell as the mist rises up from the hot asphalt as the temperature is temporarily cooled by the pouring rain.
* The beach!! According to annonymous sources west coast beaches are cold and rocky :(
Thats all I have so far..
I guess to go along with that I should make a list of things I am looking forward to in CA:
* Low humidity
* Public Transportation
* Being with driving distance of San Francisco, Wine Country, Lake Tahoe and probably other places that I don't even know about yet :)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Transportation Issues
What is it about rain that makes people forget how to drive? Its like the raindrops swell up the impatient part of the brain causing it to overtake the part that knows how to drive. This morning I saw a car in the straight lanethat decided he wanted to turn left.. so he did. Luckily the people around him still had part of their driving brain intact so they didn’t hit him (or her), but I was dumbfounded. I admit, my impatient portion does tend to swell in slow rainy day traffic but I have never let it get so out of control that it disabled my ability to drive. I am really looking forward to the time when I will no longer have to drive myself to work/school. Hurray for public transportation and bike friendly cities!
Saturday, July 15, 2006
ASABE Conference
I got back last night (or maybe this morning?) from the ASABE International Conference in Portland, OR. It was overall a good time, but I was exhausted!
I got there Sunday afternoon and took the train to our hotel where and I met up with everyone, well, everyone that was staying in the Days Inn. We went to Nordstroms cafe to get some food and wandered around downtown, took a nap and then went to dinner at Rock Bottom. By this time I was pretty much in a state of exhausted delerium, but it was still fun :)
Monday we got up and went to the first day of the conference. The sessions were all pretty interesting. There were so many to choose from that you could just switch to something different if you got bored. That night we went to Henry’s for dinner. It was very dark ;) but yummy. I had leftovers that I ended up giving away to a homeless guy, which there are apparently lots of in Portland.
Tuesday morning we went to more presentations and then my poster presentation session was that afternoon. It happened to be in the same room as the renewable energy panel discussion so that made the fact that hardly anyone came to my poster less boring :) I got to reconnect with some Davis people so that was cool too. That night we went to Pizza Shmizza for dinner, then to the book store, then to an Irish pub (where I left my wallet causing a momentary panick, but the wonderful Justin Spangler picked it up so it was all good) and then to the American Cowgirl bar which turned out to be way more fun than I expected.
Wednesday morning I kinda dozed through some final presentations and a dreadfully long awards ceremony. Then Paige and I decided it was time to go shopping :) We wandered around for a while looking for the REI and eventually found after asking several people ;) Then we went to the mall for some dinner and more shopping- I got some shirts, tanks and a jean jacket! All on sale of course. I switched hotels because everyone else at mine was already gone and stayed with Paige at the way-nicer-than-the-DaysInn-they-give-you-free-cookies-Double Tree Inn! Jackie had been going on and on about the cookies at the Double Tree and I dare say that she is right, they are heavenly.
I got up and took some pictures around town and headed to the airport. The flight home was uneventful minus some heavy turbulence.
Overall, a good trip :) I learned stuff, met lots of cool new people and got to hang out with the cool people I already know :) There are pictures on my flickr site if you are interested.
I got there Sunday afternoon and took the train to our hotel where and I met up with everyone, well, everyone that was staying in the Days Inn. We went to Nordstroms cafe to get some food and wandered around downtown, took a nap and then went to dinner at Rock Bottom. By this time I was pretty much in a state of exhausted delerium, but it was still fun :)
Monday we got up and went to the first day of the conference. The sessions were all pretty interesting. There were so many to choose from that you could just switch to something different if you got bored. That night we went to Henry’s for dinner. It was very dark ;) but yummy. I had leftovers that I ended up giving away to a homeless guy, which there are apparently lots of in Portland.
Tuesday morning we went to more presentations and then my poster presentation session was that afternoon. It happened to be in the same room as the renewable energy panel discussion so that made the fact that hardly anyone came to my poster less boring :) I got to reconnect with some Davis people so that was cool too. That night we went to Pizza Shmizza for dinner, then to the book store, then to an Irish pub (where I left my wallet causing a momentary panick, but the wonderful Justin Spangler picked it up so it was all good) and then to the American Cowgirl bar which turned out to be way more fun than I expected.
Wednesday morning I kinda dozed through some final presentations and a dreadfully long awards ceremony. Then Paige and I decided it was time to go shopping :) We wandered around for a while looking for the REI and eventually found after asking several people ;) Then we went to the mall for some dinner and more shopping- I got some shirts, tanks and a jean jacket! All on sale of course. I switched hotels because everyone else at mine was already gone and stayed with Paige at the way-nicer-than-the-DaysInn-they-give-you-free-cookies-Double Tree Inn! Jackie had been going on and on about the cookies at the Double Tree and I dare say that she is right, they are heavenly.
I got up and took some pictures around town and headed to the airport. The flight home was uneventful minus some heavy turbulence.
Overall, a good trip :) I learned stuff, met lots of cool new people and got to hang out with the cool people I already know :) There are pictures on my flickr site if you are interested.
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