Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're off to Phoenix today to celebrate Thanksgiving with my fabulous family. If you decide to rob our house while we're gone, please be sure to steal the furnace so that our insurance will pay for a new one. One that works. That is all.
I can't believe we're halfway through another week already. Last weekend was fun and busy. We did go to the football game on Saturday, but we left in the 3rd quarter. It was cold and rainy and we had shit to do. The zoo dinner that night was VERY fun; it was probably the most fun I've ever had at a zoo event. It was nice to get all dressed up and drink wine and eat good food. We went to our friend John's house afterwards to drink wine, because we didn't feel like our night should be over yet.
We spent Sunday raking leaves. First, at John's house, and then John came over to our place to help us do ours. It was a very Amish sort of day. We rewarded ourselves by going out to dinner afterwards.
Note that we didn't do any Christmas shopping over the weekend. It's okay, though, we did some on Monday night. It was a fun way to spend a weeknight. I'm so in the Christmas spirit this year, all excited and whatnot.
Yesterday night we had our theology class, which is now over until after the holidays. Tonight I have a board meeting (for community council), and tomorrow night we're going to try to get to the gym. I (blessedly) have Friday off, but I have a shitload of stuff to do, including getting our tires rotated, going to a Traffic and Transportation meeting, and getting a bid on a new furnace. Chris has a zoo thing in the morning, so I expect to get up at a decent time. That night we're going to The Melting Pot with Scott and Jessica to celebrate her birthday - mmmmm.
So Election Day was a pretty good one for me. As I mentioned before, I voted mostly democratic. Most of the people I were backing won, and ALL of the issues turned out the way I had hoped. That's really not unusual for the local elections, I guess, because Salt Lake City proper is actually very liberal and I'm usually in the majority when it comes to candidates and issues that I support. The rest of Utah is not so liberal, however, and Orrin Hatch won his 6th term as Senator. That's really not surprising; as one of my coworkers said, I'm surprised he spent any money on his campaign at all. I'm really not too disappointed by that, contrary to what most people probably think, I don't dislike Orrin Hatch
as much as you think I might. He's pro stem cell research, so he has at least 1 endearing quality in my book. I also like his thoughts on immigration, so make that 2. See? I'm so positive.
I had my Community Council meeting on Wednesday night, which was fun, because our chair (who was running for House District 25) won. There was an awesome turnout, and we even saw one of our renters there. Thursday, we put a deposit down on a photographer for our wedding. The pictures are the one thing that we really want to be good. Everything else can be mediocore, but not the pictures. I'm really happy with the guy we chose, I really think he has an eye for the kind of style that we like. After the photographer, we went to Skybox to watch the Wyoming vs. BYU game. It was terrible, Wyoming got killed. BYU scored 21 points in the first 10 minutes. But we got to eat greasy food, and we met a really nice couple, so what more could we want?
This weekend is going to fly by. We have to make a pie tonight for the zoo Thanksgiving Dinner. Tomorrow, we have tickets to the Utah vs. Colorado St. game, but it's supposed to snow, so I don't know if we'll go. Tomorrow night is the aforementioned zoo dinner. Sunday we really need to Christmas shop and rake leaves.
I Voted and I Hope You Did, Too
Mountain biking was awesome! I was scared because I haven't ridden a bike in forever, but it came back quickly. My complaints are that the seat hurt my butt and the helmet felt like it was choking me. When I loosened the helmet so that it felt comfortable, Chris said it was too loose. So I rode with it in choking position.
We got to Moab on Friday around 5ish, and I passed out for an hour as soon as we checked into our hotel. I think that was related to my flu shot from that morning, but who knows. I got up an hour later and we went out drinking. We didn't stay out too late, because we wanted to pick up our mountain bikes early. We biked all day Saturday, and in case you didn't catch it the first time, it was awesome!!! We rode around in the Sand Flats area in the morning, and then brought the bikes back into town for the afternoon, where we just rode around trails in various parks. After all of the mountain biking we swam in the pool at the hotel and hot-tubbed, then showered and went out for a ridiculously lavish dinner. It was the most perfect day I've had in a while.
I took some pictures, but of course I can't download them because my laptop is still DEAD. Motherfucker.
Today is a long ass day. I woke up at 4am last night and couldn't go back to sleep. Not because I wasn't dog ass tired, but because my mind was racing. Of course I fell back asleep at 6:30am, which left me no time to get more sleep because I had to get up. I voted before work (mostly democratic, with the exception of Bob Brister - he's Green Party), then worked, and tonight I have a Neighborhood Council meeting followed by my theology class. And I'm tired because I've essentially been up since 4 fucking am. Ugh.
The rest of the week isn't looking any less busy. I should just count my blessings that I'm too busy to spend any money because I am flat broke until payday, which is on Friday. And with that paycheck I'm going to pay off the Elephant (our Honda). Sweeeeeeet! Now I just have to figure out how to get Chris on the title.
The Best Picture of Chris Ever Taken
Halloween weekend was fun. Girls night out did not disappoint, and neither did Steve's Halloween party. I had drank a lot the night before (at girls' night out) so I didn't really feel like drinking. I had a couple of beers, and had fun just hanging out and talking to people I haven't seen forever and looking at everyone's costumes. Steve had a computer set up in the dining room that had a camera built in to the monitor. You could walk up to it and pose and take a picture or yourself, and then email it to yourself. It was very cool, and there were lot of effects available.
On Halloween itself, we sold Chris' car! I'm so glad we got rid of it. We've been trying to sell it for 3 months now. It was getting to be a drag, and on Halloween we decided to just take it in to the dealer who had made us a good offer and sell it. We are a one-car family now.
In other news, we booked our honeymoon trip! I know it's early, but we're using Delta Skymiles, so we had to book early. I don't mind, though, because hey, it's free. And we managed to get 3 weeks off work! So we're going from Salt Lake City to Lima, Peru on the Monday morning after our wedding. We're going to spend a little over 2 weeks in Peru, and then go from Lima to Mazatlan, Mexico for 5 days. And then we'll return to Ye Old City of the Great Salt Lake.
In more timely trip news, we're going to Moab in Southern Utah to go mountain biking this weekend. It's worth mentioning that I have never mountain biked in my life. Maybe I'll skip the mountain part and just use the bike to get from bar to bar.
Halloween weekend was fun. Girls night out did not disappoint, and neither did Steve's Halloween party. I had drank a lot the night before (at girls' night out) so I didn't really feel like drinking. I had a couple of beers, and had fun just hanging out and talking to people I haven't seen forever and looking at everyone's costumes. Steve had a computer set up in the dining room that had a camera built in to the monitor. You could walk up to it and pose and take a picture or yourself, and then email it to yourself. It was very cool, and there were lot of effects available.