Sunday, June 27, 2010

Just another Saturday Night.

 A Summer Saturday night.  The temperature during the day was 90 some odd degrees, a summer rainstorm blew in, blew out, and lowered that a bit at night, and the evening is closing in.  What do to, what to do?

Well, if you live in Denver, and have friends that are into the Twilight Saga, you head on over to Sloan's Lake park to see an outdoor screening of the second movie in the series.  I love love love watching movies outdoors and even though I can't claim to be a true Twilight fan (I haven't even finished the first book, and I probably wouldn't have started the first book if my friends wouldn't have peer pressured me into it), it was still fun to go watch it and see everyone else there that was so very into it.

And when I say "into it" I actually mean "dress-up-like-vampires-wear-assorted-twilight-paraphernalia-scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-when-your-favorite-character-appears-on-screen into it."   Oh yeah, that kind of into it.

I just thought we were going to see an outdoor movie.  Little did I know that when I got there, it was actually a screening that was set up to promote the release of the next movie in the series.  And at this screening, they had games, gave out twilight buttons, and had 2 actors from the movie there.  So the two actors weren't the big time actors, but that didn't stop the twilight fans from breaking out into hysterics when they came by.  I was walking up right as the actors were arriving, and right about the time the screeches of teenage girls (and some older women...and men for that matter) started to shatter glass.  It was loud, but I happily side-stepped the commotion and while everyone was pushing and shoving their way to get to the actors,  I snagged a nice spot on the grass with a fantastic view of the screen.  The three of us that were there enjoyed a delicious pesto pasta dinner (thanks Ruth), Salad and fruit (thanks King Soopers grocery store) and appropriately enough, Sarah brought a sparkling Blood Orange drink for us to sip on while we watched the vampires and werewolves under the stars and full moon.

A little bit later, a girl dressed up with her twilight garb excitedly walked by with a friend, recounting her celebrity experience and said the funniest thing I heard all night.

"OH MY GOD! He was sooooo close!  I could SMELL him!!!"

Ah, young love.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Wanna see something awesome?

Meet my newest form of transportation and Summertime Fun. It's my '73 Schwinn Hollywood cruiser....WITH A BASKET!  I took my 10 dollar bike to a guy who fixed it up for me (for more than 10 bucks), then offered to buy it because it looks so awesome, then understood when I said "Heck no sir. I like it too much." 

It's only appropriate that I got my bike back and ready to ride on the first day of Summer.  Happy First Day of Summer indeed.

Unfortunately, I did not spend the first day riding my bike.  I spent it driving to Pueblo, CO (2.5 hours away) in order to go see a client for Citron, but my boss is a great one, and will be reimbursing the mileage.

I did spend the SECOND day riding my bike...well, riding and then walking the heavy steel frame up a big hill because I have no leg muscles yet and couldn't make it all the way up.  In my defense...that hill was steep!  But I rode it almost 3 miles to a little cafe called Parisi where I met my parents for dinner and had a delicious pizza outside finished off by Chocolate and Sea Salt covered Caramel gelato.  Take a moment and let that flavor sink in...it was soooo good. 

All in all, a good day.
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Have you seen my skills?

Somewhere between Trujillo, Peru and Denver, Colorado, my ability to parallel park got lost.

I found this out as I spent 10 minutes on the curb and switching back and forth between Reverse and Drive trying to park my Kia Sportage in a parallel parking only area of Denver.  Perhaps I am being too hard on myself, but I'm pretty sure I saw one or two people stop to watch...and point...and laugh.  Hard.

I mean, let's be honest.  I would have laughed...if I weren't in a tilted Kia Sportage because I'm the one who can't park.

Anyway.   In other news, things are going well at work.  I hopefully will have some pictures to share soon of projects I'm working on.  Including but not limited to the Boulder Rural Fire Department's fire house and Naropa University's Nalanda Reading Room.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Win.




Sadly,  I cannot remember the last time that I had white rice and beans and potatoes on the same plate.

Happily, my friend Kathy told me about the online coupon for Los Cabos- Denver's best Peruvian restaurant.

Ecstatically, I will be eating rice, beans, and other Peruvian foods 'til my heart's content...or until I hit the $50 mark.

Yum.
Monday, June 7, 2010

Looks like someone had a case of the Mondays...


Whew.  Monday.  You kind of did a sneak attack, huh? Well played.

Today was interesante.  Not the good kind necessarily, just one of those days when you think that everything will be smooth sailing and you'll finish everything you need to in a decent amount of time. Then you cut to 7 hours later when you are still staring at the same project that you were supposed to finish a long time ago but thanks to stupid Microsoft Word acting insane and just about doubling the amount of time it took for me to do everything.  Blech...

Well, anyway, it's over and hopefully tomorrow will let me have my smooth sailing time.
Friday, June 4, 2010

My week has consisted of...

1 day off work on Monday.

180 minutes of sitting in front of a lake.

200 pages of a book, read while sitting in front of a lake

2 barbecues.

8 trips to and from work.  I have a nice commute along alot of open space.

67 dead prairie dogs along that road...that part is kind of gross actually.

3 or 4 trips to Starbucks during those trips to work.

15 (or so) cups of coffee from various places

1 movie night with friends

4 days of work which consisted of lots of interior design and a little bit of frustration from moments when I couldn't remember some CAD commands.

2 site visits to clients

1 beer on a Friday afternoon at work thanks to a great boss that knows how to keep employee morale up after a busy week.