Lost

"Am I in a bunkbed?" Ha best line of the show. I'm not a big fan of Kate so this wasn't a favorite of mine. I was expecting more out of the extra film....i was sure Micheal messing around in the back of the comps would somehow make the bunker doors close. But man, that ending....how could Walt be on the computer...do the others somehow control the countdown..or have computers...man that would be messed up.

Things that go Bump in the Night

Well our Thanksgiving trip to San Jose and Lake Tahoe was fabulous. Had a great time meeting Brad and Peggy's family, thankfully I'm used to large family settings in a small house so it was no prob. An interesting thing happened to me Thanksgiving night, you see, their house is haunted. The ghost is a man who hangs out mainly in the hallway that connects the two bedrooms and the bathroom. I never have, but he is seen peering out of the hall and looking into the living room. Anyways, so Justin and I are sleeping in the spare bedroom. Justin gets up to use the bathroom. While he is gone I hear a noise of something being dragged very evenly, no lurching or uneven sounding. I think it was on the floor but could have been a drawer or something to that effect. The noise stop's just before Justin comes into the room. I don't know why, but I'm too freaked out to tell Justin what happened. I was so awake after that..it took some time to finally go back to sleep. So then that morning I tell justin what happened and we looked all around the room and nothing looked out of place. I tell Peggy and Brad and they look around and they don't see anything moved either. Well I suppose a ghost can make whatever noise it wants...Peggy tells me that the land the house is on used to be a ranch and the house wasn't too far away from their place. She thinks the ghost may be a ranch hand that hasn't left..who knows..at least it's a good story and I've had my first ghost experience.

Cat Hotel

So for Thanksgiving all of us are going to be gone from Wednesday thru Sunday...even Simon. While Justin and I are in CA and Sarah and Ryan are in AZ, Simon will be at the Cat Hotel in his own Kitty Condo. In Henderson there is a vet place that caters only to cats so half of the place is the vet and the other half is the hotel. Simon gets a large cage that has two level in it, he gets his own litter box of course, and they provide food and playtime. Hopefully he won't hate us when I pick him up Monday after work.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!!

Lost

So tonight I could not watch Lost so can someone give me a quick update on what happened. Tonight was bowling league and we had to pre-bowl our next weeks game because no one could be there. Sorry!

Hiking Pictures

A boulder covered in Petroglyphs, you can't see the too well but it's full of them.

A cool petroglyph. It looks like a lizard of some sort but one back leg is longer than the other so maybe it's a tail? I don't know but petroglyphs fasinate me so much. Looking at these boulders covered in these amazing patterns I was trying to imagine a shamen slowly carving this symbols into the rock. Amazing.


Here is myself on the insane rock scramble to get around a dry waterfall. We had to climb straight up using only natural cracks and ledges in the rock. It was quite a rush. This is my fav pic from the hike (is it conceited to really like a picture of yourself?)

This is at the begining of the hike when we're still fresh. We sitting on the slot canyon wall, which is a really cool volcanic conglomerate of some type.

This is us in the Arizona Hot Spings, the water was so amazingly hot it was hot tub water hot. If only we didn't have to hike 3 miles to get there.

The weekends over already?

Ugh, I'm so far behind on my blogger updates its sad, this job thing is taking up too much of my life. So I am going to do a shortened version of what I have been doing for the last month.

My SVP meeting was awesome. The drive to Mesa with my friend Peggy was great, although we kept passing signs for the Grand Canyon and it was sad to pass them by. The talks were great although there were not as many interesting ones as last year my fav talk was one about a baby sauropod (long neck) skeleton that was found in Montana but had no head. The little thing was so cute, they think it's about 2-3 years old and is about the size of a large dog. It was great being among the elite of Paleontology. People watching is a favorite hobby of ours while we are there, there were lots of the "stereotype" of scientists there...mostly there was just a lot of bad fashion sense. The dance at the end of the meeting is always the best. It's like this desperation that was kept under control during the meetings snap, and everyone just goes crazy with drinking, dancing and the hookups. If only I could describe what it looks like to see a group of scientists dancing to euro-techno... Did I mention that Mesa has great shopping and antique stores. I spent way too much money. On the way home we stopped at Montezuma's Castle, which is Cliff Dwellings. I had never seen them in person, and they were breath taking. There was a natural depression into the limestone cliff and people were able to get themselves up the 30ish feet with ladders and natural walkways then build these living structures. I took pictures, I just have to finish the roll and get them developed.

Two weeks ago it was my birthday, I'm now 25 and can rent a car with out penalty! So that Friday I went to the DMV and got my Nevada Licence and Plates, hurray! I can drive my car again!

So for my birthday Justin took me to eat a Bucco de Beppo's an Italian family style restaurant. There's one in Seattle kinda by the Space Needle..oh I love that place. Justin got us a room at a resort by Lake Las Vegas (man made) so we walked around by the lake and they had a bunch of cool shops. We also went to the casino and gambled a little bit and had some beer. Next day we drove around Lake Mead (created from the Hoover Dam) visited some natural springs and enjoyed the beauty of the area. Sunday we went hiking with co-worker Kimberly to the Arizona Hot Springs. It was about a 5.5 mile loop hike, and it was very difficult. First we were walking in slot canyons, which is very dangerous because if it rains flash floods come roaring down very quickly. But it wasn't raining anywhere in the state so we were ok. The whole hike was in gravel which is very tiring to walk on. The hot springs were amazing. To get to them, we had to climb up a ladder which had hot spring water falling over it as well. The parks people made two pools of water by putting up small walls of sandbags that we had to climb over to get into the pools. I have pictures, so I will try to post them tomorrow. The pools were so warm, I just wanted to hang out in them all day but we were only half way through the hike so we ate lunch with out feet dangling in the water then we carried on. The last half was the hardest. There were a lot of dry waterfalls that we had to scramble up. The hardest part was there was a fall that was impossilbe to climb so we had to backtrack a bit them climb up near vertical rocks to get up and over the falls. I have pics of that as well...it was crazy. We got to see some petroglyphs which was amazing. Petroglyphs are drawings on rocks created by the early native people in the area. the hike took about 6 hours and I was sore for about half a week after that but well worth it.

Ok well that's pretty much what has been going on with me but Extreme House Makeover is going to be on soon so must go!

Lost

Anna Lucia is so dead. I don't care how many episodes it takes, but Sayid will get his revenge. I figured it would be Shannon that got it this episode just because the never showed her all season, but damn..shot by a tailaway. That was crazy that sayid and Shannon saw Walt, he must be powerful with whatever gift he has.
So from the previews for next week and the soon dead Anna Lucia has said in this episode, the others took the kids, that's why blondie from the tailaways asked if there were any children seen. Next week should be good, we finally get to see what the tailaways have gone through.

Fear at work

So our office building is going under major construction right now. They ripped off the front of the building and so now we have plywood covering the gapping hole. My office is at the front so I have a plywood wall to look at, and they are not fitted together so I have holes between the different sheets, so I get dust floating in and I can kinda see out. Anyways, so not only is this a pain because we can hear everything that's going on outside with the normal road noise and then our construction (It's very hard to work when there is a jackhammer right outside your plywood wall) but we have acquired a new problem....mice. I learned of this problem yesterday during out Monday morning meeting when one of our bosses mentioned that he has found mice poo in his office and that we're going to have pest control come out here. Well today this problem got a lot more personal. I was eating lunch at my desk today, munching away at my sandwich when my eyes wandered over to a pile of napkins that I have accumulated on my desk. Ontop of the napkins were two little mouse poo's. Fear just shot through me. Here I was, I had been at my desk all day touching everything that the mice were probably scampering all over during the night, and now I was eating a sandwich. I don't even want to thing about what that means. Ugh. So I talked to Angela our wonderful receptionist and she told me that I wasn't the only one with problems. With the construction we either disturbed where they were living or are just coming in through the plywood...probably both. So Angela found some disinfectant wipes and I cleaned my desk very well. Now I will be doing this every morning. Oh I'm so grossed out.