Wednesday, July 16, 2008

looking for a love like she has

a few weeks ago someone posted a link to this declaration of love, and ever since it’s been sitting open in one of my firefox tabs.  i see it everyday and it’s a daily reminder of what i want to have.

http://bohemiangirldesigns.blogspot.com/2008/06/happy-birthday-boho-boy.html

enjoy!

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Monday, July 14, 2008

white water rafting with the educators

marlene, shyla, cami, and i had quite the adventure going white water rafting last week.  from an abandoned campsite straight outta a B horror film, to making friends with the visiting fire fighters from mo-val, to sleeping on the back of an inflatable raft/boat under the stars, and floating down the river through class 2 rapids.  you can read more about it here on marlene’s blog, but true to form, i just wanna post up some pictures right now.  maybe i’ll fill in the rest of the story later…

anyways, you can see us here tackling the rapids!




i have a wicked bruise on my back from belly-flopping on my back (back-flopping?) while jumping off a jump rock, doing a forward flip and not rotating fully.  my arms are soooo dark from all my outdoors activities i’ve been doing, but i’m not really that sore.  my body’s getting used to all this fun stuff =) i’d have to say thanks to neil from dave’s sports bar for calling us pretty ladies and giving us $5 for the jukebox.  and the fire ant 3am tent invasion could never be forgotten, along with the body bags being dumped into the water… hmm… would that have been related to this sign we saw earlier that day?

at any rate, we had a lotta fun laughing about our misfortunes while they were happening knowing full well we can tell this story over and over again.  here’s to having our summers off and to the adventures we had!!!

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Friday, July 11, 2008

fire fun with kerley

so you know how you learn that you should never mix water with a grease fire?

well, kerley took a can of grease leftover from the grill, and stuck that in the middle of the fire.  he then used a cup on the end of a long stick to throw ice water in it....

the first one was a dud… he totally missed the can.

but if you wait till 40 seconds....

now that’s what i call fire fun!!

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

busy busy

wow… i haven’t posted in over a month!  things have been really crazy here on my end and i haven’t even been home to catch up on my tivo’d programs nor post anything online.

among the posts-i-have-wanted-to-do-but-have-yet-to-catch-up-on-and-therefore-don’t-think-i’ll-get-around-to-posting:

  • auntie oyie’s funeral - june 7
  • gigi’s graduation from loma linda - june 8
  • cheeno’s graduation from rcc nursing school - june 9
  • chs graduation - june 11
  • grove graduation - june 12
  • chs grad nite - june 12-13
  • forest falls with griffin & cole - june 14
  • rock climbing w glenn, kyoko, kuya chester, ate gemma, ryan, & riley for father’s day - june 15
  • wakeboardng at lake pyramid june 20-22
  • surfing & rock climbing (& lead climbing!) at point dume in malibu - june 29
  • biking w rita - june 30

yeah… it’s been a busy busy time.  hopefully i’ll get around to posting the pics i have (i barely took ‘em off my camera last night!)

at any rate, it’s been alotta fun being this active.  i’m finding energy i haven’t had in a while - no more coming home and watching tv and napping for me!  i’m keeping active, coaching volleyball after school for 3 hours every day, then being more active on the weekends.  i’m enjoying the natural high from all the activity, and i’m feeling really good right now!

it’s good stuff, man…

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Friday, May 23, 2008

rain, snow, hail, & tornadoes?

our weather is CRAZY!

it was 105 degrees earlier this week.  really really really hot.

and then yesterday, it was cold and we had a freak storm, complete with snow in yucaipa, tornadoes (tornadoes? here on the west coast?! what!!) on the 215 past moreno valley, flash floods, and hail all over the place.

read the news about it here:  http://www.pe.com/localnews/morenovalley/stories/PE_News_Local_D_weather23.4024c7d.html?npc

my students have been telling me the rain is caused by “the curse of the orange show” and i could only find one discussion online about it, although everyone pretty much seems to accept that it’s true.  a curse?  really?  that’s weird…

anyways, this weird weather reminds me also of the earthquake machine i heard about recently. basically… the idea that there’s a machine that can generate earthquakes.  maybe there was some tornado/hail machine working yesterday...?

or for those of us raised in old school adventist traditions, this is a sign of the end times!

hahha… who knows why the weather is weird like this…

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

student artwork

one of my students tagged his name onto a piece of paper and i took his sketch and inked it and colored it in after school was over… i used to do stuff like that in my notebooks… not as gangster as these drawings, but still, it was always some design or something or other.  usually colored in different shades of pencil or blue ink, since i never had colored pencils back then.  thinking about random designs on filler paper though… i haven’t done that in years!

the next day, he showed up with my name all graffitti’d on a piece of paper and i went ahead and colored that one in after school as well.  i posted it up behind my desk with all the other student artwork i have displayed and i guess it’s reminded me to start being creative again.  hopefully some good will come out of that! =)

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

amex + 9 del taco tacos = 4 amc tickets

so in case you didn’t know, del taco celebrates taco tuesday with 3 tacos for a buck.  well… a buck-oh-nine.  for a meager $1.09 you can get 3 tacos, which in my case it means getting beans and onions and lettuce in 3 soft taco wrappers.  it’s really not greasy at all so i don’t feel so bad about getting bargain food.

anyways, when i walked into del taco today, i noticed a sign on the door that said “get 4 free movie tickets from american express.  ask inside how!”

so i made my dollar purchase and asked the lady how to get my 4 free movie tickets.  she pointed to the envelope at the bottom of the cash register, which had this printed on its side: 

purchase del taco 3 times with my american express card, mail in my receipts, and receive 4 free movie tickets.  and no price minimum on my purchases.  suh-weet!!!

i figured it out too - if i eat 3 tacos there next week, and then 3 more the week after, i will receive a total of 9 tacos and 4 movie tickets all for the grand total of $3.27 + tax. 

$3.27 plus tax!

i just love my reward cards =)

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update: i just figured out that regal cinemas = edwards theaters which is by far the better theater around here, so instead of amc, i can treat myself and a guest to 2 movies at the big screen at edwards.  i like =)

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