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Monday, December 17, 2007
Hit the end of my life plan-now what?
Whoop ya for a BS in Biology, minor in Natural Resources!
It still hasn't hit me that i could be done with school for the rest of my life. I can't believe i graduated, there were a couple times i was more than a little worried that it wasn't going to happen. I totally agree with mary on that my years through college have been the most influential and adventurous years of my life. They definitely shaped the person I am today.
Love the memories of: my freshman year, when i still wore cute, girly clothes and washed my hair everyday; when i considered running only 3 miles a complete workout but i was still hard core enough to go running in -20 degree weather (dead serious-i got frost bite over my entire right ear); living in run down, cheap houses packed full of rec. major girls where everyday was an awesome adventure; sledding down the stairs; skateboarding down the old water slide at Porter Park with jo; playing basketball games on the little court outside our house; the endless pranks of moving the entire kitchen into someone's bedroom; gigantic hobo spiders; my very first mountain bike trip racing celeste down Little Kelly's on a dare (i crashed quit a few times); playing on one of the most intense girl's flag football teams that ever existed; learning how to rock climb with jo; going with sven on my first hour long run that changed my running world; learning the guitar; post holing up targhee to snowboard for free and then spooning in the broken down, freezing van on the way home; becoming spontaneous with most all my decisions and adventures and realizing this was a much funner way to go through life (hence the end of my life plan haha); my first huge lead fall that left me scraped and bruised and with nearly a cracked skull, but i walked away the wiser; sitting in that same broken down van for hours with sven and jo, waiting for the cops to find us in the middle of nowhere, eating peanut butter and oatmeal and then almost blowing up the van when our home made camp stove rolled into the puddle of spilled oil while still on fire; lifting weights 3 days a week, four years in a row; running up the R Mountain for the first time with mary and keith; bouldering at sticks and stones with most of my best friends; running my first marathon with mary; tableing; Thanksgiving trips to california with jo and brian, free slices of bread at Great Harvest; hours upon hours of studying for my biology and chemistry classes and then forgetting everything after the final; the fabulous summer in San Diego with jo- rock climbing, buggy boarding with my waterproof cast (plastic bag and duct tape), eating the best tasting oranges from our backyard, engulfing the entire BBQ in flames, eating peanut butter yummies and home made pizza, and attempting to surf; the phenomenal month long adventure near Moab known as Spring Summit; my next awesome summer in Alaska with mary, keith, Cramer, Jedd, and Jordon-climbing until midnight, chasing wild grizzly bears, running in the rain, month long GIARDIA, hiking and mountain biking in the chugach mountain range, slackling over a gorge, crossing glacier cold rivers, wakeboarding behind a tiny motor boat, and playing with grizzly bear cubs; volunteering for the fish and game; sweet rock climbing trips to places like City of Rocks with marcus, jo, tolman, craig, and corey; trip to Havaisupi with jo, angela, becky, mary, and jens; getting my lovable puppy; Hiking the Grand Teton; slackling; learning to kayak from some of my best friends, mary, marcus, and carla; going home to ride horses with my brother jon; mountain biking down wolverine; living in the Big Lost River Range completely alone with my dog-amazing we never got eaten; and last but not least idaho sunsets.
I love the life i have and the friends that have helped to mold it.
Who knows what lies ahead in my life, but i hope all my friends will still be intertwined in it.
It still hasn't hit me that i could be done with school for the rest of my life. I can't believe i graduated, there were a couple times i was more than a little worried that it wasn't going to happen. I totally agree with mary on that my years through college have been the most influential and adventurous years of my life. They definitely shaped the person I am today.
Love the memories of: my freshman year, when i still wore cute, girly clothes and washed my hair everyday; when i considered running only 3 miles a complete workout but i was still hard core enough to go running in -20 degree weather (dead serious-i got frost bite over my entire right ear); living in run down, cheap houses packed full of rec. major girls where everyday was an awesome adventure; sledding down the stairs; skateboarding down the old water slide at Porter Park with jo; playing basketball games on the little court outside our house; the endless pranks of moving the entire kitchen into someone's bedroom; gigantic hobo spiders; my very first mountain bike trip racing celeste down Little Kelly's on a dare (i crashed quit a few times); playing on one of the most intense girl's flag football teams that ever existed; learning how to rock climb with jo; going with sven on my first hour long run that changed my running world; learning the guitar; post holing up targhee to snowboard for free and then spooning in the broken down, freezing van on the way home; becoming spontaneous with most all my decisions and adventures and realizing this was a much funner way to go through life (hence the end of my life plan haha); my first huge lead fall that left me scraped and bruised and with nearly a cracked skull, but i walked away the wiser; sitting in that same broken down van for hours with sven and jo, waiting for the cops to find us in the middle of nowhere, eating peanut butter and oatmeal and then almost blowing up the van when our home made camp stove rolled into the puddle of spilled oil while still on fire; lifting weights 3 days a week, four years in a row; running up the R Mountain for the first time with mary and keith; bouldering at sticks and stones with most of my best friends; running my first marathon with mary; tableing; Thanksgiving trips to california with jo and brian, free slices of bread at Great Harvest; hours upon hours of studying for my biology and chemistry classes and then forgetting everything after the final; the fabulous summer in San Diego with jo- rock climbing, buggy boarding with my waterproof cast (plastic bag and duct tape), eating the best tasting oranges from our backyard, engulfing the entire BBQ in flames, eating peanut butter yummies and home made pizza, and attempting to surf; the phenomenal month long adventure near Moab known as Spring Summit; my next awesome summer in Alaska with mary, keith, Cramer, Jedd, and Jordon-climbing until midnight, chasing wild grizzly bears, running in the rain, month long GIARDIA, hiking and mountain biking in the chugach mountain range, slackling over a gorge, crossing glacier cold rivers, wakeboarding behind a tiny motor boat, and playing with grizzly bear cubs; volunteering for the fish and game; sweet rock climbing trips to places like City of Rocks with marcus, jo, tolman, craig, and corey; trip to Havaisupi with jo, angela, becky, mary, and jens; getting my lovable puppy; Hiking the Grand Teton; slackling; learning to kayak from some of my best friends, mary, marcus, and carla; going home to ride horses with my brother jon; mountain biking down wolverine; living in the Big Lost River Range completely alone with my dog-amazing we never got eaten; and last but not least idaho sunsets.
I love the life i have and the friends that have helped to mold it.
Who knows what lies ahead in my life, but i hope all my friends will still be intertwined in it.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Banana Cream Puddin
So, my roommate Kourtney had a bunch of food she was giving away-end of the semester-and so me and T-bird gladly took it upon ourselves to relieve her of these goods. Doing so quadrupled my food supply, which wasn't very hard to do. Amongst my new found, good tasting, life sustaining, treasures we found BANANA CREAM pudding. And since i had also just acquired a new box of powdered milk, me and T-bird instantly set about making this free fabulous dessert. All went pretty smoothly until we put it in the jam packed freezer. we shoved it into the back and then noticed some cookies n cream ice cream that belonged to one of my roommates. It was a little to tempting, and i opened the lid, peered inside, and noticed it was getting freezer burn and was still almost full. perfectly good ice cream going to waste. needless to say me and t-bird began taking unnoticeable samples from this frozen treat. when suddenly we heard one of my roommates coming in, with unbelievable speed we put the ice cream away but as i was pulling my arm out of the freezer, while shutting the door, my elbow bumped our still hot, liquefied pudding! and... it spewed out into the freezer, down the front of the fridge, over my arm, down my front, and onto the floor! but amazingly enough, i was able to catch the pot and salvage 1/3 of it, hurray for pudding! While almost peeing my pants with laughter i began to lick to burning liquid off my arm while still holding the pot.
Jamming the pot back into the freezer, me and t-bird set about cleaning up the mess by eating/licking all the edible pudding, "you can't waste good food," and wiping up the rest with toilet paper. We didn't have any paper towels ok. To make this short story even longer, as we were "cleaning," to our surprise and despair, the pot began to slide out of the freezer again! T-bird caught it this time, more pudding spilled into the freezer but most of it was saved. Taking no more chances, we taped the pot into the freezer, and finished cleaning up the mess. The pudding was finally able to solidify after we shut the clean, freezer door. While waiting for it to set up, we bouldered through my house using the thick door frames. Pulling the pudding out a while later, we enhanced the remainder of our dessert by dipping t-bird's oreos into it. If you haven't cracked a smile yet, the funny thing is, we never saw my roommate, she never came into the kitchen, so this dramatic event happened over nothing, haha. it was well worth the entertainment though.
Jamming the pot back into the freezer, me and t-bird set about cleaning up the mess by eating/licking all the edible pudding, "you can't waste good food," and wiping up the rest with toilet paper. We didn't have any paper towels ok. To make this short story even longer, as we were "cleaning," to our surprise and despair, the pot began to slide out of the freezer again! T-bird caught it this time, more pudding spilled into the freezer but most of it was saved. Taking no more chances, we taped the pot into the freezer, and finished cleaning up the mess. The pudding was finally able to solidify after we shut the clean, freezer door. While waiting for it to set up, we bouldered through my house using the thick door frames. Pulling the pudding out a while later, we enhanced the remainder of our dessert by dipping t-bird's oreos into it. If you haven't cracked a smile yet, the funny thing is, we never saw my roommate, she never came into the kitchen, so this dramatic event happened over nothing, haha. it was well worth the entertainment though.
always a little behind
finally updating once again. a couple weeks ago me and sven went climbing at the Crank Caves, the new place Dean has been setting routes on, its a pretty sweet spot!
I onsight led up a 5.11a= whoop YA! It was a really fun new route. Dean was there that day too, setting up this awesome route under a huge roof. Good times had by all. I miss climbing outside
There's the man-Dean setting bolts under a huge horizontal wall
there's me-um...the medusa head climber haha. which lately, thanks to my range plant class, reminds me of medusahead rye, scientic and family name= Taniatherum asperum Triticeae. Yes, i've been studying plants way too long
I onsight led up a 5.11a= whoop YA! It was a really fun new route. Dean was there that day too, setting up this awesome route under a huge roof. Good times had by all. I miss climbing outside
There's the man-Dean setting bolts under a huge horizontal wall
there's me-um...the medusa head climber haha. which lately, thanks to my range plant class, reminds me of medusahead rye, scientic and family name= Taniatherum asperum Triticeae. Yes, i've been studying plants way too long
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