Monday, June 29, 2009
Pennies!
This morning when I was counting cash I came across a penny that I had never seen before. It was a 2009 penny with a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the back of it sitting on a log reading a book. It really threw me off as I had never seen a penny that was different on the back except for pennies that were made before the 1950's in which it just says 'one cent' instead of having the Capital Building. I looked it up and found that they released 4 different penny back designs for the celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birthday and the 100 year existence of the one cent. This is really going to ruin my ability to quickly spot and separate out Canadian coins...
Friday, June 26, 2009
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things!
My new water bottle! It has a nautilus on it. It's so cute it tricks me into drinking water, which is a good thing because normally I'm not a fan of drinking water.
My favorite dance of the week on So You Think You Can Dance. It's the butt dance! All about the booty, but in a classy way. And with my favorite dancers of course.
My new favorite song of the moment! "I'm not a robot" by Marina and the Diamonds.
My favorite dance of the week on So You Think You Can Dance. It's the butt dance! All about the booty, but in a classy way. And with my favorite dancers of course.
My new favorite song of the moment! "I'm not a robot" by Marina and the Diamonds.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
It's that time again!
My favorite summer show, So You Think You Can Dance, is airing! Yay! There have only been a couple of real episodes that have aired so far (not including the audition shows). I have jumped to early favoritism of dancers with dancer Evan. My favorite! He's a dancer with a Broadway background. He's also vertically challenged compared to the other dancers, so they had to stick him with one of the shorty girls. The following clip is my favorite performance of the first episode.
And the next clip is my favorite from the second episode.
These are both contemporary/jazz routines and are kind of sappy, but I love it! The second clip is much better quality, but you can only do so much with YouTube.
Obviously nothing very interesting is going on in my life right now. Reid and I painted the dog's room. It's kind of a shade of tannish yellow. The room had come with brown trim and when we painted the room from it's previous lilac color (it was gross...hopefully it was a little kid's room at some time in the past) I realized that we had just created a very 1970's colored room. My new goal is to paint the trim white, which makes it look much cleaner and much less like I should be adding lime green shag carpet. I spent quite a while at Home Depot staring at different color swatches for different shades of white. That was a headache that most people have to endure at some point in their lives. I eventually settled for marshmallow white. I've painted a small section, but it's difficult as the trim is very thin and not very straight, so using painter's tape isn't helping me keep a straight line as well as I'd like. I am currently on the computer procrastinating getting any further painting trim. Hence the new post.
And the next clip is my favorite from the second episode.
These are both contemporary/jazz routines and are kind of sappy, but I love it! The second clip is much better quality, but you can only do so much with YouTube.
Obviously nothing very interesting is going on in my life right now. Reid and I painted the dog's room. It's kind of a shade of tannish yellow. The room had come with brown trim and when we painted the room from it's previous lilac color (it was gross...hopefully it was a little kid's room at some time in the past) I realized that we had just created a very 1970's colored room. My new goal is to paint the trim white, which makes it look much cleaner and much less like I should be adding lime green shag carpet. I spent quite a while at Home Depot staring at different color swatches for different shades of white. That was a headache that most people have to endure at some point in their lives. I eventually settled for marshmallow white. I've painted a small section, but it's difficult as the trim is very thin and not very straight, so using painter's tape isn't helping me keep a straight line as well as I'd like. I am currently on the computer procrastinating getting any further painting trim. Hence the new post.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Artsy Craftsy
The other day I was having an ambitious moment and decided to upload pictures of some of my artwork that I've done over the years. I put them up on a folder on my flickr account called Artsy Craftsy. I also posted a couple of pictures of my new hair cut. Reid doesn't like it, but it's not like he has to do it. I like it! Anyways, that's it for now.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Memorial Day
Reid and I decided to go to Spokane for Memorial Day. Nothing beyond that was planned really, except that Alicia was going to cut our doggies' nails. She's now a dog groomer at Pet Smart and it is convenient for me to just make her work without pay to my benefit. The doggies always have a lot of fun with Dad's 2 mastiffs. Zoey just kind of hangs back while Kona has the most fun being ADD with Sasha. Dad probably wouldn't mind if we gave her a tranquilizer, but then who else would make Callie bite their face in anger?
The traffic was terrible on the way there and the way back. On the way there Snoqualmie Pass had a 20 mile backup. My friend Danielle was also making the trek from Seattle to Spokane and was going the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass route. She left at 5:30pm and I was texting her for information as Reid and I had to work a bit later. At one point she told me it took them 1 hour to go 9 miles. Reid and I decided to go north and go over Steven's Pass and through Leavenworth. We hit a bit of a backup for a while, but it was mostly due to there only being one lane and a constantly changing speed limit. Danielle left at 5:30pm and arrived at 12:30am, Reid and I left after 8pm and arrived at 1:30am.
The traffic on the way back also had a 20 mile backup over Snoqualmie Pass. We went I-90 anyways. We left Spokane at 4:30pm and arrived a couple minutes before 10pm. Which was MUCH better time than we anticipated, especially once we first hit the backup. We literally put the jeep in park in a 70mph zone. Below is a photo I took where you have a good view of the lineup ahead of us around a curve. Reid opened the sunroof and I just stuck the camera out there.
Kona wasn't that bad. I think it had a lot to do with her being exhausted from playing with Dad's dogs. Right after we got home she promptly plopped herself down on the rug in the living room and we had to step over her as we unpacked.
Oh yeah! And my identical twin Chrissy started a blog!!! Now we don't really have a reason to talk on the phone except for her to have me listen to the noises that Ben is making.
The traffic was terrible on the way there and the way back. On the way there Snoqualmie Pass had a 20 mile backup. My friend Danielle was also making the trek from Seattle to Spokane and was going the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass route. She left at 5:30pm and I was texting her for information as Reid and I had to work a bit later. At one point she told me it took them 1 hour to go 9 miles. Reid and I decided to go north and go over Steven's Pass and through Leavenworth. We hit a bit of a backup for a while, but it was mostly due to there only being one lane and a constantly changing speed limit. Danielle left at 5:30pm and arrived at 12:30am, Reid and I left after 8pm and arrived at 1:30am.
The traffic on the way back also had a 20 mile backup over Snoqualmie Pass. We went I-90 anyways. We left Spokane at 4:30pm and arrived a couple minutes before 10pm. Which was MUCH better time than we anticipated, especially once we first hit the backup. We literally put the jeep in park in a 70mph zone. Below is a photo I took where you have a good view of the lineup ahead of us around a curve. Reid opened the sunroof and I just stuck the camera out there.
Kona wasn't that bad. I think it had a lot to do with her being exhausted from playing with Dad's dogs. Right after we got home she promptly plopped herself down on the rug in the living room and we had to step over her as we unpacked.
Oh yeah! And my identical twin Chrissy started a blog!!! Now we don't really have a reason to talk on the phone except for her to have me listen to the noises that Ben is making.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Twitter!
I'm not sure if I fully understand what's going on yet...but I'm all signed up! Ok, so I'm positive I don't fully understand. The basic idea is that I can write little updates about what I'm doing or thinking all the time without having to post an entire blog. I can also do it from my cell phone!
The top right hand side of my blog is where my twitter updates will show up. I'm still working on the formatting, but it seems to be limited because I have a preset format to my blog, but it's probably just me limiting myself with my lack of programming skills. It should show up with the 3 most recent posts. I think the only way to see my previous posts will be to go to my twitter page http://twitter.com/paleomelissa.
It's just something new and something fun (I think). Everyone else should get twitter too so that I can stalk you all as well! And so that you guys can figure out how to work it better than me and then you can explain it to me. :)
My museum has a twitter too! There are some 'celebrities' that have twitter as well that everyone can read. Some of the celebrities I'm reading are David Hewlett and his sister Kate, Michael Ian Black, and Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office). There are a lot of other celebrities that have it to, but their's weren't as interesting to me (meaning not that funny).
Anyways, that's it for now!
The top right hand side of my blog is where my twitter updates will show up. I'm still working on the formatting, but it seems to be limited because I have a preset format to my blog, but it's probably just me limiting myself with my lack of programming skills. It should show up with the 3 most recent posts. I think the only way to see my previous posts will be to go to my twitter page http://twitter.com/paleomelissa.
It's just something new and something fun (I think). Everyone else should get twitter too so that I can stalk you all as well! And so that you guys can figure out how to work it better than me and then you can explain it to me. :)
My museum has a twitter too! There are some 'celebrities' that have twitter as well that everyone can read. Some of the celebrities I'm reading are David Hewlett and his sister Kate, Michael Ian Black, and Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office). There are a lot of other celebrities that have it to, but their's weren't as interesting to me (meaning not that funny).
Anyways, that's it for now!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Port Angeles Adventure
On Sunday my friend Allison and I went on a day trip to Port Angeles. Our motivation was to visit a rock shop Allison had previously visited and thought was awesome and worth going to again. I was up for it. It's not like I don't enjoy myself a good rock shop ;). We left at around 10:45am to catch the 11:30 Edmonds-Kingston ferry.
A bomb sniffing dog checking out the cars in the ferry line.
We made the ferry just fine and then drove to Port Angeles. The Woolly Mammoth Rock Shop was our destination. We arrived there to find that the gates that lead to the parking lot of the shop were closed and locked. On their business card that Allison had it said that Sunday hours were noon to 5pm and it was around 2pm. So I went ahead and called the phone number on the business card to double check what was going on. A guy answered who sounded a little disgruntled and unprofessional mumbling about a 'retarded owner' and 'bull****'. He then asked if we were the ones parked out in the driveway (he could see us from the shop) and I said yes. He decided to come out to give us his new business card as his rock shop was going to be moving into his house. As he got to the gate I guess he decided we seemed like nice gals and opened the gate and said we could just go ahead and look at the shop anyway, even though it was closing and they were in the process of moving it out. The whole time he keeps rambling about the owner of the property, who also happened to be his business partner. Many choice words muttered as I'm sure anyone can guess.
Allison and I were very grateful that we didn't come all the way to Port Angeles from Seattle for no reason. We start looking around the shop while the gentleman that let us in keeps disappearing taking phone calls from his soon to be ex-business partner in which his voice keeps raising and profanity can be heard. The gentleman's wife eventually comes out and kind of lingers around as we are looking and starts talking to us. She was very nice and kind of stressed out that her husband was having such a bad day and she was also very apologetic to us for having to experience it. She also let us know that we were going to be the last customers ever to the store and that she would give us a deal on anything we wanted to buy. At some point another gentleman enters the store and it turns out that he's the brother of the property owning business partner and according to the gentleman that let us in he was there to possibly 'rough him up' or scare him. The gentleman a little bit later comes back in and is telling his wife that the other business partner called to tell him that he called the police because the gates were open and I guess since he was the land owner he was able to decide that the other guy couldn't have customers on the property? I'm not really sure. His brother probably told him.
After that everyone got more tense and antsy. Allison and I decided to pick up the pace so we could leave just about the same time that the wife told us we may want to leave soon as the police were now there. So we both picked out a pair of earrings that were made from a meteorite that fell into the Gobi Desert in China (cute and nerdy) and she took $6 off the price which was nice of her. We then left and said goodbye and waved to the police officers (who waved back) who were talking to the wife and the property owner (and his brother). The original gentleman that let us in escorted us out to the car and apologized about everything that was going on. He was understandably embarrassed about the whole situation and how he was responding to it. Anyways, so that was the rock shop!
On to lunch! We circled the town I think 3 times? Since the whole town is one giant one way circle...so once you passed something you had to go all the way around until you came to whatever it was again. We had lunch at a cute little restaurant Chestnut something. Chestnut Inn? We ate and then went down to the water front of Port Angeles. There are a bunch of random art sculptures down there.
There was also a nice little pier with a look out tower at the end that we climbed so we could get a little higher and take some pictures.
Semi-lastly, we found the actual Italian restaurant (La Bella Italia) in Port Angeles from the book Twilight. They are definitely milking the publicity, but I would do the same thing if I were them! It's not quite how I pictured it, but it worked. There was also an article in the window where apparently Stephenie Meyer (the author of Twilight) paid the restaurant a surprise visit in June 2008. Oh, and they also offer a special with the mushroom ravioli. You order the mushroom ravioli and you get a free coke. Twilight fans will get the humor in that.
In the end I had Allison stop at the Walmart in Port Angeles so I could see if they had any copies of the Twilight dvd left for sale. They did! I just thought it would be cool if I bought my dvd from Port Angeles. Ok, so not cool, but for me it was more exciting. They were out of the special delux blahty blah version so I had to settle for the normal 1 disc $17 version..which is the one I would've gotten anyway. That Walmart also had a ridiculous quantity of random Twilight merchandise strategically positioned right next to the dvd fixture. In the parking lot Allison's car wouldn't start, but I guess it has that problem on occasion so she just has to wiggle the connections to the battery. Her car did this again as we were trying to start the car when the ferry line was moving to board the ferry, so poor Allison has to rush out to pop the hood and wiggle the connections in the pouring rain so that the people in the cars behind us didn't have to wait. Very dramatic. Then we came home and the adventure was over. The end. More photos of our adventure can be seen in my flickr photostream.
We made the ferry just fine and then drove to Port Angeles. The Woolly Mammoth Rock Shop was our destination. We arrived there to find that the gates that lead to the parking lot of the shop were closed and locked. On their business card that Allison had it said that Sunday hours were noon to 5pm and it was around 2pm. So I went ahead and called the phone number on the business card to double check what was going on. A guy answered who sounded a little disgruntled and unprofessional mumbling about a 'retarded owner' and 'bull****'. He then asked if we were the ones parked out in the driveway (he could see us from the shop) and I said yes. He decided to come out to give us his new business card as his rock shop was going to be moving into his house. As he got to the gate I guess he decided we seemed like nice gals and opened the gate and said we could just go ahead and look at the shop anyway, even though it was closing and they were in the process of moving it out. The whole time he keeps rambling about the owner of the property, who also happened to be his business partner. Many choice words muttered as I'm sure anyone can guess.
Allison and I were very grateful that we didn't come all the way to Port Angeles from Seattle for no reason. We start looking around the shop while the gentleman that let us in keeps disappearing taking phone calls from his soon to be ex-business partner in which his voice keeps raising and profanity can be heard. The gentleman's wife eventually comes out and kind of lingers around as we are looking and starts talking to us. She was very nice and kind of stressed out that her husband was having such a bad day and she was also very apologetic to us for having to experience it. She also let us know that we were going to be the last customers ever to the store and that she would give us a deal on anything we wanted to buy. At some point another gentleman enters the store and it turns out that he's the brother of the property owning business partner and according to the gentleman that let us in he was there to possibly 'rough him up' or scare him. The gentleman a little bit later comes back in and is telling his wife that the other business partner called to tell him that he called the police because the gates were open and I guess since he was the land owner he was able to decide that the other guy couldn't have customers on the property? I'm not really sure. His brother probably told him.
After that everyone got more tense and antsy. Allison and I decided to pick up the pace so we could leave just about the same time that the wife told us we may want to leave soon as the police were now there. So we both picked out a pair of earrings that were made from a meteorite that fell into the Gobi Desert in China (cute and nerdy) and she took $6 off the price which was nice of her. We then left and said goodbye and waved to the police officers (who waved back) who were talking to the wife and the property owner (and his brother). The original gentleman that let us in escorted us out to the car and apologized about everything that was going on. He was understandably embarrassed about the whole situation and how he was responding to it. Anyways, so that was the rock shop!
On to lunch! We circled the town I think 3 times? Since the whole town is one giant one way circle...so once you passed something you had to go all the way around until you came to whatever it was again. We had lunch at a cute little restaurant Chestnut something. Chestnut Inn? We ate and then went down to the water front of Port Angeles. There are a bunch of random art sculptures down there.
There was also a nice little pier with a look out tower at the end that we climbed so we could get a little higher and take some pictures.
Semi-lastly, we found the actual Italian restaurant (La Bella Italia) in Port Angeles from the book Twilight. They are definitely milking the publicity, but I would do the same thing if I were them! It's not quite how I pictured it, but it worked. There was also an article in the window where apparently Stephenie Meyer (the author of Twilight) paid the restaurant a surprise visit in June 2008. Oh, and they also offer a special with the mushroom ravioli. You order the mushroom ravioli and you get a free coke. Twilight fans will get the humor in that.
In the end I had Allison stop at the Walmart in Port Angeles so I could see if they had any copies of the Twilight dvd left for sale. They did! I just thought it would be cool if I bought my dvd from Port Angeles. Ok, so not cool, but for me it was more exciting. They were out of the special delux blahty blah version so I had to settle for the normal 1 disc $17 version..which is the one I would've gotten anyway. That Walmart also had a ridiculous quantity of random Twilight merchandise strategically positioned right next to the dvd fixture. In the parking lot Allison's car wouldn't start, but I guess it has that problem on occasion so she just has to wiggle the connections to the battery. Her car did this again as we were trying to start the car when the ferry line was moving to board the ferry, so poor Allison has to rush out to pop the hood and wiggle the connections in the pouring rain so that the people in the cars behind us didn't have to wait. Very dramatic. Then we came home and the adventure was over. The end. More photos of our adventure can be seen in my flickr photostream.
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