I just found out today that a very dear friend of the family had passed away. Jack Crow4ell (the four is silent) died earlier this week. He was a man of amazing talents and many of my favorite childhood memories involve him ( Read more... )

-- I sliced off the tip of my right ring finger using a mandolin on Sunday, continuing the theory that I should never be in the kitchen ( Read more... )

I could survive for 1 minute, 25 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

This past weekend Jonathan and I traveled a grand total of approximately 4,000 miles round trip to attend two weddings of some fantastic people. We got to celebrate with friends, catch up on gossip, and I was able to show off Jonathan (who wore a dashing suit that I convinced him to get just for this occasion. Of course, this was helped by the ( Read more... )

a sniffly sneezy snotty runny mess ( Read more... )

On Friday, September 5th, Jonathan and I will be in MILWAUKEE!!! We're flying in at 6pm and staying with Carolyn for the night (we drive to Madison the next morning).

We will be hanging out in Milwaukee for that night! Do you want to hang with us? y/y?

PS - I can has sinus infection? NOOOOOOO! MY ANTIBIOTICS!!!!

It's Tuesday morning - currently I am on Jonathan's bed (which I'm not sure can be classified as a bed any longer - he removed the cinderblocks and plywood that made up the "boxspring" and the IKEA bought mattress is currently resting directly on the floor. However, this is no worse than sleeping on plywood and cinderblocks) getting ready to go to ( Read more... )

Things are going pretty darn good - now let's not jinx it ( Read more... )

1) The American gymnast looks like she really, REALLY wants to punch the living daylights out of the chinese gymnast behind her. I'm serious - the poor woman is radiating hate waves as if she were in a cartoon. I'd pay good money to see that fight though ( Read more... )

Is there anything more awesome than watching Olympic Swimming finals?

Damn that 400 IM was amazing.