05-28-06

Went up to Lake Del Valle for the day.......
Got up there just after 6am, the patio boat (what a joke the thing was so small) was already rented so we got the next biggest thing..a boat called the "deluxe". I'm not sure what was so deluxe about it, but it floated and it held us.
Anyways, before the boys got there, my mom and I went on a little expedition in the boat. We stopped along side the eastern shore and I figured out how to string, bait & cast my pole and then did a little fishing. This is what I caught on only my third cast:



Thats one big catfish! So I never expected to really catch anything, and my mom hates fish! We both kinda freaked out. I was yelling at her to get the bucket so we could scoop him up.....but what were we going to do with him afterwards? We couldnt get the hook out of his lip, and my mom got all animal rights activist on me even though she thinks fish are disgusting. So we had to head back to the dock and get one of the tackle shop boys to help us out. Once he was free my mom dumped him back in the water to swim another day.

Later on when everyone arrived we set off again, but with no luck. We did have quite the stir when I thought I had something really big, well I did, and it really put up a fight, but it was just a huge clump of branches!!!

Armen was the only one daring enough to go swimming. I like this picture, so many good stories to be made up with this one:



The only thing he didnt think of, was how to get back in the boat! LOL!

Eventually we gave up our fishing adventure and went a shore for our picnic. Except for the really bad allergy onset that Alan and I got from sitting in the grass, it was pretty nice.

A quick nap in the car while waiting for my brother and his friend to get back from their hike, and we headed back home. A little sunburned and left with that rocking feeling like ur still on the boat, but it was a good day on the lake. I wish I had found out that there was this nice lake just 45 minutes away from me a lot sooner. Oh well, maybe I can come back in a few years.

I wonder....

Sometimes I wonder if you still check in here. I think you do. I wonder a lot things about you.

www.zazzle.com

I love making my own t-shirts!

I'll have a coke!

6 days

thats all it took and my baby is gone. I dont think its really hit me yet.
Once the weather clears up I'll probably realize whats happened. I really thought the SV would be the bike I had til it died or I died on it.
I think she went to a good home though. Treat her right kid.

Its the end of an era indeed.
This morning i put the SV up for sale.
Such a hard thing to do, and I have some great friends who have made some outrageously generous offers so I can keep her, but saying goodbye is the logical thing to do.
I made the decision to make this huge change in my life and this is part of the sacrifice I have to make to see my decision thru.
The SV is a great bike. And it is my dream bike. I knew when the time came to get a sportbike that it was the only thing I wanted. It'll be hard when I actually have to hand over the keys.

pic of my girl ;)

Cornfed ASS!!!

An ear a day? is that how they grow em these days??

Here's another pic:


Much better....I think the first one is too...oh...soggy is a good word. Kid needs to get some better jeans. Maybe something a little tighter...yeah, something nice and *toight*
*giggles*
I think i should get an eleventy billion dollar grant to further my studies on the specimen. Theres a lot of research that needs to be done here.

*this message will self-destruct, well when i'm done makin fun of ya

Sloshball VII

May 6th, 2006

good times as always!
i apologize to my team for being overly competive aka bossy :(

A quote form the past, relevant for today's headlines...

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

10 weeks

I have 10 weeks left. Where has the time gone?
So much to do, so much to get organized.
I just paid for 10 personal traning sessions at my gym. I told my trainer to work me like a guy, he made an evil laugh...he's gonna break me!