Zoo Lights

3 blogs today! WHOA!

We went to zoo lights last night. It was AWESOME!

Here is what my magic glasses made me see. That's right, those are snowmen on the lights! So cool!
And since it was night time the animals were sleeping. Here is a turkey on a sign. Weird turkey!
Here I am getting eaten by a hippo.
Here are the cute Hazel and the cute Tay.
And finally, here is Meadow dancing my favorite dance.

My Christmas Present

So I am in a competition with my Mom, Bernie, and Meadow to see who can get the most steps in a day. And I was the only member of the competition without some kind of exercise equipment at home, so I was losing A LOT! But now I have this!!

Now you guys are probably like, um you already had that bike, but if you look close you can see I now have a trainer holding up my back wheel, which means my lovely bike is now a stationary bike! WOO HOO! I have three levels of resistance and a block for the front tire with three levels, so I can pretend I am climbing hills. SO EXCITED!

Plus my bike tires are so awesome in that picture!

oh and now you are probably thinking, "dude you said you were in a steps contest, how does a bike help?" Well we have a conversion for biking to steps, so there.

Here are some pictures of KPP, she is cute. In the first one she is trying to get me to pet her, because I had just gotten home. In the second, she is meowing at me to pet her, but you cannot hear her meow, so it kind of looks like she is smiling (or ready to bite).

GNO!

To celebrate the end of school, Meadow, Christie and I went to dinner at Stoneground (I had the house pasta, so good!) and then ended up at Trolley Square. Shauntil was supposed to go with us, but she was lame and stayed home to scrapbook (crazy, I know. Ha, ha just kidding Shauntil, or am I?)

Here are some pictures of us in Santa's sleigh. We are dorks, I know, but it was quite fun, especially when we had to do a million poses and people started waiting in line for their turns, so I guess we weren't as dorky as the people waiting in line for a cell picture in the sleigh!

FINALS ARE OVER*

Well my finals are over. I hope I did well, *now I just have a paper to finish and then I will be done until January 7th. WOO HOO!!

And now the reason everyone reads my blog!

Kitty PotPie has been drinking her water with her paws on her dish lately. It makes me very glad I got the little stand, because I really hate cleaning up water when she spills! The first one is right after she "tested" the water

And here she is actually drinking. What a weirdo!

And my little KPP is an obsessive licker, which is why she has to be on hairball food all year round.

Last night as I was throwing my clothes in my closet, KPP jumped in and before I could grab her she disappeared, so I just closed the door. But I HATE her being in there, so five minutes later I went to find her and get her out and this is where I found her.

She was quite content, in fact she was purring, which she never does when I am taking pictures. But I guess being nestled by sweaters, a tutu in a bag, games and a bear bum makes her happy.

Laundry

So I did a ton of laundry yesterday and didn't put it all away right away. When I let it sit more than, let's say TWO MINUTES, this is what happens.

KPP stakes her claim
Settles in
She is so cute while sleeping, how can I disturb her?

Note, that the layer of clothes she is sleeping on is different, so in the time it took me to hang up my pants she has settled back in

Now I love my kitty, but I HATE! cat hair, so it makes me crazy that she loves to sleep on my clean clothes. Granted, she only likes to sleep on them when they are in the basket and not when I have some stacked on top of my dresser, so I guess I should be glad for that and for the fact that she can't open my closet door!

Halloween

A month or so ago, I was lamenting to Meadow that I didn't know what I wanted to be for Halloween and she said "you should be a lazy eye." to which I replied "bah" then on Monday night (10-29-07) I thought, "hmm, that is a good idea, I think I will do it" so I told her on Tuesday that I was going to do it and she said "I want to be that too". Mind you, she was already planning on being a vampire with her vampire family (see her blog), but I figured since she would just wear it to work and not out with me, we would be fine. Though if we did go together and we were both eyes, I was going to make an eye patch and be the good eye and she could be the lazy eye. ha ha ha ha ha. ah makes me laugh.

So here is my costume. I also had a clue, because I like to make people guess what I am, but as it was weird, I needed a clue.

Enjoy!

(the clue says "The doctor says I'm lazy.")

Oh and the eye may not look that impressive, but in my defense it was really hard to figure out how to make and I burned my finger on hot glue. But thanks to Geoff we got them made. And it is a really wide eye, because I had to fit my HUGE head in it : ) I really wanted to make it a googly eye, but that was even harder to do, because I didn't have time to find the supplies I needed. Next year I will start sooner...

Hazel

Okay so I know Meadow has a whole blog dedicated to Hazel, but she didn't take her camera to Liam's birthday, so I am posting the pictures.

Here is Hazel ready to go. She seems to rather enjoy riding in my car, I think because it is something different.Here is Miss Hazel enjoying the bounce house. I must say that Liam's party was the best I have been to in a while. There is nothing like a bounce house! Plus the ice cream was so yummy.Here is Hazel in a party hat. I especially like that it looks like she only has one ponytail, when in fact she had two.Here is the cute cute cute Liam and the equally cute Hazel. This was right after she kissed him good-bye (two cheeks), but I missed that and when we tried to recreate, I missed again. But Mary said she got one, so check her blog for the kiss picture.
This is also right after a kiss. Hazel's tongue had been out all day, but I think this one is especially funny.
This is not at the party, but I think it is a funny picture because Nacho just looks a little annoyed, but she put up with it, because it got her petted.And of course I must have a picture of KPP, so here she is on what Meadow refers to as my "stripper" blanket.

27 years, 2 months, and 8 days in the making

Well it only took me 27 yrs, 2 months, and 8 days, but I finally did it. I BOUGHT A COUCH!!! It is my first brand new piece of furniture ever, (not counting my futon I hated, and my cheapy book cases). I am so happy! Though I do kind of miss my comfy hand-me down recliner, but it was time to part ways. Here are some pictures of my Ikea couch.*


I got 4 pillows, but I don't like the red with the green, so I am going to have to get some covers for them. : (
OH and I got a foot rest. I am using it for toy storage. Now I can have kids come visit.*

* Man, I am glad Ikea moved to town, even though it has lost some of its cool, because now everyone can shop there.
**Okay so I have had kids visit in the past, but they insisted with playing with KPP's toys, and we all know how KPP feels about sharing.

Phones

So I have been cleaning and I found 3 of my old phones so I decided to take a picture. Look how big the one on the left is, I can't believe I would carry that in my pocket!! The one on the right is my current phone, I like it, though my favorite phone ever was my little bitty Nokia, which I don't have a picture of, because somewhere along the line I actually threw out a cell phone. Dang I should have cleaned like 5 years ago. bah ha ha

Candy Corn and Kitty PotPie

Kitty PotPie got into a bag of candy corn and I thought I had picked them all up, but apparently I didn't, so tonight when I came home I noticed some NASTY looking water in her dish. I think she found a candy corn today and decided to drowned it.
But as she is a kitty after my own heart, she realized that it was a waste of a yummy candy and had to drink the water. (Note: I did change the water right after the pictures were taken.)

Bruises

So I have always been an easy bruiser, but this is CRAZY! The first picture is from yesterday and the second is from today.Now some of you may ask "How did that happen?" and to you I would say I was helping Meadow prep the outside of her house so she can paint and I decided that the ladder I was on was close enough to the porch that I could step over the railing instead of getting off the ladder and walking the 10 extra steps. WELL, I kind of slide down the railing using my leg to slow my fall. It actually doesn't hurt that much it just looks bad (the picture doesn't do it justice).

Stupid bruises. I also got a nice one on my heel from falling off some of Geoff's landscaping rocks. But unlike the the HUGE bruise, this one actually hurts : (

Yet Again!

So why is it that yet again I find myself blogging when I should be working on homework? Okay so this time is not like last time as I am almost done, but still, I am a PROCRASTINATOR!

ooooh Blogger is plotting against me!! It will not let me upload my pictures
: (
So I guess it is back to homework. Dang.

Ways to Avoid Homework

School is back in (woo hoo?) and with school comes homework. Oh joy. I have already turned in my first assignment for one class and the first assignment for the other class is due tomorrow. Do I have it done? No. Have I started it? Kind of.

Now one could say "Jenni, haven't you been in school long enough to know that you shouldn't wait until the night before (or day of, as I am fond of doing homework then as well) to do your homework?" and to those people I would say "Yes, but I am also good at finding other things to do."

For instance, after work today I went to dinner with the girls from the office, then when I came home I noticed that I was not going to make my 10,000 steps for the day, so I went on a 30 minute walk. Then when I got home I checked my email and now I am blogging. Thank you Blogger for providing another distraction from homework.

Anyways, when I go on walks, I walk around my neighborhood and look houses and plants and I try to walk on different streets so I don't get bored. And on my walk today I saw some topiaries, one was a bird with its wings spread, another looked like a bear head and the third was not filled in, so I couldn't tell what it was, but they were cool. Then I saw a dad helping his young young son into a giant tree, it was pretty funny (not a topiary, actual people). And when I was like 2 blocks from home I saw the prettiest garage door. That's right I said garage door. It was wooden and nicely varnished and shiny and clean. And since I was staring at it so intently I just about missed the lady that lived in the house turning on the sprinklers, and when I did notice her I felt stupid so then I had to comment so I told her that her garage door was very pretty and that I liked it a lot, she laughed and said thanks and said that she worked hard on it. So now I just imagine this little old lady (who was dressed in a nice dress with pearls) polishing her garage door. bah ha ha. I will have to get a picture of the door, it really was quite nice. But not today, because after all I do have homework to do. (plus I got my 10,000 steps)

And now an artsy picture of KPP.

Busy Busy

This week has been slightly busy, but don't worry I am back on the blog wagon.

So let's start from August 11th. The CAST event was on the 11th. CAST stands for Catch a Special Thrill and is an event that takes disadvantaged and disabled kids fishing. It is a super fun event! This year I carpooled up with Enrique, Tamaran and John. Here is a picture of Enrique looking suave by Rockport Reservoir.


And last Thursday, I got to go to dinner with a bunch of friends, in honor of Maha being in town. Here is a cute picture of Maha, her hubby and her darling little girl. (I would try spelling their names, but I would butcher them, sorry Maha.) Missing from the picture is her very, very cute, but VERY shy little boy. For those of you who don't know, I went to school with Maha and she moved to Kuwait after graduation (something about wanting to live with her husband), so it had been over a year since I had seen her, so it was awesome to hang out for the night. And it was also nice to see the other people that showed up as I haven't seen most of them since graduation either.


On Saturday the 18th, my team competed in the city chase event (photo scavenger hunt) for the Salt Lake County Corporate Games. My team consisted of me (duh), Tamaran, Tiffany, and Andrea (L-R). We TOTALLY won gold. It was close but the team that finished first, missed one picture, so my team won, because we were AWESOME and got them all correct. And to add insult to injury, I told the last place team (3 teams in my division) where they could get their last picture, so they got them all correct and knocked the other team to last place. oops, sorry. bah ha ha ha


When reviewing all my pictures I noticed that I have HORRIBLE posture, must work on that : ) Unfortunately this was the best picture of the bunch (what does that tell you???)

On Saturday, I also went to Mary's for a BBQ. It was very fun, even though I only knew a handful of people. But I did get to see Mary's awesome backyard (nice work Jeremy) and how big and cute Liam has gotten.

And now what you all have been waiting for...pictures of KPP. Here is KPP enjoying the box that my birthday present from my brother and his family came in. Dang, that kitty loves boxes.


And here is KPP enjoying the hydrodynamic building set Samuel, April, Ben and Zoe (my bro and fam) gave me. It is an AWESOME present. And KPP really liked drinking out of it.


oh and also this week, school started. yeah? I have two classes this semester, Groundwater, and Ecological Systems & Engineering. They both seem like they will be really good classes, but very work intensive :( Also, with the start of school, comes a crazy work schedule...good thing I graduate in 254 days. WOO HOO!

The Simpson's

I saw the Simpson's movie a couple of weekends ago. It was great, so I had to make myself into a Simpson's character. I think it looks pretty good, though she is slightly skinnier than I am, but they didn't really give me the option to customize the body.

And for those of you who are like dang I really need a new picture of KPP, don't worry I will get one updated tonight (or tomorrow)