Utah

Utah was much better skiing then I could have ever imagined. It was one of the best skiing trips I have ever been on. Perfect conditions and I got my bronze medal at Park City. It was pretty easy getting back into it and I was whooshing down the blacks in no time untill we got a foot of powder. Skiing in powder is a totally different beast all together and I have no idea how to tame that beast so I got a little beat up by the powder. Rob did an incredible job as well, I dragged him down a few runs that were clearly beyond his ability but he made it down them like a champ and with no injuries.

We stopped at the Rite Aid to get a bottle opener since the state run liquor stores don't sell any equipment used to open products sold there(wierd Mormon law) and Rob was wearing the Sin Zin t-shirt. The back says "Saturday Night" with a picture of the logo from Sin Zin and the front says "Sunday Night" and a picutre of the logo from thier Redemption ale.
As we were walking out of the Rite Aid a guy who was walking in stopped dead in his tracks and gave Rob the look of death. The only thing we could think of was the t-shirt. I wonder if we offended a Mormon.

I love St Patrick's day but wonder why the Feast Of St Gennaro or the Chinese New Year aren't as big. Why the Irish holiday? The general consensus around work is that if you make it a "drinking" day then it's popularity grows, for example Cinco De Mayo and Mardi Gras.

That makes some sense since my 2 favorite St. Patrick's Days both involve drinking. I took the Erin Express with the Philly crew one year and took the drunk bus all over Philly drinking green beer and wearing ridiculous green attire. Another year I went to NY to see my cousins march in the parade and wound up drinking too many mojitos the night before and missed the parade. Fortunately, I recovered in time to meet up with Tom, Shamus and the bunch at an NYPD Irish bar on the upper East side and then moved to a FDNY bar and met up with the rest of my NY based cousins.

I read that they are doing the Green Beer races again...Zippy and I are pretty good running partners and I know he has some speed in him. I think we are going to go for the gold.... or the bronze. Speaking of bronze medals. I won a NASTAR Bronze medal in Crested Butte and I keep it on my ski hat. Well, Rob wore my ski hat and left it on the couch while we went out to dinner last night. Zippy seized the opportunity to:
A - Nibble on the medal until it came off the hat
B - Slobber all over the hat
C - Scratch the medal beyond repair
D - Bend the pin part in half

Sadly enough I can't be mad at either one - anything left out runs the risk of having the dog demolish it and I gave up on expecting Rob to put anything away. It's the nature of both beasts.

Two Names You Go By
Brigette
Budgie

Two Parts of Your Heritage
Irish
Italian

Two Things That Scare You
Steep Stairs
Creepy images from good horror films like "The Eye" or wired images like from "The Cell"

Two of Your Everyday Essentials
Coffee
Sleep

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
Sassy black cord blazer
Red pants that don't look stretchy but really are stretchy and very comfortable

Two of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
Talking Heads
Wings

Two of Your Favorite Songs (at the moment)
It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp (Soundtrack from Hustle and Flow)
Love --> Building on Fire (Talking Heads)

Two Things You Want in a Relationship (other than Real Love).
Laughter
Comfort

Two Truths
Getting married really changes the relationship for the better, even if you lived together
Having your health is really something to be thankfull for

Two Physical Things that Appeal to You
Eyes
Smile

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
Exercise
Travel

Two Things You Want Really Badly
I want our home rennovations done so badly, it counts as two things.


Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
Japan
Amsterdam

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
Have a baby
Retire early

Two Ways that you are stereotypically a Chick
I LOVE shoes
I LOVE bags more then shoes

Two Ways you act like the opposite sex
I love football
I sure have a foul mouth from time to time

Two Things You Normally Wouldn't Admit
I am strong in my convictions but not neccesarily right in my convictions
Swallowing your pride gets easier the more times you do it

Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
Babies
Home rennovations

Two Stores You Shop At
H&M
Safeway

Two Ways in which you've already lost touch with your childhood:
I fell down and skinned my knees, hands and shoulder and it hurt everywhere, taking a tumble is much worse as an adult.
I don't live in the moment at all



Two of your earliest memories
Fishing a penny out of my pocket and eating it while KNOWING I was not suppsed to eat it.
Eating a cheese nip but having it turn out to be a dog biscuit, I was too young to read and the looked the same.
Strange, they are both eating things....

Two of your resolutions for New Years
Don't do new years resolutions

Two People you've lost touch with and wish you could talk to again
Trying to get in touch with class mates from Seattle
I just got back in touch with the second person, Brenda, former co-worker.

Wow, it took me an hour and 1/2 to get to work today. I think I have some kind of traffic phobia because my chest is incredibly tight, my tummy hurts and I just want to sit here and cry. I truly have a physical reaction to sitting in traffic.

I got a call from a friend who is a Technical Recruiter at Cisco, and they need another Technical Recruiter to work part time from home. Boy would I love that job but I don't feel right taking another job when I plan to take a 3 or 4 year hiatus from working as soon as we have baby #1. Which means I have to stick it out here, which isn't so bad but isn't so good.

Kevin and Chelle had the baby on Friday March 3, 2006 at 2:33 pm. Here he is ust moments after being born. What a face!