Both because this is a current event and because you've all waited so long for our another post, we are rewarding you with a second post in one day!
Now see what happened is that Steven and I kept running out of dishes before we decided to wash them. This has become an issue since we moved over a year ago and have a dishwasher to fill. With just the two of us, it takes forever to fill and usually we'll run out of cereal bowls and spoons first. So naturally we buy more of what we need as any good American would. A few months ago we bought bowls and for the past week, Steven has been wanting to take a Target trip to pick up some spoons. Each time he would bring this up he'd sing "SPOON MAN" and I would delicately yell at him asking him what he heck he was singing. I insisted that I have never heard of such a silly song and he insisted that they play it on KROQ, that there's a spoon solo (yeah right!) and that I had to have heard it.
Well this President's day weekend was a KROQ A-Z weekend and we happened to be in the car during the "S" section and what should come on but a song called Spoon Man! Of course it was a song I've heard a million times but have not once paid attention to the words.
See what I think has happened is that Steven called Soundgarden and KROQ and told them about our Spoon Man argument. Soundgarden then re-recorded this song that I've heard a million times, changed the lyrics to now be about a spoon man and added the spoon solo. Steven and KROQ made it so that we would be in the car and listening to the radio right when the S's come on so that I would hear this fake version of a song that Steven made up.
That's the only possible explanation.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Episode 2: Winter Wonderland...briefly
by contributing writer, Steven:
After a crazy cold (36 F) and somewhat rainy night we woke up in Colorado. The storm had busted a snow cap on the mountains. So we did the obvious thing and ran outside in the cold with cameras a-blazing.
The hunt was then on for an unobstructed view of this overnight winterification. Oddly enough, despite being a block from a street named Grandview, so named as it's the highest point for few miles around, it can be hard to get a photogenic view what with all the trees and such. I've contemplated either making a giant periscope or putting a roof top balcony on the house but haven't done so...yet.
Though not the highest point around there is a middle school at the end of Howard with a playground allowing unobstructed views. We snuck into the yard through a gate with a 2 foot chain on it. (What's the point of locking a gate such that anything more than 2 feet wide can still get through? Are they just trying to keep out those unwilling to bend down?)
Here's where all our TV comes from.
Note how the snow layer is also the cloud layer. That probably makes sense meteorologically somehow.
Also a note about this picture. I noticed that D was taking pictures with me in the frame, so I ran out the way. She naturally snapped me in my sprinting grandeur for comedic effect. (Look for the orange sweatshirt. Sorry about the bad panorama stitching.)
Here's the obligatory self portrait.
Alas the snow hasn't lasted. By sunset it was mostly gone but it's also supposed to be wet and cold tonight so maybe there will be a re-winterification.
Note the palm trees and the snow juxtaposition.
In other storm related news on our street another tree fell over last night. (Over Xmas break the tree in front of the place in front of our place fell over. Pasadena muni workers were all over it and had it cleared out in a couple hours.) This one fell towards a house but miraculously didn't actually damage it. Note the downed power line which prevented D from coming home from work on Saturday night. The sidewalk was no match for the tree but the picket fence is surprisingly intact.
After a crazy cold (36 F) and somewhat rainy night we woke up in Colorado. The storm had busted a snow cap on the mountains. So we did the obvious thing and ran outside in the cold with cameras a-blazing.
The hunt was then on for an unobstructed view of this overnight winterification. Oddly enough, despite being a block from a street named Grandview, so named as it's the highest point for few miles around, it can be hard to get a photogenic view what with all the trees and such. I've contemplated either making a giant periscope or putting a roof top balcony on the house but haven't done so...yet.
Though not the highest point around there is a middle school at the end of Howard with a playground allowing unobstructed views. We snuck into the yard through a gate with a 2 foot chain on it. (What's the point of locking a gate such that anything more than 2 feet wide can still get through? Are they just trying to keep out those unwilling to bend down?)
Here's where all our TV comes from.
Note how the snow layer is also the cloud layer. That probably makes sense meteorologically somehow.
Also a note about this picture. I noticed that D was taking pictures with me in the frame, so I ran out the way. She naturally snapped me in my sprinting grandeur for comedic effect. (Look for the orange sweatshirt. Sorry about the bad panorama stitching.)
Here's the obligatory self portrait.
Alas the snow hasn't lasted. By sunset it was mostly gone but it's also supposed to be wet and cold tonight so maybe there will be a re-winterification.
Note the palm trees and the snow juxtaposition.
In other storm related news on our street another tree fell over last night. (Over Xmas break the tree in front of the place in front of our place fell over. Pasadena muni workers were all over it and had it cleared out in a couple hours.) This one fell towards a house but miraculously didn't actually damage it. Note the downed power line which prevented D from coming home from work on Saturday night. The sidewalk was no match for the tree but the picket fence is surprisingly intact.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Episode 1: We're Finally Interesting
Hello Friends and Family,
A few weeks ago Steven asked me if I wanted to start a blog for us since both of his sibs have one but we decided that we weren't interesting enough. Most of our spare time is spent watching TV and working on various things around the house--nothing to write home about. We decided that we were better off saving our stories for when we actually saw you so that we would seem more fun and interesting than we actually are.
But as it turns out we are now interesting thanks to a recent purchase of flights to Japan!!! It was sort of a spur of the moment thing that we are going so soon. I have been wanting to go to Japan for years and years and made it a goal of mine to go this year since I am done paying off my student loans. I was planning on going in the early Fall. The day that I paid my loan off in full I started looking for flights and found an unbeatable price of $623 total round trip. The only catch is that you had to go in February or March...as in this month or next month.
We couldn't pass it up. We fly out on March 15th and return on March 29th. During that time we are planning to spend 3.5 days in Tokyo, 2.5 days with my good friend Jacob Rippens (who is also affectionately known as The Slice, pictured below) in his current residence in the mountains of Japan, 2 days in Kyoto, and 2 days in Hiroshima.
This is what I imagine our trip will be like:
A few weeks ago Steven asked me if I wanted to start a blog for us since both of his sibs have one but we decided that we weren't interesting enough. Most of our spare time is spent watching TV and working on various things around the house--nothing to write home about. We decided that we were better off saving our stories for when we actually saw you so that we would seem more fun and interesting than we actually are.
But as it turns out we are now interesting thanks to a recent purchase of flights to Japan!!! It was sort of a spur of the moment thing that we are going so soon. I have been wanting to go to Japan for years and years and made it a goal of mine to go this year since I am done paying off my student loans. I was planning on going in the early Fall. The day that I paid my loan off in full I started looking for flights and found an unbeatable price of $623 total round trip. The only catch is that you had to go in February or March...as in this month or next month.
We couldn't pass it up. We fly out on March 15th and return on March 29th. During that time we are planning to spend 3.5 days in Tokyo, 2.5 days with my good friend Jacob Rippens (who is also affectionately known as The Slice, pictured below) in his current residence in the mountains of Japan, 2 days in Kyoto, and 2 days in Hiroshima.
This is what I imagine our trip will be like:
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