N blurted out today:
"the tomodo prius is a super car!"
(tomodo being his way of saying toyota.)
I'm sure he was envisioning flames coming out the back...
and speaking of SUPER (here's your segway sweetie)
"my smart and handy husband is a super guy!"
I neglected to mention just how my computer came back - it was the super powers of Smith, a new hard drive, some silver thermal compound and several hours. viola! I have bookmarks again! and 252 unread emails. sigh.
thanks again.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
5 Weird Things About Me
Amy tagged me for this one (and I'm sticking with 5), so here goes:
1) Wooden utensils (as well as popsicle sticks) sometimes give me the heeby jeebies.
2) I like stale popcorn better than fresh.
3) I think Finnish accents are sexy. And a bald, Finnish guy would just about be equivalent to Daniel Craig. (Are there any bald Finnish men?)
4) Gardenias smell like hot dogs to me.
5) I hold on to clothes for sentimental reasons. Like the shirt that Smith was wearing when I realized I was in love with him. I think I treasure it more than my wedding dress.
a shot of my quince bush in full bloom. now the blooms are gone (rained off) and it's back to being a scrubby shrub.
1) Wooden utensils (as well as popsicle sticks) sometimes give me the heeby jeebies.
2) I like stale popcorn better than fresh.
3) I think Finnish accents are sexy. And a bald, Finnish guy would just about be equivalent to Daniel Craig. (Are there any bald Finnish men?)
4) Gardenias smell like hot dogs to me.
5) I hold on to clothes for sentimental reasons. Like the shirt that Smith was wearing when I realized I was in love with him. I think I treasure it more than my wedding dress.
a shot of my quince bush in full bloom. now the blooms are gone (rained off) and it's back to being a scrubby shrub.
Googlism
[my linkage is no workee so go here: http://www.googlism.com/index.htm]
It's almost like my life story. I'm so busy and accomplished.
kristina is a punk and a half
kristina is presently in residential treatment
kristina is waking up
kristina is a hula dancer
kristina is concerned with the contamination of freshwater and deforestation
kristina is vacationing in turkey
kristina is working hard to prepare for her first event of the season
kristina is a very very strong person with a very very strong heart
kristina is scared to death
kristina is on the tail end of her morning nap
kristina is automatically designated as a wesbrook scholar
kristina is terrified
kristina is once again a devout woman
kristina is a licensed psychologist and doctor of medical science having presented a thesis at karolinska institutet
kristina is beautifully played by helen sjöholm
kristina is a skater who has great artistic ability
kristina is most definitely the best actor on the show
kristina is interested in gene therapy and regulation of gene activity
kristina is fluent in croatian
kristina is as comfortable managing corporate finances as she is guiding a large crew and tons of equipment
kristina is one of those people we love to stereotype when it comes to public workers
kristina is an english trained riding instructor from the hamptons
kristina is a truly gifted psychic advisor and visionary
kristina is currently a second semester master's student at isu
kristina is a very warm friendly professional cultured london business lady
kristina is focusing her energies on calligraphic letter forms on various paper media
kristina is a gorgeous latin lady
kristina is a licensed social worker
kristina is already well known and respected throughout the online real estate industry community
kristina is the boss
kristina is said to have been a forcefull and energetic woman
kristina is known for her big heart and special ability to relate to patients
kristina is an archaeologist from the african desert
kristina is found dead
kristina is happily ensconced in a public sector career
kristina is a member of september eleventh families for peaceful tomorrows
kristina is now 3 and attends special education early childhood and loves it
kristina is a little shy
kristina is a member of the tennis team as well as the swimming team
kristina is playing basketball this season at menaul boarding school in menaul
kristina is an "a" student
kristina is doing a great job as a new mother
kristina is using viscose in her collection
kristina is the hardanger jakt that has sailed more miles than any of the other jakts built in norway
It's almost like my life story. I'm so busy and accomplished.
kristina is a punk and a half
kristina is presently in residential treatment
kristina is waking up
kristina is a hula dancer
kristina is concerned with the contamination of freshwater and deforestation
kristina is vacationing in turkey
kristina is working hard to prepare for her first event of the season
kristina is a very very strong person with a very very strong heart
kristina is scared to death
kristina is on the tail end of her morning nap
kristina is automatically designated as a wesbrook scholar
kristina is terrified
kristina is once again a devout woman
kristina is a licensed psychologist and doctor of medical science having presented a thesis at karolinska institutet
kristina is beautifully played by helen sjöholm
kristina is a skater who has great artistic ability
kristina is most definitely the best actor on the show
kristina is interested in gene therapy and regulation of gene activity
kristina is fluent in croatian
kristina is as comfortable managing corporate finances as she is guiding a large crew and tons of equipment
kristina is one of those people we love to stereotype when it comes to public workers
kristina is an english trained riding instructor from the hamptons
kristina is a truly gifted psychic advisor and visionary
kristina is currently a second semester master's student at isu
kristina is a very warm friendly professional cultured london business lady
kristina is focusing her energies on calligraphic letter forms on various paper media
kristina is a gorgeous latin lady
kristina is a licensed social worker
kristina is already well known and respected throughout the online real estate industry community
kristina is the boss
kristina is said to have been a forcefull and energetic woman
kristina is known for her big heart and special ability to relate to patients
kristina is an archaeologist from the african desert
kristina is found dead
kristina is happily ensconced in a public sector career
kristina is a member of september eleventh families for peaceful tomorrows
kristina is now 3 and attends special education early childhood and loves it
kristina is a little shy
kristina is a member of the tennis team as well as the swimming team
kristina is playing basketball this season at menaul boarding school in menaul
kristina is an "a" student
kristina is doing a great job as a new mother
kristina is using viscose in her collection
kristina is the hardanger jakt that has sailed more miles than any of the other jakts built in norway
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Crazy Talk
Hello all! Spring Break is over and when the computer that died is somehow replaced I will be posting pics of our first camping trip with the boys. Highlights: Noah likes to talk about how the park ranger had to ask our neighboring campers to leave the park because they were breaking too many rules. Noah also did not like the "crunchy" marshmallows.
In other news, my mom is here visiting for a couple days this week to help out while Smith is on a business trip. So I'm off at Target (solo! I'm actually getting to b r o w s e !) when Sinda calls.
Sinda: Hey there so, um, who is at your house?
Me: My mom. Did you get to talk to her?
Sinda: Yes. (pause.) I thought it was you though and your mom thought I was you. It was a bad connection and by the time I realized it wasn't you I was too far into the converstation to politely announce that I wasn't Kris. It was pretty confusing.
Me: So did she tell you anything that I need to know?
Sinda: Yeah. Your dad's not gonna go to jail.
hmmm....
In other news, my mom is here visiting for a couple days this week to help out while Smith is on a business trip. So I'm off at Target (solo! I'm actually getting to b r o w s e !) when Sinda calls.
Sinda: Hey there so, um, who is at your house?
Me: My mom. Did you get to talk to her?
Sinda: Yes. (pause.) I thought it was you though and your mom thought I was you. It was a bad connection and by the time I realized it wasn't you I was too far into the converstation to politely announce that I wasn't Kris. It was pretty confusing.
Me: So did she tell you anything that I need to know?
Sinda: Yeah. Your dad's not gonna go to jail.
hmmm....
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Why I'm Not a Mountain Climber
Last night, I caught the last half of Touching the Void on PBS. Smith was watching it and was hiding under the covers as I came in. I got sucked in immediately and watched the rest of the story with my mouth hanging wide open.
Note: this post is a complete **SPOILER**
The part where I came in with Smith hiding under the covers was when Joe broke his leg. Simon and Joe were climbing a mountain together in Peru. This was day 4. They were out of food, out of water and out of fuel. The break, was a bad one. cringing bad. hiding under the covers bad. Simon and Joe had to try and descend - despite the passing-out pain.
They rigged up a 300 foot line between them. Joe would go down first and Simon would hold steady. At the end of the rope, Joe would get settled and tug on the rope and then Simon would descend. Slow going. Did I mention the blizzard??? Then Joe hits an icy patch and slides slides slides off an ice cliff. He's dangling in mid-air, unable to yell back up to Simon to tell him what happened. He hangs there for an hour? 2 hours? trying desperately with frozen fingers and a broken leg to climb back up the rope. The sight below him is a crevasse.
At the top, Simon is losing his footing and slipping. After much anguish (and 2 hours of holding Joe) he cuts the rope. He assumes the worst for Joe and digs a snow cave for the night against the blizzard.
Joe falls into the crevasse.
Somehow his fall manages to stop at a slightly level spot near the top of the ice cave. He spends the night in scary, pain-ridden darkness, expecting to die. By morning light, he pulls on the rope, thinking that Simon is still attached and maybe he can pull him out, if he is still alive. He pulls in the end of the cut rope and cries.
Day 5: Simon awakes and descends the ice cliff, sees the crevasse. He assumes Joe is dead, no way he could have survived a fall into that crevasse. He begins a slow descent down the glacier, weary, dehydrated and assuming he will die too. A day later he makes the base camp where a friend is waiting - and can't believe the horrible state that Simon is in.
Meanwhile, up in the crevasse. Joe decides, well, since I'm already dead, I might as well see what's at the bottom of the crevasse. He goes down the 300 meter rope and if he hits bottom, great, if he gets to the end of the rope with no bottom in sight, he decides he'll just let go.
He hits bottom. He sees a small opening of light across the way. Crawls to it and crawls out onto the side of the mountain. yeah! relief!
And then he has to descend with his broken leg by himself. Day 6. Day 7 he makes it to the gigantic boulders at the base of the glacier. He rigs his sleeping pad around his leg to ease some of the inevitable falls he'll take. He is delirious. He crawls, he hops and he passes out. A stupid pop song will not get out of his head. He starts to doubt that anyone will be there at the camp. At some point in the night of day 8, he is awoken by a sharp smell - brought to by the incredible realization that he has been crawling through the latrine of the base camp. He starts to yell Simon's name.
Simon wakes up. And finds him, 4 days after leaving him for dead.
I could not help but ask at which point in the ordeal I would have just given up. It was all just too much. Joe was very candid in his retelling of his night in the crevasse, things that went through his mind at each stage. He is one amazing human being! If you haven't seen this movie or read the book, it has to be worth it, even knowing how it ends. It was just incredible.
Note: this post is a complete **SPOILER**
The part where I came in with Smith hiding under the covers was when Joe broke his leg. Simon and Joe were climbing a mountain together in Peru. This was day 4. They were out of food, out of water and out of fuel. The break, was a bad one. cringing bad. hiding under the covers bad. Simon and Joe had to try and descend - despite the passing-out pain.
They rigged up a 300 foot line between them. Joe would go down first and Simon would hold steady. At the end of the rope, Joe would get settled and tug on the rope and then Simon would descend. Slow going. Did I mention the blizzard??? Then Joe hits an icy patch and slides slides slides off an ice cliff. He's dangling in mid-air, unable to yell back up to Simon to tell him what happened. He hangs there for an hour? 2 hours? trying desperately with frozen fingers and a broken leg to climb back up the rope. The sight below him is a crevasse.
At the top, Simon is losing his footing and slipping. After much anguish (and 2 hours of holding Joe) he cuts the rope. He assumes the worst for Joe and digs a snow cave for the night against the blizzard.
Joe falls into the crevasse.
Somehow his fall manages to stop at a slightly level spot near the top of the ice cave. He spends the night in scary, pain-ridden darkness, expecting to die. By morning light, he pulls on the rope, thinking that Simon is still attached and maybe he can pull him out, if he is still alive. He pulls in the end of the cut rope and cries.
Day 5: Simon awakes and descends the ice cliff, sees the crevasse. He assumes Joe is dead, no way he could have survived a fall into that crevasse. He begins a slow descent down the glacier, weary, dehydrated and assuming he will die too. A day later he makes the base camp where a friend is waiting - and can't believe the horrible state that Simon is in.
Meanwhile, up in the crevasse. Joe decides, well, since I'm already dead, I might as well see what's at the bottom of the crevasse. He goes down the 300 meter rope and if he hits bottom, great, if he gets to the end of the rope with no bottom in sight, he decides he'll just let go.
He hits bottom. He sees a small opening of light across the way. Crawls to it and crawls out onto the side of the mountain. yeah! relief!
And then he has to descend with his broken leg by himself. Day 6. Day 7 he makes it to the gigantic boulders at the base of the glacier. He rigs his sleeping pad around his leg to ease some of the inevitable falls he'll take. He is delirious. He crawls, he hops and he passes out. A stupid pop song will not get out of his head. He starts to doubt that anyone will be there at the camp. At some point in the night of day 8, he is awoken by a sharp smell - brought to by the incredible realization that he has been crawling through the latrine of the base camp. He starts to yell Simon's name.
Simon wakes up. And finds him, 4 days after leaving him for dead.
I could not help but ask at which point in the ordeal I would have just given up. It was all just too much. Joe was very candid in his retelling of his night in the crevasse, things that went through his mind at each stage. He is one amazing human being! If you haven't seen this movie or read the book, it has to be worth it, even knowing how it ends. It was just incredible.
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