Since our last climbing trip, I have been very impatient to get outdoors again. At the end of February we'll be heading down to Smith Rock for a weekend outing with a few friends. The problem is the weather has been very cold. Some mornings have been in the low teens, and the day doesn't warm up until after noon. Hopefully by the last weekend of the month it will have warmed up enough to climb all day. I think after Joshua Tree, I'll be able to handle the cold nights. This time I have my ultra warm jacket, and I'll make sure Sara has our third sleeping bag to double up in case she gets cold at night.
I think this year, we are going to be weekend warriors. It won't be every weekend, but I think any weekend that isn't wet, we are going to be someplace that warm and has stone to climb on.
This spring and summer I'm going to spend as much time cleaning up my yard too. It has been a number of years since we have taken care of our yard. We've done a few improvements -- new windows, doors, but now I'd like to make a garden and work on some of my projects.
So not much has been going on. Sara and I have basically been lazy. We did have a nice visit with my Dad last weekend. Hana got to swim and play on the beach and took several days to recover. Her tail didn't have a full wag until Tuesday.
Okay, that is enough of my random ramblings.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Five Things Meme
So my friend Cam hit up Sara for the meme. This then led Sara to ping me. So here you go:
Five Things you may not know about me.
1. I believe in Ghosts. Or Guardians, Angels, whatever you want to call them/it. Seems kind of strange, but it started when I was ten years old after my uncle died from cancer. Sometime after I had a dream, and my uncle told me something. I don't remember what he told me, but I do remember waking up thinking, "What did he says? I need to write it down." I fell back to sleep and couldn't remember the details in the morning. So that was my first "encounter." A few years later I was over at a friends house, and we'd been playing all day. In the afternoon we stopped to make lunch and relax on the couch. While sitting on the couch we heard a huge crash in my friends bedroom. When we walked back to the bedroom we couldn't find anything at all that could have crashed to make that sound (not even in the closet.) As we walked back to the couch we saw someone run out the door. The part that freaked us out was my friends younger brother was outside on the side walk playing with some action figures but he swore that no one had come out the front door. The next time anything like this happened was a few years ago. My martial arts instructor past away from a heart attack. I woke up after a dream where Sa Bum Nim Zoppi had a conversation with me. This time I had disturbed Sara and she made me get up and write down what I could remember of the dream.
2. I am highly susceptible to visual information. Television, or Movies often come back to haunt my dreams. When I was 19 years old I had a medical condition and the doctors gave me Demerol. Demerol is very similar to Morphine and helped me with the pain I was in. Up until that point I never remembered my dreams. I knew I had them, but I didn't remember them, hence not writing down my first dream of my uncle. After the Demerol I started to remember dreams, particularly scary dreams. I once woke Sara up after watching X-Files screaming "Scully, Scully, Help Me!" And not too long ago I put a nice bruise on Sara's leg as I kicked her in my sleep after watching Battle Star Galactica.
3. I was a senior in high school before I ever read a book cover-to-cover (on my own without the help of others.) The book was "Nigger" by Dick Gregory. Up until then I was never be able to finish a book in the time allotted. In fact, I had tried to read All Quiet on the Western Front three different times in the eight, ninth, and tenth grades. I have not yet gone back and re-read it. I am still a very slow reader, but I do enjoy reading very much.
4. I hate swimming pools. As a youth I was a very good swimmer. When I was 14 I was nationally ranked in the top ten in my age group. Now, I don't like to swim in a pool. If I'm going to swim, it is going to be in warm tropical water with a snorkel and fins.
5. I have never tried or used illegal drugs. Never. Not once.
Now I am suppose to ping five more people, but I don't know if I have five friends...David, Chad, Scott, Alex, Kari
Five Things you may not know about me.
1. I believe in Ghosts. Or Guardians, Angels, whatever you want to call them/it. Seems kind of strange, but it started when I was ten years old after my uncle died from cancer. Sometime after I had a dream, and my uncle told me something. I don't remember what he told me, but I do remember waking up thinking, "What did he says? I need to write it down." I fell back to sleep and couldn't remember the details in the morning. So that was my first "encounter." A few years later I was over at a friends house, and we'd been playing all day. In the afternoon we stopped to make lunch and relax on the couch. While sitting on the couch we heard a huge crash in my friends bedroom. When we walked back to the bedroom we couldn't find anything at all that could have crashed to make that sound (not even in the closet.) As we walked back to the couch we saw someone run out the door. The part that freaked us out was my friends younger brother was outside on the side walk playing with some action figures but he swore that no one had come out the front door. The next time anything like this happened was a few years ago. My martial arts instructor past away from a heart attack. I woke up after a dream where Sa Bum Nim Zoppi had a conversation with me. This time I had disturbed Sara and she made me get up and write down what I could remember of the dream.
2. I am highly susceptible to visual information. Television, or Movies often come back to haunt my dreams. When I was 19 years old I had a medical condition and the doctors gave me Demerol. Demerol is very similar to Morphine and helped me with the pain I was in. Up until that point I never remembered my dreams. I knew I had them, but I didn't remember them, hence not writing down my first dream of my uncle. After the Demerol I started to remember dreams, particularly scary dreams. I once woke Sara up after watching X-Files screaming "Scully, Scully, Help Me!" And not too long ago I put a nice bruise on Sara's leg as I kicked her in my sleep after watching Battle Star Galactica.
3. I was a senior in high school before I ever read a book cover-to-cover (on my own without the help of others.) The book was "Nigger" by Dick Gregory. Up until then I was never be able to finish a book in the time allotted. In fact, I had tried to read All Quiet on the Western Front three different times in the eight, ninth, and tenth grades. I have not yet gone back and re-read it. I am still a very slow reader, but I do enjoy reading very much.
4. I hate swimming pools. As a youth I was a very good swimmer. When I was 14 I was nationally ranked in the top ten in my age group. Now, I don't like to swim in a pool. If I'm going to swim, it is going to be in warm tropical water with a snorkel and fins.
5. I have never tried or used illegal drugs. Never. Not once.
Now I am suppose to ping five more people, but I don't know if I have five friends...David, Chad, Scott, Alex, Kari
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