Happy Birthday to me!!

Yesterday was my birthday!!! yes I am one step closer to 30!

I dont have to much to report about my birthday it was a pretty mellow day.

But today I went out and bought myself a present. I figure that since I am a homeowner it is time for me to have upgrade to a nicer mattress... I currently only own a twin mattress and a 30yr old queen bed that was handed down to me from my parents...well I think all of my siblings and I have used it at one point in time. Anyway I went and made the big purchase today... I have been looking for a while and picking out a new mattress is hard...there are to many to chose from... but anyway I picked one out and now I cant wait for it to be delivered next week.

I got so mad yesterday. I called to have cable and inernet hooked up and when I called last week to get some price info they said they could hook it up in 2-3 days and well yesterday when I called they said the first day they could hook it up was dec 10 2weeks away!!!@ grrrrrr so now I wont have the internet until then it is just stupid

hmm thats all I got

Brr its cold

Well I am here in MN and it is definitely colder here than in my mountians of CA.

The drive home went well. I had nice weather the whole way....well a little bit of rain but no snow storms.

I am glad to be back at my house....although all I can think about is what I want to do to it. I have so many little and big things to do... my first line of buisness it to get cable and internet hooked up. yes that is why there is a lack of posts from me ..no way to post them.

well here are a few pictures from my stop in Arches National park on the way back home. Enjoy

Richfield Utah

Thats were I made it to yesterday.....Not a very big town, but a place to stay. Good news is today is going to be a short driving day. I found out that my friend Elaine from tech is going to be in moab utah, which is right along my way. So i am going to stop and see her. I havenever been to moab and i dont know why I haven't. There are 2 national parks there so I figure why not stop for the day.

I have realized that my statelite radio saves me. I dont know how I drove across the country before I bought it.....it is great. so much to listen to and it never goes away.

well just wanted to let everyone know where I am.

Only 1 more day!!!

It took a little work on my part but, I convinced my bosses to let me be done on Friday. So yes tommorow is my last day of work.

So on Sat morning I will be headed across the country. To all of you who live along the way I am sad to say this but unfortunately this year I dont have time to make any stops or visit anybody, it is pretty much going to be a get in the car and drive type of road trip. I want to make it home in time for thanksgiving and to renew my drivers liscence before it expires.


needless to say my car is pretty much packed up and ready to go. My next blog will be from who knows where.

in case you haven't figured it out

I am pretty sure that I am crazy!!!

Not that it is a bad thing. The reason I say this is because I ran a half marathon yesterday without training for it at all. Ok I guess I shouldn't say not training at all I guess you could consider work as training...although I couldn't tell you the last time we did a long run...or a hard run for that matter...and the last couple of fires we were on we didn't do a lot of hiking.

The race yesterday went pretty well. I finished in 1hr 58minutes....which was 4 minutes faster than what I did last year. I am definitely sore today. I thought I was going to die around mile 9 of the race... I was doing good till then but at the point I felt like my one calf muscle was going to explode so I slowed down a little at the point. 2 other guys that work on my crew ran it as well as a couple of other people from the park. I thought we were going to have torun in the rain but it stoppped raining right before the race and didn't start again til like an hour after we finished.

All in all the race went well, although it makes me wonder how well I could do if a actually trained for these things.....

Oh yeah the best part was that when you finished you got an ice cream sunday...who doesn't love ice cream!!!!!