Sirius XM Merger approved
FCC finally approved the Siriux and XM merger! Didn’t do much for the stock yet… darn. I have quite a few shares.
How old are your tires?
This was a surprising discovery to me…
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897
Leave a comment! I want to know how old your tires are!
My Mini Cooper has tires from 2006, Josh’s truck’s tires are from 2005.
Versatile skirt
Ever buy something and it seems it’s made for you? That was the case with this denim pencil skirt I picked up at Old Navy this weekend. I was looking for more work clothing and came across this awesome skirt that fit just right and can go casual for weekends or a bit more business like for work:
Wakeboarding weekend!
We decided to go with Steve and Miggie to the lake this weekend with them on their boat. It was way fun. There were 4 of us, just enough to fit in the boat and wakeboard. I brought the wakeboard and we found a calm area on the lake where another kid was learning to wakeboard and Josh yelled to me that I have pressure now I need to get up the first time! It was my first time out this summer. I surprised myself and totally got up the first time and stayed up! I guess I underestimated myself. It’s much like riding bike.. you know how to get up and you just do it. Staying up can get complicated with waves, cross waves, wake and the boat turning. That’s my challenge at this point. But I’m totally proud of myself and have way more confidence now for next time.
Unfortunately when we were riding out to find calm waters, Steve’s boat’s bimini shade (I think it’s called) cracked off the track and whacked me in my boney shoulder. It was one of those things where you like stub your toe on something or bang your knee on something really hard.. there’s an instance of no feeling then the pounding pain comes… just like that. I wasn’t gonna wakeboard after that but I iced my shoulder and like Steve said “be a man!” and I went out and did it anyway for a few times. There’s a bump on my left soulder now and it’s surprisingly only red no black and blue mark… yet anyway.
It was a really nice relaxing trip aside from that. I love that. Just sitting and chatting with friends at the lake can be just as much fun without the wakeboarding, etc. The sound of the water is so calming. It was really cool because there were not many boats on the water and we slept in an extra hour leaving the house at 6am instead of 5am and we still got in before the jetski limit.
The best part was probably that we shared our cove area with some really awesome people. They had 4 dogs. Two golden retrievers - Pepper and Mocha, a shnauzer - Thistle and a little black dog that I forget his name. Mocha reminded me of Kelsey back home. They were so much fun running into the water like crazy as soon as they got a little bit dry they were back in the water and they loved their boat too.
Made Josh and I really ponder this whole boat thing… I would prefer a boat to the seados. But I know Josh loves the seados and won’t get rid of them for a boat.. he’d just add a boat to his collection of toys. We decided if we can ever find storage for free on our own property or for much cheaper than we pay now… that storage fee is equivalent to a boat payment.
She and Him
Totally didn’t realize Zooey Deschanel was in the band ‘She and Him’… until today when I saw the music video. Wow… weird when you picture someone else completely singing for this band and come to realize it’s someone as familiar as that. (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Elf, etc.)
Body Worlds 3!
I went to Body Worlds 3 today with Tarrah. It was soooo cool! We learned so many new things. Tarrah thought she’d be grossed out, but surprised she wasn’t. Few random facts we didn’t know:
- Capillaries are thinner than a strand of hair, it takes 20 capillaries to equal the thickness of hair!
- Your right lung is slightly larger than your left lung.
- Lance Armstrong is super human, his heart is 30% larger than the average human heart… so he can get oxygenated blood to his legs and other muscles faster and for longer periods of time than most!
- There’s a disease called Smoker’s leg, that is common in smokers. Their capillaries in the peripheral arteries will clot causing the leg to turn grey/black… it can be treated but also results in amputation commonly. ICK!
- A baby embryo at 4 weeks old looks a lot like a worm.
- The spleen is way smaller than you think… but can balloon up to like 6x it’s size if you have leukemia.
- The funny bone is actually a nerve very close to the surface of the skin.
- The human heart will continue to beat, even when out of the body and cut into pieces. An electric impulse causes it to beat. (the biggest challenge in artificial hearts - an energy source to keep it beating)
The exhibit totally made me want to apologize to my body and try to treat it better. I feel like I’ve been torturing it with not enough excercise. I’ll never smoke in my life though.. wow… you see photos and videos of black lungs of smokers but nothing compares to seeing real human lungs of a smoker… photos and videos don’t do it justice. It was appalling it looked like it could not be alive in your body in that state. The human body is so risilient! I’m shocked at some of the conditions of the organs we saw. There were several aortas shown of people with normal to high cholesterol and it was so disgusting what high cholesterol does to your aorta and that’s the largest artery! It turned into a lumpy spongy fat curly mess instead of a clean smooth artery for blood to flow through. I can’t imagine what the smaller arteries must look like!
I recommend it to anyone. It’s totally worth seeing. At the end of the exhibit they added an ostrich and girafe, which were also very cool. It was neat to see how feathers grow out of a bird.
I’ll never take my body for granted again…
Jose Gonzalez
I can’t stop singing this song… and whistling it… and humming it…
Death cab… er mini for Hillary
On Sunday, Josh decided to take me on a scenic ride. We started on Sand Canyon road, it connects Santa Clarita to Angeles National Forest. Well Josh found this road on google maps satellite view that is a “shortcut” to the Angeles Highway. He’s been looking for it everytime he drives Sand Canyon. Well he found it when we went with me and started up the road.
The road should seriously be closed. It was sooo old that you couldn’t even see the yellow lines on the road at all. It was a grey crumbly mess. Not to mention the road was just wide enough for my mini to fit on it. Any other vehicle would have been scratched by the overrun bushes on each side. There’s no way 2 vehicles could pass each other on most stretches of it. Then we started to see hillside coming down from the mountain side eroding… literally piles of rocks in the road we had to drive slowly over. Some banging the bottom of my car. Then the road just started falling apart.. pot holes first then just pavement gone and 4″ drops into dirt to get back to pavement. Not to mention this road kept going higher and higher with no guard rails and steep drop offs like mile high drop offs. Usually you can see the mountains in the distance.. yea we were in the mountains and there weren’t many mountains taller than the one we were on. We were above the smog and everything it was 20 degrees cooler! I was so terrified the entire time. It was like the going up the big first hill of a roller coaster but for like 12 miles straight. Plus there was no sign of human life. So I was sure the road was just going to give and mini + us would go tumbling down the side of the mountain stranded for days with no one finding us… nursing our wounds and surviving on wheat thins, cheddar bunnies and gatorade. Ugh… it flashed before me eyes!
Well we finally got to the top, a point where we could go no further because my mini couldn’t make it when the pavement stopped and we got out of the car. It seems to go to a cell tower or electricity tower or something… not sure what it was for because there weren’t homes or anything for miles. I’m sure if anyone has to work on it, they take a helicopter there. There were a ton of bullet casing and stuff at the top of the hill and the signs on the way up were all shot up with bullet holes. Obviously horror movie like activity goes on along that road!
Anyway we went back down for the 12 miles and miraculous I’m here to tell about it.
Photos here… though they don’t do it much justice
Good bye cheez-its, hello bunnies!
These little bunnies are my new favorite snack! I used to be a fan of low sodium cheez-its (the regular ones were a bit too salty for me). But I recently heard someone raving about Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies. They were right! They’re delicious. Way better than cheez-its. AND on top of the taste… they’re 100% organic, no trans fat and no preservatives or additives. Maybe that’s why they taste better 
Front yard after a little fix’in
My project for this weekend was the front yard. I’ve been disappointed with the single lonely flower-less plant on the front porch, our faded patio set and the lack of flowers in our garden with small bushes that never grow any larger! I wish I had before photos… but I don’t, just afters:
I bought a few flowers and a nice swively tiered planter. I found some summery fabric at the fabric store and sewed some pillows for the front porch. Almost forgot about my succulent on the table there… it’s been there for a little over a month now and doing well. About the only thing that survives in that spot!
In front of the bushes I planted Pacificas. I saw a few neighbors have them and they really take off, so I think/hope they will do well in our yard . Walmart had solar lanterns on sale, so we picked up 8 of those to put along the garden and up the driveway. I’ll take some night photos of it later.
