Thursday, May 26, 2011
Long Time Coming: A Semester in Retrospective
I have a personal pet peeve to admit. I cannot stand it when people begin blog posts with apologies about the length between the most recent past posting and their present writing. So, even though it has been.. /checks blog history... January 10 (yeesh) I am not terribly apologetic. Most of my time this spring has been taken up with finishing my grad program and taking not-very-fun tests, with little worth taking pictures of let alone blogging about.
And since my sister-in-law and I just beat EVERY LEVEL on Super Mario Wii, I am feeling accomplished enough to blog.
So what the heck happened? Lets see... in January I began my final semester of school, we had some family out for a couple days (see January post, I suppose) and I watched a lot of disappointing MSU basketball games. Oh! And we built a snow-fort with the neighbors!
February was much more of the same: working my internship, writing papers, screaming at collegiate athletes on my television. Oh! I think at one point I got a free Chik-fil-A breakfast. Pretty sweet. February also was home to the only skiing weekend of the season as I attended and toasted to my friend Josh's upcoming nuptials.
In March, believe it or not, I actually took some pictures! I visited my pops down in Florida for a handful of days and for once did not get myself sunburnt.
You can tell fairly easily which one of us lives there.
We spent a lot of time on the water, drinking beer out of an iced cooler and also visiting with some other family that lives on the island. Eventually my brothers showed up before I had to take off, and we got our annual joint picture:
I am very much slacking off in the hair department, obviously.
We had some other family visitation happen in March, when my Mom and Liz's dad both came out for weekends in the Fort. (Not together, or even on the same weekend. What a misleading sentence). Looking through the camera, though, not a single piece of pictorial evidence was taken, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
March ALSO (man, this was a busy month, now that I think about it..) was the birth-month for a new blogging project that Liz and I have taken on with some friends: The Digestible Diaries. We have embraced our reality as a diet-restricted household, and found some like minded souls to create some output and (hopefully) community in Northern Colorado and the internet. Personally, it was the most tech-savvy project that I had ever undertaken, and am really happy with how it turned out.
April brought the conclusion of the NCAA March Madness tournament, and also our annual bracket challenge. Our good friend Dustin won it all this year, and was sent a lovely Saison from Funkwerks for his trouble. (Just to prove that I am not a delinquent tournament challenge director.) Liz also turned the ripe old age of 29, and to celebrate we spent a weekend in Denver doing the city up right.
We visited the Denver Art Museum (first Saturday of the month is free!) and really enjoyed trying to feel smart enough to ingest all of the pieces. We then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening drinking and eating, having dinner up in the Lower Highlands on the patio at the very tasty Root Down and enjoying their city views.
We stayed at the Magnolia Hotel for the night, which was incredibly nice and stylish. On Sunday morning Liz let me win at a few games of backgammon as a reverse birthday gift, which I heartily appreciated.
And just for fun, here is a picture of my cat helping me do homework:
Moving along to May, well, it was mostly more of the same schedule: doug school, internship, Liz work. UNTIL: I graduated from school for the (probably?) last time and had mom out to celebrate with us.
It was a fantastic weekend with friends and family and a pony keg from Odells. (which incidentally, is being returned this afternoon).
We also got to join Kate, Mark and Gabe on their first ever climbing afternoon out at Duncan's Ridge on the reservoir. We were all very proud of the way that Gabe handled the 5.7 crack, considering he is only 6 months old. (patently false. though he did feed himself like a champ)
This brings us up the present, where schedules are shifting once more, but the promise of good summer fun is very very close. Jo has moved back up to the Fort from her dorm room at CCU for the summer, and we're kicking it all off with a camping and climbing trip at the Cheesehead Ranch in Canon City for the Memorial Day weekend. Liz literally just got home from her last day of work for the 2010-11 school year, and in June I will begin working full time with a local non-profit that works with kids and families who are in need of support and usually involved in the foster-care system.
The summer is upon us, and the rains have almost stopped! Lets hope for more blogging in the future, if only for the attention span of the family members who read this rag.
And since my sister-in-law and I just beat EVERY LEVEL on Super Mario Wii, I am feeling accomplished enough to blog.
So what the heck happened? Lets see... in January I began my final semester of school, we had some family out for a couple days (see January post, I suppose) and I watched a lot of disappointing MSU basketball games. Oh! And we built a snow-fort with the neighbors!
February was much more of the same: working my internship, writing papers, screaming at collegiate athletes on my television. Oh! I think at one point I got a free Chik-fil-A breakfast. Pretty sweet. February also was home to the only skiing weekend of the season as I attended and toasted to my friend Josh's upcoming nuptials.
In March, believe it or not, I actually took some pictures! I visited my pops down in Florida for a handful of days and for once did not get myself sunburnt.
You can tell fairly easily which one of us lives there.
We spent a lot of time on the water, drinking beer out of an iced cooler and also visiting with some other family that lives on the island. Eventually my brothers showed up before I had to take off, and we got our annual joint picture:
I am very much slacking off in the hair department, obviously.
We had some other family visitation happen in March, when my Mom and Liz's dad both came out for weekends in the Fort. (Not together, or even on the same weekend. What a misleading sentence). Looking through the camera, though, not a single piece of pictorial evidence was taken, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
March ALSO (man, this was a busy month, now that I think about it..) was the birth-month for a new blogging project that Liz and I have taken on with some friends: The Digestible Diaries. We have embraced our reality as a diet-restricted household, and found some like minded souls to create some output and (hopefully) community in Northern Colorado and the internet. Personally, it was the most tech-savvy project that I had ever undertaken, and am really happy with how it turned out.
April brought the conclusion of the NCAA March Madness tournament, and also our annual bracket challenge. Our good friend Dustin won it all this year, and was sent a lovely Saison from Funkwerks for his trouble. (Just to prove that I am not a delinquent tournament challenge director.) Liz also turned the ripe old age of 29, and to celebrate we spent a weekend in Denver doing the city up right.
We visited the Denver Art Museum (first Saturday of the month is free!) and really enjoyed trying to feel smart enough to ingest all of the pieces. We then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening drinking and eating, having dinner up in the Lower Highlands on the patio at the very tasty Root Down and enjoying their city views.
We stayed at the Magnolia Hotel for the night, which was incredibly nice and stylish. On Sunday morning Liz let me win at a few games of backgammon as a reverse birthday gift, which I heartily appreciated.
And just for fun, here is a picture of my cat helping me do homework:
Moving along to May, well, it was mostly more of the same schedule: doug school, internship, Liz work. UNTIL: I graduated from school for the (probably?) last time and had mom out to celebrate with us.
It was a fantastic weekend with friends and family and a pony keg from Odells. (which incidentally, is being returned this afternoon).
We also got to join Kate, Mark and Gabe on their first ever climbing afternoon out at Duncan's Ridge on the reservoir. We were all very proud of the way that Gabe handled the 5.7 crack, considering he is only 6 months old. (patently false. though he did feed himself like a champ)
This brings us up the present, where schedules are shifting once more, but the promise of good summer fun is very very close. Jo has moved back up to the Fort from her dorm room at CCU for the summer, and we're kicking it all off with a camping and climbing trip at the Cheesehead Ranch in Canon City for the Memorial Day weekend. Liz literally just got home from her last day of work for the 2010-11 school year, and in June I will begin working full time with a local non-profit that works with kids and families who are in need of support and usually involved in the foster-care system.
The summer is upon us, and the rains have almost stopped! Lets hope for more blogging in the future, if only for the attention span of the family members who read this rag.
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3 comments:
i might not be family, but i read this blog! congratulations on the graduating & the job (doug) and making it to the summer (liz)! we are eager to see you both soon.
sweet cufflinks btw.
Thanks linds! The cuffs are actually originally my Grandfather's (my namesake, incidentally), who also worked as a Counselor and a Therapist for most of his life. I try to break them out for important events.
Yep - nice to know what you've been up to. Props for getting through grad school, and may summer shower you with warm days in engaging places!
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