Score 1, Knit 1

May 23, 2007 by

So for the past couple of days Brian has been in Florida. He had to go to Jacksonville for business. Frontier is going to start flying there and will of course have on-call maintenance. Brian used to live in Jacksonville so he is incredible excited to have Jacksonville as his city. He’ll be traveling there quite a bit. He’s on his way home right now and I’m excited to see him!

Since he’s been gone I have been doing “rochellie” things. Meaning, watching tv and doing crafts. The past two nights I have also been scoring the Rockies games. I *LOVE* the Rockies and enjoy watching baseball so much. Scoring the game is such a great way to watch a game because you track the game pitch by pitch. It makes watching the game really involved and exciting.

While watching the Rockies tonight the announcers advertised a special night at the Rockies called “Stitch ‘N Pitch,” where those who love needle crafts go out to the game and enjoy some baseball while they work on their crafts. WHAT!?! Could it be?!?! Two hobbies in one.

I wonder if I could knit, watch baseball, AND score a game all at once.

For those that like to multi-task. This is the ultimate! My problem as multi-tasker is that I am sooo good at it and I do it oh so frequently that just enjoying one thing at a time is so boring to me. I have to be doing stuff. Like now, just scoring and watching the game isn’t good enough. I’m writing in my blog. Another draw back is my inability to stay focused or on one topic.

Amanda once told me that women run at a higher energy level that allows for great multi-tasking. Interesting to think about.

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When It's Not My Money, I'm OK with the Price

May 1, 2007 by

So last night I spent $150 after work in the matter of an hour. Why is it that you can’t escape target for less than $50, and in most cases less than $100. I bought some cheap bath mats, two mothers day cards, a new swim suit, a can of corn, and some lunch meat. $90. Boo! Then I went to get gas. I have a Honda Civic. It cost me $50 to fill up. That’s never happened before and so it was a bit of a shock. I also got a car wash, so that pushed the price up to $57. Lame!

But home was nice once I got there. We grilled steaks and watched You, Me, and Dupree. We both enjoyed it. About half way through the movie, we moved it to the bedroom to watch from there. We both got in our pajamas and the cats joined us for the duration of the movie.

We’re trying to make plans for this weekend. It is our one year anniversary! At this point in time I want to go to Manitou Springs.

Oh! I also wanted to mention that my InDesign training got approved. $1600 later and I’ll have some professional training for once! It’s a four day course in Aurora. I’m pretty excited!

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Wheels Guy

Apr 30, 2007 by

Happy Monday! Not. We had such a wonderful weekend that it is so hard to take work seriously. The weather is beautiful and I wanted to be outside playing.

Yesterday we didn’t end up going to the Rockies game, like I had wanted to. Sure enough, this happened:

Tulowitzki turns unassisted triple play.

Apparently this has only happened 12 other times in MLB history. Stupid!

They also won in extra innings with a Matt Holliday two-run homer.

We had a pretty fun time though. My dad and sister came over and we went to lunch at the ATL-BC. We then went to Borders and I found a great Knitting magazine with some of the cutest patterns in it I have ever seen! I snatched that up! After Borders we went to the mall and just looked around at stuff. We only stayed until 4. We parted ways with my dad and sister and went to Target to get groceries.

Once we got home we were waiting for “wheels guy” to come pick up the wheels that Brian posted on Craig’s List. While waiting we played outside! He got out his remote control truck, and that was really fun. I put on my roller-blades at one point and even rode around on Brian’s bike.

“Wheels Guy” showed up finally and he was weird, but the wheels are gone. We decided to go get some dinner at the Armadillo. It was so delicious. We’re thinking this might replace our Old Chicago Sunday tradition because the service is great there.

We were going to watch “You, Me, and Dupree” but it got too late. I started knitting a guage piece for some baby booties that I want to give to a co-worker of mine who is having a baby.

Tonight we’re going to grill out and watch the movie. Should be fun!

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One Full Saturday

Apr 29, 2007 by

So yesterday was a great day of cropping! It started off with me driving on auto-pilot and getting on the highway to go to work instead of carrying on and going on Wadsworth. Stupid! I got there only ten minutes late, so it wasn’t too horrible.

I got a lot done too. I only do power layout so I laid out a lot of pages. From October through the blizzard, not bad. There was trip to San Francisco in there as well, so it all got done nicely.

It was a small group of eleven women, and we got to sit in a big circle and chat all day.

When I got home I found out that Brian had a jam packed day. First he put a ton of stuff from his garage on Craig’s List and got rid of some big stuff. He gave it away so people were eager. Then he went for another flying lesson which was good. He flew over Red Rocks and learned about mountain flying. Then he came home and took his bike downtown and did some riding around the Botanical Gardens. I was impressed!

So we decided to go to downtown and have dinner at the Celtic Tavern, which is one of our favorites. It was delicious! We didn’t stay too long because Brian was beat. So we left around 9:30 and came home. We didn’t do too much when we got back, and just went to bed really.

This morning we woke up before eight and have been doing chores all morning. My dad and sister are coming over any minute and we’re going to the Rockies game!

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Question: What Kind of Bear is Best?

Apr 28, 2007 by

So last night I got home first and then Brian came back from his first flying lesson. He had a great time and flew all over Denver metro, except near DIA for obvious reasons. He plans on going for another lesson today. He says he can’t take too many lessons too quickly because it costs quite a bit of money each trip out. With his bigger pay check I think it is nice that he is holding some money back from our collective account so that he can do this.

We ended up having a late dinner and went to Chicago Unos. Our waitress was good, but I’m pretty sure she was on speed or something. She was just moving so fast. I wanted to grab ahold of her and yell “CALM DOWN”. It was a bit nuts

We came home and watched The Office, which was truly hilarious. Of course my favorite part was Jim dressed up as Dwight.


Question: What Kind of Bear is Best? (Courtesy NBC)

Today I am going to a scrapbooking event called “Memoranza”. It’s in Arvada. A full day of cropping should be nice.

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