Halloween Tip #4

Clothes can make all the difference:

Justine and I love the 80s/90s!

Trying to fit his whole self in his sweatpants to be sweatpants man!!! mwuaaaaah!!!

Halloween Tip #3

Try impersonating an animal....

A chipmunk!

or maybe...

a wildcat!!

Halloween Tip #2

Don't have an appropriate hat???  Not to worry....consider a prop....here are just a few examples of things you might inspire you:

A Book.....

A musical instrument....

Or even 2 trash cans and er...a croquet mallet??...

Sandy's Halloween Tip #1

Halloween tip #1: Try putting something silly on your head.

Try it! It could be something as simple as a hat and a goofy face:

yea...and remember where these two geniuses work!

Think a regular hat is to "ordinary"? ...there are things you can do to just look ridiculous!

now that's the spirit!

Need a need a Halloween Boo-st?

I have just realized that Halloween is just over a week away and that I have not yet done my part to inspire everyone to get in the 'spirit'!  Everyday until Halloween I will be posting pictures of inspiration to help get you in the halloween mood....some of them will be just silly....

Oh that silly Andrew is wearing my sunglasses!  

But I have to warn you....you may want to screen the pictures before allowing small children to view this blog over the next week....some of the pictures will be scary.....they will shock and disturb you on multiple levels and in ways you cannot prepare for and that will leave you forever changed.......

AHHHHHHHHHH!

"Putting the Mock in Democracy"

I went to "Capitol Steps" tonight at McCain Auditorium with a friend and some people from our office.  Capitol Steps is political satire, and parody.   Their slogan is "Putting the 'mock' in democracy".  They basically make fun of what is going on in politics, etc. all night...most of it is set to music, well known songs they have replaced the words to!  Hilarious!  It was a lot of fun!

whoops!

So Andy sent me a picture text last week of the first snow of the year and I was suppose to blue tooth it to our computer and post it......and yea I just deleted all of my texts on accident.  oh well.  

In summary, it snowed.

The End.

A is for apple.

A is for alligator.

A is for altitude

A is for atlas.

A is for android.

A is for ace....as in I aced my first graduate test and my first graduate paper!  We finally got our tests back from like 3 weeks ago...and I got a 94%....okay, I have to admit I was disappointed, I thought I did a lot better than that...but the class average was an 81% so that made me feel a little better.

On my paper that was just due last Thursday (6-8 pages on a college subculture) I got a 98% which made me super excited...but I am a little bummed, because a 98% means that I probably just messed up on grammar or punctuation or something ridiculous like that! But anyhow, a pretty good day for grades!  I have a mid term this week though....on which the instructor offered the following helpful advice on studying "you should probably just know everything that we have discussed in class or that was in the assigned readings"  Yes, quite helpful.  I'll get right on that........grrrr.

the big 73!

The old stand by when there is nothing else to blog about....

73 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

Oh, I hope Santa is working out..I don't want him to get hurt as he's carrying all my presents!

sigh.

I've been trying to write my first master's paper....

This is how my brain feels.

who wants to be my friend?

I have a new brownie cookbook.  Who want to be my friend!?!?  Yay!  This is the cover of my new brownie cookbook...a birthday present from Shawna and Mark.  Yummm....I haven't tried any yet but hopefully soon!!!

Not in the brownie mood? This if for my dear friend Andi, you're right, it is getting into the pumpkin cookie time of year:

Pumpkin Cookies

1 cup sugar

1 cup pumpkin

1/2 cup shortening

2 cups flour

1 t baking powder

1 t baking soda

1 t cinnamon

1/4 t salt

Bake 8-10 minutes 375 F.  They don't really change color that much but do get a little more golden brown.  After they cool you can frost them....I don't really follow a recipe for the frosting.....just milk, powdered sugar, and vanilla....it is more of a glaze.  

Near Death Experience

Kick boxing class = near death

Justine will understand this...  55 minutes of kick boxing class at the rec almost did me in today.  Seriously, I don't know what I was thinking.  First of all, I am not coordinated enough to attempt kick boxing, especially in front of other people, and mirrors.  I tried to blame it on my height...that I am just too tall to look normal when attempting such moves....but I think that probably is just the excuse I am using.  All I can say is, if there was a video of it, Andy would totally gotten above and beyond even with me for the video I posted of him the other day.  Really, it was bad.  Not only was it bad because of my looking ridiculous, but also it was exhausting.  Which yes, I realize is the point...but geees.  Oh and did I mention that there were only like 5 people there...so it wasn't as if I could hide behind someone, or sneak out at the water break.  No....don't worry, I was there looking silly the whole time.  

So in conclusion, I survived near death embarrassment, and death via exercise today! ha! 

Video tribute to Andrew and his work as a wildland firefighter

I have put together what I consider an accurate representation of Andrew's very tough job. :) He may disagree....and might try to lead you to believe that I was "too selective" in the clips I chose to share.

enjoy! :)

Okay, I should say that I may have only selected the FEW clips I could find where they were not really dong anything...I will sometime make a video of all the hard work they actually do. ...but this is still pretty funny....to me anyway. :) I should also point out that not all of the video and pictures are of Andrew. The guy jumping into the tank and posing with the saw is Kyle, I believe. And the sandwich isn't Andrew either...just a sandwhich.