With Painted Fauna Metacarpals?

Unbelievable. For some of them, it took me a while to figure out how it was even a hand. Enjoi.


















Credit: http://guidodaniele.com/

To go back to dating in the 80's??

If only I had been of legal age when this little gem came out. Matt wouldn'a had a chance!

I don't even know where to begin with my favorite quotes...

YOU decide!




*Thanks to the lovely Jackie Beeler for this one.

In Nursing School?

Hey-yoooo. I am alive after all, and here's what I'm doing:

Monday: Meet for carpool @ 7. Class in Lewiston 8am-5pm. Quiz day in Professional Role Development. Home by 6. To bed early.

Tuesday: Clinicals- now in Acute Care @ Pullman Hospital. Leave by 6:30am if driving, 6am if biking. Finished by 2-3pm. Grower's market with Matt 4-6:30pm. Pipe night and Lewis Reading @ The Big Haus 7:30-9pm.- the Space Trilogy, starting with Out of the Silent Planet.

Wednesday: Clinicals again. Bible study @ 7:30 at the Big Haus- Hebrews this semester. Study/read for pharmacology.

Thursday: Meet for carpool at 8am. Class 9-3pm. Quiz in Pharmacology. Home by 4. Study/read for Med/Surg.

Friday: Meet for carpool @ 8am. Quiz in Med/Surg. Home by 1pm normally, unless additional testing that week- woohoo! Harvest if Clean Quickcare with Matt (usually) some time before bed.

Saturday- 5am, prepare for farmer's market- load truck, breakfast. To site by 6:30-6:45. Set up and sell produce 8am-12pm. Afternoon for catch up- Gritman from 6-10:30p, normally. Help Matt clean Quickcare.

Sunday: Hallelujah! Sleep in to 7 or 8 and enjoy church. Gritman 6-10:30, normally. Study for Professional Role Development quiz.

Now spice things up with extra assignments, readings, lab work and the occasional house clean= why I'm no longer cool.

Fortunately I have a fabulous man who helps with everything. What would a girl do without him?! He's working out at the farm a few times a week, and cleans a couple of places during the week. He's just built us a wood shed and we have a couple more trees to take down; hopefully, we'll have about 4 chords going into winter. At the moment we're brewing our second homebrew- a Homemade Pumpkin Ale with sugar-snack pumpkins we grew at the farm. Oh BABY! We'll be heading down to Texas for Thanksgiving, and I DEMAND a good time.

Life is full, and good. We are very thankful.

OO-dah-Lolly

She's all growed up. The Gaithers traversed the height of the continental US for the union of Chelsea Ballard and Lee Legate, officiated by Jason Douglas Ballard the First. Here are some favorites.

With New Spokes from her Beaux

Directly preceding his proposal, my man sweetened the deal with a wish to buy me my first road bike- which not only pleased me, but ensured the positive reaction to the next question. Blackmail, perhaps? You decide.

Seriously, after 10 gruelling months of sighs as the spandex-ed laden super-skinny wheels zipped past me, Matt surprised me with this new Trek he found on Craig's List. Not even a year old, immaculate condition and half the price, this baby's a goldmine.

We just got finished with my first good ride on the ol' gal- a 17ish mile, up past Robinson Park through the green and gold patches of field. Aaaaah. Moscow.

Shanksh, darlin'. Here's to ridin' buds.

To Checkmate Zucchini?

The first zucchini my man brought home from the farm. Weighing in at 350 lbs*, this beast was seriously the size of my arm. We chopped it up last night and I threw it in with the orange chicken stir fry I was a-cookin' up.

Yes to vegetables. Here's to a hopeful harvest.

*Weight exaggerated for dramatic effect.

For some free Dodos?!

So we're back from Texas and 100 degrees plus heat. Getting to see family and be in another Texas thunderstorm, all whilst celebrating my sister's holy matrimony made losing a few molecular structures worth it. I'm sure my cells will recover: the human body is an amazing thing.

Before I put up a few of the bestest, here's a hott tip:

The Dodos next album is up and can be heard FREE at this website:

http://timetodie.net/

Logan and Meric are the two dudes the make up The Dodos. Formerly known as The Dodo Bird, the duo changed accordingly when fans who couldn't seem to say three words reduced it to their new- yet still sweet- name.

Their first album on their record label Frenchkiss Records was Visiter. This name was misspelled after being sent a piece of artwork from a youngster and thus history was made. I highly recommend them, and from what I'm hearing right now, I think you'd enjoy this new one as well.