Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day... warm enough for me to strut around in a t-shirt. Dave and Neill got off of work early, and we decided to head out for some night skiing at Mountain High. Mountain High had their snowmaking machines on during the entire week and we figured this was our best chance for some decent skiing/boarding conditions this late in the season and with the Santa Ana winds blowing in.
Mountain High is located in the San Gabriel mountains, about a 2 hour drive from San Diego. Unfortunately for us, last night was the Friday before a long weekend with tons of people heading out to Vegas and clogging the freeway. Ugh, it took us about 4 hours to get there! But dang, it was worth it! It had been 6 years since Neill's gone boarding, and 4 years for me and Dave. The conditions were great, a bit icy with a nice layer of soft snow on top.... similar to Hunter Mountain, and way better than Mountain Creek. The place has tons of jumps and fun things scattered throughout the trails. We weren't ready to go on any of them, but it's nice to know we have a decent snow park so close to us!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
California snow....
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Quick updates on life
I'm planning it on my mother's birthday. Apparently, big events in our lives somehow get centered around my parents' birthdays. We got married almost 5 years ago, the day before my Dad's birthday. Guess my mom deserves a big gift as well (Keep your fingers crossed for me!). Will someone tell my examiners to be nice to me?
Dave is interviewing!
He's applying for a couple internist positions in the San Diego area. He has an interview with Scripps Mercy this week and an upcoming interview with Kaiser Permanente. He has awesome recommendations (recently, someone referred to him as the best resident they've ever had!), so hopefully, things will turn out well.
I pray the next few weeks will be a good to us.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
More Sammie!
It's too hard to take pictures of her on my own, so someone needs to hold her, while the other takes shots. She moves too much!
Can you find Sammie in the cage?
Smoked-cooked Meal
smoked 'shrooms, peppers, and onion, carrot salad, sweet potato salad (err, salads were a supplement from Jimbo's)
Oops! And we forgot to take a close up of the sweet potato fries (from Brett's BBQ)!!!
Yummers....
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Aoife and Sammie
They are 2 female dwarf hamsters. Cute as cute can be! He got them on Monday and my kitty cat has yet to learn of their existence. Ha ha.
Sammie is a little crazy. She's smaller than Aoife, white fur with tan patches and big RED eyes. The eyes were pretty freaky at first, but she's grown on us. She's a little more skittish than her sister, but is warming up to us... Sammie is definitely the jock of the pair. If given the chance, she'll spend the whole night running on the wheel (that made her stand out at the pet store!). I call her Psycho sometimes. The tube that Aoife's afraid of? Well, Sammie just flies up and down that thing. She's quite adventurous, always running, trying to climb the walls of the cage. If Aoife is running on the wheel, Sammie will stand next to it and try to run along wtih her front paws OR she tries jumping on and ends up flying off and landing on her back! She just bounces right back up and heads towards the wheel... She's a hoot.
(with flash)
Hopefully, we'll get some more cute pictures soon. I was telling my brother last night that I thought Aoife was a little bit of a bully. He said, "No, she's not!" The two animals would take turns running on the wheel. However, since Aoife is bigger, whenever she wanted to run, she just jumped on which makes the wheel stop and Sammie had to get off (since Sammie was too small to run with Aoife on). But then, once when I was watching, Aoife stopped running, so Sammie jumped on and started running. Er, I should say "attempted" to run. Aoife just sat there, in middle of the wheel and wouldn't budge. Sammie tried so hard to run. She even got it to turn a little bit which was really cute since you would see Aoife slide up and down the wheel, but still no budge. And I swear, Aoife didn't move for at least a minute or two. It was pretty funny..... But then apparently, Sammie got her revenge this morning. Whenever Aoife was getting ready to settle to sleep, Sammie would run over to where she was and pounce on her! Aoife's squealing freaked my brother out. So he says Sammie's the bully now.... So who's the dominant one? Guess we'll find out soon...
Monday, February 05, 2007
The Bane of my Existence...
SO, on Friday, I discovered a wet spot in our living room. This location is right under the upstairs bathroom, so I assumed we may have a leak coming from the bathtub. Or since we just had some big rains, we had a leak of some sort from our gutters outside.
I called the customer service rep for our builders and he came out and said that I must be the most unlucky homeowner around here. Sheesh.
So the guy from TSC, the restoration company that comes out and chops out all the wet drywall and restores it after it's all fixed, came out. Ha, it was John. The same guy that chopped out most of our hallway last time. He saw me, and I said to him, "You know, I was hoping to never see you again." Chuckle. He took a look and said that he would be back on Monday to cut things out. The company thought the leak was in the original location and had him come out and check it out. Since it wasn't, and it wasn't as monstrous of a leak as last time, they asked us to not use the bathroom and see if some of it would dry out on its own.
So John came by today and here are the results of his work!
A close-up of the leak. Yet another leak in a copper pipe! It's the one left of the black piping. Note the corrosion at the turn....
Sigh
Now I'm waiting for the plumber to show up.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Biking in 4S Ranch...
Since I haven't gotten a chance to explore the trails around 4S Ranch, Dave took me out on "the loop".
Along the way, there was a big ol' orange tree, so we jumped the fence to try some organic oranges (ha ha, that was for you, Heather!).
Kitty making it outside!
To my New York friends...
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Heather in California!
We took her to eat a monstrous Mexican meal at El Torito.
Some homes that I initially thought looked like a restaurant
Normal looking house with crazy hedges
Pretty house