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Dirt Cookies?

Here's a terrible story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/haiti_eating_dirt


I read this article in the news today about how the people in Haiti are so poor they can't afford food, so they eat dirt. They form mud into cookies and eat them sometimes for 3 meals a day. WHaaat??? How horrible is that? I felt awful when I read this today, because I'd spent the morning bothering a co-worker to bring in donuts for breakfast before going out and buying a $3.00 cup of coffee after lunch. Three dollars for a cup of coffee is a silly luxury that I don't think that much about...how much food could that buy for a whole family for a day?

I feel sick to think that there are people out there so poor that they eat dirt cookies for dinner. I feel the need to look up a place to donate money to help out these people. A few I found so far are www.helphaitinow.org and www.hopeforhaiti.com - I'll have to do more research to find the one that reaches the people most in need.

Adventures in Snowshoeing

This weekend Joe and I rented snowshoes from a great little outdoors shop in Portland called Next Adventure. For only $10 a day we got to go on a great hike up to Mirror Lake on Mount Hood. Here's a picture of me hiking around the mountain.


The snow was really coming down up there and we spent a little too long taking pictures and playing around in the snow, so we didn't get out of the woods until well after dark. It's a good thing boy-scout Joe is always prepared and had a flashlight with him. It was wet and tiring, but a lot of fun. Check out Joe's page for more great pictures that he's been stitching together.

Adventures in skiing

Today marks my 30th birthday. Joe helped me feel old this weekend by taking me skiing up on Mt. Hood. I've only been skiing 2 times before we'd moved out here and I think the last time I went was about 7 years ago, so needless to say I'm kind of a novice when it comes to the sport. But, I'm always up for playing in the snow so it sounded fun to me. We decided to be lazy and sleep in, so we headed up to the Ski Bowl for some night skiing around 3 pm on Saturday night.


The traffic was horrible and the snow was really coming down on us. It made driving really slow. We also had a bit of a scare when we got out to chain up the tires (a must-have car accessory in the Oregon winters!) and Joe realized that he had locked the keys in the car. Ooops. Luckily he remembered that he keeps a spare in case of an emergency such as this and saved ourselves hours of sitting in the snow waiting for a locksmith to come along. We chained up and soon were on our way.

There was no parking so we had to go up to another area and take a shuttle to the actual ski area. We got there around 4 and I got a good 2 hours in on the bunny slope before we decided to eat at the lodge there.
After eating, I'd decided that I rocked the bunny slope way too hard to go back on it and wanted to try out the big boy slopes. It was a beautiful ride up the mountain on the chair lift in the heavy snow...but getting off the lift was a bit of a challenge. Also...skiing on anything other than the bunny slope proved to be a challenge. I couldn't believe how horrible I was on the actual mountain slopes, even the easiest ones. I fell over and over and over again. I finally made it to the bottom and took a good long break before attempting it again. Second time up...more of the same. Fell after getting off the lift, this time only to be run over by a snowboarder. (My lower back is paying for that this morning.) Lots of falls down the steeper parts. But definitely better the second time down. Joe, who's been skiing since he was a kid, did much better and didn't even have muscle pain this morning. I hurt all over like an old lady.


We skied until almost 10pm....we missed the last shuttle and had to hike a mile back up the mountain to the car only to find it buried already. The roads were also pretty icy, and we had to keep the chains on for the most part of the ride back down the mountain. Didn't get home until almost 1am, and fell into bed, exhausted.

It was a mixture of fun and frustration, but I guess the good has outweighed the bad because we're definitely planning another trip out there before the end of the winter.

Haircuts

In this ever-changing world, there's one constant I can rely on. This is that when I go to get my hair cut, I will be reprimanded for using boxed dyes (instead of paying 4 times more to have it professionally done), I will leave with bangs cut right in my eyes, and I'll have my hair styled in the poofiest way possible. This could also be why I usually get my hair cut maybe once every 6 to 12 months.

Actually, I came out of the place with a decent hair cut. If my hair was red again, it would look like Agent Scully's from the X-Files.
Oh, if you ever do an image search for Dana Scully from the X-files for your blog, you get a lot of strange fanboy stuff that comes up. Yikes!

Goodbye, old friends...

I finally had to retire my old, black Converse All-Stars this past weekend. The final straw was that the laces were so old that they snapped. They didn't snap as I was tying them or anything...no...they snapped as I was taking a stroll down the street to get a cup of coffee.


I had to stop and think about how long I'd been wearing these things. My mom got me these for Christmas one year when I was living in Chicago, which was a good while ago. So it was AT LEAST 4 years since I'd gotten them. And I'm pretty sure it was a bit longer than that. So, since I work in a very casual environment, I'd been wearing these babies almost everyday for probably over 5 years! As you can see from the pictures, the soles had been worn down until they were almost smooth, there were holes in the bottoms and on the sides, and they were torn up pretty well all over. But there's nothing like a good pair of these shoes when they're broken in really well. It's like getting to wear comfy slippers to work everyday. Ahhhhhh.....


Fortunately, I had bought myself a pair JUST LIKE THESE right before that Christmas that my mom bought me these. I'd been saving those shoes to replace these when they wore out. It took 5 years, and now I can finally bring out those back-ups! I shall not be without black converse sneakers!

NEW CAR! NEW CAR!

Got a new car this weekend, a Scion xA. Well, actually I don't get to pick it up until Tuesday, but still! A new car is exciting!