Author: sloanie

Here’s the pumpkins we carved Friday. I thought Mar and Jesse’s rendition of King of Town worked out great– we used the stencils from homestarrunner.com. The stencil for Trogdor was troublesome, you can see his arm is quite beefy and there’s not mouth/teeth, and his feet are messed up. Maybe I just didn’t have fine…

In the order seen on the hike: Though “Devil’s Garden” is a very cool name, I wouldn’t give the devil credit for anything as amazing as the scenery in this park. With all the rocks and arches to look at, I found myself interested in dead trees. Interesting, no? I only wish I’d framed this…

I paused yesterday to consider the Holidays. You know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years— the season as a whole. It hit me that this season would be starting in about a week and a half. I realized that for some reason I just don’t feel mentally prepared for the Holidays, heh. It’s not even a time…

Josh brought up an interesting point in my last post with regards to music (it actually touches on something I considered while writing my recent iPod rant– the iTunes music store). I began to respond in the comments section, but figured this was interesting enough to merit it’s own post. So the issue is listening…

Do you ever listen to a single song on repeat over and over?

The geek in me somehow managed to refrain from posting when the iPod Nano was released a number of weeks ago. Today I must break down and write about iPods. iPods have become an icon, a status symbol– it fascinates me that this fairly techy toy is now a common household name. It literally is…

All the siblings got together to go up Provo canyon to “Haunted Train Ride” on Friday night for fun. Of course, what happens when we all get together? Oh yeah, we (at least some of us) turn into clowns. Figuratively speaking, of course. I’m sure we were pretty annoying to some of the other passengers…

Weisswurst and some potato pancake thingeys. I guess it’s becoming a tradition to hit Oktoberfest each year in October. It’s just fun to go up to the canyon in the fall and experience a hint of German culture. Of course this wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t post a picture of the food I…

Cosmo bugs Dwane while Dwane tries to make a phone call Went with Dwane, Kathy, and Lori at lunch to visit Dwane and Ann’s horse, though this is Cosmo, who is not one of their horses. Cosmo was just super friendly. This was the first time I’d ever actually been close to a horse. Powerful…

One of the perks of going to work earlier– the sunrise. It looked surreal today…

My car seemed to have sprouted some fur this morning. SNOW, hosehead. “A year passed. Winter changed into Spring. Spring changed into Summer. Summer changed back into Winter. And Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn. Until one day…” Yeah. It’s only October 5, folks 😉

Rach: am I too nice for my own good? Me: why do you ask? Rach: because last night I brought dinner to a guy at work that was a jerk to me Me: hmmm… no, not according to Romans 12:20 you’re not. Me: “Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him…

So on the way to lunch yesterday with the illustrators, we saw a guy riding around on some sort of farm vehicle (I didn’t think it was big enough to be a plow, looked to me more like a huge sitting lawn mower). Lori says “oh look he’s plowing the field.” Whether he was or…