waterfalls...check

on to the coast!

she's a maniac... maniac

holly is coming to visit this weekend and i'm so excited. this song comes to my head when i think of holly. if you haven't had the chance you need her to do the dance to this song... because she's dancin' likes she's never danced before... you know the words.

i have visions of F-U-N dancing in my head. i'm hoping to give her the gift of oregon: complete with p-town, the coast and trees. i'm crossing my fingers for a yurt near the beach, rain slickers and eclectic shops, the experience of some dense moss covered trees with a waterfall nearby and being beat miserably at scrabble and catch up time.

yellow jello! i'm waiting for you!

old stompin' grounds

on the way to the hot springs we dropped by some of my old stompin' grounds. this post is more for my parents than anyone else. this is where i first went to school, got kissed by the sandbox in kindergarten (which i thought was disguisting), kicked a lot of kids trash at teather ball, peed my pants religiously every year when my teachers wouldn't let me go (word to the wise, when i say i need to go, i'm not messing around), and where a tree was the best play toy. imagine ran wild and life was simple by reading horse books.


it's had a face lift (thank goodness) since i was there but even 8.5 years ago when i stopped by my old kindergarten teacher was still there. amazing!

this is the little church we went to. my father was the branch president here and i remember him having cinnamin bears in his office. when we drove up my friends were suprised of how small it was. one friend commented how neat it was that there even such a small church for the people.

cheers to memories!

hot water = happiness

what did i do saturday? found hot water coming from the earth and lie in it beneath the trees and the stars.

we look like a rough bunch, ignore joe's stitches, he's a kind guy. i was relaxed with my bathing suit on and without a beer or mj. other fellow hot springers needed a lil' more to their atmosphere but i was happy as i could be.

one hot spring down... others to come

gold beach and back

so this was a picture out my hotel room towards the ocean.... i know you can't see it but still. i love i'm still in the stage of my life that i'm afraid i might miss something so i have to keep my eyes open and seize opportunities. so i'm not a morning runner but if i'm on the beach, it's a must. this morning i ran on the black sands of gold beach and saw the pink being painted on the clouds this morning. ask me to run a morning in salem... not interested. unless it's saturday at 9-10 a.m. then maybe

the presentation went o.k. i think i need to continually work on engaging certain groups. ahh time will bring more experience.

then my coworker and i stopped in florence and ate on our way back tonight. one thing i love is eating real seafood on the coast. can't beat it.

although that was all nice the best part of tonight was being greeted by 3. yeah. name it 3 cards of kindness. i even shed a little tear. it added to my last weeks' nice lil' i'm thinking of you gifts from my mom and aunt. so thank you to those who care about me. you're simple acts make my day.

happy presidents' day to me

even though i'll be working/traveling on this day that should be my holiday. this breakfast makes it seem that all is alright. eggs w/red peppers, avocado and cheese with toast with my grandpa's homemade, home squeezed pomagrante jelly and oj with pulp. new folk music as a background from sarah. it's going to be a good day. i'm headed for the coast for work and the hotel has a kickin' hot tub that faces the beach that is outside and you can hear the waves. so i guess it could be worse.

valentine/birthday love midsingle style

for those of you that aren't aware, today is oregon's 150th birthday. in celebration, i went snow shoeing with the midsingles group out of portland area. nice peeps. good trail to upper lake near frog lake at mt. hood. after a late night watching wall e, which i loved...may it be a reminder to us all fat americans...i got up early and headed up. one of the impressive thing i saw was a super cool couple x-c skiing with their little baby. the dad had her probably in her baby bjorn and facing his chest as he and his wife x-c skiied. i'm sorry but that kicks you know what. it gave me hope of awesome parenthood dreams. when we reached our destination of upper twin lake we were greeted by igloos. i really wanted to go in the more intact igloo but the x-c skiiers were hogging it.

the experience was goodness to my soul. i ended today with a hot bath,

starting the monkey wrench gang,

and being grateful i didn't torture myself in thinking i had to go to a ysa valentine's dance.

gross.

also if your able to get some lovin' today... please get some extra for me.

in memory of me lacking the access to get any.