Flyin High

Here's some stats for ya...In the last YEAR I have spent APPROXIMATELY $2,350 on flights to Ohio. This does not include the flight home to get fitted for my wedding dress or the flight for the wedding both of which are still currently unbooked.
Just some food for thought.
Oh, and Ohio does not even have a beach...sense my bitterness?

hut trippin

So, this weekend we went on a hut trip (weekend being mon-wed). A hut trip, for all you who don't know what that is, is when you hike up into the wilderness to a "hut" and stay there for a few days/nights and go ski. A "hut" is actually a cabin, some are log, some are stone, and they are maintained by the forest service. They are actually pretty nice. Most huts sleep anywhere from 10-20 people and they are supplied with pillows, linens, etc. All dishes and cookware are supplied and kept up at the hut along with books and games. Most huts don't have electricity but they have gas lamps/stoves etc and pretty nice outhouses...as far as outhouses go...We hiked up a road called 4-mile road, which was, you guessed it, 4 miles long. Then we had to dive off into the trees and hike up to the top, which was grueling as hell. I almost didn't make it! You hike with your skis on and use what are called skins. They stick to the bottom of your skis so that you can hike uphill whithout sliding backward. Pretty fancy stuff! My pack that I had to carry was about 30lbs and IT WAS TOUGH! After a while your shoulders start to hurt but mostly its tough on your hips. Who knew right? The strap that goes around your waist basically supports all the weight of the pack so that is where you end up feeling it! It was quite the workout but we are now safely back home (and showered)! We had quite the intense game of spoons going on at that hut, let me tell you! p.s. I'm the champ.
Oh, I should mention that you have to pack in all your food, water, and alcohol. Theres nothing like hiking straigh uphill with a box of wine on your back...=) priorities!

America's Next Top Model!

Do you see this skinny bitch?? This is my BABY SISTER!! I'm so proud of her!!! (and so jealous I could throw up!) Where did I go wrong?? How am I barely 5'5 and slightly overweight? Damn her. ;) Just kidding, I've been showing everyone in my office (sorry ames!) I guess if I was better at working out and didn't like mac-n-cheese so much I, potentially, could have been a skinny bitch too. ( a short one) Amy is in 8 runway shows for Charleston Fashion Week. 8!!! She got approached today by a casting agent for Ford Models so her and my mom are meeting with him after the 2shows she's in this evening!!! So exciting! She's probably soo nervous, I would poop my pants, but thats a blog for another day! Anyway, we are all waiting anxiously with our fingers crossed for tonight! p.s. LOVE THE SUIT!! Now I gotta go hit the elliptical! ;)

bleh

This is me. Or rather, was me yesterday. I have no idea why i feel this way, where i developed these "allergies" and when they started. Actually, they have been slowly getting worse and worse since I started doing summers in CO. My eyes hurt so bad yesterday that I couldnt even bring myself to get online or stare at a computer screen for more than a minute. To those who have known me my whole life, I have NEVER had an allergy to ANYTHING!! Being in Ohio, that is a big deal, people say the allergens in Ohio are AWFUL. I wouldn't know about that, apparently I'm only allergic to Colorado. What makes it even sadder is the fact that if I travel back to Ohio, my allergies clear up within half a day of being there...FRUSTERATED!! I was never a sick kid, ever! I feel like living in Colorado, my immune system has decided to take a vaca. Ryan and I are supposed to get engagement photos taken in early april...HOW in the hell am I going to look decent in a damn photo when I already look like this bee in MARCH!! This sucks. Gotta go blow my nose...

King Me!

Wow. There are no words to describe this. Actually, I lie, there are. I'm just trying to find them. Why? Do you like checkers? Chess? I can understand when people "really like" certain things. I like rainbows, and unicorns, and trees....BUT i do not look like some sort of fantasy world! (only sometimes). ;) I also happen to like tattoos. (katie we still need to get one together...) maybe not on our faces...and whats with the blue ear? Where do you wear this getup? besides EVERYWHERE SINCE YOU TATTOED IT ON YOUR WHOLE BODY? Do you scare little children walking down the street? Do people throw chess pieces at you? A little checkerboard can be considered a bit steezy...THIS does not qualify. You have gone above and beyond. I...I..I'm just baffled. I have nothing else. Checkmate.

YIKES!

So, THIS is what I was living with when I was living in Australia. Yeah, gross as hell. These guys are EVERYWHERE!! There are two kinds of spiders that look exactly alike. The ones that are in everyones houses (ie this one...) are called Huntsman spiders. Supposedly harmless but I'm sure if you had one in your shoe when you stuck your foot in it, he might let you know! The other kind are wolf spiders and they can kill you. They also jump. I had one land on my foot once and almost pooped my pants. Oh yeah, and they're huge! We went to dinner once at a friends house in Queensland and the minute we walked into their GORGEOUS BRAND NEW HOUSE one of these was the first thing that caught my eye! He was above the sink on the wall while my friends mom was washing dishes RIGHT UNDERNEATH HIM! I freaked, and we asked if she wanted us to remove him and she said NO!!! "He eats the bugs so we just let him roam..." WHAT?? The whole meal, which im sure was amazing, I was busy keeping one eye on the spider. He was moving all over the damn place and I can't even remember what I ate! These guys are everywhere. I found one in the linen closet when I went to get a bath towel! It was like 6 inches in diameter and my friend claimed to have put it in my bed but (luckily) I never saw him again!
Oh well, I came across this picture and figured I would share with everyone. This is just one of the little treats to greet you when you arrive in Australia! Who wants to go?

MY MONDAY

IM BAAAACK!! Today is my monday and it's been pretty hard to stay at work all day long. I just had my weekend, which was fantastic, by the way. I feel like I haven't been online in a week but it's only been 3 days. Thats pretty pathetic! So, there happen to be 3 of us working today in the same office. 2 desks, 2 desk chairs...luckily, i have one of them but the excess of people here is why I may not make the whole day. I don't really HAVE to be here. My co-workers can handle the lack of a ringing phone on their own. I think i'm going home. I'm actually not feeling all that well anyway so I was going to go take a nap (that's a rarity for me). Then i decided to join the gym because I thought i'd swim some laps. Well, thats not happening since my "available balance" on my bank account currently reads $0.00. That's not good. The gym is $50, my bed is free...hmmmmm.
Anyway, we had an accident happen on the interstate monday morning. Glenwood canyon, which is 40 minutes from my house, had some boulders come crashing down on the highway and DESTROYED IT! Luckily, it was after midnight and no one was hit driving through but these boulders fell from like, 300 feet up or something. The canyon walls go up thousands! They wrecked the bridge that goes through the bottom of the canyon and one of the boulders weighed 66 tons!! It was the size of a semi-truck! The whole canyon is closed, possibly for weeks!! Thats I-70!! The only way in or out really! I'll see if i can attach a photo!! pretty sketchy stuff!!
K, I'm off to my free bed! =)

HE'S A BITER!

THIS is Buddy. He's a biter. Like Katie said, you'd never know it from his costume and blank look on his face, but get too close, he'll bite your face off. He was a rescue and his manners have improved ten-fold since she first brought him to my house. Regardless, I love Buddy!

On a totally different note, I was checking out msn.com and ran upon this article about 1 person towns versus the census....? I mean, WHAT?? First off, who would want to be a 1 person town?? Why? How lonely would that be? That makes me think of like, creating your own little world, naming it and....nevermind. Regardless. Elsie Eiler (thats her real name) lives in a 1 person town. Her. In Nebraska. Sounds miserable.
Anyway, here I am at work again and today is REALLY SLOW. I crocheted myself a headband. That took all of 37.3 minutes, but its pretty! Black, pink, blue, and white. Then I sat in the sun for a bit outside and that was wonderful! Vitamin D!!! How i love thee! After I finish my stream of consciousness I'm going to go back to reading Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul. (Thanks mom, and yes, I'm reading it!) Who knew they still made these books right? I thought I read all of them in middle school!

Ryan was kind of mean to me on the phone so I'm still pouting. I guess he is on the phone in front of his "manly" co-workers so he doesn't want them to see that he's actually a sweet guy...? Why call me then if you're going to be curt and defensive? Whatever. I'm going to go back to reading about Elsie Eiler.

Day #1

so today i started a blog. do i know what im doing?? no! do i like to use caps and correct punctuation? nope. i will eventually when i have more important things to say.

Welcome to my mermaid life! I have always wanted to be a mermaid. someday, hopefully i will be, therefore, this is how my rants came to be named. I needed something strange enough to catch your attention, but it also has some deep down meaning...at least to me.

Here i am, at my job. (i probably shouldnt admit that actually) My job, which i love, entails answering phones when they ring. In other words....i wait for the phone to ring. When it DOESN'T, i need to entertain myself in other ways. This involves lots of web-surfing, catching up on my current events, facebooking (i hate admitting this part), and many other activities. Due to the random knowledge that I acquire on a daily basis, I had to start a blog! I got to the point where I had SO MUCH STUFF that i learned in a day, and I HAD TO TELL SOMEONE!! Unfortunately, i don't really have anyone to tell. I forget half of the really good stuff by the end of the day and when i try to relay this information to Ryan, it's no longer that interesting. Ryan, for anyone who doesnt know, is my best friend, partner in crime, ski buddy, travel acquaintance, guinea pig when it comes to cooking, and lastly, my fiance! He's screwed! ;) He's stuck with me for life and trust me, I have a lot to say!

So that brings us to the end of my "this is the point of my blog" blog. I needed someone to tell about the cute puppy photos i was looking at this morning, and the huge waves that ravaged a cruise ship in the meditterranean, and how i dont think it was the orca whales fault that that nice trainer died in florida....etc etc.

I AM A WEALTH OF RANDOM FACTS AND USELESS KNOWLEDGE! oh, and a mermaid.