Missing out

My timing couldn't be worse. I started doing fire last summer, which was a relatively slow fire season. But according to my FMO (fire mgmt. officer) and an article on msn.com, this year is gonna be rippin'! And I'm going to miss out! :(

Oh well, I have until I'm 37 to play with fire.

I finally got a few more pics developed from Montana - just a couple shots from my going-away party. It was nice to see photos of my "family", since I probably won't see any of them any time soon.

My last night there, after eating the most delicious elk ever and saying goodbye to everybody, I made a last pit-stop on the side of the road to take this photo. For three months, home was the first exit in Montana, Exit 0... No services. Go east of Monida for about 45 minutes to an hour, and you'll reach the place that part of me never left. :)

 

when worlds collide...

The unheard of happened today - my "worlds" collided! As in, my old coworkers/friends met my new coworker/friend! These things aren't supposed to happen! Those sorts of friends don't usually meet EVER - except Steve met a few of my city boys once upon a time. And the best thing is that it all turned out ok! No rift opened up in the universe, and they actually got along really well. It's just a big deal because NONE of my other friends have or will ever meet the city guys. It's just one of those things... :)

Spent the day learning all about tree climbing, rigging, knots, and goofing off. I think I mastered the goofing off part; the rest is all kindof fuzzy. Hee hee!

Life has been weird to me lately. Ultimately, it seems things happen for a reason in my life... but I can only say that I don't care why certain pleasantly unexpected things are happening, just that I love every second of feeling so warm and fuzzy. Is it the butterflies? ;)

Sun in Aries

Heh heh heh, maybe there IS something to this whole horoscope thing...

From Astrology.com:

"When Lisa was born, the Sun was in the Sign Aries, the Warrior. Lisa has a fierce capacity for loyalty, and expects it in return. Like a warrior, she prefers honesty and directness, without a lot of verbal frou-frou or psychobabble. There is an elevated need for shared experiences of extremity, adventure and intensity, and if the relationship does not offer enough of them, Arian energy can easily turn tense and edgy, even combative. A great intimate art for Lisa, one upon which the viability of all her relationships depends, is to make sure she is fighting about what she is actually angry about. There's a risk, in other words, of expressing the energies of sexual frustration in the form of what appears, for example, to be a stupidly inflated argument over politics. Still, Lisa brings many wonderful qualities to the table of love: the warrior's ability to make strong vows and keep them, a fierce devotion to truth, and a grand quality of aliveness."

Although of course, I'd like to think that I can never be summed up in one paragraph. ;)

Jenna showed me a site with more free readings - Astro.com, plus they don't start sending you email like Astrology.com does. It's always fun to read, even if you don't really believe in it. Though it is eerily accurate... ??

Look out, I might bite

GRRRR!

I'm grumpy today. Not sure why. In my disgruntled mental ranting, somehow I started thinking about all the things I spend a little extra cash on. I don't mean like new CDs or anything like that; just certain things that I don't skimp on when it comes to buying the good stuff. What am I "snobby" about?

COFFEE - always buy the best organic and sometimes fair trade I can find.

Spaghetti sauce; fruits and vegetables (organic whenever possible, but always organic lettuce); eggs (again, more of my granola-crunching organic/free range tendencies coming out); herbs and spices; cheese...

I know there's many more, but I'm figuring out quickly that I take pride in my condiments.

I also decided that maybe I shouldn't take afternoon naps anymore. I had this bizarro dream where suddenly this giant eruption sent this huge plume of smoke, ash, and mud straight into the sky. At first I didn't know if it was a bomb or something, but it ends up it's a volcano - and it's the eruption to end all eruptions. So then I didn't know if I'd have to worry about a wave of lava pouring my way, or a mud slide, or things on fire. I was scared but had to figure out what was happening! I turned back and then saw all this smoke and ash and mud washing down the mountain towards us, and the earth was opening up like the tectonic plates were moving and creating a new big fault line. I think the eruption was supposed to be of huge proportions and was going to wipe out a BIG area. I don't know if I was going to die or anything, but I just remember being scientifically fascinated by it all...

And then I remember that Steve is visiting Brian this weekend in Seattle... Mt. Rainier... volcano... yikes!

being "responsible" or something like it?

Ya know, I could be tired all day and just yearning for a nice long cat nap, but the moment I try to get myself to bed at a decent time, I suddenly am wide awake and can think of 20 things I wanted to get done today/this month/this lifetime. Funny how that works, huh?

It definitely doesn't help that Jeff and Amadeo are going to check out the new club night at Scorekeepers in A2 - dancing and drinking and staying up late without me! Those were the days... one month ago. ;) So what did I do this evening instead of having a good time in high heels and a little tank-top? I went grocery shopping in my PJ pants. Argh, I feel so... DOMESTIC!

Obviously haven't updated in a while, between working and boyfriend (that's right, a  boyfriend! Jeff! My old housemate and friend of most of my ex boyfriends. Hey, stop laughing, crazier things have happened! Nobody ever said I do things the right way...) and trying to sleep somewhere in there too.

Looking back... wow, I didn't even write anything about the ski-trip weekend from hell! Let me recap, G-rated:

Hot tub, lots of alcohol, naked girls making out... and it only went downhill from there, no pun intended. The snowboarding was great, until one nasty spill where I thought I sprained my thumb. Ouch. It got even better when the next day, my binding broke so I had to quit early and wait in the lodge for my friends. An hour later, right outside where I was sitting, I go to grab my new Burton board... Funny, I swear I put it right here... Oh. Shit. Yeah, I was mad my binding broke, but I was even more furious that MY BOARD WAS STOLEN!

We'll just say that board wasn't cheap.

Two weeks later my thumb still hurt, and I decided it was time to see a Dr. and find out what's up.

BROKEN.

First broken bone ever. What a let down - people always said "Oh, if you break something, you'll know it! It will HURT terribly!" Guess what? You were WRONG and I feel like I missed out on that vital part of breaking a bone. Not that I WANT it to hurt... but if I'm gonna break something, I wanna do it the right way. ;)

So I was put in a cast, right after I started my new job. Doh! Fortunately now I have a removeable cast... it's still tender one month later but hopefully I will be given the clear soon from the Dr.

I'm really loving a few song's right now: "Evil" by Interpol and "Time is Running" by Muse. I work a lot of overtime. All this snow, and no snowboard!

Ontop of everything, I've gotten a few job offers since taking this full time job.... such as a wildland firefighter seasonal job in the U.P., one in Butte, Montana (sigh!) and one on another exotic plant management crew in Yellowstone. It took all I had, but I bit my lip and said "I'm sorry, I now have a full time job... But perhaps next year?" ;)

And that's that. Crappy journal update, and I don't even have any good pictures to put up this time. Instead, I'll just put up an old picture I found of me and my Broadway housemates during my junior year of college. But some of us have to get up for work in the morning and can't spend all night dot-com-ing like we used to! Ha!

The Broadway Gang: Tom, Me, Brian, Jeff, Kevin, and Steve!