16 years ago
Habitat for Humanity
This morning I got up at 0600 to join the Air National Guard and Habitat for Humanity to build houses up in Ventura/Oxnard. My friend Linda is a Lieutenant in the Air Force and she invited me to volunteer- we thought it was a great way to start off the new year and who can say no to good karma?
Construction work is harder than it looks, I kid you not. It is pretty exhausting holding up that heavy hammer and pounding in nail after nail. I was pretty lucky that I didn't hurt myself too badly (everyone knows how clumsy I am) although I did hit my thumb a couple of times. I kept my gloves on all day to minimize the risk of getting a bloody stump of a thumb.
There were a lot of different projects going on... some people were dry-walling, some were installing a furnace in one of the houses. Linda and I decided to join the big guys in framing a house. I learned a lot about putting the frame of a house together, it was pretty cool. My hips were pretty sore by the end of the day, my toolbelt weighed almost as much as I did.
Linda and I were awfully proud of ourselves.
Linda and Kaci working hard to get those nails nailed.
This is harder than it looks!
So the next activity she invited me to is the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, which is grueling 10K run with hills, tire obstacles, river crossings, two 5-foot walls with mud on both sides, tunnel crawl, slippery hill climb, and the final 30-foot mud pit. . Needless to say, I passed.
Construction work is harder than it looks, I kid you not. It is pretty exhausting holding up that heavy hammer and pounding in nail after nail. I was pretty lucky that I didn't hurt myself too badly (everyone knows how clumsy I am) although I did hit my thumb a couple of times. I kept my gloves on all day to minimize the risk of getting a bloody stump of a thumb.
There were a lot of different projects going on... some people were dry-walling, some were installing a furnace in one of the houses. Linda and I decided to join the big guys in framing a house. I learned a lot about putting the frame of a house together, it was pretty cool. My hips were pretty sore by the end of the day, my toolbelt weighed almost as much as I did.
Linda and I were awfully proud of ourselves.
Linda and Kaci working hard to get those nails nailed.
This is harder than it looks!
So the next activity she invited me to is the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, which is grueling 10K run with hills, tire obstacles, river crossings, two 5-foot walls with mud on both sides, tunnel crawl, slippery hill climb, and the final 30-foot mud pit. . Needless to say, I passed.
Celebrity Crushes
I've never been so into Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tom Cruise or the typical Hollywood celebrity crushes. I'm not into the effeminate playboy characters of Jude Law or Hugh Jackman. I think Ashton Kutcher and Josh Hartnett are incredibly good looking but something about their shoulders and posture throws me off.
No I'm pretty settled in my celebrity crushes. I've had the same ones forever. Two of them are married and the other is engaged to Fergie. Aye carumba.
Ivan Sergei... aka "The guy that looks like Tom Brady" I noticed him first in the series Jack & Jill... where I would painfully sit through episode after episode of Amanda Peet's annoying character just to watch Ivan. Then he was on a short-lived cop show called Hawaii. More recently, he had a small role in The Breakup... the image of him with the white dress shirt and v-neck vest will be burned into my mind forever. Muhaha. Well, it looks like he's taping another TV series... hopefully this one will air a bit longer before getting cancelled. Meanwhile I've added all of the movies and tv series he appears in (courtesy of IMDb) to my Blockbuster Online account... teehee. I'm starting an Ivan Sergei marathon. I had no idea he did long stints on Charmed and Crossing Jordan.
Josh Duhamel... I'm sure you've all heard my story... goes to my gym... only met him that one time though. He's so much hotter in person. I just rejoined my gym so I might be going more often when I know he happens to be in town. :) I think he lives in Brentwood or at least near my old house because I ran into him at the cell phone store by my old house too. Well Las Vegas is still one of my favorite shows and very high on my Tivo list... can't wait til Transformers comes out.
David Beckham... This boy has more style in his left pinky than most boys develop in a lifetime. Can't say the same for the wifey though. I love his look. He pulls off the whole preppy, runway model well but also looks great in jeans and a rugby polo.
I realized all 3 boys have similar physiques. I don't like boys to be too skinny (duh) but I don't like them muscular either. I like the tall, rectangular frame with just enough tone to show that they work out. I think it's all in the shoulders.
No I'm pretty settled in my celebrity crushes. I've had the same ones forever. Two of them are married and the other is engaged to Fergie. Aye carumba.
Ivan Sergei... aka "The guy that looks like Tom Brady" I noticed him first in the series Jack & Jill... where I would painfully sit through episode after episode of Amanda Peet's annoying character just to watch Ivan. Then he was on a short-lived cop show called Hawaii. More recently, he had a small role in The Breakup... the image of him with the white dress shirt and v-neck vest will be burned into my mind forever. Muhaha. Well, it looks like he's taping another TV series... hopefully this one will air a bit longer before getting cancelled. Meanwhile I've added all of the movies and tv series he appears in (courtesy of IMDb) to my Blockbuster Online account... teehee. I'm starting an Ivan Sergei marathon. I had no idea he did long stints on Charmed and Crossing Jordan.
Josh Duhamel... I'm sure you've all heard my story... goes to my gym... only met him that one time though. He's so much hotter in person. I just rejoined my gym so I might be going more often when I know he happens to be in town. :) I think he lives in Brentwood or at least near my old house because I ran into him at the cell phone store by my old house too. Well Las Vegas is still one of my favorite shows and very high on my Tivo list... can't wait til Transformers comes out.
David Beckham... This boy has more style in his left pinky than most boys develop in a lifetime. Can't say the same for the wifey though. I love his look. He pulls off the whole preppy, runway model well but also looks great in jeans and a rugby polo.
I realized all 3 boys have similar physiques. I don't like boys to be too skinny (duh) but I don't like them muscular either. I like the tall, rectangular frame with just enough tone to show that they work out. I think it's all in the shoulders.
Seriously, do people never learn??
A radio show up north in Sacramento held a seemingly harmless contest, "Hold your Wee for a Wii" where contestants were brought into the studio and asked to drink 8 oz of water every 15 minutes, testing contestants to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom.
Uhm, did we all not hear about the college frat boy who died from water intoxication? So this woman (who did not win the Wii, btw) went home and experienced bad headaches before she was found dead that evening by her daughter. Seriously, not one person at that radio station cared to research this a bit before they went on with the contest? No one bothered to consult a physician?
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Uhm, did we all not hear about the college frat boy who died from water intoxication? So this woman (who did not win the Wii, btw) went home and experienced bad headaches before she was found dead that evening by her daughter. Seriously, not one person at that radio station cared to research this a bit before they went on with the contest? No one bothered to consult a physician?
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Full House
Vina's baaaack. She went up to San Francisco for 2 weeks. And she came back with a bag of Ghiradelli chocolates. We are so dead. The snacker is back. Plus my mom is staying with us and she cooks us breakfast lunch and dinner. Which is GREAT but not good for us. She was good the first couple of days... I asked her to stick to fish and veggies. But slowly she started slipping in some white rice with the brown rice in the cooker... and sautee-ing instead of steaming... and tonight she totally broke our agreement and made a pork dish. BAD!
Anyhow, along with chocolates Vina also brought this home:
It's a quaint little Japanese (or Chinese, since she bought it in Chinatown?) village-type model home with running water on the well. As the water runs the well moves up and down and makes a "tap, tap" sound. It was pleasant at first, kind of therapeutic. It actually serves as a great metronome for our nightly set of crunches and sit-ups.
But right now I'm in my room trying to watch the first part of the 4-hour Season Premiere of 24 and I have to replay each scene because I can't hear over the stupid "tap, tap"... someone shoot me! Auuuggghhh!
This is the first time I'm going to be watching 24 on TV. I watched all the other seasons either on DVD or iPod (hooked up to the TV of course, can't wait for TV!) and I was dreading the day I caught up to the current season and I'd be forced to watch it one episode per week. I was going to avoid it altogether and buy the season on iTunes halfway through the season so I could watch it on my own time but how can you resist a 4-hour premiere? :)
Okay, back to 24~
P.S. Saw a 24-hr Fitness commercial with a clever tagline just now... "No one ever says 'I wish I hadn't gone to the gym today.'"
Anyhow, along with chocolates Vina also brought this home:
It's a quaint little Japanese (or Chinese, since she bought it in Chinatown?) village-type model home with running water on the well. As the water runs the well moves up and down and makes a "tap, tap" sound. It was pleasant at first, kind of therapeutic. It actually serves as a great metronome for our nightly set of crunches and sit-ups. But right now I'm in my room trying to watch the first part of the 4-hour Season Premiere of 24 and I have to replay each scene because I can't hear over the stupid "tap, tap"... someone shoot me! Auuuggghhh!
This is the first time I'm going to be watching 24 on TV. I watched all the other seasons either on DVD or iPod (hooked up to the TV of course, can't wait for TV!) and I was dreading the day I caught up to the current season and I'd be forced to watch it one episode per week. I was going to avoid it altogether and buy the season on iTunes halfway through the season so I could watch it on my own time but how can you resist a 4-hour premiere? :)
Okay, back to 24~
P.S. Saw a 24-hr Fitness commercial with a clever tagline just now... "No one ever says 'I wish I hadn't gone to the gym today.'"