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bill nye the eden guy

2011-04-16T10:10:00.000-07:00

edited by Abigail Louisa

France du Sud...Nice.

2011-04-15T09:38:00.000-07:00

After three months in Paris and a lil bit of Germany, my dad, sister, and students took the TGV to Nice in Southern France for a few days.

highlights:

"La Vielle Ville" is the old part of town with an italian feel to it, with beautiful colors and small streets.

The park overlooking it.

Hiking along the coast on a greeky trail Riding velo bleu bikes all around Nice

The water icy and beautiful, accompanied by a beach made of tiny pebbles at the beach Villefranche.

i captured some sea glass from the beach Clay court fancy tennis with my dad

montana, brother

2009-07-06T12:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a lil clip from a great weekend trip to Montana..

My friend Jared invited Sara, Mary, and I to his cabin on Echo Lake in Montana. It was beautiful, and so much fun! His family was so nice, too. good times

squirly

2009-05-31T06:19:00.000-07:00

My friend Josh and I went rock climbing a couple days ago in Little Cottonwood Canyon and it was awesome! We hiked up the the spot where our climb begins, and there were some guys there just finishing up their lil climbing sesh. We chatted with them briefly and Josh asked them if they had seen the squirrel. They didn't know what he was talking about and neither did I so he went on and said that there is supposed to be a famous fat squirrel in this spot that eats your food from your packs once you start climbing. They thought it was a funny story but they weren't victims of this squirrel.

Josh started his lead and got to the first pitch pretty quickly, then I started climbing. I was clipping in at the top when Josh looked down the cliff and said "Oh no way!!" And there he was. This HUGE fat squirrel unzipping our packs (he doesn't chew it open- he's a very respectful squirrel) and taking our M&M's, Cliff Bar, Cliff Bar, Cliff Bar... yes. There were three!! We tried to find some loose rocks to chuck at it and we found one but by then he already vanished into the bushes. That little punk.

So we didn't get to eat the lunch we brought and I didn't have time to eat after because I was running late for work, so I had to tell my boss that a squirrel ate my lunch. He gave me a funny look but he let me eat a salad in the back.

Btw, the picture of the squirrel is a squirrel I snapped a shot of in D.C. at the Jefferson Memorial. This canyon squirrel looked more like this.

And probably a little fatter since he ate 3 cliff bars AND a pack of eminems. Next time I'm bringing my airsoft gun and clipping it to me while I climb.

Also, last week I went camping as a chaperone for a high school group. We accidently left a backpack full of sunflower seeds and triscuits. Though everything was fully zipped, of course some thief squirrels or raccoons left a mess in our tent. Again, nothing was chewed up, and they zipped up my backpack and the tent when they left. They should have cleaned up the mess....

Also, my brother's family is coming soon!! I love them and I can't wait. Here they are at Christmas time when I went to go visit them in Baltimore.

OK Peace.

my block

2008-09-05T08:26:00.000-07:00

First of all, I'm eating a breakfast sausage sandwich from maverick and its pretty gross.

I went on a weekend trip to Southern Utah with friends Sara and Mary this past weekend. We stayed at Sara's friend Sally's house in Cedar City and she made us some good healthy soup and we went to the park with her and her two kids. The next day we went to a ghost town by Zion's called Grafton and there was a lumpy graveyard and a few old houses and buildings- it was aight.
Then we went on a twenty-five-dollar hike called Angel's Landing. It was hard to keep up with Sara- she's a hiking machine. We took alot of fun pictures lol

I moved to my parents house this month. Just trying to get all my stuff organized and trying to make room for it somewhere... my mom likes to collect everything, especially birthday bags, baby items, and picture frames. She collects things so much that its filling up the house, or should i say, has been filling up the house for a long time now. The stuffs over flowed into about 5 storage rooms, a storage facility room, and into all rooms in the house including mine. I'll find room somewhere though, and hopefully i will find a place in January or something. It's nice not to pay rent though! So thanks mom and dad.

School started, and it hasn't fully kicked into my head yet. I don't really count BYU Hawaii as school, so I haven't really gone to school for 2 years... or at least a year and a half. I like my physiology and my human development classes. Chemistry is gonna be killer though. Tutor me?

My brother Jared and his cute family came over last night. I haven't seen Diana since she was a newborn and she is so cute! She looks so much like Lucinda. It's crazy how fast babies grow. Adam, who is just under two, is so tiny (my dad makes up weird nicknames- he calls him peanut boy) and I love how he smiles every time I pick him up. I want to see them more often- they are so awesome. I made Jared a CD with all the pictures I took of the kids so he could have them on his computer. My aunt Shelly is in town with my cousin Michael too so it was fun to have alot of family over last night. Shelly ("squish") made some awesome mashed potatoes too.

My sweet sister-in-law Felicity had her baby a month early the other night! Everything turned out okay though (is what i heard) and the baby is awesome and i can't wait to see him. I might go there for christmas even!

Anyway, I'm at work right now and I'm not even supposed to blog so I'm gonna look at my chemistry book and try to make sense of it.

But don't forget, I do what I want.

They're cute

High on the Mountain TOP

lil' vids

2008-08-03T19:01:00.000-07:00

caught in a stasis..

made this earlier this year

photo drought

2008-08-01T12:19:00.000-07:00

I somehow lost my charger for my camera's battery and therefore can't use my camera until i find it. How does that happen? Chargers hang out in outlets, and i went to all those- he's not there.

grand canyon

2008-07-22T07:36:00.000-07:00

Some friends and I tagged along with a group to go to Havasupai in Arizona. We saw beautiful blue- green chlorinated waterfalls and caves of wonder. We also found alot of cool rope swings. This was a really great trip, even though the drive there was ten hours and then the hike is over ten miles, it's so worth it, so much.

Support July

2008-07-06T23:00:00.001-07:00

B-Ballin'

2008-06-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

Basketball with CheeseCake

Mike and Chris

and i found a wheelchair- a basketball wheelchair

love sister

2008-06-19T00:44:00.000-07:00

happy birthday flabby abby! i love you. be good k (but not TOO good ;))

drunk driving in salt lake

2008-06-19T00:40:00.001-07:00

see, you can see good enough right. just kidding

not a crime

2008-06-19T00:15:00.000-07:00

Location: orem, UT

Reward Me Less

2008-06-18T21:17:00.000-07:00

This office has definitely lost some color after he quit.

RIP victor

yellowstone nat'l park- home of the buffalo and where they roam

2008-06-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

The buffalo were nice, but I wish they were grizzlies a little bit more. How many buffalo did we see during our trip? Probably a hundred, or a thousand.

We did, however, see an elk.

Here are some other pictures from our trip to Yellowstone Nashpark.

and these are the wonderous people i went with

3 AM

2008-06-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

This is an old photo from 2006 that I took with my film camera of Josh Brown in the middle of the night.

Victor Blandon

2008-06-04T11:49:00.000-07:00

Sara Barclay

2008-06-04T11:40:00.001-07:00

Ezra Lopez

2008-06-03T23:21:00.000-07:00

JUNE

2008-06-02T13:51:00.000-07:00

Wendy had a birthday surprise party at Vivian Park yesterday. Since i got my camera Saturday, I took alot of pictures.

Mary didn't like the ginger beer!

He can start a fire with his bare hands

My generation, your generation...they're both totally wicked

2008-05-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

Everyone covets the generation that came before them, and they never want to be in the generation that followed them, yet everyone wants to be younger than they are – wtf?

-S.E. Barclay

hans ringger

2008-05-28T14:41:00.000-07:00

God help the sister that comes between me and my man.

Oh moab, oh eight

2008-05-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

Team Hardcore goes to Moab again April 18-19, 2008 for a weekend getaway. We left Friday morning and stopped on the way and played at Crystal Geyser again, then once we got to Moab we hiked Delicate Arch. It was Mary's first time and she didnt know quite how to react...

On the way down from delicacy, I decided to run down the mountain, not thinking or caring about the lack of traction I would have on the gravel at the bottom. The event was skillfully filmed by Sara and is now on youtube for all to see. As you probably guessed, I did fall, but my camelback did what it does best and flew under my head like a little pillow so I was fine- didn't even shed a tear. Besides, Dr. Diehl was there and brought her first aid kit, and did what she does best and made it all better.

Then Sara did what she does best and found us an awesome campsite away from the crowds that were by the river. Instead, we pretty much had our own canyon!

I brought food for tinfoil dinners- but of course I did what I do best, and forgot:

enough tinfoil
utensils to eat with
utensils to cut with
tongs, or something to take our food in and out of the flames.

But all was well because Wendy, a.k.a “Captain”, found some sticks to use as tongs, and occasionally used her hands. She took one for the team!

Then Sara, a.k.a “Inshape”, made us spoons out of cardboard and tinfoil, and Megann, a.k.a “Slim”, and Mary “cheesecake” chopped up all the veggies with a razorblade. And I, well, didn't do anything because I ate it on the mountain and hurt my arm and cut up my hand. When they were finished, they were sooo tasty!

Sara, Mary and I slept in a two-man tent that night and it was a little cozy, but it wasn't bad. In the morning, I woke up earlier than everyone else so I hiked up the nearest mountain and laid out for a while in the warm sun.

Saturday: We decided to hike the Devil's Garden Primitive Loop, which takes you through a few really cool arches, and if you go past Double “O” arch, you get to the Dark Angel. At Dark Angel we split up- Wendy, Megann, and Mary went back on the trail we came from while Sara and I finished up the Loop. It was very cool, very primitive. Altogether I think the hike was 7 miles. We were all pretty tired after that, but a few of us made a quick stop to see Sand Dune Arch, but there was a sandstorm in there so we couldn't stay for long.

PHOTOS- here's some of my favorites...

All of us at Delicate Arch.

I guess Sara made spoons for everyone except herself...

enjoying our meal

Dark Angel

One of the best parts of Devil's Garden Hike

I can't decide which one of these pics of Sara I like better! So I put them both.

That's why we call her captain

cute and candid

hiking back from delicate

One of my favorite shots

We got some mexican food and then made our way back to Provo, and got home pretty late, so we pretty much wanted to go to sleep. Tired, dirty, and sore we pulled up to the driveway only to find a huge party at our house...

I'll keep cubical-ing. For now...

2008-05-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

“Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation.”

Wikipedia fails to recognize what customer service does to the employee taking the calls... but anyways, so that's what I do! I enhance customer satisfaction... which usually means giving them a refund and NOT being employee of the week because of it. Yes, I wear a headset 39 hours a week and doodle on post-it notes since I found out what a cubical was on March 12, 2008. As a result, I hear the phone ringing when I sleep. I start taking notes on customers involuntarily when try to email a friend. My “To Do” list outside of work includes buying pins and bringing pictures and other decorations to make my cubical more “homie”, homey. But I'm not going to complain about sitting indoors (while the sun is shining brightly (good job, annie!)) listening to angry customers and their cuss words because, after all, I did pick this job. And there are good things about working here. My co-workers are funny and rad. My supervisor looks and acts like Dwight (from NBC's The Office, ever heard of it?) and always wears either a superman logo or fire flames everyday. see below. sup Ryan!

I've got a good friend that works with me, and it pays pretty well. And Good Earth is just across the street.

So I thought I was going to put in my two weeks notice today, but I think I will hold off a little while longer for the sake of my pay check.. . and, also, i love listening to what people say when they think they are on hold.

anyways, office soccer: