So...I have been frantically cleaning my house because my parents are coming to visit! :) It's always nice to have an excuse to clean the inside of the fridge or get all those dust bunnies out from underneath the bed! :) It's very exciting to have them coming out to visit...plus, my dad built me an incredibly beautiful wine/liquor cabinet and they are driving it out. I cannot wait to get it out here, finish it off with a beautiful stain, and put it in our dining room! Hooray! Of course, I also am very excited to have my mom and dad out to visit! It's going to be so nice to have them here to do fun things and just have a great time. It's too bad that Chuck is down at the shore, but I think we'll manage to get down there for a day or two to visit!
Other than cleaning, I have been riding and running every day and trying to finish off a paper that I am working on for the Fall semester. I have about 12 pages written so far, and I'm shooting for around 15....so I am almost there. Plus, I think that the 12 I have so far are good pages, not crap...so that's a plus! In fact, I'm going to get back to work on that now instead of procrastinating by posting on here! :)
Friday, August 11, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
LiveStrong Challenge
Well, I tried to do this ride last year and it got rained out!! Washington D.C. was so flooded that though we could have ridden in the rain, we wouldn't have made it through the streets!
This year, the LiveStrong Challenge is in Philadelphia! Woo Hoo! Heather and I have both signed up to ride 70 miles on September 10th. We have to raise $500 each in donations in order to ride, and we're working on getting sponsorship from a company so that we can ride as a team. A two-person team, but what the heck!?!? Anyway...I figured I would post my fundraising website address here so that anyone who happens by could check it out and donate if they'd like. So, if you're feeling donate-y...click the link and pull out your credit card! Thanks!!!!
http://www.livestrongchallenge.org/06pa/siepson
This year, the LiveStrong Challenge is in Philadelphia! Woo Hoo! Heather and I have both signed up to ride 70 miles on September 10th. We have to raise $500 each in donations in order to ride, and we're working on getting sponsorship from a company so that we can ride as a team. A two-person team, but what the heck!?!? Anyway...I figured I would post my fundraising website address here so that anyone who happens by could check it out and donate if they'd like. So, if you're feeling donate-y...click the link and pull out your credit card! Thanks!!!!
http://www.livestrongchallenge.org/06pa/siepson
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
So Sorry No Posting!!
Boy, have I been lax in putting anything on this site. Part of the problem has been that I am so darn busy! Not typical busy stuff like work, but fun-busy stuff like traveling and going to the beach and going to my 10 year high school reunion!!! It has been a wacky month!
I was in Colorado for a week and a half. It was incredible. SOOO much fun. My sister moved to Fort Collins, so we went out there to visit. We hiked up to 11,000 feet...we went fly fishing in Poudre canyon...we went to the Big Horn Mountain Music Fesitval in Buffalo, Wyoming!! If you like rockin' kick butt bluegrass tunes, you have to check out the Wilders. They ROCK!!! It was a blast because part of the trip consistd of surprising my mom and dad for their 60th birthdays. They didn't know that my brother and I were going to be there, so we showed up at their restaurant table as the waitress and waiter! I thought my mother was going to have a heart attack! It was great. There are photos of all of this trip posted in our gallery.
Then, I went home to Michigan for my 10 year reunion. It was very interesting to see how some people hadn't changed AT ALL...neither their looks nor their personality, while others were so different that you hardly recognized them. All in all, it was a great time, and I caught up with a few friends that I am really going to try to keep in touch with!!
Then, of course, we went to the wedding to end all weddings! It was incredible...sushi bar, caviar bar, open bar!!! :) We drank, we danced, we ATE, we had COTTON CANDY for desert from the cotton candy machine. Zach and Lori...that was an incredible night..thanks for inviting us!!! :)
Today was a busy day as well...although rather light on traveling. Got up this morning and ran...about 3.5 miles. Then decided tonight to go meet up with the Outdoor Club for a ride. It was my first ride with their B-class group, and I was alone, so I was a little nervous. It started out a bit rough with a small crash 2 miles into the ride. Fortunately, it was behind me, so I remained unscathed. Several people then decided to split into a B and a B+ group. Deciding to be adventurous, I sped off with the B+ crew, only to blow a flat about a tenth of a mile up the road! They all left me there, save for two guys (Thanks Ben and Andrew) who came back to help me change the flat and then KICKED my butt for the next 3o miles!! It was a great ride. Especially since I DID NOT run over the stupid shihz-tzu dog that ran out into the street 25 miles into the ride!! Dumb Dog! I will be sleeping like a baby tonight...can't wait....need a shower!
I was in Colorado for a week and a half. It was incredible. SOOO much fun. My sister moved to Fort Collins, so we went out there to visit. We hiked up to 11,000 feet...we went fly fishing in Poudre canyon...we went to the Big Horn Mountain Music Fesitval in Buffalo, Wyoming!! If you like rockin' kick butt bluegrass tunes, you have to check out the Wilders. They ROCK!!! It was a blast because part of the trip consistd of surprising my mom and dad for their 60th birthdays. They didn't know that my brother and I were going to be there, so we showed up at their restaurant table as the waitress and waiter! I thought my mother was going to have a heart attack! It was great. There are photos of all of this trip posted in our gallery.
Then, I went home to Michigan for my 10 year reunion. It was very interesting to see how some people hadn't changed AT ALL...neither their looks nor their personality, while others were so different that you hardly recognized them. All in all, it was a great time, and I caught up with a few friends that I am really going to try to keep in touch with!!
Then, of course, we went to the wedding to end all weddings! It was incredible...sushi bar, caviar bar, open bar!!! :) We drank, we danced, we ATE, we had COTTON CANDY for desert from the cotton candy machine. Zach and Lori...that was an incredible night..thanks for inviting us!!! :)
Today was a busy day as well...although rather light on traveling. Got up this morning and ran...about 3.5 miles. Then decided tonight to go meet up with the Outdoor Club for a ride. It was my first ride with their B-class group, and I was alone, so I was a little nervous. It started out a bit rough with a small crash 2 miles into the ride. Fortunately, it was behind me, so I remained unscathed. Several people then decided to split into a B and a B+ group. Deciding to be adventurous, I sped off with the B+ crew, only to blow a flat about a tenth of a mile up the road! They all left me there, save for two guys (Thanks Ben and Andrew) who came back to help me change the flat and then KICKED my butt for the next 3o miles!! It was a great ride. Especially since I DID NOT run over the stupid shihz-tzu dog that ran out into the street 25 miles into the ride!! Dumb Dog! I will be sleeping like a baby tonight...can't wait....need a shower!
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