quatro!

last official day.  i dork out a lot in this one — like when i say “i dig rocks.”  get it? DIG?!  ROCKS?! totally didn’t even mean to. i just say stupid stuff sometimes.

hopefully you also enjoy the old school pretty much 1-hit-wonder blaine larsen i had BLASTING in the background.  oops.  sorry hotel neighbors!

ps — googled it. it’s mr. mackey, not mr. garrison. not sure where the hell i came up with that.

bsg babbles like a champ:

the third day. because i can’t remember how to spell 3 in Spanish. Oops.

THREE vids today.  One regular me babbling one, one showing how the Gates of the Mountains work (which, when I watched it, it’s totally not the same as being there — sorry.), and one showing how people in Montana are still sort of nutty.  Ready? Go.

Me babbling:

(also, when i say “because it was AWESOME,” i am speaking of the entire trip, not the my-mom-nearly-drowned-in-the-rain part)

The Gates:

Did you kind of see how the gates were closing? That rock on the left was sorta going to the right? Ish?  Yeah, you could tell in person and it was way cool.

People in Montana are still a little whacked:

Seriously. Isn’t that weird? or is it me?

day numero dos. in which i make you decide if i like boats in a lightening storm or spending my dad’s money more.

good wednesday morning, party people (is it seriously wednesday already?)!!  today is a better day already, i can feel it!  of course my liver will eventually jump ship on me for the amount of ibuprofen i’ve taken in the last 2 days, but hey. that won’t be for a few years, so why worry about it now?! : )

let’s see… weather is craptastic this morning — we’re SUPPOSED to do Gates of the Mountains in Helena today, but for some odd reason, my mother prefers not to be on a boat in a large body of water when there’s a lightening storm (seriously, you guys, the woman is a candy ass).  so, whatevs.  we’ll hang out and shop or something. spending my dad’s money is always more enjoyable for me anyway, so not breakin’ my heart there.

that last paragraph? just kidding. mostly. i’ll let you decide which parts.

to the video:

family vacay ‘09 day numero uno

as with all my video blogs, i ramble. so let’s prepare ourselves for that, shall we?  also, by the time you read this, it will be day two.  hopefully day two will start out with either a trip to an electronics store to get a new charger, OR my charger miraculously showing up in the car. let’s hope for door #2.

onward:

ETA. i crashed so hard last night that i fell asleep sitting up. sooooooo day 2 actually started with a handful of ibuprofen and a hot shower to get rid of the KINK IN MY NECK OMG I LOVE FAMILY VAYCAY.

seriously. it will get better.

you gotta stand a little rain

^{“I am putting my bow in the clouds.  It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.  Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears, I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.  When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between Me and all living beings on earth.  That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings.”}

yes.

taken right off our deck after a storm tonight.

i’m back! YES, REALLY!

sooooooooooooo i know you guys probably won’t believe me… but I am really dedicated to the idea of blogging again.  court has been keeping me posted on the events of the 20something meet-up this weekend, and IT SOUNDS LIKE SUCH A BLAST.  and it made me think about how much i miss keeping tabs on everyone and the camaraderie of the blogging community (awh!). and i decided (fo real, yo) that i want to start being more active over there, and here.  so.  clearly i won’t be posting every day, because judging by the lack of posting,  i don’t have something to talk about every day.  i know you don’t believe me. because i say this a lot. and it’s okay.  i’m going to try really hard to prove you wrong. : )

oooh. also. family vaycay starts one week from tomorrow.  expect lots of photos from my beautiful state.

eta: i’m gonna also change my header on a monthly basis. i’m bored easily. also. someday? i might be at wordpress.org. and then i can change it whenever i want. i think.

I’m not here! Shocking, I know!

Not that I’m here all that often (ahem. sorry.) but today I AM somewhere else!  Check me out over at Mandy’s — I’m guest blogging for her lasting impressions series.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

someone should create a website to generate blog post titles. you’d make a killing.

Yesterday I was all “wow, it’s only Saturday!  I have a whole ‘nother day to get SO MUCH STUFF DONE!” and i had already gotten quite a bit accomplished, so i was quite pleased with this fact.

now it’s sunday. at eight. pm. and monday wake-up is only 12 hours away. WHERE DID IT GO?

i’ll save you the minutae.

you’re welcome.

a large portion of today was spent helping get this thing started: Akalei: Art by Ashley — you should totally check it out.  Ash and I went to high school and college together and she is an amazingly talented artist, so I jumped at the chance to help her out.  Also, check out my new blog header.  It’s an Akalei original. ; )

hope everyone had a fab weekend. i’m gonna finish my laundry, eat some dinner, and write up a blog post for Miss Mandy — she’s featuring me in her lasting impressions series on Friday — come check it out!

what i want to be when i grow up.

I used to do this thing around here (when I was over at blogger) called music news Monday and it ended up being part of the reason I quit blogging – it got so overwhelming.  There was always SO MUCH quality stuff coming out of music city, those posts took me like two hours to put together.  Gah. But I’m still crazy about country music, new music, and music news (by “music news” I pretty much mean celebrity gossip about those living in Nashville, not gonna lie).  Since I have new readers, I’ll give you a little background on me:

I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations (a BS in BS if you will).  My original “OMG THIS IS THE CAREER FOR ME” thought was when I was a sophomore in high school.  We had to write career papers and somehow I found out that PR reps can make 250K a year – and this was in 1999, so I’m sure it’s increased exponentially.  You can see why to my 15-year-old shopaholic self (who didn’t think about things like tax brackets, mortgages, and the pesky payment on that Escalade/Navigator/Pilot {which would now be even MORE pricey because of COURSE I’d get the hybrid}, and sending my 2.5 kids to college, NOT TO MENTION paying off my OWN college experience) that sounded like “A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS TO BUY SHOES, BAGS, AND SPARKLY TRINKETS!” (bt dubs, I have not changed much since I was 15. I still like sparkly things.  Ask anyone. Example, when talking about the possibility of a redesign, the designer throws out a suggestion and I say “whatever, as long as it sparkles and is pink. This is no exaggeration.) Of COURSE I had to learn more about it!

As soon as I started researching, I found all sorts of cool jobs I could have, including being a talent rep and I could meet Garth Brooks and George Strait and LILA MCCANN OMG?! (she’s pretty much fallen off the radar but when I was 15, she was a pretty big deal. *sings* Gone like a dollar/spent on a drink/head hangin’ over the kitchen sink… ahem.  Sorry.)  Anyway, when I got a little older and less star-struck, I decided maybe I’d like to work for the government in some capacity in order to stay in Montana.  A semester of a Poli Sci minor fixed that for me – SNORE.  Dr. W, I heart you big time as a person.  I respect you as one of the only conservatives from one of the most liberal cities in our fair state, but your lectures KILLED ME.  And it wasn’t even an eight am class!  After that nearly disastrous decision, I took an advertising class.  CHANGED MY LIFE. For awhile.  During that class, we had to write up an ad campaign for the chamber of commerce.  Our group didn’t win, but ours was the most professional.  At the last minute, the lady from the chamber had a schedule conflict and wasn’t able to judge our presentations.  One of the heads of the department judged them instead and she clearly didn’t understand the assignment was to have a GOOD campaign.  Otherwise, we would have won.

If that contest served even one useful purpose, it was to show me that I had a true passion for big sky country.  The last best place. MONTANA.  I decided I wanted to go to work for the Montana board of tourism.  Yes. My calling. I haz it.  Or, um, had.  Because I sort of got disenchanted with that.  I’m not really sure WHY, it wasn’t like my second plan of working for the government was going to have me rolling in sparkle, so I know it wasn’t the money.  Maybe it was because I’d have to figure out a way to promote Montana in the winter (which I’m not a huge fan of).  At any rate, the summer before my senior year of college, I had an epiphany.  It seems like not only was that the summer of sara, it was the summer of epiphanies. Courtney and I had a plan for everything and knew exactly how it should work out.

The longest story is one I have marked private in this blog – sorry guys – but in short, it detailed the great plan we refer to as “Uncle Howard’s Tee-shirt Stand.”  This was basically the name for the menagerie of people we were planning to take along – Howard is Court’s most interesting uncle, and I was set to be the tour manager.  After a few years, Courtney and I had a different visions for her music – which is totally fine with us – it just means I have to find a way to live my dream and a way to still be her road manager, because a tour and all the things it should be, we definitely agree on!  So right now, I’m not 100% sure what I want to do.  I’m definitely a fan of getting a master’s in PR – San Diego State has an excellent program – and with that, I can teach.  The saying is “those who can do, those who can’t, teach.”  I disagree.  I think you have to be twice as good as anyone in your field in order to teach someone else how to do it, because some people just don’t have the ability to make people get it.  And I do.

Besides, if I teach, I can take summers off to be Courtney’s tour manager on the river of dreams. : )

Hey, Court.  I think I just came up with a tour name…

my Easter resolution. and stuff.

ah, Easter. A time of new beginnings.  Blog has died, Blog has risen, Blog will come again.

Sorry, Jesus, for that analogy.

I know I never blog anymore.  But for what it’s worth, I’m always thinking “i should really blog more.”

When I wrote that kinda deep-ish blog post awhile back, I think I scared myself!  This blog is not for deep things like regrets and life pondering!  It is for photos! and tales of wine-drinking! and stories of the silly things i do! but then i wasn’t having any opportunities to photo. or wine drink. or silly things…do. or something. hm. well that’s not true. the silly things doing happens quite a lot i suppose… ANYWAY. today (yes, just today, because i is so smartishlike) it occurred to me that hey! this be my blog! i can write about whatever i wants! even if it’s deep and thought provoking! supa!

so.

will be doing more of that.

but hopefully still some photo/wine/silly things too.

HAPPY EASTER, Y’ALL. : )