My Life

Ceiling Fan Complete

Well that was fun...
So after a lot of fooling around, then a day and half of chill time, I got the ceiling fan installed and yes, functional. Now we'll be testing this bad boy out this summer to see if he's all he's made up to make us believe he is. By the way, I don't know if the fan is a boy or a girl. I'm just making a blind guess.

The Amazing Singing Rocko

Hang the Garage

This weekend has officially become the most productive that I've had in the past... week. I woke up early Saturday, drove around with wifey, you know, doing the things that husbands should do. Took her out shopping and tried to keep my energy leaves up. She loved it so mission accomplished on that front. Since the weather was warming up I decided to reorganize the nasty corners of the garage and found myself scrubbing all the winter snot the cars left and hosed down the floor. Next project I had for myself was a 68" ceiling fan to be installed in the front room. Right now the ladder is still up, which mean I'm going to be staring at it until I got the time, tomorrow night. Round 2 is about to commence... after some sleepy time... and then work... and then dinner.

Selling Rex

Last night I listed my Montero for sale so I can help fund my current rebuild. I spent a lot of time tinkering with this guy and I'm sad to see him go but I'm even more excited for my next project. Here's a listing.

All Done!

So after goofing around, I mean, while goofing around, I was able to help my buddy get his pickup running like a race car. We took off the skid plate, popped out the oil pump, realigned the gears and then made sure the rotor on the distributor was at cylinder number one. We put it all back in and started it up. PURRRRRR! It snowed today so I sure hope he found a nice parking lot to do donuts in or else it all would've been for nothing. Booyah! All done!

Timing

I spent most of Saturday helping one of my good friends replace his timing chain on his pickup. We were pretty much able to put everything back together, eat a yummy Qdoba dinner and jam on Rockband to end the night. The truck sat for a day to let all the sealant to set, then he put the fluids in last night, started it up and found that it was hesitating. He called me up and after thinking about it I remembered that when we put the oil pump back in it had a gear that ran by the crankshaft up to the distributor. I'm thinking the lack of attention on how we put that in is the culprit. But hey, at least we won't have to tear it all down to the timing chain. Pheww!

My Fiesta Blog

In an effort to woo Ford into selecting me for the Fiesta Movement, I've created a blog:
http://paulsfiesta.blogspot.com/

Please visit it and become a follower.

Ford Fiesta Movement

Lately I've been putting a video together in response to Ford's Fiesta Movement. Here's my video:



Please watch it tons and leave a comment on YouTube's website.

The Facts of Life

We all remember it, right? The 1980's T.V show with Toodie and Mrs. Garrett! I thought this was a fun blast from the past to introduce what's been in my brain the past few days. It's funny and random things that I've learned since 1979, which happens to be the year that "The Facts of Life" T.V show came out. Enjoy!

1. Climbing a tree while wearing roller skates is not possible. Found this out around 1986. A lot of people were watching.

2. Recently found out that wearing a Breathe Right strip on your nose for too many nights in a row to bed can leave a hickey on it.

3. When trying to do your own auburn highlights for the first time-a few tips from 2005. Do not use regular pieces of tin foil and make little squares. Even if your husband is helping you, do not start in the front, as the process takes longer than you might imagine. That's how I ended up with purple hair. I had actually always wanted to try purple hair, and though it wasn't planned, I did enjoy it!

4. Avoid working in jobs where they literally pad-lock and chain the doors and won't let any employees leave until everyone has completed their duties. In 1997 I worked for Cracker Barrel in Utah and found that this is the policy at all their restaurants. Three months after I quit, one of the managers when crazy taking hostages with a gun. Weird. Still a good place to eat though.

5. If a cut is deep enough to see severed veins, you need stitches. Hence the scar on my left middle finger. (I wasn't using it!) It got cut on a bunk bed. But, the scar on my left pinky is barely visible after a plastic wrap blade attacked me while working at Sizzler, and I had stitches on that one!

6. Men really are just grown up boys. Their toys just get more expensive. My garage is full of things with grease and dirt. The toys at our house are paintball gun, X-Box, cars, and whatever else that's in the garage that I don't know about. I love my boy.

7. Toes can accidentally fit into a bathroom sink drain. All I'm saying is, that all the accident prone people need to be careful.

8. Ducks are not indoor pets. Summer of 1994 in Pennsylvania visiting my mom. The duck slept in my room and all I remember was poo on the floor everywhere. I don't know why my mom permitted that!

9. Pumice stones are not for lips. Yeah...I recently found this out for myself unfortunately. When your lips are rough and chapped feeling, if a warm wash cloth doesn't help the exfoliating, do not take it to the next level. You'll wish you hadn't.

For more cool 80's stuff check out Retro Junk

Paul's 30th Birthday!

What a fun day! I had the day off from work, so I surprised Paul at work by bringing cookies and Rocko to visit him at lunch time. That evening, we had a special Rockband birthday party where everybody brought him 30 of something to honor the leaving of his 20's. We also had a yummy Dairy Queen Blizzard ice cream cake, which we broke the knife trying to cut! Thank you to all of our wonderful friends for making it a special night for Paul.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Now hold on! Don't gag just yet. Yes, its Valentine's Day, a time to get all sweet and dopey over your sweetheart. Ahhh love! We come into it with the craziest of ideas, don't we? "End of our troubles...life will be bliss...heart shaped clouds and raindrop kisses." Well, I've been thinking about what REAL love is, and these are the things I have recognized as evidence of love.

1. When Paul does the dishes after each dinner to show appreciation for the meal.
2. For letting me be when I wake up cranky in the middle of the night for one reason
or another...sometimes I can't sleep.
3. Finding my phone for me when its lost...almost daily.
4. Showering in the other bathroom so he doesn't wake me up when he goes to bed late.
5. When he made sure he bought a car that had comfortable seats for my picky back.
6. For wanting me to go out and buy stuff that he knows makes me happy.
7. He acknowledges and feels happy when I accomplish something.
8. He invites me to go to the junk yard and Home Depot with him...and I go.
9. He gets excited to show me new trailers of movies he wants to see.
10. Half the time, I go to bed before he does and he stops whatever he's doing to
have prayer with me before I go to sleep.

O.k, so its not your typical top ten romantic gestures list. That's the whole point. I think its so easy to overlook the common or even hidden signs of love in every day. A box of chocolates is nice, but that of course will disappear fast, while the good feelings of knowing that someone considered your feelings in a decision or thought enough of you to ask you to "look at this engine part!", will be what lasts.

It's good to be board!

In an effort to spend more time with Paul, I suggested to him that for Christmas this past year, I wanted to finish purchasing the snowboard equipment that he started buying for me four years ago. It has taken so long because, honestly, I was afraid to try it. I soon found that my fears were very justified as the first trip down the mountain produced hard falls, pain, and yes...crying. But, knowing it would be hard beforehand, I decided "I will learn this!". This past weekend we stayed at my boss's condo in Keystone, and on Friday I took a snowboarding class at Copper Mountain, which boosted my confidence. By Saturday, I'm proud to say, I was doing runs down the mountain! Funny thing is, after I learned how to do it right...I was even more sore. Totally worth it though, and I can't wait to go again!

Oh, and just as a side note: I realized this weekend that I really like Mountain Dew too, which I never really used to care for. Its like I'm entering a whole new culture...or something. Ha ha ha!