Rut-Roh

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Pets, Readers - I find myself caught in a rut. The strange thing is, I'm not highly motivated to get out of it. I see it's destructive possibilities, I see the boredom beginning to creep, no rushing, in. Yet, I have no energy for busting out. Hopefully this realization will turn into motivation soon.

Home Sick

I am having an allergy attack. I think. Or maybe a cold. Who knows - in any case I'm pretty congested and have that awesome congested voice and almost no energy or appetite. So I used that as a legitimate excuse to stay home from work today. I really like being home sick when I'm lethargic but not vomiting :)

The silver lining to what I think is allergies is that Denver is truly coming into spring. There are budding and flowering trees everywhere and it's absolutely beautiful. The other beautiful thing is that today's high of 59 is the LOWEST high for the entire week. So if I have to endure allergies in order for spring to come, then by all mean, bring it allergies. Bring it.

Pretty Day

Today was gorgeous here in Denver. I think high 60s maybe even 7o and it was a nice easy day. This afternoon I headed downtown with Vivian for Doors Open Denver - an event in conjunction with Architecture week where many of Denver's buildings - historic and otherwise - are open to the public. Some have tours and others you can just look around in. The pictures are from the top of the Daniels and Fischer Tower. Until the age of the skyscraper it defined the Denver skyline. Now the department store is gone and the tower is used mainly for offices. The balcony at the top is only open to the public during this one weekend and it was pretty cool.

I also made a pot roast today. Here's to good ole fashioned family pot roast.

This American Life

I like to listen to NPR on Saturdays. Yes - you read right - the car guys are on and my two favorites, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and This American Life. Today TAM was about leaving something you thought you never wanted to go back to and then missing part of it later. The third act was about a group of nuns and their story had a lot of similarities to my story of being in Denver. You can listen here if you want. (Although I'm not sure if you have to listen to the entire thing or not.)

Defrosting the Freezer

Excuse me while I jump back to about 1974 for a few minutes today. I'm defrosting my freezer - I have never done this before while I actually had stuff in the fridge. When I moved into this apartment the freezer was crazy frosted over, but I left it unplugged and propped open for about 24 hours and that did the trick. Now that I live here I can't really do that. So - I purposely stopped buying things that go in the freezer and when it emptied (this morning) I went after defrosting it. Thankfully there are directions on the inside of the door and they're working quite well. This is NOT as bad as cleaning out the tub though - and I have to do it much less frequently.

My Mom was in Denver last weekend and we had a fun time hitting up a couple museums, watching a guy walk into a window (no joke), shopping, and heading up to Steamboat to sit in the Hot Springs. I heart those hot springs, and aside from a little snow between the tunnel and Silverthorne (yup - all 5 miles of it) we had an easy drive and a great time. I even found a pretty pair of new jeans up there - and we all know how hard jeans are to fit!

The rest of this week I kinda felt like I was recovering from going going going all weekend. I think I'm getting old - or at the very least lazy. We also got some snow this week (blech) which I'm sure took my energy level down a bit. Thankfully we're supposed to be in the 70s Monday and Tuesday so I'm ready to break out the summer things. Hopefully that was Denver's last snow until next season.

Other than that not a helluva lot going on here. I guess that's enough.

Thanks Colorado!

I believe that last friday there was a bank robbery in the building I work in. There were more than a half dozen Denver police cars, guys in FBI vests and other obvious plain clothes authorities running around outside. The bank branch in the lobby was closed and there was caution tape all over inside.

Why do I tell you this? Well - the rest of the afternoon I was trying to find information about the incident online. Nothing has ever shown up - however - I did read a story about the Great Colorado Payback. The Treasury of the Colorado has property that belongs to people who haven't claimed it. The story said you could go to a website, enter your name, and find out if there was any for you. It seemed stupid to me not to give it a shot (don't ask, don't get, right Mary?) so I entered my name. To my great surprise there's $178 there for me! To make it even sweeter the website will even print out the form with all the correct information and all you have to do is get the form notarized and mail it in with a photocopy of your driver's license and SS card. I took care of it today and hopefully my $178 will come soon.

Click here if you want to check and see if Colorado has anything for you.

Go GR?

HA! Tonight I'm doing laundry, and I put America's Next Top Model on for some noise and to watch in the inbetween times. I used to watch ANTM regularly, but this is the first episode I've seen this season. It's the one where they go to see different designers and someone wins. And to my surprise one of the designers was Pamella Rolland. I completely cracked up! A designer from Grand Rapids on ANTM. Crazy!