Ouch with a capital C.

I have been waiting for warm weather since November and the last few days have not failed to impress. Heck, I already am sunbrurnt! I guess you can say I have never been accussed of not being excessive in a given situation if it involves either:

a: chocolate
b: sex
c: warm weather
d: gossip
3: alcohol.

And of course, since this involves 'c', I went over the top and of course got sunburnt.

Actually, truth be told it was quiet by accident. I went skiing on Sunday up at Snowbasin. Lovely area, and I forgot completely to put sunscreen on the one area that wasn't covered up (the lower face). I thought at first it was a bit of windburn, nothing more serious then that, but only later in the evening when I was at home, did it start feeling like a sunburn.

Of course it just happens to look like I have some weird STD on the lower part of my face now, even it if it simply sunburn.

I have spent the last two days with a gooey aloe vera mess on my face to stop the worst of the peeling and burny feeling.

Then again I am not the only person walking around town with ski-mask sunburn (is that the correct terminology?), so at least I am not alone.to.

Greetings From Idaho

Potatoe land... how do I love thee...

Actually I don't feel either which way about Idaho, in fact after spending two days here I am ready to go home to my nice comforting nest in Utah.

Went to Twin Falls, Idaho to help Lindsay pick up her dog as she didn't want to go by herself. Went to Jackpot on the Nevada/Idaho boarder to the Cactus Pete Casino. Pissy little boarder casino town. Blew $30.00 and that was enough for me.

Surfing DMV Style...

Okay, I know Driver's License Photos are never suppose to look good. There is a curse against humanity that specifically relates to drivers license photos, but seriously I must of had an extra helping of that curse at some stage.

I had to go and get a new Driver's License done today and thus I went down to the DMV in Farmington, and while the Staff there where really nice and friendly as alway (is it just me, or is the DMV staff the nicest of all the public sector branches?), my photo looked like hell.

I just cannot win, I am still sunburnt on the lower part of my face and even in the black and white temporary photo they gave me, I still look pretty bad. I cringe at the thought of the full coloured one that I am bound to get in the mail.

The Pashing

During the cruxifiction scene in "The Passion of the Christ", was I the only one that wanted to start singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"?

The local Eddie Bauer was having a going out of business sale. I brought a new cable knit jumper and an orange turtle neck for 50% off. I love a bargin.

There are always wolves, there are always spells...

I finally saw the infamous Mormon Episode of "South Park". It is sad how ingrained into Utahn culture I have become when I was able to nitpick various bits and pieces of the episode - then again it wasn't meant to be a factual account either - heck, the facts are clouded with controversy.

I couldn't figure out if Trey Parker and Matt Stone where subtley being anti-LDS or pro-LDS. Yes there was all the nitpicking apart of Joseph Smith, but it gave a rather positive message about LDS values.

My electric-razor has been broken for several days now. I am starting to develop something of a try hard beard. I cannot confess to liking it. I prefer my face clean shaven. After discovering the price of the replacement part (and not even a mechanical part, but the gauze that goes over the electric blades, which makes it all the more annoying), it will only cost about $15 more to buy a brand new electric-razor which I am going to do.

Good news though is that I found at my local B&N, Sara Douglass's "Beyond The Hanging Wall" to be half-price. I couldn't resist that bargin. The book isn't as good as the rest of her Trancendor/Wayfarer Redemption, but still tonnes better then half the drek out there. I finished it in a day.

I am rather pleased with myself. I didn't touch any junk food today.

Daylight... I must wait for the sunrise...

I am up awfully late. Dang awful late. I got up at 8am this morning to go to a breakfast meeting only to realise once I got there it was actually next Saturday. It is normally every second Saturday of the month and as this month the second Saturday occurs at the latest date possible, I naturally got things mixed up. Well that is my excuse and I am sticking to it. Heh.

So I dragged my weary sleep deprived body home and went straight back to bed (it is a Saturday, I am not going to be up if I don't have to). Then I promptly went to sleep. And I promptly woke up at 6:00 PM.

Aye curumba!

Talk about wasting a day. I'd figure that at worst I would sleep until 1:00 PM.

Well (alot of) sleep has helped dull the anger I was feeling yesterday. I was so ready for out-right revenge, only a few pegs sort of postal. But today I finally realise the meaning of the saying "revenge is a dish best served cold". 'Cold' I now know has nothing to do with temperature of refridgeration, but hard, logical calculation and well thought out ideas.

Actually that sounds rather menacing. Heck, I properly will do nothing more then complain to (the correct) people. But I can have my moments of grand illusions thinking I will do somethign on the level of a melodramatic soap-opera. Heck I want my damn melodramatic soap-opera. I earnt it!

Plus I have been listening to "Into The Woods" non-stop. Stephen Sondheim is a God. Odd though since my music taste tends to be pretty hard-core (think Punk/alt-Rock with some 80s guitar rifts thrown in), but that upbeat, funny, hilarious broadway soundtrack is definately a good thing to perked me up. Heck I am feeling perkier at the moment then Pamela Anderson after a cold shower.

British Radio is SO boring

Decided on a whim to listen to some British radio. Gosh, I am falling asleep. Choose the station quiet randomly (it is BBC Radio Five), I wonder if it is the standard of British Radio.

On the other hand, I feel I can do a fake cockney accent now.

Went shopping with Lindz at Home Depot today simply to get some bracket and shelving for the new office and some snow melting salt for her steps. It was actually funnily enough quiet a domestic experience. I guess I now understand why married couples do this on Saturdays.

Possibly going on a roadtrip to Twin Falls Idaho later this week with a stopover in Jackpot, Nevada. Weee!

When I got home I went with my brother to the back of a church parking lot to teach him good breaking skills in the snow by doing donuts.

Oh... HAPPY LEAP DAY!!!!