Monday, August 24, 2009

Our Ant Farm

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My sister-in-law gave us this cool space-age habitat for ants a couple months ago. We found it in the move and since ants cost less than five bucks we figured they would be a great form of cheap entertainment. This picture is the first day we had them where they had only started tunneling down the left side. I'll post a picture of their final progress in a couple weeks. Rob likes to wait until all the ants are sleeping in their tunnels, open the top and blow down all their tunnels. They instantly start running back and forth, out of their tunnels, and try to climb out. I think they think they're under attack.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The New Place

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So, here are the long anticipated pictures of our place. Since so many people have asked to see our place, I have decided to give you a tour... except for the bedroom since we piled all the boxes we haven't unpacked in there. haha.

The living room:
Thanks to our new Best Buy credit card, we have a TV and a digital antenna which picks up 4 channels inside and 40 outside. We're actually just sad Best Buy doesn't sell groceries, seeing how they are they only people who would give credit to a full time law student living off of student loans and his unemployed spouse in this economy. You will also notice a beautiful alive orchid flower in the corner. Rob bought it for me a couple weeks ago, which means it also survived the drive from Utah. It's supposedly easier to keep alive than bamboo plants. You only need to water it once a month and keep it out of direct sunlight. I give it six months to live with me taking care of it, which is more than I can say for the bamboo plant.

The Office:
If you just turn 180 degrees to your right or left, you will see our office.... as well as some beach towels on the couch. The bright blue glowing box on the desk is our new ant farm, all of which are still alive. The bookshelf on the left is soon to be overfilled with Rob's law books, which I am certain will take more than one trip to the bookstore to buy as there is no way any human being could carry them all together all by themselves (except Mike Barney).




The Kitchen:
Yup... granite countertops and all. But don't be fooled. The granite countertops don't seem so cool when none of the doors in the apartment close... which makes using the bathroom when guests are over awkward. Oh and yes the lamp is blue.








The Bathroom:
You probably don't need any explanation....
















The Hallway:
This is the hallway looking from the bathroom. The linen closet/pantry is on the left. We call it the linen closet when we are on the bathroom side of the closet and the pantry when we are in the living room or office.












The Patio:
This is the "playpen" for our dogs or a litter box for our dogs.









These are our lemon and lime trees. Something we can't grow in Utah. Maybe one day I'll be able to make home made 7-Up. :-)











This last pic is my favorite plant. I'm not sure what they are but they are a pretty purple color. :)

Well, I think I'm all blogged out for now. This should be a more frequent occasion until I get a job. We miss y'all!

Monday, August 17, 2009

We're Here

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I'm just trying to get into the habit of posting again (and trying to get Rachel to develop the habit at all :)) so I thought I would drop a little blurb again.

We're here! School officially starts in 2 weeks...not quite ready for that yet...and most of our stuff is crammed into this place. We'll post some pictures as soon as we get time to download them. Rachel has done a great job ''nesting'' with all our old stuff from storage, a few borrowed family items, and some trips to IKEA.

We shipped mom home, and welcomed Megan and Ryan who took a much needed vacation out here. We went to the beach with the dogs, hiked 4 miles in the redwood forest Muir Woods, saw downtown San Francisco, ate Jamaican Jerk Chicken, watched TV...yep, slept a lot, toured the campus, walked University Avenue, ate at a hole in the wall Mexican Restaurant (it was good!), and most importantly...enlisted them to help around the apartment making screens and other things.


Monday, August 3, 2009

Moving

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Here we are...moving tomorrow, or rather, today. We'll only make it halfway, but it should be an interesting time.

Goodbye Utah!

Thanks to all those who helped us move, we really appreciated it!

Monday, July 13, 2009

We found a place

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Hey all, So I know we don't have any readership anymore because of our lack of posts. We're rededicating ourselves to posting when we move to California, promise.

Just thought I'd drop a note on here: We found a place to live. When we get there and get settled, we can post some pictures, but we are in downtown Palo Alto, 1 mile from campus, 3 from the law school, in an old but nice 1 bedroom. Now to tie up the loose ends in Utah and move out. We have the place starting the first week of August, so we'll see how soon we can get out there and settle in.

Rob

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Graduation!!!

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So I did it! I graduated! Didn't think I'd make it sometimes, but it came. I didn't walk when I completed my undergraduate, and am now sad that I didn't. Though the ceremony can be long (especially at 8 in the morning), it was totally worth it! Here are some pictures of that wonderful day. Thanks to everyone for coming and supporting!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

I Missed Our 6 Month Anniversary!

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Crap...Sorry this is too weeks late.

I totally missed our 6 month anniversary of not posting to the blog! WooHoo....wait...this is a good anniversary right? Maybe it was a good thing that I forgot it.

Well, we're still too busy, but as of a week ago, we've been in a steep recession trend in our overall busy-ness index. I think we've lost 20-30% of our current value already, yikes! It's okay thought. Really, it is. We've got a good $100 mil TARP bailout coming in the form of my thesis defense, followed by a massive $4 trillion "omnibus" (I really thought that Hannity made that word up, the little jokester...then I found a dictionary. It turns out my vocabulary is just smaller than a pimple faced, voice-cracking, 9th grade delinquent) stimulus in the form of moving out of state. Of course this large stimulus is nothing more than a bundle of California field mice rolled up in one barrel (things like Rachel finding a job, finding a place to live, selling everything we own, finishing all the school projects, finding loans, etc). All these things are bound to put our busy-ness index back on track? RIGHT? Please tell me we'll be okay...that we'll be busy again...sooner rather than later? Good thing I've been putting every project possible on the backburner (aka food storage) just in case of an emergency like this one. I've got projects to sustain me through the NEXT busy-ness recession.

Well, I know times will be tough, but I think we'll make it through this recession. And who knows, maybe the "conservative underground" of busy-ness will throw enough "we'll die from socialism soon enough" at us that I'll be convinced to just be a free market hippie and go to the beach, or somewhere else nice, and relax. If Glenn Beck's War Room is any indication, things could get a lot worse...I could be forced to move to Hawaii and never be busy again (a busy-ness index of 0)....and get a tan!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a la Stephen Colbert)

For those of you who can't hear my voice when I write this....I love dry sarcasm. :-)

I think we may acually begin posting here again....soon.

Hope all is well!

Bryce the Builder