Something to cheer about

Much of Rob and my dating life was spent watching Utah football games as part of the MUSS. The first year Rob and I were part of the MUSS was the last year Alex Smith played and took the Utes to the Fiesta bowl. Since Alex Smith left the University of Utah, Rob has faithfully watched the drama that has been the 49ers. Though Rob's never been upset over each 49ers loss, I've watched him become...disheartened - almost like watching your kid get picked last to play kick ball...every week... for 7 years. You know he can play well. You've seen him play well. But no one else has. Moving out to the bay area hasn't helped either. People out here hate Alex Smith. They won't even sell his jersey. But this weekend, all of that changed. I'm not a Sports Analyst, or an expert on football, so I won't attempt to give you a play by play. I will just say this - Saturday afternoon we all sat down to watch what Rob has been waiting for for 7 years. Alex Smith led the 49ers to the NFC championship game. And what made the moment more perfect - Rob's friend of 25+ years that he spent watching every Utah football game while he was at school and that have spent the last 3 years watching the games together via twitter was in our living room. We are so happy to have Jim and Kathie Gwilliam living so close to us now. The game couldn't have been more fun. And in true fashion - I didn't take a picture. So this one from some website will have to do. This just means that we'll have to re-create the moment next week! Go 9ers!

Babies!

It's been great to spend the holidays with two new members of our family - both my sister and sister-in-law had babies last year. Both girls - Kate and Aribelle.
It is so fun to see their little personalities.
I want to spoil them rotten. Rob is constantly reminding me that they don't need shoes since they can't walk yet - but baby shoes are soo cute!






These little girls are so cute - and just to clear things up - yes they are cute, I love them to death, but no it doesn't make me want to have kids. It doesn't make me NOT want to have kids either. Apparently there is an unwritten social code that once you've been married for 5 years, the question "when are you having kids?" is acceptable after the question "how are you doing?"
In the past week I have been asked by my dentist, hair stylist, receptionist at the doctor's office, and minutes after meeting my friend's husband. I understand getting the question from Mom and Dad, and occasionally from some family and close friends, but this is not a question for small talk. Aside from the obvious private-ness of the question, it makes a girl feel like she looks old! So - I am officially putting the question of "when are you having kids?" on the same social list as the questions "how old are you?" and "are you pregnant?" If you're curious or wondering, it's best to keep it in your head or wait for the other person to bring it up.

Happy Holidays

We may need to change the name of our blog to The Poulsen Yearly since we hardly post periodically... Which is why posting about Christmas after the holiday has ended would be appropriate. So instead, I will try to start an early new year's resolution - blogging! Anyone of our followers who are left can hold me to it! I look back over the last 5 years of Rob and my marriage (yes, it has been 5 years...) and am sad I have hardly documented any of it. I decided it's never too late to start, but to make up for the last 5 years, here are the highlights (according to me and in no particular order) I would have liked to blog about and didn't...

- Getting married - yes Rob, remember that day? That was a fun day :)
- Graduating from grad school - since going was hardly a highlight
- Going to Japan - missing the last cable car down the mountain, the penguin cafe, sushi at the fish market, denied by a sumo wrestler...
- My sister and sister in law having baby girls
- Adopting two dogs
- Hawaii! And a helicopter tour!
- learning to ride a motorcycle
- sleeping on the floor in a motel 6 in Vegas - LOL
- Utah going to the sugar bowl and beating Alabama
- Learning to snowmobile - staying at scofield cabin in the winter...digging our way in
- daniel's summit - sleeping all day and watching the entire Indianna Jones trilogy
- Learning to cook food other than grilled cheese and Mac and cheese
- Thanksgiving at Amilia's
- Santa Cruz - roller coasters and sea lions
- Getting my braces off! Thanks Dad!
- Half moon bay October festival
- Auto shows in San Fran (I may have blogged about one of these...)
- Laguna Seca moto cross - the air show, the corkscrew, the insane traffic home
- hiking to Cubrant (sp?) lakes

It's been a great 5 years! Here's to documenting the next 50!

We Never Post...

How people post to their blogs (those not doing so for their career) regularly is complete magic to me.  We have so much to post about, and maybe that's the problem...too busy generating the raw content, never compiling the actual material? Whatever it is, I hereby make no promise whatsoever to get this blog moving again.  What I will promise is that there is nothing quite like an 85 degree day in the bay area, promise.  That day was today after 3 weeks of flood-level rain, and it was nice.

No, this is not today's nice day, it's Japan's 95 degree it's-so-humid-it's-basically-perma-raining nice day. And yes, don't let people fool you, any day in Japan is a nice day, even the swampy Labor Day ones.

SF Auto Show

When we lived in Utah, Rob and I would go to the Auto Show every year. When we heard about the auto show in San Francisco, we decided to go. We found it was a little bit different... better cars, better food, and interactive activities (you could sign up to drive a Land Rover through a small dirt course or a Nissan Leaf around the city.)

 My future car...

My favorite part about the Aston Martin's was the lady demonstrating how you could easily fit your bike into the back... who are these people?

Rob's future car... ha ha

Our future future car...

Really?

 All I could think about when I looked at this car was how sad it would look if you got a flat tire...

Batman's car?

My Blackberry

Rob and I were up for our "new every 2" at Verizon a couple months ago. I told Rob I thought it was about time I get a smart phone since I wanted to organize my life. Rob recommended a Droid, but I had to go the conservative route and get the Blackberry because it was free after mail in rebate (I blame you for this mom and dad -jk-). After having the phone for about 2 months I was going to meet Rob at school one night. Rob had dropped me off at another function about a mile away from campus earlier that night. It's getting dark earlier and it wasn't long before I realized I was completely lost in the middle of Escondido village on Stanford campus. I texted Rob and told him I'd be late since I didn't know where I was. He texted back saying "why don't you pull out that smart phone of yours and ask it where you are..." It then occurred to me that in the 2 months I had my phone all I ever used it for was calling people and texting people periodically. This isn't because I had no use for all the other Blackberry functions, but because Blackberry's are the most user-unfriendly electronic devices in the world. That's when I decided I needed to learn how to use it... starting with the GPS. Today I learned how to take pictures and upload them to my computer. Here you go -- uploaded from my phone ~ my dogs daily hour of liking each other.

(oh and for those of you who do follow this blog... there are more Japan posts coming :)

GO Giants!

The San Francisco Giants won the World Series today. I'm just sad that I can only say I've been a fan for a year. It'd probably be much more exciting if I'd been a fan my whole life... like the Jazz winning the NBA title. The Giants went to the World Series in 2002 but haven't won the world series since 1954. Go Giants! On the plus side, Rob and I have a big bowl of candy to celebrate with since we only got 3 trick-or-treaters and I bought enough for like 100.