Last weekend in July

This week I had Wednesday and Thursday off, I was so excited after working for eight days straight including IPNC, to finally have a few days to myself. I decided I wanted to spend some time with my Jared so after my exam on Tuesday night I hit the road and headed South to Eugene. I left a little after 7:15 p.m. and I had the most amazing drive. Once the sun started to lower down the colors of the sky were breathtaking. The dry hot air (106 degrees that day but only 95 at 9p.m. in JC) combined with the farmland made for amazing pictures. I wish I had been able to find my camera battery charger so unfortunately I was not able to take any pictures of the amazing splendor God created. So...I did a Google images search of sunset (and sunrise for my drive back to work this morning) and included them in to help give a scene of the beauty (most are not even of Oregon let along along my drive on Hwy 99W) The sky was full of pink, purple, orange, yellow, and all shades of blue.

During my drive back this morning (I left at 5:45 a.m. VERY EARLY) I was able to see the sky pinken up with the starting of the sunrise. Once the sun peaked over the Coberg Hills it was a vibrant shade of pink. These pictures can't even really express how pretty it was.


In addition to having a wonderful driving trips back and forth I was also able to hear some great songs on the radio, at some point I might start posting play lists of the top songs I hear. But for now lets just leave it that there were some great ones.

Jared and I went out to a brew pub (Hop Valley)we had not eaten at before and I had an amazing cheese stake sandwich and a pretty darn good sex on the beach for my cocktail.

On Wednesday I wanted to go get some Cafe' Yumm for lunch but as usual I took the wrong turn at the Delta and Beltline and ended up at the mall. But I remembered I had a gift card for Barns and Noble so I spend about 2 hours perusing the books. I did good, I made it out with only 5 books :) Afterwards I finally did make it to lunch. YUMMY!




I have started reading Julie & Julia and I am really enjoying it so far. I will keep you posted.

Wednesday evening Jared and I went out for Race Night at the shop. Good times with yummy pizza and wonderful girl chat time with Tracy. I loved being able to catch up with her, we used to be much closer but with life getting busier for both of us we have slightly drifted, but when we are able to reconnect it is wonderful.

Thursday I met up with Carrie for lunch and a movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past which was pretty cute




All in all the weekend was great. It was so nice to be able rest up and read good books while in the comfort of AC when it was 106 outside. Jared and I were able to have some good snuggles and talks and enjoy several good meals. However, now it is time to go back to a week of work.

Julie & Julia Update

I am so freaking excited that today is going to be a slowish day at work. I have posted before about the Julie & Julia movie coming out on August 7th, well this weekend I found the book and I am about half way into it and loving it. Then this morning I found the original blog by Julie Powell. I am just stoked I can hardly contain myself. If you want to nerdy like me go to the following link and then on the calendar go to August 25th 2002 to start from the beginning. Julie /Julia Project

Please pray for my headache

Today is my 8th day in a row at work, it is supposed to get to 103 degrees this afternoon, we need to strip linens off 294ish beds, bundle and count linens in time for laundry pick up tomorrow at 1 p.m., I need to study for an exam this evening for my soc class, and I need to pack for my two days off.

OH....and I have a migraine

Please pray that my head starts to feel better soon, I am really getting tired of how much more frequently I am getting these. Being dizzy, barffy, seeing spots, earing things, smelling everything, and having the room spin is not good when you have as much to get done today as I do. I have taken my meds but they are not really working yet. Hopefully they will kick in soon.

What a wonderful evening

After a long day at work I was ready to hit the hay, but to my lucky surprise Jared called saying he was close and wanted to take me out to dinner. He had been up East of Portland to pick something up and then spend the afternoon with Walt and Sara at the Steam Up in Brooks. For some reason I thought the event was in Albany and there would be no chance I would get to see him this weekend, so you can imagine my surprise and happiness when he said he was about 45 min away.

We went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner


I had an AMAZING burger: an Avocado Turkey Burger with slices of fresh avocado, Havarti cheese, and applewood smoked bacon. Yumm Yumm

Not my burger, but same kind, I wanted to show how yummy it looked :D


After dinner we went for a walk at the park near the library in Mac. It was so nice to walk arm in arm in the evening breeze. We found a plastic play ground which had an amazing slide that twisted and turned all the way down. Jared tried it first but part way down he managed to get spun around, it was so great I had to get a picture on my phone.

We then walked back towards the van and read a few historical markers and right behind the Library we found a wonderful old wooden playground. Jared decided that bark dust was hot lava and was determined not to touch the ground the whole time we were there. We had a little plane/boat (not really sure what it was) and slides, walkways made tires, chains, floating wood, tire swings, monkey bars, ect. At one point I went over to the bigger tire swing and could walk there because I had "lava proof flip flops" but Jared had some trouble. He climbed up slides, jumped over castle walls, leaped to the fence and then crawled along it until he reach an area parallel to the support poles for the tire swing. The then leaped and twirled around the pole, rebounded and leaped to the swing. It was sure a blast to "play" together, he has such a playful and fun spirited soul that does not always surface but I am so glad that he has that trait. We just had a blast together.

Julie & Julia

I saw the preview of the movie Julie & Julia this afternoon and I am in love. I am so excited for the movie to come out on August 7th.

Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell (Amy Adams) are featured in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures

Yahoo's 100 Movies to see before you die

I did slightly better on this list from Yahoo (25/100 :D)

12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The 400 Blows (1959)
8 1⁄2 (1963)
The African Queen (1952)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow Up (1966)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Die Hard (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Groundhog Day (1993)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
In the Mood For Love (2001)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
M (1931)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Matrix (1999)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Network (1976)
Nosferatu (1922)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Rashomon (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Star Wars (1977)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wings of Desire (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The World of Apu (1959)

Time Magazine All Time 100 Movie List

As with the books I have a lot of movie watching I need to get on;
12 out of 100 is really bad

Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande à part (1964)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Camille (1936)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Dodsworth (1936)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
8 1/2 (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fly (1986)
G - J
The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Gift (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
K - M
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léolo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Man With a Camera (1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Mouchette (1967)
Nayakan (1987)
Ninotchka (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
Persona (1966)
Pinocchio (1940)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Pyaasa (1957)

Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Talk to Her (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)