What a full day! I was going to take the pack test today w/ my Momm-i-o.

Before hand I went to school for the Pi-Day Celebration. It has lost it's former glory. I could recite more right now than the highest contestant. Ah well, such is life. I astounded the math teachers. I talked to Austad, Alhquist, Bohnsack, Johnson, Jacobsen, and Kruppstadt. And of course, Herr. I was considering stopping by the Euro room, but courage failed me to face her.

After that I set out for Cambridge, but I got lost, so I ended up in Wisconsin. Sigh. But as a plus I got to stop by Sonja's. It was nice to spend some time w/ my aunty. We took a walk down by the St. Croix and then I headed back cuz RAY-RUL was home!

They were all hiding upstairs for me. We made some brownies and made a general ruckus in the kitchen.

Love Gretel

For all those who were worried, I made is safely to MN, Land of Ice and Snow. It started snowing about 15 min from home, and that's all the weather I had to endure.

It was a very enlightening time of listening to The Red Tent. I stopped only four times. At a rest stop, gas, Burger King, and more gas.

There's not much to say about the Nebraskan or Iowan countryside. So I'll leave it at that.

Love Gretel

Sigh, my car had problems. The back brake was allllll burnt out. So I had to bring it in to Midas, where I spent most of the morning/ afternoon. I read a bunch of my book then I couldn't ready anymore.

It was a very trying experience so that's all I really want to say about it.

Hopefully my car will be all ready to go back to Minnesota tomorrow or Thursday. Yippee!! Back to the COLD and SNOW that just LEFT Colorado. Siiiiiiiiigh. It was really warm today. I walked home from Midas in a T-shirt. Siigh Sigh Sigh!!!

I just hope I remember to bring my warm clothes.

Love Gretel

Well it's a beautiful day in Denver. I'm taking advantage of my wireless internet and taking it outside. From my apartment complex at the park I can look out at all of Denver and the surrounding area. The wind is blowing just enough to keep me cool and blow the fragrant smell of the pine trees to me.

This weekend has been pretty busy. On Saturday we went down to the library and spent about two hours looking at books at stuff. We watched City of Angels that night. We went to work out and swim. That was uber-relaxing. I did 20 pounds.

Yesterday Wilson and I went back to his house. I listened to stories in halting English from his mom. She showed me a picture album from here wedding and a story that had been printed in the paper about it. I also got to see pictures of baby Wilson. What a cutie!

While Wilson got his clothes washed we roller-bladed down to T.J.'s house and hung out for a while. He was changing his oil when we got there.

We went back after that. Wilson had to meet w/ someone for a project so I read more Asimov. When he got back we went to work out. I did 25, but that about killed my backpack, so I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do now. :: ponders question::

That's about it. Today I've just been cleaning stuff at home, edited Wilson's paper and have been enjoying the sunshine, awaiting a phone call from Target.

Love Gretel

Quick post to say that yes I am alive. But I'm gettting kicked out of the computer lab so I'll have to catch up later.

Love Gretel

Today was a boardin' day. Fresh fresh powder, it snowed about five inches in the city. Boarding was SwEeT! I did some work on carving. I'm getting a lot more comfortable going fast. I also did another fun box, and then a thinner box, but wiped out at the end. Later I wiped out flat on my face (well it was the second time of the day) but this time I knocked the wind out of me and hurt my shoulder muscle. So I sat out for an hour and read Watership Down. It was a very exciting book.

Yesterday was pretty slow. I went to Target and filled out some "paperwork" as they called it. Which consisted of driving down to Wheatridge and taking a drug test.

I picked up Wilson after class and we made some dinner. Mmmm Mmmm Jello goodness.

Then I went down to the weight room to train. I did ten lbs. The weights kept clinking together in my backpack. But I didn't notice cuz I was busily thinking about pi. 400 digits in 45 minutes isn't bad when one is trying to block out the TV noise and the clinking and not fall off the treadmill.

Wilson and I watched Northfork which was a pretty crazy movie.

Well I'm outta here.

Love Gretel

Well I called Target (and my sis-tah) last night. They want me to come in tomorrow and do some paperwork. So we'll see what that's all about.

Other than that I've been reading my latest book Watership Down, my latest book. I'd tried it once before, but this time I like it a lot more.

Yesterday I made chicken wings. Wilson really likes them. He going to bring some to his mom to try.

And I just got back from busting out three miles. Training is ON. . . again!!

And Wilson brought back some Famous Star for us, ain't he a sweetie?

Love Gretel

Yay, my car is happy cuz Jim (no not Jimmy Oats) changed my oil for me. It was all ick-afied. But now it has clean clean oil and is soooo much happier.

In other news, Miss Von fInAlLy heard back from Target and she has to call them tonight.

Otherwise it's a quiet warm day in the state of Colorado.

I went to chapel today. It was way better than the last chapel. :) :) :) And the songs were better too.

Other than that I finished Foundation and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so now I have nothing to read :( :( . Guess I'll working on some knitting.

Love Gretel

Yay, Homestarrunner was updated w/ a new Teen Girl Squad. I personally think that they're stalling for StrongBad's 100th e-mail.

Love Gretel

Today was a pretty full day. Well it was really full compared to this week. Wilson and I went to DPL before it opened to return some books so that they wouldn't be OvErDuE. . . So we dropped those in the drop back then waited til it opened. But there weren't any new movies so I just got some CD's and a book. (Ray-rul, you can be proud of me. I'm giving Foundation another shot!) A surprising amount of people were waiting for the library to open. A lot of them were homeless, I guess it is a warm place with lots of things to read though.

After finding our books, Wilson and I went down to 16th St. Mall to meet up w/ Matt. We spent a while in Barnes and Noble looking at all sort of books, warming up, and waiting for Matteo. I looked at some horse books and Manga, and PS. After a while we met up w/ Matt and walked around. We went to Virgin, and some other record store. And I don't really remember what else. We were pretty hungry by then, we walked around looking for a place to eat. We ended up at Hard Rock Cafe and Wilson treated me. It was really good. A little cold though.

We got back not too long ago. So now you're caught up.

On Friday, we went boarding at Copper. Wilson, me, Matt, Sean, and Jim somehow all managed to fit all our gear and ourselves into Matt's Tahoe once again. It was a pretty uneventful drive except for Jim's attempts to get the attention of some girl in another car. Unfortunately she got on the offramp to Breck before he could give her his digits. (rolls eyes).

We had some good runs. I went w/ the boys through the Terrain Park. Matt tried to persuade me to go over one of the boxes. I declined.

On a later run on Flyer we went through the Kidz Terrain Park. And I did a fun box!!!!!! I didn't even fall! It was way exciting. And Wilson worked w/ me on carving. Either he's more patient of a teacher, or I'm just ready to learn. I'm not sure.

Back at Wilson's that evening, we made some soup and watched the Family Guy.

On Saturday I met up w/ Wilson again after he got done w/ work. We watched Dances With Wolves (Ray-rul I finally saw it!!!) But by the time we finished the library was closed, so we decided to go Sunday to drop all the movies off (as you know from the earlier tale).

The boys B-Ball game had their last home game on Saturday. It was intense. It was against Regis (who is apparently our biggest rival). We were down most of the game. It all came down to the last minute or so. We were down by 2 points w/ ten seconds left. Timeout. Some stuff happened. We still had the ball. Time out. Three seconds left. We made our two-pointer. Cougars lead by one point with 1.4 s left. Regis has the ball. They chuck it down the court, but out of bounds. So we got it back for 1.4 s and WiN the GaMe!!!

Matt is their biggest fan so it was very exciting. All the fans stood in the receiving line and slapped the team's sweaty hands on last time. Very touching. And sweaty. . . Ewww.

OH YEAH!! I forgot. At half-time they call out ticket numbers, and if they call yours you get a chance to make a free-throw. And if you make it you get a free burrito at Chipotle. They called Wilson's ticket and he made it! So we all went to Chipotle after. And I had a $5 gift cert. to Chipotle from earlier in the year. So Wilson, Matteo, Matt L., Jim and I went down there to celebrate. I still have half my burrito left. Oh well. Good for lunch.

So that's what I've been up to. Target is supposed to call me Monday. They better. I've already called them about this interview twice. Siiiiigh.

Anyway, tchuessie, and later.

Love Gretel Vaughn