3-26-2012

Blood sacrifices to the trail gods.

3-25-2012

I've been waiting for months to take these pictures.

These two hid under a leaf.
I almost squished this one.
I never thought I would be so happy to find something that looks so weird.
Really weird.
Don't eat this kind.
Sitting under a palm tree.

Hopefully there will be a lot more pictures like these coming soon, so get ready.

3-24-2012

I don't have any pictures from my 13+ mile long run this morning, so you get to look at a picture of my cats. I will say though that this training run was within three minutes of my half marathon race time from last year. I credit Nicole chasing me on a bike for my performance.

3-21-2012

I escaped work early today to go sit on a patio with this little bear. It's important that I take her to a good lunch every once in a while, because a glass of wine, cupcakes, and a pickled egg for dessert are the kinds of candle lit dinners she like to make for herself.

3-22-2012

One of Nicole's birthday presents this year (does it count as a present if you bought it for yourself?) is this George Forman-esque cupcake maker. She can now turn out twice as many cupcakes in half the time. Please refer to yesterday's post.

3-21-2012

I'm nearly positive that Nicole is conducting a scientific experiment to see how fat she can make me no matter how much I run. She's winning.

3-20-2012

This is a self captioning photo.

3-19-2012

I suppose this is probably a vote for wearing socks. I still don't want to.

In other news, Nicole managed to squeeze in an extra day of birthweek+ and talk this lady into buying her yet another birthday dinner. I wonder if she can keep this up until next year.

3-18-2012

All I ever want to do is be outside. This snake is lucky because he'll probably never be stuck inside of a building in his whole entire life. Granted he and his friends have to worry about being eaten by giant birds all the time, but plenty of snakes life a perfectly good life and get fat and happy. I think I want to be a snake. Speaking of life and death, I saw the turtle life cycle today from start to kind of smelly finish.

I also saw Nicole complete a present opening marathon to finish off the end of birthweek.

3-17-2012

This St. Patrick's day, I ran trails, ate festive junk food, watched Nicole buy an entire Anthropologie store for her birthday, and had corned beef sandwiches for breakfast and dinner. Hopefully I'm not too hung over tomorrow.

3-16-2012

This little Asian man that we found on the street looked malnourished. So we made him buy us dinner for Nicole's birthday.

3-15-2012

This is kind of big, life altering news. I got Nicole a puppy for her birthday! Actually I kind of just made him. But he winks at you if you flip him over. In other less significant news, Nicole quit her job today and we were almost murdered by a lightning bolt that struck about 100 feet away from us. What were we doing tempting Zeus in a thunderstorm you may ask? Well I'll tell you.

We actually do it every year so I've posted about it before (3-31-10 and 3-18-11 and 3-20-11), but it's salamander season! You can generally tell when it starts because these little buggers start peeping and won't shut up. So yeah, every year we go to look at the spotted salamanders and frogs when they go to lay their eggs. I've posted a lot of pictures of us picking up and wrangling them in the previous posts, so this year I tried to get more of them swimming in their natural habitat since they were the most active I've ever seen them tonight. Then we almost got struck by lightning in the woods. The end.

3-14-2012

These are birthday shoes. Ready to party. And by party I mean smell ice cream cake with Sienna, eat really good food, and watch an animated movie about cats. Happy birthday, Nicole.

3-13-2012

What's a birthdayweek without cake right? Rumor has it that this cake was interviewed on Oprah and costs over $150. That would give just these two slices a street value of at least twenty to thirty bucks right? This cake might cost more per ounce than many recreational narcotics.

Full disclosure, I did not pay $150 for this cake. I don't think I would ever pay $150 for cake. Maybe for a ton of cookies, but definitely not just for one cake. No, I got these two slices for free from work.