in my medicine cabinet

i remember once emily posted a list of what was in her medicine cabinet. well today i was cleaning the bathroom, and was putting some stuff away in the medicine cabinet and found this...



dan mentioned donating his beard to locks of love (for those poor prepubescent kids who can't grow beards), but i didn't know he was serious.

shell

is it normal for your 20 month old daughter to call you by your first name?

genius

i was just asking dan how to spell genius for a comment on liz's blog, i still don't know if i spelled it right. dan said "you're the bookworm, don't ask me. all i can come up with is f-a-r-t." he's such a boy.

speaking of genius kids and potty talk, annie used the big potty yesterday just like a real person. it was a celebration of sorts, and i don't know if she understands what all the fuss was about, but we were proud parents anyway.

24 facts about me

four jobs i have had:

• ski program supervisor
• swim team coach
• ESL teacher
• record room girl at WGOC

four movies i would watch over and over:

• about a boy
• high fidelity
• bend it like beckham
• whale rider

four places i have lived:

• tucson, arizona
• logan, utah
• hermosillo, mexico
• american fork, utah

four tv shows i love to watch:

• globe trekker
• 24 (but i only watch it on dvd, and have only seen the first 2 seasons)
• survivor, the office, grey's anatomy... i haven't seen them in months, but i like watching them.
• the amazing race - another one i haven't really seen in a long time, but i like it.

four places i've been on vacation:

• istanbul, turkey
• havana, cuba
• japan
• peru

four websites i visit daily:

• friends' blogs
• hotmail
• the hunger site
• sesame workshop (elmo's world) - when annie gets her way.

four of my favorite foods:

• croutons
• chicken coconut korma (or tikka masala, or butter chicken)
• ice cream (most any variety without nuts)
• bean and cheese burritos

four places i'd rather be right now:

• costa rica (one of my favorite places)
• creekside disc golf park
• lake powell, or any warm beach
• anywhere on vacation, preferrably outside the united states

destined to be a carny

the other day i took annie for a walk and we were passing by the elementary school. we saw a kid riding his unicycle home from school. that was pretty cool. a few minutes later, we saw another kid riding a unicycle home. what are the odds? and the plot thickens... i have had three next-door neighbors join the circus. two from when we lived in willow creek area, and one where my parents live now. i think i am destined for the big top. i don't think i would be a very good trapeze artist, or clown, but maybe i could run one of the rides, or let people throw ping pong balls to try to win a stuffed animal or sell churros or something.

too bad she's too young to appreciate this

annie at chichen itza. january 2007.

i finally am getting my pictures from our mexico trip put on the computer. we have been having computer difficulties, but hopefully we are up and running again with a new hard drive. i'll post more pictures soon.

ok go

i might go to the gym more often if they had a class like this.

what does elastigirl have on me?

my husband, dan, has a few secret crushes (that aren't so secret anymore).

1. jovie from elf. not zooey deschanel, but jovie.
2. j.t. the traffic girl on x96. he has never seen her, but thinks she sounds hot.
3. elastigirl.

so i guess this means that deep down he would love it if i would wear an elf outfit while talking about traffic issues and stretching? i don't know. help me out.

2 thumbs up

i have seen movies that make me laugh and movies that make me cry, but rarely do i see something that makes me laugh and cry at the same time. way to go little miss sunshine!

bdb and adem

last night dan and i dropped the girl off at my parents' house and went to the badly drawn boy show at urban lounge. since we didn't get there early enough to get one of the seats around the back, we decided that we might as well get close to see. so we went up front (front row) like the hard core groupies.

the opening act, adem - a guy from the UK, was reminiscent of the badly drawn boy show at the zephyr about 5 years ago. with adem asking the audience (remember we are at a club/bar) to be quiet. at least he wasn't yelling and swearing at the audience like bdb at the zephyr. anyway he was pretty good once the crowd calmed down. he even played one song with handbells, and one on the ukelele. i'll probably look into him some more.

the badly drawn boy part of the show was actually pretty good despite damon (aka-bdb) complaining inbetween every single song about the sound. most of the time it was just to the rest of the band, but being a few feet away we were able to hear everything. apparently, since the stage at urban lounge is so small, they weren't able to get all of their amps and stuff on stage, so they were going to play a more acoustic type show. however, when so many people showed up the sound was all messed up apparently. i couldn't tell, i don't think anyone else in the audience could tell, but i guess part of the privelege of being a "rock star" is being able to be tempermental. after the first couple of songs, i wasn't sure he was going to finish the show. but they stuck it out and played for about 2 hours. playing many songs from the new album as well as plenty of older songs. they even managed to cover part of "like a virgin" and ended the show with a rocking version of journey's "don't stop believing." it was great being so close that we could see everything that was going on including bdb spilling a couple glasses of beer and the bass player trying to get one of the roadies to take his picture. it made me a little nervous however when during "possibilities" bdb came to our side of the stage and was doing a little dance about 2 feet away from us. his pants were pretty low, and i just didn't want them to fall down and show us more than we paid for. dan was very impressed with the roadies who always seemed to be one step ahead even when at the beginning of the concert, bdb scrapped the song list and just started playing whatever he felt like. at one point near the beginning of the show bdb was frustrated trying to get the cigarrettes out of his pocket and the roadie handed him an pre-lit cigarette on his way up to bring a replacement beer. overall it was a very fun show to attend and going to live shows always inspires me to practice the guitar more, and revives my dreams of being a rock star.

gas station encouragement

on the gas station marquee down the street:

"home teaching - git er done."

(actually this was about a week ago, at the end of february)

only in utah county...

come on down

on saturday my sister blessed their little baby george at our house. dan and i spent all day cleaning, thus our house is the cleanest it's ever been since we moved in a year ago. sad huh? anyway, feel free to drop by if you're in the neighborhood.

not too shabby

the 2007 bonnaroo lineup was announced the other day. we went last year and there was an amazing lineup including radiohead, beck, tom petty, bela fleck, and others. this year we aren't planning on going, however i'm not going to rule it out yet. some bands i would like to see include, but are not limited to: the police, widespread panic, ben harper and the innocent criminals, wilco, the flaming lips, the white stripes, the string cheese incident, damien rice, ween, gov't mule, galactic, john butler trio, and xavier rudd. that's a pretty decent lineup and if it weren't so far away and we had unlimited funds i'd probably go fo sure. i might have to settle for gomez friday at suede.

thanks victoria

so i hate bra shopping. it is always such a pain, and i put it off for years because i don't want to do it. however, it was time for a new bra, so i went to victorias secret today and they made the experience enjoyable (or at least manageable). i walked in and told the girl that i needed a bra, and she sent me back to the next girl who measured me. that girl then sent me to the fitting room where they already had a little drawer of bras in my size to try on. i tried them all on, found the one i liked, they wrote down the size and style for me and pointed me in the right direction to pick out the color i wanted. it was painless. so thanks victorias secret for making bra shopping easier.

i do have to admit, that i walked by the store a couple of times before i got the courage to go in.

well traveled

i just got a roll of film developed. (the stuff you used to have to put in cameras to get pictures...remember?) this roll of film has been in my camera probably 4 years. here's what's on it.

• pictures from when dan and I went to cabo san lucas, mexico with my parents the year after we got married.
• my summer class when i was teaching in the intensive english language institute at utah state.
• alyssa, emily and me somewhere. i think when they came to visit me in logan for my birthday.
• dan somewhere in southern utah i think.
• a balloon ride in new york.
• joseph smith birthplace in sharon, vermont.
• dan's brother robert on one of those velcro walls with a velcro suit on.
• the temple in hermosillo, mexico. dan and i drove down one december.
• my graduation from utah state with my masters degree.
• some of my students from hillcrest elementary in logan.
• dan and i in front of the parthenon - athens, greece.
• various mosques in istanbul, turkey.
• siena in a halloween parade in clifton park, new york.
• a few pictures to finish off the roll - annie, xander, me.

48 degrees

i am looking at the thermometer right now and it says 48.5 degrees! earlier i took annie to the park because it was sooo nice and 41 degrees. annie learned how to climb up the stairs and go down the slide all by herself. anyway hooray for a beautiful day!

graduation day

a momentous day in the bolke family. today annie graduated to nursery at church. it was wonderful to be able to go to class and listen. she had fun and we had fun! it's amazing how much more you can listen when you don't have to be shoving cheerios into your kid's mouth and reading books about animals, david's stinky diapers, or the lady with the alligator purse.

he really said this

dan: "don't you love our house? If I wanted to poo in the corner I could."

yep, that's my husband. he's excited about owning our own house. so i guess if you come over, steer clear of the corners just in case.

it's official

so i had a doctors appointment today and it's official. i'm pregnant. due august 10th.

well said

"I can't afford to be a music snob anymore, and if there is a piece of music out there that has the ability to move me, then I want to hear it, no matter who's made it. I used to have a reason not to like Little Feat (too polite, as far as I can recall, and maybe too musically precise) and Neil Young (overlong guitar solos) but no one can nurse those kinds of quirks in taste now. You're either for music or you're against it, and being for it means embracing anyone who's good."

Nick Hornby
Songbook