our own kind of cool :)

I don't know who reads this blog, so in case any of you don't know, I'll explain my husband's schedule a little bit. He is a pilot for a private cargo company that does on demand/emergency cargo shipping. So from Monday morning until Saturday morning John has to stay close enough to the airport that he can show up in uniform ready to fly within 20 minutes. He can get a call anytime; from 6AM to 11PM to 4AM to 5PM... anytime. That 5PM one is the reason I'm sitting here in Panera on a Friday night all alone :( Anyways! Because his schedule is so unpredictable, and he only flies about once or twice a week, I don't work so I can see and spend time with John.

All that said, we have a lot of time on our hands. A LOT! And there's only so much you can do when you can't travel too far away, or get involved in something that can't be stopped. So, as a result of all this information, we have taken up a new hobby-- one that my sister would describe only as LAME in the purest form.
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Puzzles.
Yes! Our dining room table has been taken over by a 1,000 piece puzzle of flowers and grass.



And behind the puzzle are our two kayaks. Gotta love the places you find to put things in a small apartment. :)

In other news-- John and I totally had plans to use his weekend off doing fun things. We were going to have a date breakfast at Panera, and then go kayaking afterwards. But... seeing as how he won't be sleeping at all tonight, and may not even be sent home from Utah anytime soon... I may get to do all of that alone :( Stupid schedule. This is his second "weekend off" that got interrupted by a late Friday evening flight. I'm not bitter, I promise. I just needed to whine, and I try not to do it to John. Even though he reads this. I love your job John!

photo blog

I'm not really in the mood to write, but we have been doing a lot. Instead of writing about all of it, I'll just put up some pictures that don't really show what we did. I went to California for Mother's day and saw both of my mothers. It was kind of cloudy most of the time, but I it was so great to see everyone from Altadena again, and get to spend an evening with Christi and Suzy, and share a room with Taryn again. Here are a couple pictures from that:





JodyMom told me about this "eating for your blood type" diet which says basically that every blood type metabolizes and responds to foods differently. A+ people are not supposed to eat red meat, most dairy products, bananas, oranges, and random other things, so here is me and my dad holding up the "bad foods" for us.


John and I also went to Leo for Kyle's birthday. That was fun. Happy birthday Kyle.

posting weird pictures of my husband did not deter him from making his face again.


And these are some stones he put in when he was landscaping with Paragon landscaping a couple of summers ago. This doesn't have to do with anything, but he's just so fun to look at...



That's about all. We painted some more.
And made a batch of brownies but just left the batter in the fridge and ate them slowly over a couple of days.
And John bought a kayak.
And my family is moving back next month.
And Christi gave me a bunch of her old clothes so I look better dressed (and she can get more).
And our shower needs to be cleaned because we cleaned out our paint brushes in their and it's all orange.
Oh. The sink too.
Basically the whole bathroom actually. Just be glad there are no pictures of the bathroom this time!