#20 little rough Butte

I'm having a bit of a rough morning. Hubby and I were watching TV last night (Netflix)... side note: We don't watch real TV anymore, I was curious what was on last night and I was ASSAULTED with THE VOICE, THE BACHELOR, and that show with the funny overweight lady that  I keep thinking is KING OF QUEENS and she just put on a few pounds but it's something else.  And as I was turning Netflix on I felt and overwhelming feeling of WHO CARES?! (the Bachelor in particular... it was the final rose or something idiotic like that where they pretend to get engaged and then realize they were courting on a REALITY TV SHOW so things were not happily ever after when in REAL LIFE he has a horrible foot odor and she is a closet HOARDER....but I digress)  I will never get that time back...*sigh*  

ANYWHO...As I was saying, Hubby and I were watching "How stuff works" the CORN edition...trust me...corn is WAY MORE interesting than anything that comes out of Christina Aguilera's mouth...and towards the end I am totally passed out asleep on Hubby. Stay that way through the SALT episode and finally drag my body downstairs to bed.  Hubby is super tired too and apparently was also passed out during Salt.  This morning I was still exhausted! I actually asked my hubby if he drugged me.... which of course he did... JUST KIDDING hahaha!!! I have found one good thing about daylight savings...my baby girl sleeps past 8am now! 

Time for the coffee and mug!

Waking our Butte's up

From now on I'm going to save my coffee reviews for once a weekish. Even though I am going through POTS of coffee a day, its hard to review more than one a week because i can't drink it fast enough!  I'm sure everyone is cool with that :) Half of you people don't even DRINK coffee! haha weirdos

My CButte Mug

Look! Same Mt!!!

My mug is awesome. I found it at a thrift store and had to buy it.  Why you ask? Because I have a very special memory that me and hubby had in Crested Butte.  For the first 3 years of our married life, hubby and I lived in Colorado. It was paradise. I was so skinny there....SIGH.....lol ... anyway, near the end of our stint there we decided to go on a mountain biking trip to Crested Butte, with hubby's co-workers that we were very close to. So all spring we TRAINED. Like FOR REAL trained! We would bike almost everyday and got into crazy awesome shape!  It was great! So when the trip came, we felt very prepared. 

 Now I have to do another side note:  I have the tendency to fall or run into things....you may even call it CLUMSY....I have a bad track record. During training I had quite a few "accidents".... one time ran into a bright yellow pole...in daylight...yeah...so you need to know that before I continue. 

Crested Butte Village 

So we have been there a day or so and the time has come for our upper loop, upper upper loop and the lupine trail. I think it was equivalent to 6 miles of uphill windy trails or something and there were 5 of us. It started out really good. We were doing well, no one was dragging or had fallen too bad.  About halfway, hubby realized he was out of water.  We had forgotten to pack our camel pack for the trip so we just had a couple bottles of water and a Gatorade each. He had drank all his water and Gatorade and was hurting a bit. So I gave him my Gatorade since I still had most of my water left. And we continued on without a thought. We got to a really steep stretch downhill and were having a blast, when our leader J, took a bad fall. She flipped her bike and got wedged between a rock and her bike on her chest. It was pretty scary and I felt horrible for her fiance.  They stabilized her, (they are all in the medical field) after a little bit, she was able to get back on her bike, but she thought she had cracked her sternum, YEAH big OUCH! 

Crested Butte....SO PRETTY

Needless to say, we were all the way up the mountain and had to get her to the ER STAT! So we are booking it now down the mt. Hubby has just drank the rest of my water and is really fighting to keep up with us.  About a mile from our cabin, Hubby suddenly has to push his bike. His hands are cramping real bad and he can't stay on his bike.  I walk with him to the trail head and he collapses. He can't move, he can't drink, and he is really nauseous.  Diagnosis? Severe Dehydration. GOOD TIMES.  He along with J, piled into a car and sped down to Gunnison Valley Hospital's ER.  Hubby was so white he looked dead (apparently he actually could have died for real).  Really scared me. When we got there, they grabbed a wheelchair and ran him inside. He was given 2 liters of fluid to help him re-hydrate and was fine after a few hrs.  J, was x-rayed and she ended up being fine, bruised, no broken things THANK GOD. And ME?!?!?!?!?

Almost to the top...before J's Fall

I was the only one in the group who DIDN'T FALL the entire time and DIDN'T end up in the ER!!!!! 

Yea me. whoop whoop

And what am I thankful for today?

The 4th cup of coffee.... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

#18 my look

Sorry there will be no coffee review today I have a coffee to review... but i'm not feeling like it today :).It has come to my attention that apparently I look very different every time I leave my house.  I didn't pay much attention to the comments I would get until I hosted a makeup party at my house.  (please refer to my judge post and refrain from the judgement. I'm feeling it strong right now through the computer so STOP IT!) The lady who was selling the stuff came over early to set up. We will call her BEAUTY BETTY.  Well beauty Betty was getting done setting up when she stopped at my fridge looking at a family picture. This the conversation that proceeded. 

Beauty Betty: OH MY GOD! IS THAT YOU!?!?!  

Me: what?

BB: It has to be because there's your daughter!

Me: Oh yeah that was taken at Thanksgiving

BB: I don't believe it except that I know what your daughter looks like!

Me: Yep that's me!

BB: I mean, I wouldn't have even known that was you!

Me: well I did my hair and have makeup on?

BB: Wow it's like a different person entirely!

Me: Um...

BB: I'm sorry I just can't believe that's you!

Me:(now annoyed AND self conscious) Nope, it's me ha. ha. I clean up well. ha. Are you done setting up?

I left that conversation thinking...DEAR LORD HOW BAD DO I LOOK RIGHT NOW!? Granted I had no makeup on, I was in loungey clothes and my hair was in a bun, but...REALLY? I didn't think I looked like a totally different person. But then other similar conversations began to pop in my head. Like every time I start a new job it takes people a much longer time to remember who I am. It also in the same instance when I am remember it usually involves an exclamation of " OH JESSICA!!! YOU LOOK DIFFERENT TODAY! I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU!"

Different can be taken as good, bad or different. I always assume it's bad. :)  So I have decided to put some looks together that i had over the years and you all can decide for yourself. 

And the picture that was on my fridge?

I don't see a difference.

#15 Coffee Who?

WARNING:

If you are not a Dr. Who fan, this post will make NO SENSE to you whatsoever. Please proceed with mental caution as it has been known to make one crazy and awesome all at the same time.

I have a confession to make. It's something I'm a bit obsessed with and I feel like if I just get it out publicly, like on my blog, (which apparently only 5 of you read so it's not too public) a huge weight will be lifted off of me, because I feel like I've been holding this in for a really long time and I'm done hiding.....

I'm
a

HUGE

NERD

Specifically.... I love video games. Mass Effect and Fable series are my current obsessions. I sometimes think I really am Commander Shepard. (did you hear there is a free download on xbox for 2 hrs of play for ME3!?!??!) I LOVE star wars (except for that STUPID STUPID jar jar binks!) I thought glasses were cool before glasses WERE cool. Battlestar Gallactica? I'm still watching (season 5), Star TREK? TREK YEAH BABY!!! Comic books? X-men please with a little Rogue and Gambit on the side with a sprinkling of batman and a dash of wonder woman. LORD OF THE RINGS!??! I believe I dressed up to go to that movie when it came out (yes I'm THAT kind of nerd).  The matrix? I loved ALL 3 of them, not just the first one! Mario Brothers? King Koopa got NOTHING on me! You already know about my Office obsession, BEARS BEETS BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA!!! I actually probably have more in common with Dwight then I would like to admit. 

I could go on and on and on....but there is one little other nerdy thing I love, maybe not MORE, but definitely equal to the others...

Dr. "HOLY MOTHER I LOVE THIS SHOW" WHO!!!!!!!!

So I title this one today as:

My Mantra

So now given a little background on me, you can guess how much I FREAKIN LOVED this mug that my BF Amy and her hubster gave me for my B-day just about a month ago!  Now I know there are those of you out there that will have no idea what I am raving about. So I say to you, DON'T BLINK! BLINK AND YOUR DEAD! :) hahaha....You are like my own husband who amazingly missed every episode when I was watching... I mean it was there right IN THE CORNER OF HIS EYE !!! He's just a BAD WOLF I guess.  But really, it comes down to that there are some things that are BIGGER ON THE INSIDE THAN THE OUTSIDE. I mean, HELLO SWEETIE!!!! How could you miss this amazing show?!?!  What are you? a CYBERMAN of something?! It's so much more than it sounds! I guess it is HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, just netflix it!  I don't want to reveal any SPOILERS, but the Dr can travel through time and space! It's DALEKtable! Plus this series started waaaaaay back in the 1960s! (It took a break after 1989 and started back up again in 2005) NOTHING for a TIME LORD and his SONIC SCREWDRIVER!!!!   

OH MY GOSH I LOVE IT!!!!!! so what's in the mug you ask? WHO CARES!!!!! MWUAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!  haha... oh geez FINE I guess this technically is a coffee blog and I must talk about the coffee. So saith the BLOGITH OF COFFIES ! (page 58 addendum F...we are very serious about our blogging of the coffies)  

The coffee is so underwhelming that my focus was obviously on the rockin MUG! To be honest I didn't really have high hope for it when I bought it. What we have here is Original Donut Cafe Blend by Momento. It was like $4 at HEB, never heard of it before and I know now why. I mean, I couldn't even find a stock photo on the internet if that tells you anything. PLUS I had the HARDEST time trying to get the stupid thing OPEN! (yes I realize scissors would have solved this issue immediately...but where's the challenge in THAT?!)

It's not like it's horrible coffee or anything. It just wasn't GREAT.  It had almost no aroma...in fact it didn't really smell good! It actually brewed better than it tasted.  I also have a sinking suspicion that if you actually ate donuts with this coffee it would compliment it very well. It just doesn't have a very strong flavor to it.  Like I said before, a little underwhelming.

And the Jess Rating?

A big Dr.Who Meh-ish

And what am I thankful for today?

PHOTOSHOP!!!

you can buy this guy on my ETSY site!!!