Every morning I make my coffee and audio stream some Morning Edition for my daily dose of Steve and Renee. By the second cup of joe, I’m pretty perturbed about the present economy and most situations abroad. About this time I decide I want nothing to do this crazy world and instead I’ll go climbing with the saner population that has their priorities straight. It’s also about this time I realize since social security seems fucked I’ll probably be working until I’m dead anyways and I should continue to enjoy my early retirement, take the plunge and buy a van.
Considering how much Joe and I travel it’s quite surprisingly we don’t already own a gypsy mobile. We’re looking into an Astro Van because we’ve seen many climbers convert these rides comfortably and the gas is better than most. Here are some of the vans we’re looking at.
Neither of us are much of carpenters, but we’re gonna get some pointers from the experts and create a set-up in the back.
Besides that I’ve been having some serious girl time since Joe has been at the Nor’easter Event in Rumney. Ironically the event actually brought an actual Nor’easter bringing tons of rain and even a hurricane since they got there. Lame!! Crappy weather is one thing I don’t miss about the East Coast. Lauren swung through on her way up to Jackson Hole and we had a few hysterical days in canyon kickin’ it and climbing. On sat I went out with my roomies Jenn and Whitney and we had a sick day all sending our projects!! That’s always makes for the best drives home!
Yesterday Joe sent his long time project Kryptonite third burn last day. Ok it wasn’t really the last day, but Joe is really good at psyching himself up and pressuring himself into sending his “most important route ever!!”. I absolutely love watching this process as it’s nothing short of complete manic lunacy, yes very entertaining. No in all seriousness, when Joe sends a hard project I get just as happy as when I complete something important for myself. Congrats Joe!!!!
I’ve managed to keep the same cell phone for a whole two years!! This is a huge feat for me considering I usually lost/broke/had stolen phones about every three months in the past. So now I’m getting a NEW phone!! I ran into this sweet link for an easy way to recycle my old phone and help the environment.
Ugh!! I just heard another scary McCain/ Palin advocate on the radio! This weekend while I was training in the gym a woman was going around making sure people were registered and seeing if they needed mail in ballots. I talked with her for a while and she said it was surprising how many people WEREN’T registered to vote. PLEASE go HERE if you have any doubts about whether or not you’re registered, or even if you want a mail in ballot for the big day! It’s super user friendly and quick, not some scary goverment doc ect…. Just double check!!! It’s sooooo important!!!
I just wanted to post a shout out to all the chicas killin it out there. While Joe and I were in Spain we ran into Alexandra Taistra. We were in the midst of week two of constant rain and our motivation was all but gone. When we first ran into Ola and she was optimistic Rodellar conditions would look up. We eventually all left as they continued to worsen. A week later we ran into Ola again in Cuenca where I was receiving a royal ass beating and becoming severely perturbed by my over dose of boyz and starvation of ladies. Ola must have seen the look of near defeat in my eyes and we sat down and talked for a good hour. It was the perfect medicine that only a girl can give. Recently Ola has been killin in Rodellar as the conditions have extremely improved. Go Girl!!
Besides that I have been climbing in Rifle with Emily H for that past few days and it’s been super inspiring climbing with someone so talented!
Rifle is incredible in that everywhere I look there are sick strong girls crankin’! So awesome!! I actually think the girls out numbered the guys at this year’s Rifle Clean Up, which is unheard of in climbing! Another girlie Daila is in the states for a few months and hopefully she’ll get out here for some crushing in the next weeks… VENGA TIA!!
