hey ho hey ho its off to camping we go...

So the schmoops will be taking off tomorrow for Front Royal, VA. Two days of camping fun await us. We have fishing liscenses, camp grills, a percolator, a tent, and other stuff :) I'm so excited i'm about to pee my pants!!!!
Pics are coming on Monday of our ruggedness.
In the meantime get out, do something, be outdoorsey! Its been gorgeous weather!!! If you can go to Front Royal and see Skyline Drive. Front Royal is the beginning of the Blue Ridge Mountains and there are alot of cool things there besides scenery. Like STALAGMITES AND STALAGTYTES!! SWEET GEOLOGY ROCKS!!!
Hey here are the campsites near Front Royal, go ahead, explore!

http://www.ci.front-royal.va.us/accommodations.asp?M=1&P=3&S=4

Bird Flu Hits FLORIDA!!!!

-i really wish this was my joke, but it was a forward that i got today.

here kitty kitty

Ok so for months there has been some animal living underneath my house, digging holes, here is one of them...



















I think its a skunk cause sometimes i'll go into my house and it will smell like a skunk.. Yes detective Dirkey on the case.. :) Anyway, i got into a whole fixing up the yard thing when the weather got nice and put big rocks in the holes and covered them over with potting soil. I know, i know its not the best idea I've ever had but whatever. A few days later the holes are back and bigger than ever!! Its been driving me nuts so i finally asked my dad if we could try to trap it. We havent figured out what we will do if we actually trap a skunk right outside my house but... thats a post for another day (that day being when i have a skunk trapped in my yard)


















So last night i'm sitting talking to Schmoop on the phone and i hear the trap go off. I got all excited inside, like its Christmas morning, to figure out what i trapped (yes i know I'm a hick) Well i shine the flashlight on the trap from my window, cause i'm scared to go outside at night (If you saw my house you would understand, think Blair Witch). Well I caught a cat!! A CAT! It definitely is not what was living under my house but still a catch.
All i kept thinking was the part of Meet the Parents where Gregg talkes about milking cats. I laughed so hard cause i live on a farm, and now i'm trapping cats, so logically that is the next step. Um well then i let the cat go, no milking involved... so good story huh.... :)

What i'm thinking

Dear Mr 19 Yr old intern,
Hi, how are you. Are you enjoying your first "real" job, as you so enthusiastically told me your first day. I'm sorry i dont have time to play name that super hero with you. Well actually I don't really know any of them so i wouldn't be so good anyway. Your knowledge of superhero's everywhere is something to be jealous of, if i lived in a Jay and Silent bob movie.... Wow, i'm sorry i didn't mean to hit you when you snuck up behind me and said boo while i was in the middle of working on that file. Its amazing how honed my cat-like reflexes become while sitting in front of the computer for 12 hours a day.. its almost like, oh wait what is that super heros name with cat like reflexes... well i'm sure you understand, even if noone else does. Anyways i'm sorry i'm so cranky at work, I'm sure if you were my nephew we would get along fine i might even go into a comic store (for the first time in my life) to get you a Christmas gift. Um but your not my nephew so um i'm sorry for pretending i don't hear you most times.
Sincerely,
Dirkey

Free WIFI

The library-not just for smart people anymore..

6 months and counting

Wow i just realized that i've been doing this whole blogging thing for six months!!! Thats crazy, well i'm going to do a six month wish list of six things.
1. I wished i did the sight tracker way earlier-I'm obsessed
2. I wish I understood more about this whole blogging process- adding links, changing my masthead, all that fun stuff that i have yet to figure out.
3. I wish i didn't have dial up
4. I wish my laptop would work tonight so i could post my pics from Frieburg.
5. I wish i won the mega millions jackpot last night
6. I wish that my Schmoop was here right now :):)

This just in!

Tom and Katie had their baby..........
Its a girl..
weird i was just reading on my fugs (look in my links) yesterday that people were speculating that Ms. Holmes was wearing a fake belly pillow. That she needed to have the baby already so the weird rumors would stop!
Well they had the baby and i just can't help feeling bad for Katie. Not that i was a huge Dawsons Creek fan, see below pic of tv there is NO RECEPTION. But she used to seem perky and cute. The kind of girl that you would gossip with during gym class volley ball in high school. Now she just seems like she is taking sleeping pills, all the time, while she's pregnant.
Hopefully having the baby will kick start her brain into working again and she will see how creepy she and Tom have become. What is this with the hollywood creepy couples of late brittney/kevin, katie/tom; better question why do i care?? :)

Vacation Posts are almost done!

Can you believe it, i've been home for over a month and i'm still updating with pics.. Well today boys and girls i'm going to transport you to a lovely little town called Frieburg. Our first taste of Frieburg was walking around trying to find our hostel (Black Forrest-super cheap super fun), my first thought of the place was that there were ALOT of cobblestones.. I mean a ton, you know why i realized this because i had a rolly carry-on. (well not my original one-my original one broke in Paris and i bought one that i spotted from the metro in paris-it had crazy off road wheels SWEET!) If your ever going to go backpacking in Europe or anywhere for that instance DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT BRING A ROLLY CARRY ON because contrary to what you may thing IT IS NOT EASIER!!!!! All that jostling made it so i had a hard time moving my hand for ohh about a month. The other thing you should know is that you don't need everything you packed, so take out 50% of it, if you take out too much you can always buy what you need.
Ok back to Frieburg, well we got to our Hostel the same time as Chris did (this was so great because we weren't sure how easy it was going to be to meet up with him!) We spent a good three days in that gorgeous town, there is something in the air that makes you want to be German and live there. You can picture yourself working as a busboy or in that Turkish coffee shop, riding your bike around after work to go to the awesome thrift store that had Leiderhosen! (SERIOUSLY!!!)
While we were there we went on a hike up to the top of the hill/mountain.. it was on this road that Renee gave Chris the finger. I don't know anyone who's ever thought of giving Chris the finger (and in Renee's defense she swears she gave the situation the finger-how do you give a situation the finger??) Anyways we were hiking straight uphill for about 45 min and Chris kind of turns around and laughs and says he thinks we took the roundabout way up the hill. Meanwhile we are all struggling behind wheazing because we work in offices and are not even in the same stratosphere of in-shapeness of Chris. Renee's eyes glaze over and she just pops the Bird to sweet innocent Chris, i almost peed my pants. By the way it was on this hike that Renee's nickname of Malibu Barbie got coined by my sweetie..
Anyway here is a pic from the top of the mountain overlooking Frieburg a gorgeous town i hope to go again!
ok pics to follow i hate dial up

silly surveys

i love these stupid things as all my friends and family can attest too...
top 5 must-haves (for the moment):

in my fridge:


1. chicken-started defrosting a week ago (will be thrown out tonight-what a waster)
2. yummie hummus
3. chicken sausage
4. cheese-(I like cheese)
5. strawberries


in my closet


1. a plethora of old navy
2. skirts
3. bridesmaid dresses (like 30 of them)
4. board games
5. Flip flops


in my purse:



1. check book
2. empty wallet
3. lip gloss
4. receipts from random things I’ve bought in the last five years
5. keys


in my car:



1. purse
2. screwtape letters
3. trash
4. mail
5. cd’s


on my TiVo (um I still have an antenna, I’m planning on getting dish network sometime, maybe I’ll be cool then and know some current shows.....):
Shows I like


1. The office
2. American Idol
3. Nip/Tuck (the only reason I want dish network)
4. 24 (haven’t watched this season)
5. Don't really watch a 5th show, maybe friends?

myth busted

My boyfriend is not Adam from Myth Busters, you know how i figured it out. We saw Adam on tv while i was with Jason... it was sooo freaky...



Seriously
i really don't see the similarities but apparently others do....
all i have to say is mines cuter, and he smiles more.

Updates

Who the son of a crap has a website and actually updates it.. oh yeah all those other people i read every day... OOOPS!!! I've been told that i'm the worst type of geek because i described having a good day as working then getting off an hour early and babysitting.. But hey if thats who i am someone who gets happy by the small things in life.. so be it.. PHOOEY on all you people who have to have something meaningful happen in order to enjoy your day. thats right i said phhoey what the heck are you going to do about it..
ha ha i'm over Jason's brother, Josh's house, i told Jason on the way over that his brother was going to ask me my intentions with his brother.. I was totally right, he just asked me. These are the times i should bet not the other times, its a good thing i bet fake money with Jason, cause i think i owe him thousands of fake dollars by now. In other news i almost took my ear off with one of those canapies that you buy for your patio. I totally took that mo fo back to bed bath and beyond, i won't be having my lawn furniture disrespect me like that.
Peace out..

definition of a good day

getting to work and finding a free lunch, not pb and j but Scallops.. Yum summer here i come...



leaving work at 4pm...



and babysitting the adorable princess Hannahstasia...

Interlacken

Switzerland seemed so cool, from a train.. Sitting on the Glacier Express watching the Swiss Alps roll past us as we chomped on Bread, Brie, and beer.. (yes that was almost every meal by choice!) But then we realized we would have to sleep somewhere, Jason was scared that his mothers worst fears would finally be realized...


But happily we did find an amazing place with a balcony that had a view on all sides of the Swiss Alps.. We even found a laundramat.. Here is a pic of Jason and I on our journey to smell less and less like we slept in our clothes.....


The POLICE are crazy party people in Switzerland, they are always stopping and FARTING!!! I don't know about you but nothing says party like a designated police farting area!!! WOO!!! (The gnome knows how to party)


First rule about fight club... try to look as tough as i do in this pic.. yeah i know, its impossible..

Yeah still uploading pics..

I'm such a slacker, i've been home for almost a month and i'm still updating..
Switzerland, is by far, the MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We left Paris in style in a private room on the train (well it had our beds) with Baguettes, Brie and Champagne. It really felt like a movie, i've never been on a a train like that. I seriously thought i was in the middle of a murder mystery or something, except for the whole noone dies thing.. :)
From Zurich we took the train to Chur and got on the Glacier Express, which is a panoramic train through the Alps. Seriously the most gorgeous thing i've ever seen!
Here is a pic of Renee on the train you can see what it looks like behind her.










Here is the view












At one point we went through a tunnel and came out and all we could see was white from the snow, we could barely see.










I took this cause it reminded me of Narnia...


More to come later, we went to Interlacken switzerland and had some freaking good Fondue!!!! YUM!!!!!!!!!

Thinking of the future

He seems nice and all but i'm going to watch him closely around our kids at least until they are bigger than a pot roast...

yes we did actually see the sights

Between all the schmoopiness we did see all the standard crap.. eiffel tower, louvre, notre dame, the arch de triumph, the FREAKING MOULIN ROUGE!!! blah blah blah...

seriously it was awesome..

Eiffel Tower sunset on Valentines day, this was taken in the courtyard of the Louvre on the way to the Arch de Triumph.. GORGEOUS!!!


This was on my list of things to see before i died, i have no clue why. it was impressive but why this??? Who knows...


Uh yeah i almost got killed for this one. We walked to Sacre Cour and by walk i mean almost died. We had our luggage and walked up a mountain of cobblestones (literally had to be about a mile straight uphill) It was gorgeous when we got there and well worth it. But we were beat and i was DETERMINED to see the Moulin Rouge before i left Paris, come on I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!!!!! Needless to say noone else was amused..


The Eiffel Tower all sparkly like..


Darth Schmoop....

is there any reason i don't love him??

It certainly isn't for lack of dress up, while we were in Europe he was a punk rocker, a tiger, a pirate and finally a clown.. well the clown was kind of creepy but in a cute way.. :)

Europe 2006

Hello boys, girls, and two people who read my blog. One of whom is sitting next to me.. :)

Here is a pic of the first day in Paris.

can you tell i didn't bring my comp

sorry no updates people, Paris is wonderful. I will let you all know whats up and post lots of pictures :)
We have seen all the sights here and have driven Dan and Renee bonkers with our schmoopiness. :) Getting ready to leave Paris for Switzerland now, Got Tamara and Kaiya presents a second ago.. ohh la la....
hmmm ok sigts we've seen, Arch de Triumph, Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame, other stuff too...
k bye peeps :)

incommunicado

Yeah so i haven't been writing lately because i've been hanging out with this hottie.
Seriously can you blame me?!?!!?