T minus 11 hours til the trek back to Belize begins!!! Research for 5 weeks, holler!! See y'all on the other side.

THINGS. SO MANY THINGS TO DO.

Also our wedding invites AND my dress came in yesterday.

( Look how rad the invites are!! )

We might be really excited about this.

SO! It's Thursday! I blew a tire on Tuesday, which was hilaaaarious. Yesterday Paul and I walked around the mountains (which are beautiful thanks to last week's rain), recorded sites, found an obsidian uniface. Today I panic and try to get all the office work done before Belize. Emotions, as usual, are running high and running fast. Clingy Sam never wants to get on the plane without the Hawaiian, Wanderlust Sam is chomping at the bit. Party Rock Sam just wants to rage with the usual suspects until Monday morning. Tonight is Liz the Tall's birthday, I have new boots, and dear god I need to do laundry, take apart the survey kit and put together the excavation kit. And WHERE IS MY PLUMB BOB??

In other life news, my bff Lizabeth is tots taking her comps exams for med skool tomorrow, (!!!!) my other bff Suzaku just got a new house and job (adult??!) and my bff KoKo-San just graduated from nursing school. (!!!!)

These happenings. I like them!



Let's get the summer started! Belize on Monday! Year 4 here I come!

Avengers! We saw it Friday! (With a rocktastic audience that did nothing but cheer/cackle/catcall at all the right moments.



( Warning: This rant may contain spoilers. )
Now then. I crave shwarma. Yes. Dear god, why do I live in a culinary desert?
<----want

Yeah. That miiiight have been the hilight of my weekend. I might have spent the rest of it in various coffee shops with various cool folk, staunchly ignoring the fact that I have a paper to write for the Tulie Basin conference (this weekend! lulz) and Belize to go to in 14 days. But I DID by a bunch of new trashable shirts for the summer from goodwill. 11 bucks well spent. And I didn't buy a cat. I'm holding out. Win! :D

Oh hai guys, may the 4th be with you!

I had a weird wedding dream last night, that I'm PRETTY sure involved Gandalf, and a Hunger Games arena, and I had to get through it to save my friends and arrive at the ceremony on time. Thank goodness Gandalf lent me some steamypunky accessories to get through the arena. So I woke up thinking about Ridiculous Wedding Things. And that got me listing ridiculous things I want to do at my wedding, which includes...

-Give the bridesmaids/bridesdudes superhero capes.
-Put funny wigs/hats/crowns/accessories/glowsticks/paper airplanes on all the tables as centerpieces so people can play.
-Decorations that include geodes, UU chalices and pretty sandstones.
-Put board games on all the tables so people can play.
-Have a hilarious choreographed first dance with Charles. (He's totally for this)
-Have madlib style invitations
-Karaoke.
-Rainbow painted nails.
-Venus flytraps and succulents for a bouquet.
-Sew dinosaur patches on my dress.
-Swordfighting
-Water balloons
-Wear hiking boots.
-My mom AND dad to walk me down the aisle across the grass.
-My brother to be one of the damn groomsmen. Need to get Charles to budge up on this. (ok, that's reasonable. but it's ridiculous that Charles doesn't seem to think it's an issue.)

This week has been ok so far, despite negativity at work. Got to go to Cruses with French and Mene on Monday, drank margaritas with Jill and Amanda on Tuesday, had dinner with Jenn and her husband on Wednesday, and had really chill thirsty thursday yesterday. Fiance is super down over his job, and so am I, so that's really putting a damper on life. But pretty soon I'll be digging holes in central america again, which always gives me a fresh perspective on life. ^_^ Maybe we'll even make it down to Trackways National Monument this weekend, it'd be since to check out some dino tracks!

Kimbra is a babe and luchadors are always fantastic.

MEANWHILE, IN NEW MEXICO:
-Our neighbor moved. We're sad cause he's the raddest neighbor ever, we're happy because he got a big-kid-house!
-Went to Earth Day celebrations this weekend. Alamogordo sure knows how to celebrate a good earth day. With water balloons all over the park + snow cones in styrofoam cups. Well played.
-Jake, Hawaiian, Frank and I watched episodes 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones season 2 on Friday. All I can say is "!!!!!!!!GRRRRRRAAAAAGHRAGEFACE." Because that's what that series does to me.
-Finally wrote my abstract for the wee little tulie basin conference.
-We are this close to adopting a very sad looking gray cat from the shelter. Oh man. Oh man oh man.
-Did yoga out at White Sands Saturday morning with Amber and B-thug. Realized how weak my left arm still is. Pleased that I could still keep up the pace with the group, though. :)
-Sushi tonight with French and the Hawaiian after visiting/delivering ladybugs to Damin!
-Gonna frolicking around the rez tomorrow and record a rock shelter.
-Need a new computer. Need to re-arrange my fiances to get one.
-Belize in 21 days. :) Better start weight lifting/ being in the sauna again or else I will die!!!
-I have eaten 2 cupcakes and 3 cookies today at the office. No wonder I'm SO PRODUCTIVE right now. :D

Love cracked.com. Love, love, love. Especially today!

5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite

Also, oh yeah, I was in Memphis. There was a lot of BBQ and blues, and acting smart. More on this later, when I don't have 500 office tasks plus a paper to write for another conference in a few weeks and then Belize a few weeks later. WHADDUP SPRING TIME.

What the heck has been going on lately??

-Easter was good fun a couple weekends ago. Chillin with Charles' godparents always makes me happy.

-Made Dalek cupcakes (from Doctor Who!) and gave everyone within my general vicinity insane sugar rushes.

-Hawaiian has a buddy in from out of town which prompted Ruidoso adventures and extra DnD.

-Have been surviving mostly off of hot dogs, burritos, beer, and coffee the past ~8 days.

-Wrapped up survey in the Lincoln on Friday with a few site updates and trying to find a few abandoned mine shafts. Weather has been amazing in the mountains. So that's the end of commuter-survey for a spell.

-Charles and I cat-sitted for a friend for 5 days last week. We vowed that we wouldn't get attached but by yesterday the cat was sleeping in between us in our bed. Now it's back with it's owner and we're having withdrawals. XD

-T minus 96 hours until Memphis, SAAs, and I turn 27. It's gonna be good to be an odd number again!

-Work is full of internal drama. Worried I'll be forced to find a new job and/or go back to school in the next 6-12 months. Not worried about financial stability or finding one, but worried it will take me far away for the Hawaiian for a good amount of time, especially if I shovel bum it. Vaguely considering giving up and applying for a job doing reforestation in the wilds of Canada. You think I kid?

-Ordered Charles a kilo of sheesha as a "I'm sorry I'm going back to Belize again in May, later sucker!" gift.

-Went to a Disney-Princess party on Friday. Flip cup, sing-alongs, and glittery drinks. Everyone there was between the ages of 21 and 30. Ain't no shame in our game.

-I'm falling behind on wedding shit AGAIN. Must place phone calls before Wednesday!

-At least I remembered to get my new car registration sticker.

-Worrying a ton, feeling liminal. Need to bury myself in goofing of with friends, academia, warm weather, and the spring. :D

Been watching AZ closely about this for awhile, and I'm actually not surprised these bills passed.

Arizona lawmakers gave final passage to three anti-abortion bills Tuesday afternoon, including one that declares pregnancies in the state begin two weeks before conception.

Right on, Arizona. Because clearly an egg is tots alive even BEFORE sperm hits it. Dudes, this does not make sense. I don't care where you stand on the pro life pro choice battlefield, but this one takes the cake for epic intelligence fail.

So what your saying, Arizona, is that if life begins at ovulation, and I have 12 periods per year, times how many years since puberty, equals....well shit, I've been pregnant around 190 times. Does that mean I'm guilty of killing my wee little unfertilized eggs by not doing my motherly duty of getting knocked up? Bitch, PLEASE.

Arizona lawmakers, you are dumb.

Mdub College homies have been posting online about the potential for 5 year reunions this summer, (Whaaaat?) which led me to think about sending in an update about how I'm not dead yet to the alumni magazine.




( What Id love to send to my alumni mag: )

( What I will probably ACTUALLY send: )

In other news, got WICKED sick this weekend, got (and changed!) a flat tire, spent too much dinero at the dentist, but still managed to be semi social. Spaghetti and friends tonight, who knows what else will unfold this week! Hoping for field work, trying not to drown in office work, and begging the skys to give us some rain so the mountains don't start burning down! :D

-Another caterer called me back. <3 <3 <3 things are moving forward!

-Serving alcohol at weddings in New Mexico is super hard. Who knew? I think we finally got it covered though!

-Suze and I rendezvoused in Albuquerque yesterday for a hawtt date of tea under blooming pear trees, organic food co-ops, conversation, sushi, and unexpectedly, WEDDING DRESS SHOPPING??

PREVIEW!!!(11!1!!!)



We went to the dress store, I tried on a 99 dollar dress, and less than an hour later, I bought it without trying on any others, and felt like a rockstar. Done and done, froofy dress shopping!

-I'm totally juggling real-I-get-payed-for-it-work, a conference paper, my ljay, and buying a plane ticket to belize all at once right now. Effing ROCKSTAR.

-Our friend Pat joined our saturday night DnD game, and my fiance is playing a pixie. Omg the most adorable nerd.

-This upcoming weekend is the green dress run, and then Game of Thrones drinking/viewing party. Maybe a little too excited.

-I think this work week is gonna be really good. Especially if I get to go walk around the mountains for some of it!

-One of my best college buddies just texted me demanding that there would be no loincloths at my wedding. The awesome thing is, she probably does have a reason to worry. The people I know are amazingly nuts. Life=love it!