It is finished!

Oh, just an update, since Kayleen has already decided to go on her trip, I'm not going to finish up the remaining 14 reasons she should not go. That is all people, you may return to your lives.

Well I have finished my puzzle!!! The box says it has 902 pieces but unfortunately mine only had 901. (And I will refuse to do any frowny faces.)
I think Kayleen is worried about what I will be up to this weekend without her, she already bought another 3-D puzzle of a castle. I think I will let her do more of the work on this one because I think I did more on the Empire State Building than she did. (She may deny it but I'm pretty sure I did.)

Also, we went to Gas Works Park for the 4th of July. Here is a video of the Finale.

It was an amazing show, although they only had the one patriotic song during the pyrotechnic demonstration.

And lastly, today I rode my bike into work. Boy oh boy, was that an experience. I'm about 10 miles from where I work and pretty much all of it is on a bike trail, which is really nice. The ride into work took me an hour, mind you I stopped a few times at trail junctions to make sure I was going the right way and also I'm on a mountain bike, not really a good speed bike. Well, when I got to work I felt fine, although my hands had a bit of a burn on them. I thought that my legs would have been killing me but I had no pain from them. It wasn't until an hour before I was done with work that my keester (my bum) started to hurt. I thought, uh oh, this may hurt on the ride back. Unfortunately for me, I was right. The ride back took me an hour twenty and was very painful. I don't think I will elaborate on it any more, it's kind of crude.

(But riding on my bike on the way back, I was thinking, why do people say I going to drive somewhere, but when talking about bikes, they say they are going to ride them. If someone does say they are going to ride in the car, it is very clear that they do not plan on driving. Do people who ride their bikes actually not control them? Are they riding some sort of bike that controls where they are going? Where do you get these sort of contraptions? I don't know, like I was saying, it had me thinking.)

I accept your challenge!

Well, Kayleen's friends are trying to convince her to join them on a weekend of gallivanting and carousing. One of her friends wrote in her blog and gave 26 reasons why Kayleen should go with them. I told Kayleen "Oh no, now I'm going to have to give 52 reasons why you should not go." And she quickly replied that I would not be capable of giving that many reasons. Well Kayleen, I accept your challenge. I will come up with 52 reasons why you should not leave me to spend the weekend for a fun filled ruckus time with your friends.

1. You would be leaving your husband to fend for himself. After spending almost two months non-stop with with him, you should know that I am unable to take care of myself.
2. You will be lonely without me.
3. I will rearrange the apartment while you are gone. You will be worried the whole time!
4. You will need to leave me with money in case I go over to visit Pat.
5. I might buy a hamster with the money you left me with in case I had visited Pat.
6. I might buy a ferret...
7. I might buy a gerbil.
8. I might buy a squirrel
9. I might buy a squirrel army.
10. I might buy two.
11. I might have the armies fight each other.
12. We might get kicked out because of my squirrel armies, and we will be evicted from our place.
13. The survivors of the great squirrel battle might attack me because I was not able to lock myself in our place.
14. The squirrels might win and kill me!
15. I might watch a bunch of House episodes without you.
16. I might start drinking again. (oooo... People are now going to think that your husband is a drunkard!)
    
17. I might go crazy. (I guess the squirrel army thing wasn't me going crazy yet. Just makes you think...)
18. I might waste my whole week and just play xbox.
19. Do you really want to spend your whole week with her? (Now you really can't go because everyone there will be thinking "Who is the "her"? What did she tell Mike about her?" Even if this whole reason is a lie, your friends won't know and the whole weekend will become very awkward.)
20. I might spend time with some of my bachelor friends!
21. I might go to bars!
22. I will probably smoke some cigars.
23. I will probably become addicted to cigars.
24. Your friends won't be able to appreciate you as much as I do.
25. Your friends were able to (so far) come up with 26 reasons as to why you should go. I'm trying (I say trying because I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it now.) to come up with 52!
26. You'll come home to a big mess that you'll have to clean up because I'll have to work the next day.
27. This would be a great chance to show up your friends and make yourself appear as "Miss High and Mighty" over your married friends and you can say "No, I'm not going to leave MYYYY husband. I Love MYYY husband." (Again, I would like to point out that saying this would only make you APPEAR to be better than your friends. We all know that you would be bagging out to only stay at home on the couch.)
    
28. You would regret the weekend because you could have spent it working as a nanny somewhere. You were thinking of buying your husband some nice gifts and nice gifts aren't cheap.
29. If you are hanging out with your drunk friends, they are liable to throw up. Seeing them throw up might cause you to throw up. Your other friends who had not thrown up might the start throwing up. Then everyone will be throwing up. Not a very pleasant sight. I'm not going to elaborate on it.
30. I don't like the idea of you spending your time with so many nurses. They may know which drugs you can take while pregnant, I don't want you getting high or anything.
31. People at church will think that you were mad at me or that you left me! I'm not going to want to have to go up to everyone and tell them that your just out of town.
32. If reason 31 is wrong, there is still a chance that people will just wonder where you are, then I'll have to say to everyone "No, she is just out of town with her friends. Sort of a last girls weekend thing." And I'll be forced to give a smile as they tell me some joke about me not being able to take care of myself. I wont be able to say "I told her! I told her not to go!" because you know how I can be a little shy.
33. I wont eat my vegetables while your gone.
34. I wont eat my fruits.
35. I wont eat healthy food at all!
36. I'll eat out every night!
37. You'll miss out on all me crazy antics!
38. You'll be sad of the lack of crazy antics in your weekend. (I should have probably spread these two out because now these appear to be for the same thing and should be combined.)

I guess I'll write the other 14 later because you are yelling at me to make my lunch. I'll hopefully be able to finish my list tomorrow.


Ahhh... The puzzle update now! Sorry, I meant to post this picture a while ago. I was up to this point on Monday I believe.


This is where I was about midnight on I guess you would say Wednesday morning.

This is later on Wednesday morning.


And here is where I am today. The hard part is getting the base of the tower connected to the rest. The pattern's aren't matching up and It's getting very frustrating. I guess if and when Kayleen goes on her trip (Yeah, I am pretty sure she is going to go.) I'll have time to finish the puzzle properly, even though Kayleen wont be there to help me. She did help me with various different parts to the puzzle.

Engineers have a sense of style!

Kayleen was telling me about one of her friend's blogs about how engineers having no sense of style. I really don't know what she is talking about, I work at a software company and everyone there sems to have a decent sense of style. I think I'm a pretty fair judge, as you can see by my picture I have quite the eye for style myself.

In case you guys have been wondering, work has been going great. We normally have pizza on Fridays but last Friday that was not the case and it has put me in a funk ever since. Today made up for the lack of Friday pizza, I got an email and it read:

"PIE!!!!!


LOUNGE!!!!!


NOW!!!!!"

And it was pretty good pie too! Key lime pie! I had never had it before, but being key lime I figured it must be pretty good.

Puzzle update: So the empire state building puzzle has been proceding well, I even got some help from the Mrs. I must admit though, I am taking a different approach to erecting the building, instead of the normal bottom-up method, I have unwittingly done the top-down method. This was more due to the face that the first pieces I was able to assemble were the upper pieces.

Puzzle update

So I've been working on the Empire State building 3-D puzzle and I'm surprised that I've been making some good progress. I've sort of become obsessed with this thing and am spending a lot of time to finish it. I've fond that he best way to assemble the puzzle is to work on everything in sections and then figure out how to arrange the sections. (Again, to be nerdy, it's sort of a recursive way to solve it. Assemble pieces to form bigger puzzle pieces and then put those pieces together. Sorry for the nerdy tid bits.) I'm thinking that I should be able to have it finished in a week, way less then the 100 days I had originally allotted myself. I should reward myself for being so far ahead of schedule, but I don't know what with yet.


















Large panels of the puzzle.


On the pregnancy front, I am proud to say that I am already learning some things about pregnant women. For example, if you are going to ask them what they want to eat, NEVER SUGGEST THINGS!!! If you say the wrong food, your pregnant wife may become nauseous! Also, don't ask them what they want to eat for a future meal. With Kayleen, her morning sickness is so touchy that she just plans on her meal by what her body feels like at that time. It's impossible for her to know to far into the future. I would report on things I have learned about mood swings but Kayleen doesn't have any of those yet. (*in a whisper* Or maybe she does but I'm just to afraid of getting hit that I am going to leave it out for now. Only the bruising on my body will tell I guess.) Again, I was thinking of posting a picture of Kayleen but the picture I took was soon after she had thrown up and so she does not like the picture at ALL! So to avoid a beating, I mean to respect her wishes, I'm not posting it.

And the last thing I was going to mention was just a few notes about our apartment we are living in. It's a nice little place but I already know that I do not want to move back into these apartments after my last semester at WSU. For one thing, they have moved all of the trash bins to the front entrance and replaced them with a trash compacter. What makes this so frustrating is that the apartments are on a hill and the trash compacter is on the top of this hill and we are on the bottom. Since I would probably receive a lot of back lash from my blogging audience if I made a pregnant woman take out the trash, I have to walk up the hill to take out one lousy bag of trash. The other reason I wouldn't want to live here is because of the kids around here. They scare me. Especially this one boy I heard out my window today. There was a few kids, around 4 or 5 years old and one of the boys didn't want this one boy to hang out with him and another boy, so to get him away, he made this awful grunting sound. Well, to say it was grunting is putting it lightly, it was very weird and kind of scary. I could have taken a video so you could have heard it but for some reason taking a video of some kid I don't even know just sounds very wrong to me. Ok, well I should be hitting the hay now.