Don't try to deny it.

You know that you love cute baby panda bears as much as I do.

"Now we know why lions eat their young..."

Trevor and I are productive people, right? We go out and do things, we work on improving our house, we're productive! Usually. This weekend, not so much.

The most productive thing I think we did this weekend was going out for a picnic with some friends. The rest of the weekend was spent in the living room watching seasons 2 and 3 of The Deadliest Catch on the discover channel, back to back. I think I'm addicted.

The show follows about 5 boats out on the Bering Sea, up by Alaska, during the King Crab and Ophelia fishing seasons. It's crazy!! Really, I mean it! They sometimes work 38 hours straight, pulling up pots full of crabs during the middle of these outrageous storms. I mean like 20 feet waves crashing into the side of the boat that already has ice stuck all over the place because it's below freezing. Not to mention the occupational hazard of working with giagantic crabs.

The point of this blog is to tell you all that the new season started last night, and it looks like it's going to be an intense one! All of the boats have their little lucky charm routines (like biting the head of of a herring, or using a cup-o-noodles as a spitoon), and none of them were working out. FOREBODING? I think so.

By the way, the headline of the blog was provided by Captain Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie. He works on the boat with his two sons, and they have a pretty entertaining dynamic.

Aahhh....

*Deep Breath In*

Finals are over.

I think I did okay in all of my classes, I should have all A's and B's. I had two-part finals in two of my classes, so that was a little ridiculous. Other than that, things went fine.

For those of you who don't know, Trevor ended up coming home after one day in Utah because he wasn't feeling well. He's spent the last week feeling gross, and actually stayed home from work for two days, and came home early another two. He's doing better, and I don't feel like he got me sick yet (other than that nasty "after-finals" feeling), so that's good :)

I have 10 days off now!! I went to work this morning, took a nap this afternoon, and just went for a little run. So far my break is looking good :) Oh, and I'm watching "What Not to Wear" while I'm waiting for Trevor to come home, and Clinton just called a girls jeans the Anti-Christ. Who Knew?

I'm all alone, there's no one here beside me...

Trevor has to go to Utah from Thursday to Friday. Who wants to keep me and Piper company?

Love
Michelle

Catholics!!

I've been taking a Christian History class this semester, and naturally we have spent a lot of time talking about the Catholic religion. We actually spent the whole first half of the semester talking about what Roman Catholics believe and how their Mass proceeds (we spent a little time on Orthodox, but not nearly as much.) Now, while the class has an OBCENE amount of homework for a two credit class, I have learned quite a bit. Not from the homework at all, but the lectures are great.

My favorite part of Catholisism is the art. Specifically the saints and the depictions of Hell. If you get a hankering to cruise Goodle image search for Catholic pictures of Hell, look for the toads. They're everywhere! In almost every picture I've seen, there are toads eating people in Hell. And as for the saints... there is one Saint in particular that I can't really stop thinking of. Her name is Saint Lucy. If you look up pictures of her, she often has a pair of eyes on a plate or on the end of stems as flowers. I was pretty grossed out by this the first time I saw it (and that's saying something as we had already gone through most of the saints). Apparently she had a young suitor who told her that he was so entranced by her eyes that he had to marry her (he didn't want her to enter a nunnery). So she scratched our her eyes in fear for his soul. Yeah, you read that right. She scratched out her eyes because she thought the might be the end of this poor boy's soul. I think what weirds me out most about the pictures are that the eyes are LOOKING at you. They're staring you down, as if to say "What are you looking at, punk? I was a sacrifice for the salvation of a soul. What have you done today?"




Brother Hansen has also spent a lot of time discussing how to "read" Catholic churches, cathedrals and such. Things like identifying saints, noticing the progression along the knave of the church (the human journey), and seeing the influence of the kings on art and architecture. It's made me want to go to Europe even more, to see how much I could figure out on my own. Anyways, I was just thinking about it, and since this is my blog, you are the unwitting victims of my train of thought.

What is "green"? We do not know what this word means

It snowed again this morning. Big fat flakes just dropped on us for hours, covering sidewalks and trees and what little grass that was starting to peek out. I was getting so hopeful that maybe, just maybe, spring was coming. Maybe I wouldn't really have to spend eternity wading around in boots and wool coats. But alas, it was not to be.



Okay, yeah, it's not really that bad. Chances are it will start raining this afternoon and wash it all away. I know Trevor and I decided to move here instead of somewhere warmer, but it was still pretty depressing. Just keep your fingers crossed for us, and maybe things will start to warm up a little here!

EDIT: You are not crossing your fingers hard enough! It's still snowing! And it's windy! I almost killed myself on the way to school this morning because I couldn't see four feet in front of my car.

So many blogs... They're everywhere!!

I'm sitting here thinking about blogs, which is of course a dangerous thing to do. My blog has links to other blogs, who in turn have links to both my blog and other blogs, and I'm sure those other blogs probably have other-other blogs that they link to as well. It's a never ending chain of blog-linking!!

Here is something I don't really understand though: News Blogs. Does anyone really get their news from a News Blog? Or do people just read News Blogs to make fun of other peoples opinions on stuff? Do any of you guys read News Blogs?