Pickle Juice Drinking Contest

This is me still thinking about how I can get out of this.
Cheers to the competitors.

Yep, that is right. I was in a pickle juice drinking contest. I went to another ward's singles activity and the only people I really knew were the friends I went with. Somehow I got involved in the contest. I did not drink it the fastest, but I finished it all. It was quite disgusting, but I am so stinking competitive I had to finish. We went to a piano bar downtown after. I have never tasted such gross burps in my life. Yep, all in the name of compitition, I drank all that pickle juice.

2 Months Down...

It is the last day of the second month in 2008 and I have successfully refrained from buying any shoes so far this year. I also went through my shoes last week and am donating at least 40 pairs. I realize that some of you might be interested in checking them out before I give them away, but I would not fully support anyone wearing most of them. I have definitely gone through some bad shoe phases. Anyhow, since I have had a chance to clear some space in my closet, I had to take a picture of how cute my closet it. It comes with the territory of the "inlovewithshoes" blog. If you were planning on counting them, don't... this isn't all them.

Yea for Utah

I went to Utah last weekend. It was so much fun. I ate, went to Aaron and Angela's wedding, ate, hung out with Nicole, ate, went to Ikea, ate, spent time with my favorite youngest sister, ate, and visited some old college buddies... and ate some more.

snowmobling rocks my world!!

So, I went up to Granby this weekend to do some snowmobiling. It was the coolest thing I have done in quite sometime. Poor Dustin spent most of the day digging me out after I got stuck. It was so much fun.

February 1st.... one month down, dare I say 11 more to go?

So, I had a really strange thought when thinking of my New Year's resolutions for 2008. I thought that maybe, just maybe, I could go a whole year without purchasing shoes. I quickly pushed that thought aside and went on with making my other realistic goals for the year. As I walked passed the shoe department at Nordy's today I realized that I went a whole month without buying any shoes! That might not be not be much of a feat (no pun intended) to most, but I am not quite sure how long it has been since I went a month without purchasing a pair of shoes. Do you really think I could last all year without buying a new pair? Hmmm.... I am not quite sure I can make that kind of commitment, but I will for sure give it a shot. Really, I have enough shoes to only have to wear the same pair 2 1/2 days out of the year and then move on to the next. That may seem like plenty, but with styles changing, there might end up being a pair that I cannot possibly live without... we'll see.

Tamara reminded me that if you can jump over fences, race down the mountain, and cruise over moguls like you are on flat land... you are hot! Thanks to Dustin for showing us how hot a guy can be on skis! At least I can beat him at ping pong!

YEA for skiing!

Well, I finally went skiing for the first time since I had brain surgery. I was so nervous. I really did not want to go, but I knew I had to. It was so much fun. I was a little slower than I would have liked, but did much better than I expected to. It helped that I was with good friends. The first time up the lift, I was trying to situate my hat and goggles and totally dropped my glove. Luckily there was a place on top to buy some new ones. Later in the day I was trying to get some gunk off of my face while standing in line for the lift and totally ate it. It was like slow motion. I couldn't catch myself with my hands because I was holding all of my stuff. It was awesome!
I had some friends come up to my grandparents' place in Breckenridge. It was a great time. Super chill, relaxing weekend. By relaxing, I mean, staying up until 1:00 and getting up at 7:00 playing all day and goofing around all night. It was awesome!