Adventures in the Rohde household

Jake: "I just farted and it's probably going to smell like sausage pizza."

Gross.  It did, too.

He only knew cuz he farted earlier with the same results.

Still disgusting, though.

PETA

So, I didn't get the job.  I was pretty upset about it since I had decided I wanted it pretty badly.  After quite a few tears, Jake and I decided to do a little food-comforting.  Where do I go when I want some food comfort?

Chicken nuggets.  From McDonald's.  Mmmmm.  I know a lot of people probably think they're gross, but I have a huge love for their chicken nuggets.  I don't really know why.  Speaking of McDonald's and chicken, did anyone outside Denver hear about what PETA was trying to do here?  They wanted to put a statue of the below image outside of McDonald's on the 16th street pedestrian mall (they didn't succeed).  The picture I found is actually KFC, since apparently they have a problem with how KFC treats chickens too, but this was the clearest picture I could find.

I just have to say that I am not a fan of PETA.  I think it's great that they want to make sure animals are treated well, but most of the time they do really stupid stuff.  Here's another example.

Last fall PETA found out that there was a Swiss restaraunt who was going to substitute human breast milk for 75% of cow's milk.  PETA apparently liked that idea, so they followed up by saying:

"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

Wow.  Unless we've heard incorrectly, I'm pretty sure there is not a shortage of baby cows getting milk.  Jake also pointed out that by taking nursing mother's milk (and using the same logic as PETA), you are then creating a shortage of milk for human babies.  Good call on that one.  

Again, I really applaud the idea that we should care how animals are treated.  I just don't understand where PETA gets some of their completely erratic ideas.

The end of my ranting for the day.

Now I'm going to go run 6 miles.  Well, soon we will; it's raining outside and is like 52 degrees.  That's cold weather for running.  At least for me. :)

Mixed bag

I still really like the weather in Colorado.  Even when it's hot outside, it's not really that hot!  It's pretty fab-o!

Boo for clothes needing to be hand washed.  I just bought a couple things that apparently need to be hand-washed, and I didn't realize it until after I had purchased them and worn them.  I still would have bought them, but hand washing things is sad.

So boo to that.

I'm anxiously awaiting a phone call about a full-time job.  Not very patiently I might add.

We called to have someone come check on our dishwasher.  As soon as the dude came in, he was like "Man, what are you guys cooking?  I can smell it all the way outside and it smells the bomb!"  Too bad it wasn't ready to eat cuz we would have given him some.  I'm very excited to eat our chicken soup tonight.  It really does smell the bomb!

TMI

... so if you can't handle gross stuff, don't read this.

I think one of the worst feelings in the world is needing to go #2 while running.  I mean seriously; it's AWFUL.  I felt that way for the last 2 miles of my run, but the last 1/2 mile was by far the worst.  I just kept counting down the time till I was done running to encourage myself to make it through the discomfort.

My sunburn is still obnoxious.  My left thigh got burnt pretty badly and it started to blister- it's been peeling sporadically and actually feels really uncomfortable while running.  I'm pretty sure I'm going to remember to put sunscreen on my legs next time I'm outside for an extended period of time.

Yep, TMI.  But I had to say it.  Sorry.

Rafting

I indicated that there would be a rafting trip report... so here it is!

It was fantastic!  We had a great time.  Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures from the actual rafting portion of the day because you have to buy a CD of pictures from the photographer and it was REALLY expensive.  Too bad you can't buy one picture- there just weren't that many stellar photos that stood out.  We did have a great time though and the wetsuit really made the cold water tolerable.  We certainly looked goofy, but we had fun.

We did go to lunch at the on-site restaurant after we went rafting.  Here is my aunt Jean, cousin Shannon, and my cousin Corey's half-sister, Gentry.

And the other side of the table.  Here's my uncle Bryan and cousin Tommy (who apparently doesn't like pictures... or maybe was just hungry- I'm not sure).

After lunch we headed back to their campsite and went swimming for a while (where I proceeded to get extremely sunburnt on my legs because I was a doof and forgot to put sunscreen there).  To get out of  the sun for a while, we headed back to their RV and hung out for a bit (in case any of you readers don't know, my uncle is part-owner of an RV business- so this one is just one of many that he simply "borrows"). :)

We had some yummy sloppy joe's for dinner and shortly thereafter Jake and I made the trek back home.  But not before we got a few goodbye pictures, of course.

By the way, it still weirds me out how much older my cousins are.  I vaguely remember throwing them around all the time a few years ago.  Weird!  Anyway, it was a great trip and we had a fantastic time.  Now if only my legs would recover from this darn sunburn.  Oh well; it was my fault.

Early

I'm real tired.  Why am I blogging at 4:30am then you ask?

Cuz I accidentally changed our alarm clock time forward one hour when I was setting it last night.  I was pretty tired.  So instead of waking up at 4:45 which was already ridiculous, we woke up at 3:45, even though the clock said it was 4:45.  Jake realized what time it was AFTER I got out of the shower.  Whoops.  It was probably a good thing though cuz we might not have had enough time to finish getting ready to go without being super rushed, since today, we are going...........

Rafting!  My aunt and uncle and a few of my cousins are out here for vacation so they invited us to go rafting with them for the day.  It's a half-day trip which starts at 9am (need to be there 45 min early), and it should take us about a couple hours to get there.  Hence why we're up early.

Pray that I don't die today.  Assuming I don't, I'll try to update you about my experience when we get back!

Snakes and flowers- a lovely combination

Today I saw some kind of bullsnake on my run.  Kinda freaked me out, but it also intrigued me.  Ok, so it was pretty cool- mostly because it didn't try to attack me.  I think it looked something like this:

I didn't see its head though so I'm not totally sure.

In other news, my parents bought me a pot of flowers for graduation.  They've been on my porch, and I'm worried that they aren't going to make it.  It's my first plant I've had to take care of, so I hope I don't blow it.  I know it could just be that they get more sun than that type of flower can handle, but we'll just have to see.  They got a good dosage of miracle grow today so I hope it helps.