Umm, Stuff

It's been another busy month. I've got a final at school tomorrow night over the muscles of the appendages and then another one next Tuesday evening on how to work those muscles. I should do good.

Our cat, Jasper, had surgery Monday for bladder stones. Expensive little bastage! But he was feeling pretty crappy for some time and he seems to be doing a little better now, so that's good. Our cat, Pixie, got locked in a closet while Christin took Jasper to the vet Monday and when Christin came home she found the little bugger in the closet with blood everywhere! Turns out she ripped one of her claws off while trying to scratch her way out. Dumb cat!

My mom and Tom came and visited us Saturday. It was way cool! We had lunch and then drove around sight seeing. We walked around Seven Falls, too. It was a nice little visit.

I'm quitting Agilent (Volt) tomorrow to work for Express Messenger. I will work less hours and make more money. Sa-weet!! It'll work great while I finish up school and after I'm done with school it will help with being able to give more massages and stuff.

I'm done.

Wedding Pics

Here are some pictures of the wedding (Brent and Tammy's) in Malibu and the reception that followed. Although you probably won't know any of the people in them, there are a few with Christin and me.

http://picasaweb.google.com/christin.hobbs

Things That Go Boom, Crash, Bang In The Night

Two nights ago Christin and I were startled awake at two in the morning by some freakish noise. Here is what happened in Christin's words.

Nate and I were just rudely wakened by a most thunderous calamity! Laying in bed, with heart pounding in anticipation of unspeakable horrors, I slowly began to realize..."this must be because of a cat!" Fear gripped me as I quickly jumped up to see what was causing this noise as it echoed through the apartment, back and forth. A shadow (very noisily) raced by me at breakneck speed, into the office. Simultaneously, in the living room, there was a crash into the blinds. The shadow ran by me yet again, this time quietly...into the bedroom, under the bed to "safety."

I was quickly able to determine what happened and could not stop laughing for minutes! Pixie had somehow gotten her head caught in the loop of the Outback bag that was in the kitchen. Trying to escape her attacker, she ran from the kitchen, into our bedroom, back through the living room, into the office (where I thought she lost the bag) weeeeeeeeeeeeeee (that is Pixie's typing, literally - HAHA), and back into the bedroom. By this time Nate was up too and helped me search out the rogue bag. We found it between his desk and chair, pinned down by a book that had fallen on it. This caused the bag to rip, releasing Pixie from its prison, EXCEPT she still had most of the side of the bag and loop around her neck as she cowered for dear life under the bed.

I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time. I almost peed my pants after I realized what was going on. It is criminal that we were not able to see the whole thing play out - I fortunately got a glimpse of "the shadow" racing by me with the bag around her neck. The crashing into the blinds was one of the other cats freaking out as Pixie tore by, which of course, only made me laugh harder. As I write this email, Pixie has braved the world again and doesn't seem any worse for the wear. I am going back to bed now, but I had to share this with you while it was still fresh in my mind!

My Goodness!

My goodness! It's been a long time since I've posted anything on here. I cannot tell you how busy I've been. Of course, there is work every week, same old routine which takes a lot of time but the main thing has been school that has been taking up most of my time. We started and finished our first six weeks of KOV's (Kinesiology Overview). This covered the muscles in the back, abdomen, head, neck, and rump. That was our Thursday night classes (theory). On Tuesday nights (hands-on) we learned how to work these muslces. Yes, it's true! There's nothing like gloving up to work on the internal muscles of the mouth or working on the muscles two inches from someone's bunghole! Great fun!! : )

We then had our tests on these things and in theory class I got a B (which kind of bummed me out but it was 210 really hard questions!). On the hands-on test I got a 100% though. So, since I passed those I got to continue on with the school program. We jumped back into the swing of things last week with learning KOV #7, which consists of a couple more muscles on the shoulder and chest.

So, that's school. I'm loving it still and enjoy learning all this funky stuff. Oh, we have another class on Thursday nights which is Neuromuscular Physiology. Wild!

I haven't been on any trips or anything...or have I? Yes, I have! We went to California for my brother-in-law's wedding on the beach in Malibu. That was rad! We went to Magic Mountain and rode the scary roller coasters. That was crazy crap! What are people thinking when they build these things?! But it was lots of fun and we were there with about 15 people. Friends from our WoW guild that live in CA.

I had my birthday. I'm 34 now. Weird.

Allana came and visited for a week and we had a really good time. She's still growing up! What the crap?! I hope to be in Boise for my cousin's wedding around the first part of August. It'll be just a weekend trip though. Hope I can see some people during that time.

Well, back to work I go. Peace!

Don't Touch Me There!

When I came home the other day there was a note on all the apartment doors that talked about how management just wanted to be neighborhood friendly/safe and make sure everyone's aware of local sex offenders. They offered a website to go to find out more information. I thought this just too weird so I looked up our zip code and there's a guy on the top floor of our building that's one. I figured something was up. Not with that dude, because I've never seen him around, but just the note on the door.

I started Student Clinic at school Monday. It's every Monday from 4-9 pm and I give three massages during that time. It's cool. It lasts for 16 weeks.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a nice weekend. Friday evening, Christin and I just stayed home and watched Spanglish. That's a great movie! And then we played WoW until 1:00 am or so. Saturday, I cleaned house, played D&D with the boys, and played WoW again until about 1:00 am. Sunday, I went to some friends house in the morning and gave them massages and then Christin and I went to another friend's house and had dinner with their family. It was awesome because we had deer and moose. It was yummy! Although we each only had a bite of the moose because it was so tough! We just kept chewing and chewing and chewing... Then we came home and played WoW again. Monday morning I slept in until 10:00 am! That's pretty unusual for me. I usually can't sleep past 8:00 am anymore so that was nice. I did some homework and then we went and saw X-Men 3; we we liked it. Everybody dies but that's alright. Then we went to Home Depot and got some pots for Christin's herbs...basil and stuff like that. Not the other kind of "herb". We ate at Chipotle and then we came home and played WoW a bit more and went to bed.

My Space

I recently, (today) created a MySpace page if you want to check it out. I'm not sure if I'll totally convert to it or not. We'll see...

http://www.myspace.com/bluskalz

Angry White Polka!

Hehe...definitely gonna need volume for this one!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9015039751037156260&q=angry+german+kid