I passed!

I passed my real estate license test! yay! 91% on the national, 88% on state. 75% is passing. man, i was nervous. i hate tests.

2,515.5 miles and then some

eugene -> bakersfield -> las vegas -> agua caliente -> san diego -> redding -> eugene
and that doesn't include my drive down from portland, and then back up again via lebanon for my cousins wedding this evening.
I am SO glad to be home. I am sitting in my comfy bed cuddling with my sweet Rosie pup. I need to get to studying, I have my license test tomorrow. I am a little nervous....... but today was really fun, I went to the airstream dealership with my dad. I wanted to see the new basecamp trailer by airstream. and my dad wanted to check out the airstream touring coach. the basecamp is pretty neat. bare bones for a travel trailer, but it is COOL. it's like luxury roughing it. you can even get it with high suspension and off road tires! but if it came down to it I think I would probably go for a Tab teardrop trailer before I'd go for a basecamp, because they're more utilitarian and less expensive. the basecamp is like a toy hauler tent trailer. I don't have THAT much gear that needs hauling. and if i had my choice of choices of trailers I would get the 22ft International CCD. *sigh*
anyway, I need to stop procrastinating and start actually studying.
I will post more about our epic road trip later and I will post more pics....some that are better than cell phone pics. some of those show up ok, and then others look like total crap. but I still think it's really fun to post with my phone. technology never ceases to amaze me.

Treasure island

I'm at the vegas bowl. I have no idea whats going on. I've never been to a football game before. The trafic was insane getting here. My dad almost ran over a parking attemdant, then parked illegaly in a vip parking section. I just hope our car is still there later.

Lion habitat in mgm grand

We're staying in the mgm grand. I was very depressed last night because Tom Jones played here and i couldn't go. It was just too expensive!

We just drove through redding. Now we're going to play apples to apples.

Mt. Shasta!

5.45 am...we're off! Max wanted to come with.

Stuck in traffic.... just outside of eugene. I'm hungry and i really have to pee!

totally depressed

AL and I watched the last episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer this morning. we finally finished it. I am glad to now know how it ends, but it was kind of sad and I am sad that it's over. I guess now it's time to move on to a different show, like Angel, or Firefly.

kr club meeting

We had a successful KR fan club meeting this evening. we finally watched "The Thing", which I have had from netflix for like 4 weeks. it's a classic. i forgot just how good it was and how creepy it is, it's been awhile since I've seen it.

Frisbee in the mud!

work and weather....always valid topics

sweet, my "test" was successful........I changed my phone # and hence had to change my mobile blogging number. I miss my old phone number, it was truly perfect. but the new one is good too. it has its advantages, like Crazy Guy can't call me anymore which means I can answer my phone even when it's an unknown number! yay! it's also better to have a local number for "da bidness" and i guess this means I really live in portland now. even changed my address on my drivers license.
so how bout that weather, eh? the wind is blowing like CRAZY out there. I had to lock the door at work today because it blows open. It didn't make much difference for business, I let people in if they came to my door or they went in the yarn store door. Not a lot of people out and about in the 60 mph hour winds and rain. My last customer (of about 3 for the day) was at 6. I closed at 9. I was very bored.

$ for National Aids fund

Today, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical monolith that charges nearly $1,000 for a 30 day supply of one of its HIV/AIDS medications, is donating $1 to the National AIDS Fund for each person who simply visits their website and "virtually lights a candle." The tally is over 1428212 now.

Please, please take a minute to "light a candle":

lighttounite.org

still knitting.....

I've been knitting. A lot.
this is the scarf i made for Spencer for his birthday. It's double knit, so it's the opposite on each side. I made up the pattern, it came out really well! the double knitting is pretty tricky. (check out the crazy amazing lady who makes two socks at once!)


Aubry and two of her friends came to visit over the weekend. I taught them both how to knit, and Aubry finished her first scarf! here it is nearing the end.



I have also been making lots of nautiloids.

coming soon: vacation

I finished my real estate course work! yay! now I apply to take the Big Test. the actual license test.
I also confirmed with my boss that I would be leaving soon for vacation and then greener employment pastures. though i did offer to work one or two days a week, or as fill-in, because it's hard to give up the yarn discounts. and such an easy easy job.
Plans and reservations are being made for the National Larson Family Christmas Vacation. I suspect it will be a lot like a combo of national lampoon's family vacation movies. road trip, vegas, camping, except my dad looksl more like Tom Selleck than Chevy Chase. So far we plan on staying 2 nights in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand, and at some point we are attending the UO vs. BYU football game. I've never been to a football game. After vegas we are driving towards San Diego, staying 2 nights in a campground, possibly Agua Caliente, which has nice looking hot springs and is in between vegas and San Diego. after camping we are staying in San Diego and going to Sea World. We are doing all of this in an astro van that my dad has purchased from a friend and had fixed, i beleive we are also towing a small trailer full of our stuff. "we" includes both my parents, myself, Aubry and Braden, and Vato (the russian guy who lives with my parents). we are leaving early the 19th, right after Braden gets his braces put on. after christmas we are rushing back home to get back in time for my cousins wedding in lebanon on the 28th. I'm already exhausted just thinking about it! but i'm also excited. it will be madness and mayhem.

whirlwind weekend

andieland came up for a visit over the weekend. we had loads of fun drinking wine, eating good food, knitting and being lazy. it was just what weekends should be.
after andie went home on sunday AL and I got productive, rearranging the living room and the kitchen. it was a big project. i think we spent about 5 hours in a frenzy of moving, cleaning, packing and unpacking. (there are hilarious pics on her site of her chewing on Rosie's face. seriously, check 'em out.)
now it's back to work. I finished all my online real estate courses, and now have to go take some chapter tests out at the school place. then I apply to take the license test. whoo buddy. and i have to quit my boring but easy and sometimes fun but also aggravating yarn store coffee job. which makes me sad, but oh well.