alanab

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  1. i do look abnormally pissed in that photo... maybe it was because the white van taking the photos was parked on the side of the road where no parked cars are and everyone had to swerve around it to miss hitting it! as soon as i passed it i realized what had just happened and looked at my speed and thought, hmmm... 30 in a 25, i'm cool, no ticket for that, right?. 2 weeks later, that shows up in the mail! apparently there's a school somewhere around there and the speed limit is 20 from 6am to 9pm! i still don't know where that school is though? seriously!
  2. check out the attached... we are in the same boat! except mine was only $80 and i don't get points for it!
  3. hey... i need some legal advise please! my bf and i rent a house through a property management company. we have a lease through july 2007. starting in december, we got notices saying the owner of our house (not the rental company) has not paid the mortgage and that our house was being forclosed. fast forward to yesterday, we got a notice saying our house goes up for public aution april 4th. our rental management company says we should seek legal advise and if the house goes into new ownership, that voids our lease. we are interested in buying the house to have as our own, but we don't know what to do or how to go about it. any advise would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
  4. thanks everyone! i can't believe someone remembered! my boyfriend hasn't even told me happy birthday yet! peej, you're the shit! THANKS!
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  6. alanab

    VD!

    VD is also my Bday, so I like it to be treated as an extra special day for me! Romantic and thoughtful stuff without being asked for ideas is the best! I always return the VD romance by doing/getting something nice for my man!
  7. can't you get the butchers to write some kind of proposal up? or brian smith... he did it at osu and offered to help paige and i at ou. you might even want to contact pagie, she had to go through all that same BS at ou to get ours started up. you shoulda just stayed there and continued the ou tradition, no one will after justi leaves in may!
  8. have you tried craigslist, monster, career builder, denver post, denver jobs, etc? looks like you have a great ammount of education combined with experience. shouldn't be too hard to find something you like here in that field! i'd reccommend my workplace, but i hate it, so i won't do that to you! denver rules! move here!
  9. alanab

    Snow in Denver

    snow day!!!!!! i didn't have work today and i am so loving this snow storm:) this state is the best! never leaving ever!
  10. I'd LOVE to be there this year and was kind of planning on it. Some things have happened recently that have made it hard for me emotionally, financially and time wise, that i cannot make this boogie or jump again for sometime. both by choice and because i simply can't afford it. sometimes i wonder why this shit happens, but i'm sure there is a reason
  11. You're pregnant? Couldn't spell you're um, no
  12. i wish had some life changing plans happen 5 weeks ago.... i won't be jumping/boogieing for quite a while.
  13. way to go brit!! follow your dreams girl! we'll have to catch up sometime soon!
  14. sadly, we had to leave 2 sets behing in ohio and 1 in indiana when we moved out here.... BUT, it is in the plans to make ourselves a set and spread the love here in denver! noone even knows what it is here:)
  15. oh yeah! i sure do hookah! at least i did in columbus and tecumseh all the time! I have yet to find a good hookah lounge in denver, i'm sure there's some around, but I've only been to 1 here so far and it was nasty.
  16. i'm the best cornhole player ever! I LOVE CORNHOLE! I'm also in a photo posting kinda mood:)
  17. "Climber plunges to death in Yosemite By Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writer October 25, 2006 Todd Skinner, a leading American rock climber who gained international fame for a pioneering 1988 ascent in Yosemite National Park, was killed in an accidental fall while on another Yosemite outing this week, park officials said Tuesday. Skinner, 47, plummeted at least 500 feet about 4 p.m. Monday while rappelling down the Leaning Tower monolith near Bridalveil Fall in the Yosemite Valley. A park spokesman, Scott Gediman, said rangers arrived within 10 minutes after being called by Skinner's climbing partner, Jim Hewett. They pronounced Skinner dead at the scene. ADVERTISEMENT Park officials still are investigating the cause. However, a family spokesman, Steve Bechtel, said authorities had told him that their preliminary finding was that Skinner's climbing harness broke. Skinner was a leading free climber — meaning he relied on his hands, feet and other parts of the body to ascend cliffs, and used equipment only for protection against a fall. On his website, http://www.toddskinner.com , he said he had achieved more than 300 successful first ascents in 26 countries. He is best known as being the first to make a free ascent, along with partner Paul Piana, of the Salathe Wall of El Capitan, a forbidding granite formation in Yosemite National Park. That 1988 accomplishment also was one of the most harrowing moments in his career. He and Piana were anchored by a rope to a huge boulder at El Capitan's peak when the giant rock began to roll over them. As he and Piana recounted the story to Life magazine in 1994, the boulder crashed down to the Yosemite Valley floor, more than 3,000 feet below. The two climbers would have been pulled down too if the rock hadn't luckily cut the safety rope, while leaving a backup line intact. Piana had a smashed foot and a leg broken in five places, and Skinner suffered broken ribs, but despite being hampered by their painful injuries, they managed to climb down. "We learned the hard way that the adventure isn't over when you reach the top," Skinner told the magazine. In 1995, he gained further acclaim for a pioneering climb of Nameless Tower, also known as Trango Tower, in the Himalayan Mountains in Pakistan. That year, in an interview with the Denver Post, Skinner was quoted as saying there are three types of fear in rock climbing: "What you have been afraid of, what are you afraid of now, and what you will be afraid of. The last one is the worst. It is the part of the climb that you cannot fight with right now, and for some climbers, the specter of it above their heads is too much for them," he said. He also said, in the same interview, that rock climbers in some cases are motivated by competition, "but in the big ranges, on the big walls, it is not the driving force. There is nobody up there to compete with except yourself." Skinner was born and raised in Wyoming and had lived for 16 years in Lander, Wyo. His wife, Amy, is an amateur climber, and they have three young children, ranging in age from 5 to 7. Skinner's death follows the recent fatal accident of another outdoor adventurer. Brian Schubert, who inspired the extreme sport of base jumping when he and a friend strapped parachutes to their backs and leaped off the El Capitan cliff in 1966, died Saturday on his first jump in 40 years. Schubert, a former Pomona police officer, was killed when his parachute opened too late after he jumped off an 876-foot bridge into the New River Gorge in Fayetteville, W.Va. * [email protected]"
  18. Happy B-Day Kelly, see ya at bridge day!
  19. does anyone know anything about running at higher altitudes? i was running 5 miles a day in ohio about 4 times a week. i stopped running for a few months during my move to denver. i went out last week for the first time on 2 different days and found it very difficult to run/breathe. to the point that i had to walk instead of run. i'm thinking i', gonna have to change it up to working out at a guym instead.