http://jongela.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:43:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last weekend Jon and I went to check out the Granite Curling Club in Seattle due to interest sparked during our olympic adventure.  After watching the curling event we figured we could probably make it on the US team without too much trouble, but after trying it we realize that curling is ... http://jongela.com/2010/03/sweeeep-sweep-swwwweeeeep/ Last week our friend Susan came up to see the Olympics with us!  We woke up early, drove up to Vancouver, perused the scene, saw the women's curling event, and drove home so we could go to work the next day.  Here are the pictures. [caption id="attachment_463" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="In front ... http://jongela.com/2010/03/adventure-of-olympic-proportions/ We don't like to go out in the cold, so we abandoned our garden for the winter.  This month has gifted us with a couple warm days so we checked up on our garden.  Our garden has done surprisingly well! The compost we started a year and a half ago actually ... http://jongela.com/2010/02/our-unmaintained-garden/ Pixel is doing pretty well these days.  I think her behavior has improved quite a bit since the last time we blogged about her.  She's still getting into mischief now, but she's wanting to be more social with us too.  She'll follow us around the apartment now and stand up ... http://jongela.com/2010/02/an-update-on-pixel/ Well, we had a pretty eventful weekend.  We're finally recovering from our various trips and able to relax a little on the weekends.  On Friday night we attended a musical that one of Jon's YM was performing in.  The title of the play: "Zombie Prom".  We figured, zombies + prom ... http://jongela.com/2010/02/zombie-prom-and-baby-vomit/ [caption id="attachment_420" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This was the evil carrot"][/caption]I've had three embarrassing and very painful experiences this past week. So I figured I'd share it in this blog so at least somebody will be entertained at my expense. While we were in Idaho for the holidays, we went to a ... http://jongela.com/2010/01/a-series-of-unfortunate-events/ Pixel discovered that there are spots under the arms of our couch that she can climb into where we can't reach her. As such, she likes to steal our things and hide them in the couch. Her favorite things to hide are stress balls, scissors, and flip flops. She ... http://jongela.com/2009/12/we-have-a-shoe-thief/ We had an uber-successful shopping season this year! [caption id="attachment_384" align="alignright" width="300" caption="24 inches of pure High-def recipe enjoyment"][/caption] About a week ago, we found a 24" LCD full HD monitor for $170 with free shipping on the Dell Outlet website. Thanks to Twitter, I found a $20 coupon. So we got ... http://jongela.com/2009/12/deals-deals-deals-deals-all-over-the-floor/ So I don't have any before/after pictures, but I guess it's news.  I cut my hair last week.  I took off about 14 inches and donated it to Locks of Love.  I got it cut in this goth place with a tatoo parlor attached to it...that part was sort of ... http://jongela.com/2009/12/angelas-haircut/ We took a little vacation the week before Thanksgiving this year.  Our friend Susan visited us from Provo so we decided to have a little adventure.  We headed North on Sunday with our luggage and a bag of goldfish crackers.  Good thing we had them or we would have starved!  ... http://jongela.com/2009/12/victoria-and-beyond/