B I R D + S L C = U F O R I A.

Ahhhhhhhh. There's nothing like a great concert to make you feel completely renewed.  On Wednesday, my coworker Chad and I ventured up to SLC to go to this show. There was a little confusion on where the show actually was, but we made it, and were like the 4th and 5th people in line. haha This of course, led us to have FRONT AND CENTER standing room. It was unreal. We probably were standing a total of 6 hours when it was all said and done, and we weren't feeling our best afterward, but it was SO SO worth it! The opening band was Loney Dear, who was really good. When Andrew Bird came on, the place went crazy. He came out, adjusted his stuff, smiled at us, and went on to say "Something just isn't right".  He took off his shoes, said "there we go!" and played the whole concert shoeless. What a guy. 

He played a great set of songs, old and new and played all of my favorites :D!!! I always forget how great live music is. Bird was SO into everything he was doing, so focused and so charming. Mid-song he would switch from guitar to violin, back to guitar, whistle, sing, play the xylophone, everything. It was pretty much a one man bad, within a band.



It was SO fun and so worth it. I went away in absolute awe and full of love. haha The world isn't such a bad place afterall. It was really really late when we got back to Cedar. The day after we were zombies at work, but it was so cool. But, despite the zombie-ness, I was totally on cloud nine. It's amazing what a thing like a concert can do to lift the world's troubles. Clearly, i don't get out much. I don't get into many things, so it was really special. haha I was even so excited I even spiffed up a few to share.






Love.




Aside from that, life is Grrreat. Work is getting more exciting, and the weather steadily warmer. Cody is out of town this weekend on another installing job, this time in San Jose. I hope things do well for him. Los Campbell indeed. :)

V-day: Success.

Valentines day this year was really fun. I'm usually not that big of a fan of the commercial demand that we must LOVE and find love to spend it with, but this year was pretty good. It all started at Learnkey.....

The Love Monster

This little guy was the brainchild of Cody and I. For my work party, we had to make a box for people to put valentines in. I originally just wanted to make a monster, a lot like this one, but Cody had the BRILLIANT idea of giving him life and adding monster sounds! So, we got one of those cards where you can record your own message, *somehow* got monster sounds, (that went something line MMMMM! YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM! and then played a silly song.) and attached it to the roof of his mouth. That was phase one. After that, I covered it and went crazy.
It was a hit at the party. I won most creative, and got lots of good laughs. It was awesome. Here are some of the other neat boxes. 




The morning of the party, i go to get everything ready to take over. Inside of the monster's mouth was a card, and an IPOD. It blew me away. Cody is so great, not only for his gnak for surprising me, but he's... just so cute and thoughtful. I am so glad he's my forever valentine. 




On the real valentines day, I woke up to roses and silence. Cody had to work, but it was a pretty good day. When he got off we went to dinner, came home and took it easy. We rented 'Ghost Town' and shared a cheesecake. It was the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. We usually just chuckle here and there, but last night we were dying. I totally recommend it.

Phantom Spouses and Bale outs

So......how's it going? haha There hasn't been much going on lately, just... life I suppose. We still have our jobs, and live in the best little house. This semester, Cody isn't in school due to a lack of classes he needs, so he's working full time. One of the great things of working full time and doing what he does is that he gets to go on installs - or week-long trips to cool places to electronically program the machines that are built where he works. 

So far, he has been to Massachusetts (Plymouth) and Colorado (Boulder). The next trip will be to Canada (Montreal) and California (LA thereabouts). I bring this up because a couple of weeks ago while on in install in Boulder, the usual one week trip slowly tuned into a two week trip. So, I spent a good two weeks trying not to go crazy and socially.....digressed. haha over that time, I made a couple more books and watched A LOT of movies. I learned to be less afraid of the dark, and created a terrible sleeping schedule. go. me.  

The first book I made was a ribbon-bound book, this time with three. I think it was in internal plea for spring to get here. It's bright, fun and compact. I'm calling it May, because I kind of wish it was. 

The second book I made was a mix of ribbon-bound and codex binding. I really like how this one turned out. It has a very classical look, and definitely reflects me, the avid reader. I call this one Huck. 

I was so happy to have Cody back. It was like I was missing something, and was never all the way there. Some of the movies I watched were (I case you want something cool to watch sometime :) The New World, I'm Not There, Equilibrium, The Prestige, The Machinist, The Duchess, and of course, the Chris Nolan Batmans. If you see the pattern here, cool. I owe you a book. If you don't.... well it might be better that way. haha
Anyway, at work his week, since it is valentines day, we were challenged to make boxes for the valentines to go in. I have THE BEST idea, but won't disclose it just yet. It probably sounds like we have a lot of parties at work... (and we prolly do more than the average office), but they are always so fun. Along with the valentines festivities is a soup competition, which be and taste amazing.

Other than that, life is good. We are excelling at our jobs and doing well. Oh yeah, and 17 days til Andrew Bird graces Utah with his presence :)

Hagoone.