Wednesday, September 26, 2007

RUNNING, GADGETS AND KAYAKINGS

It's been a busy couple of weeks! After my last post I didn't boat that weekend since the water levels are going down and the season is pretty much over unless you have a Westwater permit or willing to travel... I HAVE AND AM WILLING TO DO BOTH! I refuse to give up my kayaking season without a fight....more on that later :)

Two weekends ago I tried to take advantage of the extra time, since we didn't boat anything, to get caught up with my day to day stuff. I went to Sports Authority and got some new running shoes, a heart rate monitoring watch and few pairs of yoga pants. I also got a holder for my Ipod since up until this point I have been holding it in my hand and it was awkward!

I've gotten into a routine now and things are starting to flow better for me. The new shoes made a huge difference! I was using an old pair of walking shoes which had no cushion and were pretty worn out. I got a pair Asics Gel which I love, they work well outside and on the treadmill, which I didn't think that would be the case for whatever reason. I started using the heart rate monitor and staying in my 70 - 80% range for at least 30 minutes. The first few days I struggled a little. I've gotten my schedule down so I do this 5 days a week and then either boat on the weekends or flex that time during the week so I rest 1 or 2 days in there. I keep upping the time every few days too. I'm working my way to 1 hour walk/run on that schedule. By the end of the first week I managed to run for a entire song and I had a little involuntary wohoo...it was a goal I set for myself, to be able to run for an entire song without huffing and puffing and to enjoy it :) I can run for a couple of songs in a row now, but no where near the 3 mile mark yet. Yesterday I met my friend Patty and we ran with the dogs on the Bobolink Trial in Boulder. It went a lot better than I thought it would. We slowly jogged the entire thing...took about 40 mins and total I believe it was 2.5 miles or so. It was the first time Patty had jogged in a long time, so she was going a lot slower than my pace was originally. I couldn't find a good place to keep time with her, it was either a little to fast to walk and a little too slow to jog, so there was a mixture, but I tried to keep jogging. Going again on Thursday...it'll get easier. It was nice to have a partner....when I would have talked myself into walking she kept going and vice versa. The dogs loved it! I look forward to jogging now...It's a nice release of the daily stress (mostly work), I get to zone out for a half hour or more and have no worries. I can probably say now that this will not be what its like when I start biking....blech...not looking forward to that piece!! Swimming I could do all day every day! And by 'run' in this blog I mean slowly jogging....very slowly. Once I meet the marker where I can run consistently for 30 mins, I'm going to start timing myself.

OK enough about running....I wanna talk about boating :) Last weekend I went on an overnight trip which was a blast! On the Colorado River by the Colorado/Utah border there is a long stretch of flat water that flows through a gorgeous canyon. The run is called Ruby Horse Theif.
It's a float...there's not a lick of whitewater on the entire 26 mile stretch. You really need to know this information before you do it, otherwise you could get pretty restless. I did this with the small group of people that will be going to costa rica with me, it was intended to be a bonding trip for us and there were a couple others too. Total we had a group of 12, two rafts for support and the rest of us were in our kayaks. Friday night around 8:30Pm or so (5 hour drive from Denver) Patty and I arrived at the put in at Loma. It's a boat launch patrolled by the BLM

We were the first of the group to arrive but were followed closely by a few others. We setup tents on the beach of the boat launch and settled in for the night. It was relatively cool and we were about 10 feet from the river on the beach so I slept in my long johns, hat and 0 degree sleeping bag. I was comfy! Morning came and we had to beat cheeks to rig up the rafts with our gear and get a move on. Campsites in the canyon are first come first server even with the BLM's sign up sheet at the put in. If we wanted a site big enough for our 12 person group we needed to get there first. Did I mention it was ALL FLAT... ALL OF IT!!! We had to make our own entertainment.
The Canyon is gorgeous.... here's a few pics from the early AM at the boat launch, riggin the rafts and the other boats getting ready to launch (not all of them were with us, only kim's raft in this pic, in the forefront)...


And we're off.... Day 1 floating (I'm the orange boat), chatting, laughing and beautiful views.......








Our campsite was easy enough to find with this tell tale rock formation it was about 12 miles into the day going only 4 miles an hour.....


Our campsite was Ok, not what we originally wanted as the other was stolen by an inconsiderate group that we didn't like much. But not the end of the world. We de-rigged the rafts got our tents set up and started dinner. There is a fire ban in the canyon so no campfire but we made do and chatted a little until we all realized how tired we were. Right around the time everyone went to bed it started to sprinkle....then rain....then downpour the entire night!....and by morning it was off an on until we all started to wake up which the rain then stayed at a constant 'on'! Breakfast was served under a rain flap, and we rigged up the rafts in the rain while sliding down the muddy hill. It was a weird night because of the rock we were on it must have been retaining heat because I felt like I was being slow roasted by morning...it was SOOO HOT! And because of how much it rained we all woke up in a puddle. Once out of the sleeping bag and off the heat rock it was quite chilly. I didn't even take off my long johns... I boated the rest of the day in all my rain gear plus my long johns...... burr!


Once we were on the water again we had some more gorgeous scenery.....
Black Rocks is the name, pretty obvious right :)


A couple miles into the second day we crossed into Utah... the boarder is marked on the canyon wall in this picture look for the white in the middle of photo.....


After 26 miles over two days it was over...we arrived at the Westwater put in and did a few hours worth of work to get everything taken down and packed back into our cars... I was happy as could be... on the water and with my friends, the weekend couldn't have been better :) wish you were here!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

I don't know what's wrong with this thingy!

I have no idea what's wrong with the format of this blog... I changed the template so maybe that'll do the trick. I tried to make the last one all colorful, but apparently that screwed it up. Try posting comments now and see if it works.

What's happened lately..... Last weekend I went boating on Saturday with a women who asked me to help her get started in kayaking. The woman who does my hair also does her and mentioned I was a kayaker, so we exchanged phone numbers via our hairdresser. She was nice enough and I took her to boat Deckers which is a classic beginner run. She had only been in a boat once before which I mis understood her I guess when she was originally telling me what's she's done as far as learning. But she was very stable in her boat and wasn't scared at all. We came up to the Chutes which is the only significant part of the run and normally portaged by beginners. She said she wanted to do it and seemed very stable in her boat so I agreed. We made it through the zig zaggy part which a lot of people have a hard time with and she managed to get pushed into an eddy at the top just before the entrance to the chutes. That was a bit stressful as she got a little stuck and didn't know how to get herself out. I was ahead of her because she was following my line so I had to catch an eddy in the middle of the meat and try to ferry upstream to help her out. We got her out of her boat and into a safer position. I asked again if she was ok (if she wasn't it was going to get interesting) and she seemed fine. She said she was good and she trusted me, so we started off towards the entrance to the chutes. I went down first, got to the bottom and waited. She took a couple strokes then flipped over by the lateral wave at the top and swam the rest of the rapid. I made sure she was ok, then got her boat to shore, chased her paddle and attempted the rescue of her lost shoe. I had to walk through some brush on the side of the river to go make sure she could get in her boat. She was fine and we were off to finish the run which went seamlessly. She had a blast and the rental boat she had for the day she ended up buying when she went to return it. She's hooked!! SUCKER!! I love it when people get hooked it's so much fun to watch when someone gets that rush and can't stop smiling about it! Once I got home my legs started to itch...to the point I thought I was going to loose the first layer of flesh. I started to get tiny little blisters from my knees down and quickly realized the brush I walked through was POISON IVY! SUPER! Oh well, it's all part of it, it'll heal!

Tuesday night I met my girlfriend Patty for a hike just outside of Boulder with the doggies. It was great, we walked next to a little stream that my dogs were in and out of the entire time! I love watching them play. At the trail head we saw a little family with small children. My dogs will not hurt a fly and have had kids pull on them, love on them and everything else...and they LOVE IT! Obviously strangers don't know that, so the three little kids (all 5 or 6 and maybe a 3 year old) just stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the dogs coming. Olive was taller then almost all of them so it was probably pretty intimidating for the little kiddos. My dogs stopped in front of them and Desil immediately sits down in front of this little girl....waiting for her to pet him. She looks at me and I said 'I think he likes you, do you want to pet him?'. She nods with a big grin and gives him a bear hug! It was so cute. Desil sat quietly until she was done then gave her a huge slobbery kiss and bolted down to the water! Baxter the elderly beagle (Patty's dog) came with as they're all inseparable. This pic is when I was dog sitting Baxter......... hyper and then the rare 3 secs when they weren't moving...............................
On Wednesday I had an excellent conversation with and old friend who I've learned might be visiting family out here. I think it's been at least 5 years...maybe closer to 6 since I've seen this friend and I really hope it works out where we can at least squeeze in a dinner during that visit! Hopefully we'll have a little more time but I'll take what I can get!

Tonight I just got back from another hike with the dogs and Patty. She mentioned today that she used to be on the cross country team when she was in HS! PERFECT!! So, next week we're going to jog instead of walk the trail. I'm stoked...I FOUND A RUNNING BUDDY!

I will have some time this weekend to get that Mom and Dad trip posted I hope...I can't wait to share it, it was such a good time!

till next time.....

Monday, September 10, 2007

To keep you interested.......

Still working on the Mom and Dad road trip post. I took too many pictures as usual. It will likely be the longest post you'll ever read!

I just saw the comments you guys left when we were on the road.... Mom and Dad CRACK ME UP! We laughed... a lot! Good times! So here's a little game to keep your interest in this Monster BLOG I keep talking about. And as a bonus here's a little pic for you.....
To explain why I have this is kind of funny.... King and Queen of technology meant to copy a few pictures that I had once taken and downloaded to their laptop to a CD. I'm pretty sure they have no idea but they included on that cd, EVERY PICTURE THEY'VE EVER TAKEN! Two years ago when I was home, Izzy's hospital pictures, ALL of their Ireland photos, the rest of Dad's fishing trips, Jacobs Halloween pictures from last year or maybe earlier...everything!!! Too funny!



Time to play 'Who dun it'

Perps... Mom OR Dad ?

While driving on the Million Dollar Highway (very curvy) in the mountains and rounding the top of an 'S', perp turns on the right blinker. Perp is asked 'Um, Are you practicing for the next exit (hysterical laughter ensued)?'. Perp says in a very serious tone 'You keep laughing, SOMEDAY their going to pull me over.....and they'll give me an 'Excellent driver award', you'll see!'




I quit smoking....today is day 17. I made a deal with myself that for the first week which was the hardest I can do whatever I want. I was so tired that I barely moved all week except to take the dogs to the park for chuck it in between naps. But I'm over that part and I have been running almost everyday, but sometimes every other. I only do 20 to 30 mins, and still walk a lot, but I'm getting to longer and longer stretches of running. I also only do it during the week since I'm usually boating on the weekends. Talk about starting from scratch, it's very obvious I was NEVER a runner! I'll get there though...eventually.


IT'S OFFICIAL. I'M GOING TO COSTA RICA AGAIN...THIS TIME TO KAYAK!! I'm going with a small group of women (a couple guys too). It's before the parents get there. But it wouldn't have mattered as we'll be in the mountains jungle where the rivers are and on the opposite side of the country! It's going to be so much fun, I really can't wait!

That's it!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Kids are FUNNY!!

Ok. I'm working on posting about my road trip with the parents but it'll be long and will take some time, there are a lot of pictures! For now, this is a little clip of Izzy laughing. It gets funnier and funnier every time I watch it! Michele I think you've seen this by now, but this is the one I was trying to e-mail to you. Classic!!


AAANNNDDD CUT!



Thursday, August 16, 2007

Beautiful Colorado and some running

I feel obligated to start with the running info. It's nothing impressive but it's a start. I started trying to running on Tuesday. I've been putting it off mainly because I feared it. I wasn't confident I could do even a minute. But, I did. It felt good, I ran and walked for about 20 mins on tuesday and Wednesday. I wasn't as out of breath and I thought I'd be and the reason for walking was more for my calf muscles. My muscles are getting used to the new movement. I did the same Wednesday and will keep it up! I have my eyes on the ball now...Next spring isn't that far away... Danskin Tiathalon is in my sights :)

I've finally gotten my internet connection working again. I had some major issues with the first router...cause it was old.. got a second one that was defective and had tech support issues, so I went to Best Buy after work. I got it hooked up and working in about 30 mins. WOHOO!! I love wireless and when I can get things to work properly!

Last weekend I went camping and kayaking with some friends. I got off work Saturday grabbed the doggies and we headed into the mountains. It's such a beautiful drive down to Buena Vista where we were camping. I got there and met my friends in town (Buena Vista) as they were picking up my paddle for me at CKS just before it closed (wasn't sure I'd make it in time). I LOVE MY NEW PADDLE!! We went to a little hole in the wall mexican place and had some dinner (suprisingly enough we all agreed it was pretty good and we were worried at first). Then we headed off to the campsite, it was dark by now. Luckily it was only about 2 miles outside of town, but it was on dirt roads, with a bunch of switch backs. I decided to sleep in back of the jeep with the dogs...never a good idea. It's too hairy, my dogs are too hyper in the morning and I always end up with a dog butt in my face and usually a paw in my mouth. But I was too lazy and hate setting up a tent in the dark. But I learned my lesson this time...I slept like crap and at one point woke up with both my dogs SPRAWLED out and snoring while I was in the fetal position off my sleeping pad all twisted up in my sleeping bag.

Anyway, we sat around the campfire, dogs snoozing all warm and curled up by the fire. Those campfire night are always long...before we realize it's after midnight. The next morning we get packed up and start talking about the plan. A few of the people in the group went to run 'numbers' which is a technical class IV run and not something I'm ready for yet. I opted for the medium run which was Frog Rock. OMG I love this run. It was the first time I've run it and was pretty hesitant. Boaters have a tendency to glorify horror stories of certain features on different runs. It took me a long time to tune out their personal dramatazation and pull the facts out. The run was technical which i love. Technical means it's a lot of quick moves, dodging and finding a clean line as opposed to big waves and fluffy features. So I loved it.

I took a few pictures in the morning before we headed out to do our runs. I love this state! Colorado...any part of it....never stops amazing me. It's inspiring to be in such a huge natural environment. Buena Vista has some of the 14ers which you could see one from the camping pictures. It really puts life into perspective. We're all just small little specs in life. I love how it smells, the never ending peacefulness and there's just so much to see and do in the Mountains. I feel at home, comfortable, and peaceful! But for you people at sea level, you'll just have to appreciate the pictures :) Wish you were here!!



This is the video from the campsite

Now for the pictures (open them up to full size to see the details)





Saturday, August 11, 2007

kayaking AGAIN and stupid keys! and intro to Windowshadding

I'll start with last weekend (8/3). I went kayaking of course, big shocker!! It was an arranged weekend sponsored by the local paddling community, Colorado Whitewater Association. They have several weekends a year on different rivers to offer instruction and support for new paddlers. We were at the Colorado river which at these water levels is almost ALL beginner runs. There's one short stretch which is called Shoshone and it's is a class III run. It's very short and the take out is also the put in for a much much easier run which is where we meet up with the beginners we're going to take down the easy stretch. Last year I ran Shoshone and ate shit several times. I think I swam more of the run then I was actually in my boat. THIS time however it was AWESOME!! I made it through all the rapids upright and solid!! I was so stoked. Then the trickiest rapid of the run is called Tombstone. It's tricky because there is a gigantic rock on river right, but you enter on river right, so it's a quick move left to avoid the rock then another right to avoid another obstacle a few yards away from the rock. Normally it would have been fine but I did not start cutting over until too late which caused me to hit the rock (hard) and then my boat flipped upside down. I waited for a few seconds until I felt my paddle catch on the surface and then rolled up. I have this on a head cam video but I can't seem to make it load onto You Tube. Anyway the head cam isn't the greatest but the audio on this is classic. You see the rapid ahead, then hear a distinct grunt as I hit the rock, and I tip over under water and then you hear what it's like to be under water in current which is cool. The last part is me flipping up and you can hear everyone in my group screaming 'YEAH...NICE JOB...THAT was AWESOME!!'. I'll keep working on the videos to post. All in all in was a great weekend. All my paddling girlfriends were there and we had a great time hanging out around the campfire and chatting with the huge group of people that were there :) We even went skinny dipping....one thing's for sure Colorado rivers are COLD!!! VERY VERY COLD! It was a bad idea but we were already in the water before that started to make sense :) BURRRRRRRR! The whole weekend was a lot of paddling...the beginner runs are really flat so you have to keep paddling if you want to move any faster. My shoulders, arms and torso were so sore on Sunday night. I love that feeling of just having made your muscles work extra hard. The cardio comes in when we have to hike boats in and out on our shoulders...I have a creek/river running boat which means it's heavy and bulky. It may not sound like a workout, but it is..there's sweating involved, heaving breathing, raised heart rates.

I got back on Sunday pretty late. On Monday I had the day off so I ran some errands and took the dogs for a walk. It was pretty muggy from all the rain lately so it was a shorter walk than normal. I got on the treadmill afterwards and hiked up the incline. I'm still a little nervous when walking Olive I don't want to trigger anything. She's was fine...very happy and energtic, so I should probably stop worring about it.

The week went by and on Thursday I met Laura and Chad for a surf lesson at Golden Play park. There are several whitewater play parks around here that are mostly occupied by play boaters and stupid teenieboppers who ride an entertube (sp) down it without life jackets and in their bikinis without shoes.. STUPiD!!!!! I have only ever done river running and creeking which requires large volume boats and lots of rapids and moves. Play boating requires short tiny boats and you are usually getting on a wave to surf if and do tricks. So we started pretty high up on the course (they held the junior olympics on this run a few weeks ago). We went down the first couple of holes until we reached the 'library hole'. Holes are tricky...some are sticky, some are keepers and some will just flush you out, but in these parks there's a big wave to ride just at the bottom of the hole. I wish I would have taken pictures..it's hard to explain it. Anyway, we waited in swirly eddy's for our turn on the wave. Since it was my first time I just ferried accross the wave to get the feel for it. By the end of the day I had gotten flipped about 4 or 5 times, but managed to surf for about a milisecond. I was happy with that :)

I was happy because just a few minutes prior to my milisecond on the wave was my introduction to watching windowshadding. It happens when the wave catches an edge just right on your boat which is caused by doing something wrong. the result is a violent and very audible smack when the wave literally whips you upside down and smacks you back to the water. It's incredbily painful to watch and you hear the commentery from the other boaters in the eddy all scream at the same time 'OHHHH that's gotta hurt'! Thank you, but I prefer to not be windowshadded if I can help it!! :)

We started to get a little cold and tired, so we got out and headed back to the cars which is a very long walk while shouldering your boat. I was in pain by the time I saw my car. I took out my key opened the door and put the key in the change holder so I wouldn't mis place it while I dried off. I hit what I thought was unlock so I could get into the back and then closed the door... Opps, it was lock instead of unlock. So now I am locked out of my car soaking wet in my gear and it's starting to get dark. I called a locksmith and my kayaking buds hung out while I waited. Laura decided we needed to try and unlock it ourselves. So about an hour later while there was a kayaking paddle shoved into the seam of my car window, and from a borrowed spool of wire we made a hook like device that was also shoved into the small opening the paddle provided, we all stood with flashlights and commentary, to try and get the door to unlock. The locksmith guy finally showed up, reaking of alcohol, bloodshot eyes and stinky aroma from smoke and liquor (so glad he drove there to do this). There were approximately 6 or 7 people gathered around my car window and we all asked if I could get a discout because we had ALMOST gotten it open :) He said yes and I gave him a little less cash under the table and I was in!! These people hung out while it was dark and the monster misquitoes attacked violently all while giving 100% effort to try and beat the locksmith. Great friends, this is why I love this little community of boaters. It's filled with genuinely good people!! Anyway, I'm investing in a hide-a-key box and lots of extra keys! First and last time it will ever happen!!

So Mike...Mr. Matchmaker... where's my hook up? I'm single yet again, maybe I should try and find a firefighter? I'm not sure I could date anyone else from Goex though....crazy Matt was enough!!

OK after work today (yes I'm at work), I'm heading up to Buena Vista to camp out with friends and paddle something on the Arkansas river on Sunday. My goal next week is to post again with actual hours on the treadmill RUNNING!! ....and maybe a few videos and pics from the last few weekends.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Tagged

I was tagged by Jenny and Mike so here it goes.....

Jobs I've held:
Wisconsin/Minnesota Swim Camp - camp couselor * I video taped kids in stroke clinics, made sure they didn't misbehave, kept them on schedule and helped them train for the Triathalon that was held at the end of each camp session.. I LOVED THIS JOB!!!!

Lifeguard/Swim lesson teacher * I lifeguarded at Lion's Beach and did swim lessons at rockport pool in the summers. I also worked for the City of janesville as a Swim teacher during summer school. In the winters I lifeguarded, taught swim lessons, and taught water areobics (I was horrible at it). I taught swim lessons and lifeguarded as a second job until about 4 years ago.

Waitress at Pizzeria Uno's (I WAS THE WORLDS WORST WAITRESS)

Assembler at a parker pen factory - I had to be there from 6-10AM, then I went to lifeguard from 10a -6p, and then I went to my waitressing job until the resturaunt closed. 6 days a week. I quit the 6A - 10A factory job pretty quick!!!

Seasonal Boston store sales associate - worked during Xmas break at school.

Cleaner at medical clinics _ GROSS job...hated it, but it was nights and it didn't interfer with any of my courses at school.

Dispatcher for private security company. - Uh it was interesting to say the least!

Student Helpdesk. I was the student helpdesk in the mainframe computer lab. it counted towards my internship credits and I got to do my homework if I wasn't helping someone else.

Computer operator - internship at Great lakes Higher Education for 2 months
Computer Operator - WI State Lottery - waiting for GLHEC to hire me full time
computer Operator - Hired full time with GLHEC

Mainframe Scheduler - State of WI - CARES - This was a really cool job. Loved the people, loved the work and freedom, and great pay.

Aquatics Supervisor YMCA - I was in charge of swim lessons, the pool schedule, the lifeguard staff, and the swim team staff. I really enjoyed this because I got to help coach the swim team!!! this was my first job in Colorado...my two paychecks were about 50 dollars LESS than I owed in just rent alone.

Mainframe Tech Support - TIAA-CREF and I've been here for a little over 5 years

Places I've lived: (in order)
Janesville, WI
Madison, WI
Janesville, WI
Madison, WI
Denver, CO
(you might think the janesville to Madison is a mistake...but it's not I obviously couldn't make up my mind)

Movies I can watch over and over:
Oh there's just so many
The parent Trap (Haley Mills version)
The grinch who stole Christmas (cartoom and Jim Carrey versions)
My big fat greek wedding
Hoosiers
Ice age (all of them)
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
I won't bore you with the rest of the list... I watch a lot of movies

My guilty pleasures:
chocolate
Pizza
sleeping in
kayaking (it's hard to focus on work in the beginning of the season)
snowboarding (again it's hard to focus on work in the beginning of the season)
butterscotch discs

Shows I enjoy
Bones
House
So you think you can dance
MTV - duels and/or Infernos - Physical and mental challenges to win prizes...LOVE IT!
GlobeTrekkers (PBS)
Man Vs. Wild
Weeds
what not to wear

Places I've been on vacation:
Northern Wisconsin (family camping trips)
Florida (Ft. Lauderdale, Kissimmee, Orlando, the Keys and a few others)
Elwood, IN
Rockton, ILL
Mexico ( a few different spots with family)
Olympia, WA
Missouri (a few different places)
Montana (Beartooth MTNS, backpacking, and to meet my my uncle's family to share a cabin)
South Dakota (badlands and Mt rushmore)
Wyoming - (backpacking)
Boulder, CO (for a wedding and it made me want to move back to live there)
charlotte, NC (business trip)
Austin, Texas
Little Rock, AR
Arizona (for a wedding)
Costa Rica (to visit parents)
Spain (Tormellinos and took a day trip to Morroco)

Favorite foods:
Club sandwhich without tomatoes
Pizza
chicken salad from Sentry
Peanut butter, banana and jelly sandwhiches
sweet and sour chicken with rice
Shrimp and Lobster with butter

Website i visit daily:
9news.com
msn.com
msnbc.com
coloradokayakers.com
mountainbuzz.com
jenny's blog
mike's blog
michele's blog
people.com
usatoday.com

Awards I've won
a bucket full of ribbons from swim meets when I was a kid. camp ribbons from basketball and softball and track.

AAUW scholarship

a few things at work

I just won last weekend the 'best combat roll in tombstone rapid'. I'll post the video but i rolled and came back up without having to get out of my boat. I won some super cool hiking poles that you can mount your camera on and use a stabilizer, plus they have shock absorbers...very cool!!

Nicknames I've been called:
Aggie - a co-worker assigned it, I never got it.
TK -
Just like jenny and I'm sure Michele too, my school friends were lame and not very creative. Weinie was popular because of the last name (Keeney). it was stupid and they even made up little songs that rhymed.

that's it. whew...lots of questions and long answers :) I'll post again here a little later to show the video and the chaos from last night!!