Is it stress or am I getting old?

So there is a mirror hanging on my closet door and on the opposite side of the room is Julee's jewelery box that also has a mirror on it. As I was getting something out of the closet I noticed something on the back of my head as I looked through the combination of the two mirrors. I went in for a better and look and This is what I saw...



So I guess it is safe to say that I am loosing my hair, here is my reaction...



Luckily I have been growing my hair out and think that I will be able to do a pretty good comb-over. Ironically my hair is longer than I can ever remember it being and at the same time I have less then I ever had. I guess it might be time to cut it short again to keep me from actually doing the comb-over in the future as the disease progresses.

Coast to Coast

It has been two weeks now since I have been home from Oregon and thought it was finally time to blog about it. Julee and I both went to visit family in Oregon. Julee stayed for the first week and then went back to work while I stayed for the whole two weeks of the vacation. I know what you are thinking... "what a jerk for staying on vacation while your wife had to go back to work." Well, She has done it to me several times and so I didn't feel any guilt. In-fact while she was gone I was I able to get some serious playing in with my Dad and Brother that I haven't been able to do for a long time.

The first week my parents Julee and I floated the Yumkua river in western Oregon. Never herd of it? Neither had I. It is a coastal river and so does not get much water from snow making the water really worm (for Oregon). It was a fun trip, tons and tons of bass, some fun canoeing, and beautiful scenery.





Before Julee left we also made a quick trip to the coast and had some long romantic rainy walks on the beach. We also played around on some cool rocks.



The second week Ben my Dad and I climbed Mt. Jefferson. At 10,500 ft. it was a really fun mountain with an exiting summit. I have never climbed it before and had a lot of fun. Words can not give credit to how incredible it is to climb a mountain, and pictures can never capture all the eye can see but these will have to do:






After climbing my Dad and I were sore enough that we decided to go fishing instead of climbing something else. Steel head fishing is fun, and really fun in you catch something. My Dad hooked one and then let me reel it in. I am not afraid of fish (as it appears in the picture, the fish was wiggling and I didn't want to loose it).


It was fun to hang out with family and enjoy an Oregon summer.

Razor Kick Scooters

We have a friend at church and her daughter that ride these things to get around where they need to go much faster. I decided I needed to have one so I bought one from amazon.com for 40 bucks. Matt thought I was crazy...then he took it for a scoot and decided he needed one too! It cuts our traveling time in half. They are very fun and a little dangerous. Matt has had a few scuffs with some old ladies yelling at him. I have crashed a couple of times and Matt once too. All in all they are a great way to get around. The best thing about them is that they fold in half and are very light so they go where ever we go and don't get stolen. We mostly ride them to the subway or bus station, store, church...
You can get adult sized and more sophisticated looking scooters but with our height(or lack thereof) and all we went with the cheaper kid scooters. Matt rides a cruiser scooter with a wooden base and bigger wheels and mine is an A3 model which is all metal. We are mostly the only adults I have seen riding these around (besides our tiny Asian friend and her daughter).
Ya, we are pretty cool.

SweetBliss by Ilene C. Shane

SweetBliss by Ilene C. Shane

Check out where I work! I have been making clusters, peanut butter and biscotti 800 each! I had to make each recipe 4 times and then scoop them to look like ice ceam scoops, dip them and decorate them. It has been very fun!

Redneck

While we were in the process of looking at apartment in New Jersey (more space for less money) we stopped in for some good ole' fried chicken at KFC. I bit down on a nice crunchy chicken strip and right then Matt's accusations became true and I could no longer hide it: I am a redneck from Price, Utah. Well, Matt married me so he chose redneck; I didn't have a choice. You see, I was born without a left lateral incisor. First I had an UGLY gap, then a fake tooth hooked on my braces, retainers, and most recently the two teeth adjacent to the missing tooth (a bridge) and now I am back to the UGLY gap. That bridge gave way that fateful day...if only I had known how fateful it was really going to be I would not have laughed when it happened. We went on from KFC, tooth in pocket, to see the last apartment of the day...OUR apartment. It is a beautifully renovated one bedroom that is bigger and 500 dollars cheaper than our place in Manhattan. Our new landlord was the first person I had to talk to without my tooth. You can imagine...or maybe you can't, whatever. Anyway, I am on day 8 without my tooth. Since then I have had to learn to go about my business not smiling for nobody (I have to really concentrate on not talking like a redneck although I look and sound like one when the air goes through that gap when i speak, sometimes I slip). Yes, I even went to work all week. Luckily I only see my two co-workers and my boss. They laugh at me...and pity me I think. I told my boss, who is very weary of mine and Matt's Razor kick scooters that we ride around everywhere, that I crashed and knocked my tooth out. She didn't think it was very funny...but my co-workers did. Even more shocking to me than the duration of time I have had to wait for the dental lab to get my custom "flipper" made (I am back to the retainer with a tooth stage) is the fact that my dental team (yes, at the place I use to work), in the process of trying to temporarily bond the old tooth back on, sucked it into the suction tube and could not retrieve it!!! I am not joking. Matt tried to make something for me at school but it didn't work. Tomorrow is our 2 year anniversary and I get my flipper after work; it better fit!

New Glasses

The other day Julee and I were walking on canal street looking for some shoes for my sister when we stopped at a glasses shop. I have thought about getting new glasses a few times and Julee has a lot. I hadn't found a pair that I liked and at the same time could afford, thanks to china town, I now have what Julee was looking for.