Not that Portland is a lady...

But Julie, why didn't you tell us about this?!?!?!

Get out the vote!

"He's stupid. He's an idiot,"

There's only 5 more days left and it is your civic duty! I'm not going to tell you how to vote but it is vitally important that you do. Not sure how? Go HERE.

Bonds told the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Marc Ecko in Wednesday's editions: "He spent $750,000 on the ball and that's what he's doing with it? What he's doing is stupid."

What did you think I was talking about?

I passed!

Always a Warrior

Final race of the season, my first as lead stroke, and it was on home turf.

A couple of notes about this picture and it's significance.
- My highschool mascot was a Warrior and so my life has come full circle
(although with the completion of this race and, thus, this dragonboat season we will no longer be Warriors but more of that to come)
-We were seeded 13 out of 16 women's teams going into the semi-finals.
-1st and 2nd from each semi-final around advance.

Obviously, we advanced to the finals but I brought home two medals this time.


3rd from this competition and, because this was the third and last race in the "Northwest Challenge" ciruit, they totalled our times from Salem, Kent, and Portland and we were awarded the gold.

Zander...in a hat

Can't stop the signal

Well, *sniff* the Firefly screenings have come to an end but not without a

big damn shindig.

Much fun was had. All costumes were awesome but Karen...since she had never seen Firefly before this and had to endure all manner of spoilers during the run came as a newbie. She had a sign such that marathon runners wear on her back that had the Serenity logo and NEWBIE. Her sign is anti-spoiler. B!x is behind me with a very nice Jayne hat. Jordy worked extra hard on his weaponry (including hand grenade!)

And here's a shot of my Kaylee hair.

The cat was unimpressed.

I think he's holding out for a sequel.