sia hits the slopes

dental damn

It all started innocently enough with a trip to the dentist monday. I hadn't been in a couple years, so I wasn't totally surprised that I had some cavities. The dentist told me not to beat myself up about it , though, since they were really small and in tough to clean areas of the teeth. They were on either side of my mouth so we scheduled to do them in two visits, the first of which was wednesday afternoon. So even though I wasn't so stoked to get novocaine injections, it was nice to leave the office a bit early.

The dentist gave me 3 shots, then drilled out the cavities, and handed me over to one of the hygienists to fill the holes. They use this weird ceramic stuff now that they squirt in the hole, then dry with an infrared light. Sounds easy enough, that is until the dentist came back and said, "Oops looks like we had a spill." Since I was numbed up pretty good, I couldn't feel the chemical burn on my lip & chin from when the hygienist spilled the filling ceramic on me. Great. My face was puffed out and it looked like that whole lip fiasco all over again.

I freaked and went immediately to the hospital, conveniently located across the street from my house. I figured I should get this whole fiasco documented justin case. Anyway it was indeed a burn caused by the dental goo. The dentist paid for everything and offered to do my next fillings for free which is the least he could do. Now I just have to wait for it to heal...

justiceaster

I was in Denver all day wednesday for another Realtor Rally tradeshow. And got out of town just before traffic got really bad due to some accident somewhere. The last hour of the show my co-worker scored some free drink tickets, and that coupled with the sunny drive home got me in the mood to grill out a bacon, mushroom cheeseburger. Which I did.

Friday steph came over and whipped up a late st. patty's day feast of shepherds pie & soda bread. Got to sleep in saturday morning since we took a weekend off from riding. Ran a bunch of errands all day, including getting a nice new futon frame for the futon mattress that's been taking up too much floor space in the guest/music room. Later that night GW joined us and headed into denver for some dinner at the cool mexican joint with the large margs. Robert ordered a burrito bigger than his forearm and colored like the mexican flag. Viva la burrito!



After dinner, we walked over to the ogden for the Justice/Diplo/Fancy show. Diplo kicked off the sold out show with an hour or so of upbeat choons. Fancy is a french disco band that was on the bill, but never showed up because one of their members shares the same name as a reportedly deceased, suspected member of Al Qaeda, Mohamed Yamani, so he couldn't get a visa issued. The place was packed a bit too crowded when Justice hit the stage. But close quarters aside, they drilled out a banging set, closing out with 'master of puppets', perhaps in honor of the uncanny resemblance of their stage prop to the aforementioned album cover art.



The next morning steph & I met up with the fam for easter mass. I amused myself by making the sign of the cross like Justice did the night before, by crossing your arms out in front of your body. With Jesus now risen, we spent the rest of the day celebrating paul's b-day with a big feast back at hillside. We stuck around to catch John Adams then heading back to my place for my new favorite show, Dexter. Now we're kind of late to this one since the episodes are the heavily edited versions that CBS is re-running to fill up airtime in lieu of the writer's strike, but there was still enough storyline to get us hooked. I've since wathced up with the rest of the eps leading up to what's currently on the tele and am all caught up.

beware the ides of march

The Sweet Tomato restaurant recently re-opened in Lafayette. So now we have 2 italian restys and the half dozen mexican ones. Anyway, thursday is all you can eat spaghetti & meatball night, so I took steph as celebration for her new job position. It was pretty fun, since our waiter overfilled our wine carafe. Went to the gym friday after work then just chilled out with a dvdtron.

On the rhuad for a-basin at 5.30 saturday morning, and got a beach spot even though we weren't really tailgating. I was kind of tired all day, but there was a bunch of fresh snow and leaving at noon was just the right amount of riding for the day. It was sunny back in town so we grilled out some hamburgers at my place then power napped before heading to boulder for our evening festivities.



We picked up jacq, then GW on the side of the roed, made a pizza, and killed a bottle of vodka at steph's before walking to the boulder theater to catch the bassnectar gig. When we arrived, elliot lipp was performing some pretty cool IDMish stuff. Then some dorkin beatboxer bored me to tears, before mr. nectar took the stage. Add in some brews & tequila shots and the night got hazy pretty quick. After the show we somehow stumbled back to steph's and called it a night.

On our way back to Milo, we drove by the boulder camel living on a farm off valmont. The story goes that the camel was brought there temporarily until it could be relocated to some other zoo, but it became best friends with the horse that already lived there so there it stays. I had planned on a day of errands and chores around the house, but it was gloomy outside and the couch was far to inviting.


(camel on the right)

weekend '08

After work friday I got stuck in some serious rush hour traffic on my way to jacq's new place for her housewarming cocktail party. Jean '08 was visiting for the week, but we all called it an early night.

We were up bright and early as usual saturday morning again - GW picked us up, then we picked up jean at headed to the basin. We were well ahead of schedule and mowed down on a big butter braid we brought for breakfast. There were light flurries most of the day and fun with crayola markers. After a solid morning of riding '08, we broke for Q'in, which took forever since the propane tank kept getting too cold for its gaseous emissions to work properly. Once we ate, we hit the roiued.



Later that evening we celebrated Jeff's b-day at his place with a nice cool keg of Dale's Pale and various other libations. Slept in sunday, mainly due to the time change. Then did some Sam's club shopping and moved jacq's old couch back to hillside. Later that afternoon, steph & I took a stroll around Waneka and had yummy enchiladas for dinner.

cream of wheat

This past week was pretty nonstop. I didn't get much sleep after the built to show thursday night so after work friday, I took a pow-wow over at steph's before meeting up with GW & heidi at half/fast subs, home of the personal pitcher. Another night on the hill as their was an Om Records dj party at the Fox that evening. We were painfully early as Style of Eye was on the decks spinning a rather proggy set. Next up local Clay Ivy stepped up for a minute and made it a bit funkier, as augmented by Hipp-e. The headliner on the night was Mark Farina, and he housed the Fox the rest of the night. Steph & I ducked out around 1.30~ish and luckily scored a cab back to her place. I made a pizza and steph passed out before it was done.



I was up bright and early the next day, not for skiing this time, but to help jacq with her move. Loading, transporting, unloading took us 'til about 2.30 at which time I went home and took a long and deserved nap, waking up to pretty much veg out in front of the teletron the rest of the night.

Sunday I finished up my last group project and take home test for my stats class while Steph was kind enough to initiate some spring cleaning around milo. We finished up our projects in time to catch a twilight showing of Be Kind Rewind which was a lighthearted Michael Gondry directed film starring Jack Black & Mos Def as zany video store clerks who made 'sweded' versions of films which were oft times better than the original due to their brevity and clever resourcefulness.

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