17 posts tagged “vox hunt”
April is National Garden Month. To honor this, show us how your garden grows.
It's Tax Day! Show us something taxing.
This is, more or less, my entire life for the next three weeks. Very taxing. I'm actually somewhat unsettled by how much my "future" depends more on the notebooks and papers and text books on my desk than what's actually in my head. And this doesn't even show all the zillions of files on my computer that I need. Oh, technology, how you control me so!
....Really, what AM I going to rant and rave about once I graduate? I will need to find new material.
Show us where you go when your feeling creative.
Submitted by Terri.
I go to school where I learn that "you're" is a contraction of "you" and "are."
Show us something you'd like to change.
Show us a picture of your favorite vacation.
I always feel guilty that my favorite vacation was when I went to Disneyland in the summer of 2006 with just my mom. We needed to go to LA to the Spanish consulate to get my student visa to go to Barcelona the following September, so we decided to make a vacation of it. After spending a couple days in LA (going up to Hollywood, etc) we drove down to Anaheim and went to Disneyland for a day. After that we drove to Long Beach and stayed there for a night and went and walked around on the Queen Mary.
The reason I feel guilty about this being my favorite vacation (I'm not including any traveling around Europe when I was living in Barcelona) is because I've been on soooo many vacations that have been longer and to places that are probably more amazing than just plain ol' California and Disneyland (two-week cruise through the Mediterranean, anyone?). I also feel bad because this wasn't a family vacation, it was just my mom and me. There was no drama, no arguing about where to go for dinner, no need to plan out the entire day and try and fit in what everyone wanted to do. My mom and I are super close and it was a lot of fun to just sort of hang out and do what we wanted to do without worrying about the rest of the family (does that sound as horrible as I think it does? :\ Oh well.)
Also, hello, DISNEYLAND. Disneyland is so amazing.
Show us why you love where you live.
As much as I complain about Gunnison, and as much as I don't like being essentially trapped in a really really (really) cold valley for several months out of the year, I'm always in awe of how absolutely GORGEOUS it is around here. I've lived in Colorado my entire life, and should be pretty used to the amazing mountain scenery everywhere, but it never ceases to amaze me.
I can't remember exactly what mountain is in the first image, but it's in western Gunnison county, about a half hour or so north of Gunnison I believe. Something like that.
Second image is of the East River on the northeast side of Mt Crested Butte, also about a half hour north of Gunnison.
Third image is a sidewalk here in town about a week ago.
Show us what you wish you were doing right now.
The only thing missing is me holding a margarita.
Share your favorite Oscar moment.
The Oscars themselves were fun, but my favorite moment was that JCPenny commercial that had a song by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss called "Killing the Blues." I'm now listening to the entire album it's from (Raising Sand), as well as other Alison Krauss goodies. I usually don't like bluegrass or country or any of that stuff, but I think Alison Krauss could start rapping and I'd still love it. <3
Show us how your relax after a hard day of work.
In other news, I think I'm getting sick. Bleh. I have that weird sort of almost-but-not-quite pain in the back of my throat, and my whole head feels kinda funky. I also feel really lazy, but that's pretty much the norm for me anyway. Blah! I was hoping to have a winter completely void of illness. Though I have a pretty good immune system, and on the rare occasion that I do get sick, I get over it in a day or so.
Show us a holiday tradition.
I have no media for this Vox Hunt (isn't that how the hunts are supposed to work? *shrugs*) but one holiday tradition that we usually do is "gag gifts." I'm not sure if that's a common name for it or if my family's just crazy, but everyone buys a cheapish (in the $10-$20 range) random gift that would be appropriate for most people and wrap it up. Then everyone draws a number out of a bowl, and whoever has #1 starts by picking a gag gift and unwrapping it. Whoever has #2 can either steal the gift from #1, or choose another gift from the pile. #3 can steal from #1 or #2, or choose a new one, and so on and so forth. If your gift gets stolen then you can choose another but you can't steal. So, basically, the higher your number the better.
I'm not sure if it's really considered a "tradition" but we also celebrate on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. So no, I never really believed in Santa Claus. The morning and afternoon of the 24th is usually spent cleaning, cooking, drinking wine and blasting Amy Grant Christmas CDs on the stereo, then people arrive for dinner around 4ish, we "visit" for a bit and then eat, then take a break from food and open presents before having dessert. It's a grand old time, and I'm very excited for it this year :D
