A Weekend Full of Good Ideas

Good Idea #1: Sean and I decided to brave the morning and go to the REI garage sale with Craig (Sean's brother).  Let me say it was quite successful!  I finally got my Vibram 5 Fingers shoes and Sean snagged a backpacking pack for us.  Needless to say we are going to have an amazing summer. 

Good Idea #2:  Sean and I along with a few friends went to the Festival of Colors!  We were covered with color even before you make it to the crowd.  If you haven't been it's definitely something to experience!  If you do decide to go let me suggest wearing clothes you don't care about.  You're whites will soon be pink and your shoes will have a lovely new tint to them. 

Good Idea #3:  Spending Sunday with family.  We love our Grandma and Grandpa Barlow.  For those of you that know them, yes it's the "toast Grandma." 

Bad Idea #1  Well...because the weekend was so fun, I might have accidentally forgotten to do any homework.  Sean, the responsible one, did in fact get some things accomplished.  Go Seaner!

First Blog Entry!

Hello fellow bloggers and followers!  Welcome to my first post EVER.  Without further adieu let me introduce myself.  For those of you who may not know me, my name is Lauren Foster.  I love all things outdoors.  I absolutely love skiing and one day will be able to afford a season pass.  $500?  No thank you.  I love photography, traveling, finding hole in the wall restaurants, and watching Biggest Loser.  I recently got married to my best friend, Sean.  If I could think of one word to describe our marriage it would be "blissful" (I stole the word from my sister-in-law, but it fit well).  We call our apartment the Cave because it's in a basement and only has three itty-bitty windows.  We love it though and couldn't be happier.

Well I think it's about time to start the first list of "Good Ideas and Bad Ideas."  Ahem...

Good Idea: Sean decided to make dinner for us one night
Bad Idea:  The dinner involved some ground beef.  Since there is only two of us we tend to have a difficult time eating food before it goes bad.  Indeed the meat went bad.  In order to get rid of the smell Sean thought the best idea would be to flush it down the toilet.  Yep, toilet clogged with ground beef.

Good Idea:  Sleeping in
Bad Idea:  Sleeping in until the last possible second and having ten minutes to make it to class.  This has resulted in countless comments from concerned students asking, "Are you alright? You look terrible."

Good Idea:  Going skiing with my brothers
Bad Idea:  Not being clear on where we were to meet if we happened to split up.  This resulted in my brothers and I sending ski patrol, two snowmobiles, and dog crew out to find Sean.  About 45 minutes into searching for Sean I received a call from him.  He was at the car.  I didn't know whether to hug him or punch him.  We now have two new rules when we go skiing: first, cell phones are a must and second, our meeting place is now the car.  

Good Idea:  For Christmas my family, Sean, and I went to Disneyland.  One of the days we decided to go to Huntington Beach.
Bad Idea:  With a little self talk, all the brothers booked it to the ocean!  Remember this is the middle of December.  Although, it was great entertainment for the rest of us, it took a quick turn when all the boys realized they didn't have any clothes to change into.  On the bright side, it started pouring rain and since they were already wet it didn't even phase them.