Moab recap

Well, I've been really busy lately.  Last weekend I went camping in Moab.  It was really hot.  I drove down in my truck that didn't have air conditioning at the time.  I think I lost weight simply from the drive :)  But it was a good weekend trip.  Got to see so many stars and the milky way at night, and see all the beautiful red rock formations.  I've been there often enough now that I'm starting to recognize the different sites and know their names without having a sign tell me.

Other than that I've been working lots as usual.  I did however get my truck fixed after I got home from Moab so now I have A/C and it's wonderful!!!  I love getting home from work and not being drenched in sweat.  

Godzilla pt. 2 (Spoilers)

Ok, so I knew going in to this movie that I'd have a hard time with Godzilla being shot at and getting hurt.  I didn't realize there were going to be 2 other monsters though!  And Godzilla was fighting them, and they were fighting him.  And it was a mom and dad with kids....yeah I was sad at the death scenes.  Besides that though I really liked this movie.  I was commenting to my mom how there was no real "bad person" in this movie.  All the humans were generally good people, which I liked.  I liked all the action, and the way it was shot and cut, not spending too much time on the smaller battles leading up to the big one at the end.  I thought it was clever they kind of cut away from the action and just fast forwarded to the end.  I'm sure part of that was to save money on computerized special effects.  But I thought it was fine.  Loved the Hawaii scenes.  Then they let you see a more drawn out detailed battle in Frisco...which wasn't my favorite--feeling bad for the monsters getting hurt and all...Has Godzilla always been able to breath fire?  That was a cool moment in the movie.  Kind of reminded me of Toothless in How to Train Your Dragon 2 ;)

Godzilla pt. 1

Just saw the movie. I have mixed emotions. I'm probably going to give away spoilers if I talk about it though. So read the next post if you are ok with that. 

Pics from Twin Peaks climb

http://youtu.be/rgKo0jM1CTU - video of the endpoint of the climb

Twin Peaks

Oh boy, am I sorry I haven't been able to write much lately.  I've been very very busy.  My boss took the week off last week and that plus some other things made it so I had to work overtime last week.  I was very tired and had to get up early too, so I just prioritized sleep a little higher than blogging.  :P

Well I went on a new adventure this weekend. I climbed Twin Peaks!  Sadly I wasn't able to make it all the way to the summit, I was about 45min-hour away from it though.  That was a really difficult climb.  Once above the treeline there isn't a good trail anymore and lots of loose rock on a very steep incline.  It was kind of scary actually.  My friend was a good 20 ft above me and at one point she went out of view.  I heard a bunch of rocks falling and feared she had slipped.  Turns out she had just kicked some big rocks loose but she was ok.  Once we got passed that and to the saddle portion we looked at the steep rockface we would have to traverse to get to the summit and we were done.  Too much strength and energy spent just getting as far as we'd gotten and we felt a little uncomfortable with making the next part of the climb with how steep it was.  Twin Peaks is definitely not one of my favorite climbs.  On the way back down we didn't dare try and go back down the loose rock so we picked a different path through a large snow patch.  It was kind of fun sliding down that snow on our bums, but it was pretty cold and steep and there were rocks interspersed throughout the snow so we had to be careful about not picking up too much speed.  Our hands really hurt too from being in the cold snow so long.  We used them to slow us down.  It was an experience for sure :)  And now I have a wicked sunburn from it all.  It's worse on my left side because of the part going up the loose rocks.  Sun was on my left and it took a LONG time to climb that section.  I'm not sorry I did it.  I'm just disappointed I wasn't able to summit.  Oh well.

Worker's comp??

It's been a long week. My body hurts and I am ready for the weekend. Monday and Tuesday I stayed late at my second job because my boss has been on vacation and I had to get caught up on some projects. Then the physical labor of my morning job has really been taking a toll on me lately. Today I had sore back muscles long after I left the warehouse and it made it hard to work in the office. I've decided I'm due for a massage, getting one tomorrow. Maybe if I do more squats and make it more habitual to bend my legs and less of my back it will help. Still I have to do a lot of leaning across a just-below-waist-high platform. I don't know. Hopefully I'll figure out a solution. 

Am I the only one who self analyzes a lot?

I've just been thinking. Some of my weaknesses are that I tend to have a negative perspective more often than not and that I depend too much on others to bring me happiness. Mind you, I have more flaws than that but these two are more obstructive to me right now. So I wonder if I'm supposed to learn to be more positive and to find happiness and joy in and of myself. I think this because though I try to find significant relationships they often don't work out because of my negativity and my inability to have a good life apart from someone else being in it. It's like fate or God is purposely making it this way so I will learn to fix those weaknesses. Lol, my thoughts just now were all pretty negative about my predicament if that is truly what it is. Yes, I definitely could be more positive. 

I guess me writing this is me trying to say, "Yeah I see I have this problem and that I ought to redouble my efforts in what I think will fix it. Ok going to try and do that. Thanks for the moment of reflection and evaluation."