A Slew of Random Things.

Last night, after many weeks of incessant begging, Lance and I saw Inception. There are an innumerable amount of people who told me it wasn't good, it was stressful, confusing. To my mind, that description gets me EXCITED! (Plus Leo DiCap is in it, and I've loved him in literally every single film he has ever been in. And its not just because he was my first real crush in the Titanic.) I am a self-proclaimed movie snob and I am totally okay with it. I just can't sit and truly enjoy a film that follows strict protocol on following the "movies-for-success" formula: the intro, the rise, the climax, the fall, the solution/conclusion. It drives me crazy. (I'm sorry, Letters to Juliet and Charlie St. Cloud just can't cut it for me. Nice enough films, but nothing to get excited about.) Anyway - due to my very narrow view of what a good film is, they usually end up being rated R, which means I will be skipping out on seeing it. Boo. So when I saw the trailer for Inception, I became very excited. So - finally - we saw it. (we biked there, this is where the biking accident I fb-ed about took place. Ill blog about that some other time, hopefully.)

This very long intro leads to my joke... and for those of you who didn't see it, you won't get it. Basically the very lowest layer of complex story line is: the film is about dreams within dreams within dreams.

This morning Lance and I were talking, and he was telling me how glad he will be when we get around to remodeling our closet-sized bathroom (this is no exaggeration. our shower literally is the size of a teeny tiny water heater closet).

Lance: "Man I can't wait to rip out this bathroom"

Ashley: "Oh yeah! Me either. Last night I had such a good dream about our new bathroom"

Lance: "Are you sure you're not still dreaming?"

(insert laughter with those who've seen it.)

hahah Lance really catches me off guard sometimes and says some witty stuff. Usually the stuff that he says that makes me laugh is stuff most normal people wouldn't say. It's a really good thing that I have thick skin. I emailed this conversation Lance and I had to CJ and he said it made him laugh for like 5 minutes. (ah how I miss the CJ contagious laugh!!)

here's the context of the story:

Lance and I have been going on bike rides a lot lately, mostly because he said "bike riding will help get rid of office-butt" (yes it's still quite a battle on my front. if you dont know what office butt is please scroll down a few posts and read the definition.) We'd been on like 4 longer rides over the last week and I told him I wanted to do something that would force us to go uphill. He suggested going from Provo to Springville... I suggested going from our house, down to university ave, then up to the huge Y on the hill's parking lot. His eyes lit up and said "OKAY!" This was not my finest decision making moment. It was sort of like...you know when you're REALLY hungry and you order/make food and you get SO MUCH because you KNOW you will eat it all because you are THAT HUNGRY...and then you eat like 5 bites and are full? Yeah, my ambition to bike up those hills to the "Y" was definitely an eyes-bigger-than-my-stomach moment.

I can't really explain how difficult and steep it is up in the foothills, but for someone who clearly has less musclemass in her butt and theighs, trying to charge a steep mountain like that (and for fun, no less) - is stupid and torture. So of course, Lance is far ahead, having no trouble at all, Zoe right there by his side.... look behind him and there I am pedaling so hard - I might as well have been pedaling underwater - it looked very similar to such an activity.

Finally, I huffed my way to the top of the first really steep hill, threw down my bike, and laid in the grass. I literally couldn't talk. here's how our conversation went once I caught my breath:

Ashley: "Oh my gosh I am so dead"

Lance: "You okay, sweetie?"

Ashley: "Yeah, I guess I am just really out of shape. UGH I don't think that's normal that it was so difficult for me to bike that. You didn't have a hard time at all."

Lance: "Oh no, you just have to understand that im go-go-go all day, so I'm used to it. You're not"

(okay, rude. haha. Its okay, he's not trying to be. he's just simply stating facts - in his mind at least)

Ashley: "HMmmm interesting." (usually my defense mechinism against such harmless yet still rude comments that he doesnt realize he's making)

Ashley: "Lance this isnt normal. My heart is beating SO HARD. Seriously. I can literally feel my heartbeat in my butt"

Lance: (totally serious) "Oh good job sweetie! Thats good. That's your hearts way of letting you know its finally getting oxygen and blood circulated down there. Its because you're sitting so much, those things rarely get the chance to make their way down. It also means its burning fat. So good job!! You tell Office Butt who's boss."

haha seriously, Lance says some funny stuff sometimes. Thats kind of my favorite thing though, people saying things that arent intended to be funny...

anyway, here's a slew of random pictures from over the last few months. enjoy!

Our wonderful baby who we take more pictures of then ourselves..whoopsies. But those of you who have met Zoe, know that she acts like a human.

Lance and Joey in Seattle... Im so green with envy that I couldn't go this time!
Seriously, so cute. And I shoved this bandana on her...which didnt last long because she plays ROUGH with other dogs.
This is from the other day when we went to the temple TOO EARLY and had to leave. hahahah woooow. I love this though, our temple is a simple 5 minute walk from our house. so lovely!
Again, demonstrating office butt. Has it gone down at all since the last post?
This is right after one of our runs together....I was so in love with our new bedding. Too bad it's in the guestroom now. I wish I would have known we would soon be investing in a king sized bed. I found the duvet i want, so if anyone wants to get it for me, i wouldnt be mad about that.
This is from our trip in Oregon
This is my ice shack from when i was 16. Lance picked it up from texas and hauled it back here.
This is after a little remodel sesh
and TADA! our finished product. I havent exactly blogged about this experience, but I will soon. We sold Hawaiian Shaved Ice all summer in this little thing. We had mostly seniors in high school running it and a few girls from Hawaii. It was all natural and SO YUMMY! We just shut it down last week and I am already craving it (we even had a 100 calorie option. cool, yes?)

thats all for now folks