Here is a sample of the themes we came up with...
-Year of the Intellect: In this year Bret or I will study for the GMAT or gre, make complicated foods, read books about art and philosophy, learn to paint, learn a new instrument, travel to strange places, go see guest lecturers at Berkeley, and any other activity that seems like something intellectual people do
-Year of America: We're going to get really into America and hopefully drive cross country. We'll learn all America songs, visit national monuments, read books by American authors, become serious gardeners (america's #1 hobby), and eat American foods i.e. crock pot meals, hot dogs, corn on the cob, etc.
-Year of the fix-it: We're going to fix up either a VW van or a house, whichever fits better into our budget. We're going to read inspirational- fix-up books, do a lot of DIY projects, read domino and blueprint magazines religiously, visit man-made wonders (mount Rushmore and others), and other fixer upper activities. I won't bore you with any of our other brain-stormed plans but I will present this years theme...
YEAR OF THE GRANOLAThis year Bret and I are going to become granolas, this includes camping, hiking, rock-climbing, canoeing, eating GORP aka trail mix (we're going to start using granola lexicon too), reading books by other hippiesh people, do triathlons, wear chacos, have a no electricity week, be vegans for a week, ride bikes to work, and any other granola type activities... we're up for recommendations and/or guest lecturers to come visit us and give us their expertise.
There are some things that we will NOT being doing with our fellow granolas such as:
-getting a mutt dog and tying a bandanna around its neck
-smoking marijuana
-burning incense
-getting dreads (well that's still undecided)
- wearing ridiculous amounts of hemp
To kick off our year, we went camping in San Rafael. We had a good time eating tin foil meals and s'mores, setting up our tent, watching the lone lady at the campsite next to ours get high and go into her tent, hiking, making choclate oatmeal over the fire, and wearing Lindsay's rain slicker. Here are some pics from our weekend:
-getting a mutt dog and tying a bandanna around its neck
-smoking marijuana
-burning incense
-getting dreads (well that's still undecided)
- wearing ridiculous amounts of hemp
To kick off our year, we went camping in San Rafael. We had a good time eating tin foil meals and s'mores, setting up our tent, watching the lone lady at the campsite next to ours get high and go into her tent, hiking, making choclate oatmeal over the fire, and wearing Lindsay's rain slicker. Here are some pics from our weekend:
We have found that granola's do not have a woop hair do' so Bret now has a sidepart
The best part of the whole trip was when we came home and went into the city and it happened to be the "love parade", probably the best/sickest thing i've ever seen, women dancing on floats with their nippies painted gold and guys pouring champaign off of the float to the people on the streets. I always thought that love was how you felt towards your family and friends, I didn't know that you expressed it by taking off your shirt and getting low on a moving truck in public, apparently the city has a lot to teach me.
4 comments:
Yay for blogging- it was well worth the wait. The pics didn't show up on my computer though- not sure if it's on my end or yours. Thanks for the slicker shoutout, but you still can't have it. We'll compromise- you can use it for granola activites this year, but after that it's mine.
you two are granolas? is that why you stink so much? invite me over for vegan dinners, tasty!
the pictures didn't work for me either, must be something wrong with the free internet.
too bad about the woop, bret. but come on guys... chacos? thats gotta be on the list with hemp and marijuana. ps. we just bought our tickets to... THAILAND!!!
hey guys... it's me brandon... i don't have a blog but that doesnt mean i'm not a blogger. i think you're theme idea is fantastic. and i agree with hudd and anna about the chacos... a true granola wears teva's. i wish you would ahve said more of your brainstorms cuz i was diggin those ideas. the only one i could think of, which i'im sure you've either already done, or at least thought of is "year of the love", and you guys don't wear shirts all year, and have your nipples painted and only drive around in the back of trucks or on a float. that's my only idea. sorry. i'll brainstorm more too. p.s i love you guys... and hte jazz.
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