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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 4, 2008 - 02:19pm PT
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This is Dedicated to Cosmic, "It is His Birthday Today!”
Happy B-day Cosmic! You asked me to do this for you, so here it is delivered with a ton of happy thoughts!!!
AF
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The day began with a bright sun shinning over the horizon. A cold wind was blowing over the mountains of Santa Paula, but the mighty Standing Strong was unfazed. She packed her truck with all our goods and stood tall while reading brightly colored maps from Triple A. She then guided us uneventfully to JTree with a sure hand.
I was very impressed with SS’s route finding skills. I know very few people who can do that so well.
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Once we got there, we joined the group from the Boulderdash, a climbing gym I use to frequent in Thousand Oaks. One of the leaders named Adam had saved SS and I a camping site in Hidden Valley. We happily had to share it with Ramsey, which was more a joy than a problem. He is a really nice fellow with a sharp wit.
I was very happy for camp site 21 is beautiful! I really loved the boulder problem located right next to our bench. Nothing is like climbing just three feet from your tent!
Images of Hidden Valley…
Since we were tired our first night was uneventful. We just went to the infamous Crossroads for dinner and met two really nice friends. I really liked them, but for some reason I can't remember their names. (I really am bad with names...)
(There is also a really nice picture of SS at Crossroads that I can share, but I must get her approval first. "She really is a pretty girl.")
The next day we were joined by Cosmic to climb at Brownie wall. He took us up on a climb that had a fantastic crux that can be described as an off width, first jam, chimney, foot smear, toe edge, balance problem. I could not have done it without SS’s encouragements. When Cosmic told me that it was only a 5.7... I did the usual grumble , shake my head for being put again in my place by Josh.
(Sorry for not having more pictures, I was too busy climbing…)
When SS and I returned to camp, we found a note from my friend C telling us he arrived! I was so happy that I had to make Greek coffee. I offered it to my two camp Lords (I also tried to give some to Adam, but he was leading Papa and didn’t want the shakes.) My two coffee drinkers were Ramsey and Cosmic, they were very much awake after that.
When C did arrive, I was even happier since C and SS were instant friends. Nothing is better than being able to share friends.
We then became the gifted three I first imagined and went to join Boulderdash's main campsite. It was a great to be together and also be part of the main group. I had fun watching SS’s face glow in the firelight while she laughed. I saw C comfortably sitting after his long travels amidst people he matched with. I could not have been happier, so I talked up a storm and loved every moment…
I also had a few bonus moments for on the side of the campsite... You see... Boulderdash was running a sweat lodge. I saw plenty of full moons on two legs, respectfully I took no pictures but I did get plenty of giggles.
Yet the high point of the evening for me was when the whole group sang "Ring of Fire." I thought that was so appropriate!
The next day we went climbing...
We had the fortunes of bumping into Christina and Andrew, friends I met two years back when I came to JTree. After an hour passed, along came a few others and we were in full party mood.
(Andrew being a ropegun setting up topropes. Sorry, I don’t have better pictures of them, I really need to use my camera more! “Christina and Andrew, please post a picture of yourselves if you can, I would like to have one.”)
(All of us hanging out at the base.)
(C trying to figure out the crux and laughing at the awkwardness.)
(Locker and Blitz showing up to create a few laughs.)
(Locker grabbing my camera as I get ready to climb.)
(See the shadows, my personal peanut gallery.)
(I am sticking, I’m sticking!)
(JTree is great for goofing around with gear…)
We than head out to have dinner with Christina and Andrew at Crossroads and then back to camp for New Years.
(Self portrait after losing my Martinelli’s bottle somewhere.)
(A climber burning energy before heading out to the “Caverns of Doom!”)
After celebrating at midnight, I went to bed early since I wasn’t feeling well. The next day we went climbing with Locker, Cosmic, and Blitz. I really had a great time. (Blitz took pictures, so I hope he will add them to this post.)
At the end of the day the fun didn’t end… Blitz had a flat tire so we discovered how many climbers it takes to fix a tire.
I was sitting in the car since I was tired and cold “again.”
Locker and Blitz had other ideas. Locker grabbed the camera and Blitz came in and dragged me onto his lap.
After this event, Locker followed Blitz to his car and took this…
(Man, there is no mercy in the world…)
When I kidnapped my camera back, I ended the day with these parting shots.
(Group Picture!)
(Cosmic driving off in his famous truck.)
It was a great trip!
Special Thanks to the following; Adam, Christian, Ramsey and the crew from Boulderdash… Standing Strong and “Copenhagen” (not his real name or even his nickname, “he’s a non-poster.”) -They were fantastic camping companions!- Andrew and Christina for being our rope guns. Locker, Blitz, and Cosmic for being our three desert stooges.
I could not have had so much fun without you!
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2008 - 02:34pm PT
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Silly Goose! Stop making me laugh and tempting me to give come backs. You are going to ruin me!
Heck, you might have ruined me already!
Something tells me I need to go to church this Sunday or lose my soul forever...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Ah, yes, never a bad time in the Park. Glad you guys had fun.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Whoa - Blizo cut his hair!
Nice TR and pics, although forget about dial-up users seeing them any time soon...
Locker, at 5,3 MB (!), those pics should take around 10 to 20 minutes to load depending
on your line speed. My line speed at home is 22 kbps; the average is around 40 kbps.
Anastasia - is there any way you could optimize those pics for the web, and reload them?
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2008 - 03:10pm PT
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Actually I did optimize them....
Hmm... Should I make them smaller?
AF
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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No, they should get cable LOL!
It's the 21st century now, BTW.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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"Hmm... Should I make them smaller?"
No. They'll lose their character.
Hardman, geez, you can't wait 10min for a cool TR. Sit tight, get a beer, have a smoke, they'll be loaded.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Anastasia - most of those pics would look fine at 50 - 85 KB (or less); most of them are a lot bigger than that.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Wonderful, Anastasia! Nice pictures, too. It's obvious you and SS had a great trip.
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Sascha
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Ah, so you were the partying crowd?? I was the one trying to sleep over in campsite 27... (That was some good music on new year's, though, huh?)
Nice pictures, thanks!
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
send me on my way
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nice to pop on for a sec to see some photos
thanks all for the smiles.
i had fun. i loved everyone i met. i loved the night of the 30th the best... like they say in the sixties,
"if you remember, you wern't there"
but i'll never forget the beautiful faces
"strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands / everybody is playing in a heart of gold band..."
sascha - that wasn't us with the bongoes. but that crowd was pretty nice.
bummer about the storm - (but it's exciting!!!) i'm trying to figure out what to do w/myself til school starts
"i'm gonna stay thuggn til the feds come get me"
anastasia - i got your message that "people are looking for me"...
if any of you hear anything like that, just pass on my info. i won't be checking computers much
T.
p.s dancing rainbow penguin. mexican bingo and a harmonica... "hella nor*cal"
:)
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
send me on my way
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p.s. please don't use my real name online - nickname or single initial is just fine.
could you edit it out if you have please?
trying to stay under the radar.
thanks!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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You just posted your phone number to a public forum (YIKES!!),
yet you're worried about someone mentioning your first name?????
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
send me on my way
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it's just a cellphone. not like it's my home phone. i'm not worried about it. thanks for your concern.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Are you kidding???
I sure hope knott!
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
send me on my way
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climbers are generally pretty cool.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Sorry young lady, but this is the internet in the year 2008.
You might want to consider being less blasé about your privacy...
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L
climber
A High Tide on a Low Coast
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Great TR, A! And the photos were a hoot, not to mention those beautiful sunsets. What a wild-n-crazy time you gals obviously had.
Paranoia Edit: SS--I just Googled your cell # and got your MySpace page...complete with your Real Name. HK's right...better think about that, sista.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Double Yikes!
I could knott resist checking out that MySpace page too - knott bad, as MySpace pages go...
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2008 - 11:20pm PT
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Hardman,
Don't worry, SS is a capable girl. Plus, I have the use of a backhoe and 200 hundred acres if anyone is stupid enough to bother her.
Smiles,
AF
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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They really don't have even DSL out by the dump in josh?
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Seriously - I think CC editing the # is a god idea. You want to THINK "climbers are cool," but then you find your # has been posted somewhere else and all of a sudden....you're getting calls from creeps, because someone has posted it on a porno type site.
The thing is - once it's out there, it's out of your control, and you just never know what some unthinking idiot or sick F*** is capable of doing.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
send me on my way
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hahaha! tha'ts not MY myspace page - it's my friend's - her name also starts with "T" - i posted my number in her comments cuz i changed my phone last year - that's why it showed up in google. LOL. MY myspace page is set to private, and i didn't register it with my real name, so bosses and b*tches can't spy.
ok i did edit it out the # tho. thanks for having my back.
peace out! word.
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Niels Harboe
Trad climber
Denmark
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c here. call me Niels. That was a great trip. Thanks to all I climbed with. After the mc wreck i thought I would never climb again. But good friends new and old made it happen. Anastasia, locker, Cosmiccragsman, Standing Strong and the rest made it happen. Thank you all from bolderdash and the JT world. I'll be back asap! One of the best new years ever!
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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The gentleman at Crossroads who name escaped you...... is Lou....I don't recognize the young lady.......(You guys party...)
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Niels Harboe
Trad climber
Denmark
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Locker... twist my arm. We will absolutely get some climbing in! I got your number from A, you bet I'll be calling. Next time I should be living there for a few months.
What a blast it was.
Standing Strong... I lost all your info in a storm on the Oregon coast. Email me or something. It was nice meeting you, and as for spring brake, Oh its on!
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2008 - 09:07pm PT
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Laughing...
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Paulina
Trad climber
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Thanks for the nice TR Anastasia. Sounds like you had a great time! JTree sure is a special place.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Cool locker, gotta get whine-able material somewhere, I guess. Of course seeing this stuff has it's value, as well. Possibly less critical if you're ten minutes from the crag...
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2008 - 08:21am PT
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Locker, you three can clear out any craig of children and descent thinking folks and have me laughing so hard I have stitches.
Can't wait to climb again with you guys!
As for communing, communion, and communication... Dude, my faith is in tomorrow!
Anyway, I was feeling a little nutty last night so I went lobster hunting. Now I have one big Daddy in the fridge. Like all males, he took a chunk out of me so I am nursing my hand smiling. I am so going to eat him tomorrow!
Yum, yum...
AF
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Anastasia,
Thanks for the TR. It's beautiful down there.
Zandedr
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2008 - 03:28pm PT
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I dove last night out at Deer Creek, near Malibu, CA... I called my friend Ron and we agreed that the bugs (a.k.a. lobsters) would be out since there was no light, (they love the dark) and the run off is their favorite dinner time. (Lobsters are scavengers.)
We lucked out since we did have enough visibility to see our gages... Well, we could at least barely see them. I had to put my gauges a few inches from my mask which is better than other times. Two months ago I banged my gages so hard against my mask trying to see that I gave myself a headache. (I am such a goof.)
We had a great time, currents and waves were bad, but Ron just hauled me around like I was one of his cameras. Not weighting much is pays off...
Well, at Deer Creek in the kelp forest there is a rock shelf/formation that lobsters like to hide under. We caught quite a few that were out munching on the currents... I ended up releasing all of them except for big Daddy since I would rather see them breed than sit in my fridge. I can catch them and their children later.
Anyway, I am dreaming that one day I will get one of those mask that has the gages literally installed right in the mask to reflect on the glass. Maybe I can get to work one off with Richard... Maybe someone will return one and it will be cheaper!
Blah, what am I thinking! My wet suit has a hole!!!! I am using one of my shops rentals until it gets fixed and....
Bad Anastasia, first pay what I owe and my bills, buy medications and then think of toys...
Being responsible is so boring!!!
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2008 - 03:47pm PT
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Locker? I am on a roll?
Laughing...
I feel like an idiot on wheels going downhill...
Locker, is it possible to develop breaks? Or should I just learn to let go and enjoy the ride?
I think that nothing in life is predictable.
Or maybe Ron is right for he claims it is very predictable... I am just too busy hoping for the best when I should be putting my faith in the worst possibility.
LOL, Ron's a pessimist, NRA, Republican while I, his best friend for the past fourteen years is a tree hugger, optimist, Democrat.
We never agree, always pick on each other's views of the world and get along great.
I trust him with everything because... He's been right about everything including my recent relationship and is there to help me clean up. Including dive with me when I was about to do it alone out of pure insanity.
Well, Ron saved my ass again... Those currents were fun. At least I have Big Daddy to show for our troubles. You should have seen what Ron brought home. He's getting ready for a seafood party.
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2008 - 04:04pm PT
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Well, I am living! LOL
Dang, my hand still hurts from his claws! I had steel mesh gloves, but he still clipped me! In fact, that is why I brought him home... Can't let that boy get away with that!
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2008 - 04:17pm PT
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Giggles...
Tonight... Tonight... We are going to make it right, so right! Oh, oh...
LOL
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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really cool - everyone looks great!
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 12:25am PT
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That is because Ron was drunk and so like all big brothers he went into teasing mode. He took off his boots and held me down while stuffing his stinky feet in my face.
Please note that every so often when I piss him off he threatens me with his repugnant feet.
(The group around here blame his feet for giving me cancer.)
I think it is only a time before I succumber to his podiatry assaults and he has to bury me in the backyard.
AF
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Total blast to read this rambling thread, Anastasia. Seems you're going for the gusto, girl!
-IlGustoJello
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 01:43pm PT
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At least I said my piece counselor.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 10:37pm PT
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Lettuce? How about some tomato, or should I say tomahto? Who has the correct pronunciation? Dude, who has the right to "know" the correct pronunciation? I owe you fifty? Now since you are offending me, I don't have to pay! What do you mean I gave you my word! Huh... Can't hear you... La la la, la.... What are you talking about? Lettuce, are we still on that subject? Stop yelling, you always so pissed for no reason.
Now you want me to carry the lettuce out of the car!
Dang it! I hate you!
:)AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 11:09pm PT
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Locker...
Huh, I don't know what you are talking about... You really need to relax. What is your problem? You must really like to argue...
:)AF
Cosmic,
You let me know and I will tell you if it is possible. Right now I am diving with Ron since I am rusty. Nice having a friend that dives regularly and is a dive master, he keeps me out of trouble.
So...
Need bugs? I will try to catch more and bring them over. Right now I am getting ready for my trip... So it has to wait until I get back.
Sending Smiles,
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 11:32pm PT
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Do you? LOL
Now that we just had a complete relationship, now can we be friends?
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 11:46pm PT
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Alright, ADHDing in public is not good.
I am now concentrating on thinking happy thoughts. I am imagining how a puppy feels when it sleeps in your lap... How lobster taste... How good it feels to help someone out for no reason but to be nice. (That really is a great feeling.) I am thinking of climbing on a beautiful slab...
Ahhh...
I am good.
My short life is precious.
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 11:57pm PT
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La la la la...
Happy thoughts!
Ice, ice baby!
I will not listen and need to respond... I will not listen...
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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I've been avoiding reading this thread until I stopped wallowing in depression that I couldn't make it that weekend. To make it worse-
I had to hear all about it from Boulderdash all week as well. );
The sinus infection from hell has been kicking my a$$ for weeks.
Speaking of kicking my a$$....I was so looking forward to the Anastasia/Maidy death match. *(insert duel-music a-la-Star Trek here)*
Then again...it probably would have ended like they always do... The Maid laying in the dirt wimpering and begging for mercy. *(sigh)*
When will I ever learn??
Well- for real- I'm happy you guys had such a great time ! Thanks for the pics.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Where did all Those ropes go?
Buns up!
Did she solo that?
Let's ask Grant.
How about that sixty year old, Soo?
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2008 - 03:25pm PT
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I don't remember that!
LOL
It is freaking me out!
Please people... Remember Bachstar is the soloist... I only had the blessings of dating the guy and none of his greatness sadly has rubbed off on me.
Blitzo,
That is some nice photo work, I am in awe.
As for you maid!
I would have been on my back in the dirt after a good beating from your mighty arms. (One that is greatly needed to get me out of this silly slump.) Never underestimate yourself. In fact... We might actually be so equally matched that it would be more productive to get some beer and do some female bonding over a campfire. (Actually you can easily kick my ass but for my small ego, let's pretend otherwise.)
Hey, email me after the fifteenth when you are going to Boulderdash... I will love to meet you there... Give a hug to my climbing son Adam. You know, the dark haired one with glasses that sometimes manages the place. For some reason the boy has claimed me. (Really nice of him since it helps me get over missing another kid.
:) Life might not go your way but it is always interesting,
AF
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2008 - 03:30pm PT
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Oh Locker,
I am still not listening!
(Making faces behind your back,)
La la la la!
AF
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Hey Anni.
I'll shoot you an e-mail. It would be great to climb with ya.
Skip
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