Author Archives: Spice Jones

Embracing My Introverted Ways

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

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I expect most people consider me an introvert. I don’t think my preference to be alone is bad or strange, I’ve just always enjoyed doing the things I love on my own time and according to my own whims. For 30+ years I made many financial and social sacrifices in an effort to balance the expectations of being “a loyal friend” with how I would prefer to spend my time but now I’ve finally reached the point where I feel no obligation to trade my favorite pastimes for the social needs of others and as a result I’m really loving life.

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A Falcon Crest Flashback

31 Tuesday Jan 2012

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TV Guide Cover featuring Falcon Crest

Lorenzo! Lorenzo! Lorenzo! Even fuzzy, you stir my soul. Sigh.....

Despite its reputation as merely being “Dallas with grapes”, Falcon Crest soon found its own niche amongst the prime-time dramas of the 1980s, occupying the middle ground between the two extremes of the genre — being more glamorous than Dallas yet not quite as outrageous as Dynasty. The distinctive location filming in the Napa Valley and the dry, wryly humorous tone of the scripts gave the series a personality of its own. And to this day, the series is still sought after in reruns and on DVD by thousands of fans.

The rivalry among Angela, Chase and Richard stayed at the core of the show for years, as more romantic entanglements spun around them. Lance and Cole found themselves not only caught up in their family battles, but also competing for Melissa’s affections. – The Jane Wyman Fan Club

A friend just posted on Facebook that she’d love to find the entire series of Falcon Crest and start a weekly viewing party, sparking a fantastic memory from my own childhood that I had to share.

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Prison or Ben & Jerry’s Rocky Road?

30 Monday Jan 2012

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Girl scouts for 40 years

I've been forced to rely heavily on my friendship badge

Today I was prepared to go to prison for murder but instead I opted to eat a candy bar and purchase a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Rocky Road, knowing good and well that the urge to kill this woman would subside.

And that’s about as good as I can be today…ever feel this way?

Winter Hut Trip 2012 via Winter Hut Trip 2009

27 Friday Jan 2012

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Beginning the climb to Sangre's Hut

The smiles are always big at the beginning of backpack trips...

So excited to have another back country Hut trip on the horizon!!  We head out next week and because I’m too excited to wait (hence the excessive use of the word “excited”) I thought I’d post a quick travel journal from our last Hut trip… just in case we don’t return from this one due to bears, mountain lions or/and  “mother nature” (just a little stress for my mom).

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Snow Day!!!

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

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The Ideal Shops see the first snow

The Ideal Shops are on my walk to town, you can see the snow slowly making it's way over the Flatirons and into the city

We’re expecting snow today so I thought I’d share a few photos of what it looks like when snow comes over the mountains and starts to blanket the town. It really is lovely.

After 6 years in Boulder I still get crazy excited about snowy days. I’m sure it has to do with living in the South and seeing snow maybe 4 times in my life, which, by the way, equates to exactly one day off from school in 12 years …a little jab at my father, the Superintendent of Decatur City Schools and his firm stance that students are always safer IN SCHOOL when it’s cold outside.

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