Two of our favorite things about living in Colorado

We are so blessed to move to a place where we already have best friends. Our friendship goes so far back. Renee basically set up Ryan and me and Kristen threw me a lingerie shower when we got engaged. The three of us used to rock climb in Malibu. Now we have all of Colorado at our finger tips. We love Renee and Kristen.

Getty and Santa Monica

We spent the last two nights with Emily. She was a wonderful host and we got to have a traditional LOST night together. We were missing many from the good ol' days but they were there in spirit.

We had a wonderful last day in Los Angeles with Emily and Eunaye. We went to our favorite art museum in L.A., the Getty. It has an amazing view, garden and impressionist exhibit.





We also ate lunch at the beach with our toes in the sand! We had to touch the Pacific and skip a few rocks. We loved our time in L.A and treasured reliving our dating memories. We especially loved that we are able to pick right up with wonderful friends even after 3 years.

Old Apartments

While in L.A., we went by our old apartments. It was nice to see no gang tagging or homeless people outside them. We remembered how difficult it was to find street parking and how many tickets we got because of street cleaning. But mostly, we remembered our great roommates and all the fun times.

Psychiatry:An Industry of Death

I never stopped by this museum when I lived in LA, but felt that I had to after having working in Psychiatric Hospital for the past 3 years. I tried to go with an open mind and mostly wanted to find out what Tom Cruise would say if he wasn't so manic. Turns out it was pretty much the same thing.

This Museum is basically a catalogue of all the horrible things Psychiatry has done. There is the typical stuff everyone agrees on: lobotomies, crude electric shock, poor past patient care, etc. But then their history kind of veers off around 1940 into a special version of history. A special history of suspicion and conspiracy theories not so much based in objective science.

Now, lets see if you need to go to the Museum on not.

See if you can answer these questions:

1. Who is responsible for the Holocaust?

2. Who is responsible for school shootings? (starts with P, is not Pearl Jam)

3. Who is a main contributor to Terrorism? ( rhymes with Physiatrists)

4. Is Psychiatric medication ever justifiable?

OK, I think you are getting the point. I almost made it out the door, but there was a tour guide lady who wanted to talk to us. I asked her if she thought Psychiatrist did anything right. She said as long as they didn't prescribe Psychiatric medication, they were fine.

She asked for my point of view and I told I thought her assumptions of all Psychiatric medications being ineffective and all Psychiatrist were evil was unreasonable and indefensible according to evidence based practice. She said all research is biased because of Psychiatrist being payed by drug companies. I told her that their were numerous studies not financed by people affiliated with drug companies that showed some effectiveness to treatment in specific cases. And then after talking in circles and making my pregnant wife endure our conversations, I realized I was doing that thing I do that I always tell myself I will never try to do again. You just can't reason with unreasonable people. All in all, the conversation was about as successful as Matt Lauer, and hey I even know the history of Psychiatry to some extent.

Anyways, it made for a good story for my coworkers back at work. I showed this picture to my coworkers and everyone thought it was awesome

Hubs is a Daddy!

We just got back from and fun trip to LA and Portland, OR and will be posting about events from our trip.

Three years ago Hubbel and I were roomies in a Hollywood apartment. Now he is married and a proud papa. It was such a treat to see their wonderful little girl.

One of the wonderful things we go to to on our trip was visit Hubbel and Rachel in the hospital the day after little Julia came to the world.

A few days later we went to their apartment in Hollywood. They are funny and great and I really wish we lived closer.

Cheyney's Neighborhood

This is a picture of my ghetto. I am getting a real taste of L.A. I get woken up by produce and ice cream trucks and loud Mexican music. We are also constantly getting drafts of marijuana, cloves and cigarette smoke in our apartment from our neighbors, who also beat their 4 children. The boyfriend of our neighbor is in jail and their "stolen car" has finally left our carport. Our apartment building is constantly getting tagged by gangs. If it is painted over, they will retag it by the end of the day. We also have lots of street rats running around. We have adopted them and have them over to make cookies, Christmas decorations, and cards. We also occasionally help Dyamon (the leader of the street rats) with her homework. We have rules in our apartment:
1. No bad words
2. No hitting, fighting or biting
3. No going back in our rooms.


What a fun place to live!