Happy Birthday (dutch style)

So in our ever going effort to live a more sustainable lifestyle, Brittany and I have been riding our bikes everywhere we go (instead of using the car). We have found that this is far more enjoyable healthier than driving. Plus it makes you feel good that you ARE doing a little bit to help out the environment. This now is the desired way to travel for us. So, riding the bikes so much has really sparked a great desire of mine. I have always wanted to have a dutch style bike. Ever since I saw my first one I have felt like Wayne on Wayne's World....."Oh yes, it will be mine."

For my birthday this year, Brittany made my dream come true! I proudly race around downtown San Diego-to and from school, to Brittany's work, dinner, lunch, movies, grocery store and everywhere in between on this wonderful bike.

I give you the new Dutch Bike



The bike features a self powered light on the front and L.E.D. light on the back (the small generator attached to the front wheel provides power to the headlight). It has 8 speeds which makes riding around town comfortable. I can go faster than traffic in the city and make it up and down the hills of mid-town and up-town too.

Color is Amazing

This past week in my design studio we have been studying color.  Did you know that about one in every twelve men are colorblind and about one in every twenty women are colorblind?

Are you?

Look at these images and tell me what you see?





And lastly



If you saw the number 74 in the first and 6 in the second you're not colorblind.  As for the last image, if you saw something besides an image that looks like a dog, then you have problems.

J/K, the last image has no number in it, just another mixture of reds and blues to see if you are colorblind.

Cool huh?

AMAZING PHOTO OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

I came across this amazing photo of our neighborhood (East Village) in downtown San Diego.  I added two red arrows to the photo to point out a few things.

The arrow to the right is pointing out the building that we live in.  Its called METROME.  It's the tan and grey building with blueish glass sitting in the foreground.
The open lot in front of our building will be the new downtown library.  

You need to click on the image so you can see it larger, this size just doesn't give it justice.  It is an amazing photo.

The arrow to the left is pointing to Petco Park (San Diego Padres' Stadium)

I loved this photo cause it shows the density of the East Village and shows how it ties into the overall prospective of downtown. The tall buildings in the background are in the Core District (business district of downtown).  Thats where Brittany Works.

Honey Dos and Donts

Tonight while I was getting ready for bed (Britt's been out since about one half hour from coming home from work) I went to the kitchen to take my pill so I can go to sleep.  While taking my pill I noticed a few objects on the counter top.  The first thing I thought of was the infamous Honey Do lists of married life.  But what I never realized was that "Honey Don't Lists" exist as well.  Here is what I am talking about....

Here is what the countertop looked like as I was getting ready for bed

So here is the "Honey Do"
(These hooks have been here next to the sink for a couple of days now, this does qualify as a "Honey Do" Babe I will hang them, but in my defense, I don't know where to hang them.)



Here in our house, we appearntly have "Honey Don'ts" this is what I mean....

(This means "Honey Don't" cause you will probably mess it up and it will be gross)



And here is the "Honey You Better Not"

So do "Honey Do's" exist in your house?  Have you spotted the "Honey Don'ts"?  It is an interesting concept.

I've Been Tagged

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.


B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.


C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.



10 Years Ago (Feb. 1998):
Ten years ago I was a wicked high school kid living in the riverbottoms of Spanish Fork (just the name alone gets you excited I know.  I attended SFHS and had to put up with all the cowboys and their big trucks (sad to say that I had one myself, but mine was nicer than hay-bail-haulin outfits in the back parking lot).  I loved to play football, in fact it was my life in high school.  I also loved to going to my good buddy Scott Griffiths' house after school to watch Baywatch and eat hot dogs.  Camping with friends was among the top of my list of things that I loved to do on the weekends, but since its February I would snowboarding on the weekends at Sundance.

5 Things on my To-Do List today: 


1.Go to Tom Stroman's house in North Park to work on a project for school. 


2.Take the dogs to Petco Park, oh wait there is a rugby tournement this 

weekend so its closed.


3.Need to work on a speech that I have due next week in my public speaking 

class.


4.Meet with a health insurance rep to listen to all my options
5. Any time left over I would love to take the dogs to Dog Beach, and return back to the city just in time to take Brittany some food at work for her dinner break.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:


1.Pay up front every penny of the cost of my education 


2.Buy an incredible condo over looking Padre Stadium in Downtown San Diego. 


3.Pay off all my parents, brothers and sisters debt.


4.Buy a Scion XB for me and buy sister Ashlee a new Hybrid Cadilac Escalade 


5.Take some time to travel Europe 


6.Invest a bunch of cash into my school
    A.  Put money toward new studio space for all students
    B   Bring in a few world famous architects to teach ($$$)
    C.  Build a student housing complex (school is pricy, and rent is too!!!!)

7.Lastly, I would surprise my incredible step-dad, Ron Clarke, with the most amazing thing he has ever seen cause

 he diserves it and MORE!!!! 


3 of my bad habits:


1.Biting my nails, especially when I am nervous or stressed 


2.Chewing on my soul patch (stubble of sexy hair that grows below my lip) 


3.Waiting until at least 1AM to start my homework

5 places I have lived:


1.Most memories are from Provo, UT


2.Most bad memories are from Spanish Fork (or if you're from there you would say, "Spanish") 
3.Kaoshiung, Tainan, JiaYi, QiShan, GangShan, YongKang, PingDong.....all

 in Taiwan.  My favorite was Tainan (lots of culture and history)


4.Oakland, CA (interesting place, lots of culture, beauty and gun shots)
5.San Diego, CA (best place in California, and the place that I most likely will never leave)

5 jobs I have had:


1.Two-Jack's Pizza.   I was a delivery boy until I got in a wreck and couldn't

 deliver anymore 


2.Bill's Appliance Service.  Answered the phone and repaired appliances  

(you're not a Peterson until you've worked at Bill's Appliance Service)


3.Ski Tech at Sundance Ski Resort.  I tuned skis and snowboards and

 fit people with rental equipment


4.Product Procurement Manager for China Industries (USA), Inc.  Spoke a lot

 of chinese and got to travel to lots of places 


5.Door-to-Door Alarm Salesman for APX Alarm.  By far the worst job I have had to date, but made more money in the four months that I knocked doors than

 I would have made if I worked all the jobs listed above at the same time

 for the same four months.  Great opportunity everyone should do it. 


5 things people don't know about me:


1.I love slow ambient techno (trip-hop) music, people think I'm crazy, but it just does something to me, and

 I yern for that feeling everyday. 


2.I am a huge believer of urban living.  I think that suburban areas are an unhealthy way for people to live, and I strongly oppose.  I try to avoid freeways and nation-wide food chains. 


3.Since living in Taiwan I have some crazy problems with my bowels, after

 eating something that I'm not used to I need to make sure I am within

 running distance of a bathroom (just in case) 


4.I sometimes feel that my life is a movie and throughout the day I think of ways that could best capture the moment that I am experiencing.  I guess I am a closet photography junky. 


5.I met my beautiful wife, Brittany when she was a little girl in 3rd grade.  

She would always ask for "baby bounces" when we played kickball at

 Canyon Crest Elementary School.  She once told someone that she 

thought I was cute and I embarresed her by asking her about it on a 

feild trip to Ripple's one day.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years and 10 years:
1.In five years I see myself graduating school with a Bachelors degree in Architecture and Urban Studies from NewSchool of Architecture and Design.  Looking for an internship with a sustainable design firm or an urban development firm in New York City.
2.In ten years I see myself having two kids and raising them in a cultured urban environment where they would have all the opportunities that I missed out on when I was young.  Hopefully we will be living back in San Diego (or San Francisco) where I can work in a creative and rewarding atmosphere of design.  Hopefully by then I would have my ever so craved "Dutch-Style" Bike.  I would ride it to work everyday!