Las Vegas and a Old Friend

Last week I had a conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay and decided to look up a friend from the past. I had known Lisa since I was about 5 years old. We went to the same school through high school, but went to different universities afterwards. I had always know Lisa. She was actually my first crush back in the 4th grade at the Howe School! Although it had been at least 10 years or so since high school since we had seen each other, we decided to hang out one night at the Body English club at the Hard Rock Hotel with a few of my co-workers. Catching up with Lisa was a absolute blast! As an encore to her Master's degree in Physics, she is finishing up her law degree at UNLV. I think she needs to transfer some of that ambition over to me.


Chris and Lisa. Scandalous!


Go-go dancer at Body English





Krystle (co-worker) and her new friend!


Krystle and Rei (co-worker) with some completely random stranger.



The DJ at Body English totally looked liked my Brother-in-Law, Jared. See for yourself! Sorry, the video quality is kinda poor.

Some Recent Pictures of my House

I've done a little bit of rearanging lately and decided to take some pictures of my house.


This TV is almost exclusively on ESPN.



The empty fish tank. (it's on my 'to do' list to get some fish!)

Back Yard Progress

A few weeks ago I finally ordered a pallet of coblestone pavers and spend the weekend leveling the yard and installing the pavers next to the deck. I also planted a lemon tree and an orange tree. The yard is slowly coming along. The only major tasks left are laying down some flagstone pavers and then getting the rock to put down. You gotta love the "rock" yards in AZ.

May 2007 Pictures from Japan

Ok, this post is long-overdue, but who doesn't like pictures, right? Alot of these pictures are posted on my Myspace account, but I thought I would still post some of them here. All these pictures are from a family vacation to Japan in May of 2007.

They made it look so easy in the movie, "House of Flying Daggers!"

Hijacked pictures

I hijacked some pictures from Elaine’s (my older sister) blog. I probably should ask permission first before I steal her pictures, but I hope she doesn’t mind. My mom was in Washington DC to see Maya (and Elaine and Mike, of course) last week and I thought I would share some pics. Apparently its cherry blossom season out there in DC.


Mayumi in the blanket basket

My mom (Grandma)

Mike and my mom taking Maya for a walk. Notice the cherry blossoms in the background. Out of all the times I've been to DC, I've always seemed to miss cherry blossom season. I'm not sure why Elaine insists on taking pictures on a Dutch angle.

Mom on her way to the airport to fly back to Boston.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU!

Congrats to Kansas last night for pulling the upset. I'm especially grateful for Kansas for winning me my office NCAA Tournament bracket and winning me a handful of cash. I'm not sure what is more gratifying, winning the cash, or rubbing it in the faces of all those who were convinced that Memphis or North Carolina was going to win it all. My reasoning for picking Kansas? Simple...

1. Out of the four teams in the final four, I only had a Kansas T-shirt (which I am wearing proudly today at work, by the way!).
2. I had two college roomates (Big Mike and Morgan) who were HUGE Kansas fans and it kinda stuck - I've been a fan ever since.

The Kansas t-shirt, was given to me by Mike and Morgan by the way. It was good luck!

Beauty over the years...

How many of these women can you name?

What do you mean BYU is not diverse?

Oh, c'mon, we had blondes AND brunettes! How much more diverse can you get? Oh look, a redhead!

Chewbacca!

I didn't know the Red Sox signed Chewbacca. Why was I not aware of this? Hey, he's left-handed, too, just like me!

Some Childhood Pictures

Some of the yearly pictures that Dad would take us of kids in the dining room. When did we all grow up?


1988


1987


1986

1985


1984


1983

Eye of the Tiger. Watch our for this guy!

The Never-ending Weekend Project

Well, I finally got sick of looking at dirt in my back yard, so a few months ago I started doing something (anything!) to my backyard. I've ended up with a deck and firepit so far (but have since done a cobbled brick patio). Not quite finished, but the finished project should be done in a month or so.

Back in the Methuen High School days

I was going through some old high school photos recently and came across this photo of the football team from senior prom, 1997. Kinda corney, but this has always been one of my favorite photos from high school, so I thought I would post it. Sadly, I can honestly say that I've only seem a handful of these guys since graduation in 1997. Hope that all are doing well.

The 2009 MBA Rankings are here!

Ok, maybe I'm a bit nerdy at times, but I follow these ranking religiously for no real good reason. I'm always curious to see where BYU and ASU rank as well as the schools from back east. Arizona State was one of the biggest movers, jumping up to #22!

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mba/search

My niece, MAYA (the bee!)

Well, there is a new big hit in the Sturgis family. Little Maya joined the Qualter/Sturgis family in October of last year, and has been the center of attention ever since (at least in the Sturgis family, where she is the only baby). I’ve only had one opportunity to see baby Maya at Christmas when we all met up in Utah, but Elaine’s blog provides temporary gratification with pictures and videos for us that live elsewhere. It’s great seeing new pictures of Maya and seeing (and reading about) her progress. It’s been so interesting watching her grow through pictures. Needless to say, motherhood suits Elaine well, as we all knew it would.

Here is baby Maya (Maya is a nickname by the way…her real name is Mayumi)

ASU Here I come! From a Cougar to a Sun Devil...

As many of you know, I recently got accepted to the Arizona State University WP Carey MBA Program. This is actually my first time applying to a graduate program, but this is actually the second time I’ve been accepted to ASU. I actually applied to ASU out of high school back in 1996-1997. ASU would’ve been my second choice if I hadn’t been accepted to BYU. How things would’ve been different!

So how do these two schools compare? You tell me…

Close call, but the ASU cheerleaders are getting my vote here. Plus, BYU would never approve those outfits for cheerleaders. Silly Mormons.

To quote my friend Russ, "Who cares what the girls at BYU look like - they don't put out!"

Letter from the Editor to (my sister) Elaine from 1987

BYU Animation - they're taking over!!!

http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Mar-animationevent.aspx

I'm 29 - one more year before 30!

A few of us went out last weekend to celebrate my birthday, among other things. Some recent pictures for your viewing pleasure.



In this corner we have Chris and Dave

And in this corner we have (?) (I forget their names, but they were pretty cute, right?)