Monthly Archives: May 2007

In case you can’t make out the words:

There is delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection. – T. Roosevelt

• Played Napoleon with family. Lots of it.
• Solved an incredibly difficult Sudoku puzzle (with help, lots of it).
• Stayed up waaay past my bedtime and woke up too early. Missed sleep, lots of it.
• Dimsum, Peking duck, and Full Key. Yummy food, lots of it.
• Caught up on sleep all day yesterday. Ended up staying up late doing more Sudoku puzzles.

My boss came in with a limp today. His explanation: I went to a wine festival on Saturday. That’s all I’m gonna say.

“… you can go to hell or to jail in a 153-hp vehicle just as fast as you can get to either one of those places in something with more horsepower. My thing is this: Horsepower should be taxed. The more you get, the more you pay. That seems fair to me in a world where only a few of us, mostly in military uniform, are paying dearly to secure oil for the horsepower the rest of us want. Or, is it that you accept the myth that we’re fighting for “freedom” in Iraq?”
- Warren Brown

Famous last words: “I just need…”

Went to Target this weekend because I just needed sunblock. Here’s what I walked out with:

My Internet was down for a while yesterday morning.  I felt the slightest tinge of panic as to what I was going to do without the Internet and then I realized how silly I was, and watched Thank You for Smoking.  I liked it.  The movie had a comical spin to it and puts a new perspective on creepy lobbyists.  They believe in population control, in a twisted way. 

Took the car in for an oil change and a slew of other preventative maintenance-type work. I’m trying to follow Pat Goss’ advice. Here’s what I chose to get done: replace fuel filter, brake system flush, power steering flush, transmission flush, engine oil flush, carbon cleaning. Don’t worry if you don’t understand what these things are because I’m not even sure that sentence was written in English.

Anyway, my point is, I’m doing this to get more use out of the car and if, in the end something doesn’t work, I won’t feel like it was because I was neglectful of my car.  I did my part… I think.  

THE best purchase from Australia:

Butterscotch liqueur, and it tastes just like candy. Incredible. You can drink it straight, but it’s even better drizzled over cake, ice cream, or in coffee. Soooo good, I’m drooling just thinking about it.

Second coolest purchase:

Banana leaf bag, meaning it’s made out of banana leaves. Who knew you could make anything out of banana leaves. Cool, huh?

I like apples. In fact, I’ve never met an apple I didn’t like. Oh wait, I take that back. There was this one time we went apple picking and a few of the apples we picked were bad apples. Crawlies were inside. GROSS!!

Aside from that, they’re great. I’ll even eat the mealy ones. You know, mushy, grainy. But when I bite into a crisp crunchy apple, awww it’s like winning the apple lottery. I totally won the apple lottery today. Finally. This is the 9th apple I’ve had this week and it’s the first crisp one. The apple lottery is not easy to win, lemme tell you that!

Dear Ladies Who Can’t Aim Their Pee in the Toilet:

Clean up your sprinkled tinkle. Cheez. I feel like I need to toss Cheerios into the toilet to help with the aim or something.

That is all.

Well am I ever pleasantly surprised. Came home from work and as I’m watering my babies, looky what I find.

I can almost taste the strawberry…