nourishment

in an attempt to survive I ventured out to gather nourishment from two equally important locations....the local public library, and the grocery store.

my brain needs to be stimulated with fascinating tales of literary escapades and the lives of those more adventurous than myself who is stuck in town taking a single course this summer completing my masters program. a single course in which the first assignment was to read a chapter of a book that I have already read at least twice before in each of the preceding two required courses for my program. needless to say not a course that will feed my starving brain. (hence the immense amount of free time and the frequency of postings) the books of choice.... the next three novels in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, in which literary detective Thursday Next lives in a parallel world to ours where people are passionate about literature to the point of legally changing their names to those of their favorite authors and some like the lucky Thursday Next have the ability to travel within books and interact with everyone's favorite characters.

the grocery store was next...my first trip in weeks due to my apparent inability to spend any time in my apartment and frequent travels home which return with a fridge full of leftover home cooked meals. coming back to spoiled milk and the barest my shelf in the fridge has been in months however signaled the desperate need to make the journey. and so I did.

on the way home it was confirmed that the gas gods HATE me. On the list of things I do not enjoy is going to the gas station. so I try and put it off. this normally ends up with me getting screwed when the gas price jumps 20 cents the day I finally decide that my car has been on empty far too long and the incessant dinging which is supposed to be a helpful reminder to get gas has thoroughly driven me mad. today however I decided to attempt to appease the gods and decided to get gas on my way home....before my car even had one chance to ding. needless to say this decision caused the gas prices in lovely columbia to jump today.

and so my car will go on for days longer before I choose to sacrifice myself to the gas gods one more. I chose to feed myself rather than feed my car.

I dont have pets, I have plants

on a whim I bought a pomegranate tree (and a blueberry bush but it's not being exciting yet) a dwarf pomegranate tree I'm not crazy. pomegranates are one of my favorite fruits and well since the tree cost me $5 it will practically pay for itself if it gives even 2 fruits. well in 2-3 years it will pay for itself. but it has been an enjoyable activity watching it grow from the tiny twig the company sent me and now it has flowered.

when I was little I used to tell people I didnt have pets I had siblings instead. apparently now I dont have pets I have plants instead. the aforementioned pomegranate tree and blueberry bush, 2 african violets, a gerber daisy, a jade plant, a shamrock plant, a 3 ft tropical bush of some sort, some baby christmas trees, a spider plant that has long since outgrown its pot and is still hanging in my bedroom window at my parents house and a out of control plant of some sort affectionately known as medusa



I'm not a crazy cat lady, (there is only one of those in my life on a part-time basis) I'm a crazy plant lady.

my new favorite

it's funny how things can be right in front of your face for so long but you don't discover them for many months or even years after they originally came into your life. my new favorite discovery...the dictionary/thesaurus software on my computer.


I'm a terrible speller. that has long since been known. my little sister who is six years younger then me could always spell things I never could. this always concerned my mom, but my teachers always told her "we're focusing on ideas, the spelling will come later" except that it never came. I discovered and loved the little red dots that underline my misspelled words in all programs, a feature that came with the newest computer purchase, the day that I opened the box. but it wasn't till last week while flipping through OSX for dummies wondering what there possibly could be in there that I saw the dictionary program page.

this makes my random word of the day discoveries even more accessible. and has given me a quick and easy searching method, as the list of possible words shrinks as each additional letter is typed, when my creative spellings are just too far off from the accepted methods of the rest of the world and the little red dots just can't seem to offer any suggestions.

round two

so I had one of these once...but then I stopped posting to it so I forgot it and well here I am again. round two. I never told anyone the address of the last, since it was mostly a place for me to post thoughts. never meant for anyone in particular to read. just out there. I'm still in debate about this one.

these things keep appearing in my life. I thought I needed to jump on board. a good place to sound off about my life to no one in particular, not forced upon anyone to listen, not forced upon anyone to read just me and my thoughts on my day to day life.

now that I've started this I dont know where to go...this may be enough for my inaugural jump into round two.