Random thoughts and observations.

So far, I haven't accomplished much with my brief summer break, unless you count watching an ungodly amount of the Discovery and History Channels, catching up on my Charmed on weekday mornings (silence your scorn, I guarantee you've got a dorky show you're secretly attached to as well) and continuing down my path towards my metamorphosis into Crazy Garden Lady.  Oh, and I painted the laundry room on Wednesday.  I was super motivated that day.

So, when you don't do a whole lot, there's not much to write about.  But I have picked up some random, useless knowledge and observations since our killer quake a couple of weeks ago.  And since I'm sitting on my bed on a Friday night while the Tall One geeks out on fake turf matters (don't feel bad for me, we just rode bikes down to the beach for a family BBQ- good times), I'm logging them for posterity.

• Dallas Raines (KABC-LA, Channel 7) and his Live Doppler 7000 weather map need to take themselves off the pedestal they've put themselves on.  I was watching the news yesterday, and that man is so ridiculous with his weather, I Tivo'ed it so the Tall One can laugh at it.  Dallas, step away from the Mystic Tan- you're looking orange, man.
• A new equation for you: BMW+OC driver+stop sign=there's no way in holy hell they're stopping.  I observe this a lot, and I got an up-close example yesterday at the end of my walk.  Mostly because had I been 10 seconds faster, I'd have been attached to his front bumper.
• Another equation for you: Jumprope+the age of 32=extreme calf pain.
• When you prune off 3/4 of your tomato jungle and kill 22 caterpillars in 1 afternoon, the caterpillar threat in your garden drops from red to green.  Kind of like the terror level.
• There is still a place you can go surf in Southern California where 2 girls can surf a peak all by themselves for 2 hours and not get bothered by anyone.  Trails may not be great waves, but you can't see the freeway and you don't have to surf with other people if you don't want to.  Clearly, yesterday was awesome.
• Honestly, I'm not excited about my 3rd semester.  Pediatric nursing and labor/delivery?  Hmmm, let's see- sick, crying kids that aren't my own and their postively neurotic parents, and hormonal moms-to-be and cervical dilation checks.  You're repulsed, horrified and feel bad for me now, don't you?  My job's done here!!!
• When you order vegetable seeds from Prince Edward Island (off the freaking east coast of Canada), and they tell you allow 10-15 BUSINESS days, automatically assume that it will take the full 15 days.  You can quit stalking the mailbox during days 10-14 and getting depressed when they're not there.  Perhpas that's just me...
• I'm becoming quite skilled in rat slaying.  I advise trying to coordinate your rodent euthanasia with the trash day, otherwise you're stuck trying to quadruple bag the critter to combat the fact that it will have to sit in the trash bin in your 85 degree garage for 6 days until the next trash day.
• Mentally threatening to rip out your squash plant is a rational and effective method of getting your butternut squash plant to start making viable fruit.  I was giving it until the end of the week, and then "yoink!"... and then I found an 8 inch squash.  Touche, plant.
• Reading a theological book about heaven while sitting in the sun is the quickest way to take a nap in 80 degree weather I've discovered yet.  97% success rate.
• I'm on this quest to see if I can eat all my daily servings of fruits and veggies every day.  I think it's some ridiculous number like 9 or something- I'm up to at least 5.  I'm now out of carrots and my cucumber plant can't keep up.

I think that's it for now.  I can't go giving all my secrets away.