Elephant Smartness

If you have about 5 minutes to kill you should watch this. It's cool.

My Weekend in Pictures

I'm back from camp! While I was on the island, I learned some history:

Here's a view from my window. You know I took it from inside because you can see the reflection of the light fixture.

I saw a boat.

It was rainy most of the weekend, but quite scenic.

It was a beautiful weekend. It was like a vacation, but with stress.

Who invented the word "gal?"

Because the word "gal" is ugly. Do not call me a gal. It's especially odd to me to hear a young adult use the word. Because really, who uses the word "gal" besides old people?

Keeping it Real.

I've discovered that when I go through the drive-thru, I order wrong.

See:


We need some chicken up in here.

It's Snowing!

Okay, it's not snowing right now. But last night, this was the scene running through my head.

How Does This Thing Work?

So I was sitting in the waiting room at a certain tire store today, waiting for them to replace my winter tires with my all-weather tires for the summer (and then it snowed tonight, but that's another story), and two of the employees came into the room to hang some posters. I hear one of the guys say "How does this thing work?" Not a reassuring thing to hear from an employee at an establishment that is currently working on your car. Guess what he was talking about? A tape gun. The other guy desmonstrated to him how to pull the strip of tape out, and pointed out the sharp teeth which cut the tape. After a few awkward attempts, the tape gun newbie got it figured it out. Sort of.

So far my tires have all stayed attached to my car.

Go Google Yourself.

I googled my friend's name today, and came up with some interesting results. A few of the links had to do with her place of employment. One link highly amused me: an article that talked about how she owned a gas station in Wisconsin. She's been holding out on me.

I googled myself (It's smart to do that from time to time just to make sure there's not something crazy online--used to be you could find my cell phone by googling me), and I came up with several other people with my same first name. There's some chick in Salt Lake who has my first name, and she appears to be Mormon. She stole my name. I'm pretty sure I'm older. She needs to give it back.

So I decided to google family and friends. I googled the W's, and BoyW is an american watercolorist, and also an author of novels and poetry. GirlW is a famous australian singer, the owner of a yoga company, and an actress. All these hidden talents!

I googled all my family and found that both my sisters, my mom, AND my brother belong to this professional networking site. Is this a secret club you guys didn't tell me about? I wanna play too! Sister K was also acknowledged in a computer book. Sister A was listed on one of those find your high school classmate sites. It says where she lives and where she works. Since I've got the Safety Patrol in my blood (I was a crosswalk guard in the 6th grade), I emailed her and informed her of this. Stalkers could find her and follow her around!

My family has all kinds of hidden talents and accomplishments, too. My brother is apparently a doctor in Minnesota. My dad has played and taught tennis for 20 years. Who knew? Also he's an anime fan. That I totally knew. It's SO obvious.