Current mood: melancholy
An excerpt from my & Courtney's email covo today: I have no flipin' idea! I don't even know what to go to school for. It sounds stupid & I don't know why I'm telling you this, but all I've ever wanted, since I was a little girl was to get married & have kids - to be a homemaker. I've never dreamed of having a career or whatever - just to be a wife & mom. That's why I moved to California after high school instead of going to college. Of course I was young & naive, but I thought Eric & I would have been together forever. Obviously it didn't work out so well, but that hasn't changed how I want to spend my life. So, until I find my husband & he can afford for me to stay home & have babies, I'm kinda stuck in purgatory. And while I'm here in purgatory, I need to maintain my own house & bills & shit, and I need a job to do that. And I'm sick of doing a job I don't enjoy, but I can't think of anything I'd enjoy going to school for. The only "career" I could love would be my music, but that's not gonna happen. Ugh.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
The Fifty Nifty United States
ALABAMA Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.
ALASKA One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA Is the only state in the continental U.S. That doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.
DELAWARE Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S.
GEORGIA It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.
IDAHO TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
INDIANA Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.
KENTUCKY Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
MAINE It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS The Fig Newton is named a f ter Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
MINNESOTA Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.
MISSOURI Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone .
MONTANA A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England.
NEBRASKA More triplets are born here than in any other state.
NEVADA Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
NEW YORK Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.
OHIO The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
OREGON Has the most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
UTAH The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
VERMONT Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA Home of the world's largest office building ... The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C. Was the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
WISCONSIN The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
WYOMING Was the first state to allow women to vote.
ALASKA One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA Is the only state in the continental U.S. That doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.
DELAWARE Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S.
GEORGIA It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.
IDAHO TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
INDIANA Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.
KENTUCKY Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
MAINE It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS The Fig Newton is named a f ter Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
MINNESOTA Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.
MISSOURI Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone .
MONTANA A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England.
NEBRASKA More triplets are born here than in any other state.
NEVADA Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
NEW YORK Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.
OHIO The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
OREGON Has the most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
UTAH The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
VERMONT Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA Home of the world's largest office building ... The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C. Was the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
WISCONSIN The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
WYOMING Was the first state to allow women to vote.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Some rules were meant to be broken.
According to a quiz at AOL.com…
In San Francisco, all public vehicles need be outfitted with spittoons. The law covers not only cable cars and buses, but trolleys, taxis and police cars as well. City officials may be prosecuted if the law is violated.
Tossing a banana peel on the street is illegal in Waco, Texas, because a horse could slip on it and fall.
The pedestrian is the one fined if he or she is hit by a car. So be on the lookout when you're crossing a street in Virginia!
A woman's hair is the property of her husband once she marries in Michigan.
In Eureka, Nevada, it is illegal for a man with a mustache to kiss a woman.
Passengers in Connecticut can collect $25 from the railroad company if they are delayed more than five minutes on a standing train.
You can't tie your giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp in Atlanta or you will be cited.
Don't slurp your soup in a public place in the Garden State. NJ is so concerned with your table manners that this is an illegal act.
When you feel the need to have an outburst in Missouri, make sure it's not in a church. Any member of the congregation can place you under arrest.
Make sure you eat before you go to a funeral in Massachusetts, as it's illegal for any mourner to eat more than three sandwiches at a wake.
Good luck finding someone to show you a car on Sunday afternoon in Colorado. It's illegal for dealers to show cars on that day.
It's illegal to view Moose from an aircraft in Alaska. And if you happen to have a live moose on your flight, don't throw it out of the moving plane. That's illegal too.
It's illegal to take a bite out of anyone's hamburger in Oklahoma.
Better start shaking hands and kissing babies, because if you're a member of Georgia's general assembly, you can't get nabbed for speeding while assembly is in session.
Sleeping nude is illegal in Minnesota.
In New Orleans, fire trucks are required to stop at every red light.
You best make sure that your bar has a kettle of soup on if you're serving beer in Nebraska.
Texas treats stand-up sipping the way Massachusetts treats sandwiches at a funeral. Take more than three sips of that beer and you've broken the law!
If you want to give your sweetheart a box of candy, you have to give 50 lbs worth to stay within Idaho law.
Until you are 18, you cannot legally smoke or vote, or play pinball in South Carolina.
In San Francisco, all public vehicles need be outfitted with spittoons. The law covers not only cable cars and buses, but trolleys, taxis and police cars as well. City officials may be prosecuted if the law is violated.
Tossing a banana peel on the street is illegal in Waco, Texas, because a horse could slip on it and fall.
The pedestrian is the one fined if he or she is hit by a car. So be on the lookout when you're crossing a street in Virginia!
A woman's hair is the property of her husband once she marries in Michigan.
In Eureka, Nevada, it is illegal for a man with a mustache to kiss a woman.
Passengers in Connecticut can collect $25 from the railroad company if they are delayed more than five minutes on a standing train.
You can't tie your giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp in Atlanta or you will be cited.
Don't slurp your soup in a public place in the Garden State. NJ is so concerned with your table manners that this is an illegal act.
When you feel the need to have an outburst in Missouri, make sure it's not in a church. Any member of the congregation can place you under arrest.
Make sure you eat before you go to a funeral in Massachusetts, as it's illegal for any mourner to eat more than three sandwiches at a wake.
Good luck finding someone to show you a car on Sunday afternoon in Colorado. It's illegal for dealers to show cars on that day.
It's illegal to view Moose from an aircraft in Alaska. And if you happen to have a live moose on your flight, don't throw it out of the moving plane. That's illegal too.
It's illegal to take a bite out of anyone's hamburger in Oklahoma.
Better start shaking hands and kissing babies, because if you're a member of Georgia's general assembly, you can't get nabbed for speeding while assembly is in session.
Sleeping nude is illegal in Minnesota.
In New Orleans, fire trucks are required to stop at every red light.
You best make sure that your bar has a kettle of soup on if you're serving beer in Nebraska.
Texas treats stand-up sipping the way Massachusetts treats sandwiches at a funeral. Take more than three sips of that beer and you've broken the law!
If you want to give your sweetheart a box of candy, you have to give 50 lbs worth to stay within Idaho law.
Until you are 18, you cannot legally smoke or vote, or play pinball in South Carolina.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
I've always wanted to go to Mexico…
Little did I know, I've already been there. While in hell, oops, I mean my hometown, I was working on a family photo project and came across a photo I've seen a million times before but never paid much attention to. It's a picture of my first trip to Mexico… Tijuana.
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