Like a Bowl of Oranges

They are not that easy to find. While shopping for my 4 main food groups, I was searching for the vitamin C. Something that would satisfy me like the superb oranges we were served at camp all summer, and to my surprise there were none that could compare. I guess they just don't make 'em like they do out in CA.

This blog is to mainly thank my friend, her name is Debbi Martinez. I have realized that she is a great encouragement to me. Of course we have our differences, like for example she thinks it absurd to buy a gallon of Bannana Peppers, and I see it as an investment. But that is not the point, the point is without her encouragement in some areas, I wouldn't be who I am and for that I am so appreciative.

Noone can find the rewind button

It has already happened. I didn't think it was going to happen to me, and especially not this early but it did. I am sitting looking at all of these students, doing group projects and writing papers and suddenly envy them. I don't really even know why. I am probably just getting bored with working, but it is partly because I do have a thirst for knowledge. I am just the type that has to be forced to get a book and read it. I can't find leisure time that I want to sit down and learn.
I guess I need to start prioritizing my life. Ok so here are all my dreams, well they are not in great detail but what I want to do is this. I would like to go backpacking through Europe, the thing is I have no money, and I want to go with a group so if anyone is interested in saving up some money and planning an amazing trip you should leave me a comment and we will start planning. I would like to substitute teach, so I need to get involved and see if that is something I would be any good at. I want to move to California for awhile and live on the beach, I want to go to Louisiana or somewhere in the South and help in any way I can, I want to win the lottery and give it all away just like Nicholas Cage does in "It could happen to you"?? i forgot the name of the movie but it's something like that. For fun he goes to the train station and buys alot of tokens and just hands them out to the people in New York. I want to figure out marriage, and understand why it so hard for people to stay together. I was talking with a coworker who said the only reason she doesn't leave her husband is because she is scared that he would find someone else, and that would make her miserable to see another woman raising her child. I know I shouldn't base my thoughts on this one case, but it just seems to be everywhere, unhappiness. Am I being naive?
So one time, I forgot how different MO and CA are, and while I was watching 5 adults being entertained by a talking deer mounted to the wall..... I remembered.
I started this blog thinking I had nothing at all to say and maybe I don't.
Cody just called and made me smile, of all the corn dog eating boys that I met at camp this summer he's my favorite. I want to move to NY and help start a church, I want write an age related curriculum for sunday school, but what would make it different from the mass amounts already available? Alright well some of this may or may not happen. I want it to be summer forever and work on the zipline and sleep on a hard bed, and be outside all day and yet I can't wait until the leaves are all orange and brown, and yellow. I can't make up my mind.
Because of the new gas prices I have decided to start riding my bike to work, I haven't tried it yet but I'll keep you posted, it's only 4 miles from my house.

What a Day for a Daydream...

Probably the oddest morning of my life. So it's Thursday morning, like normal I am rushing out the door, cereal bowl in one hand and purse in the other. On the road, I am enjoying my "special K" as I look at the rear view mirror, I realize I am not alone. An abnormally large Preying Mantiss is looking straight at me as he is hanging upside down from my ceiling. I am literally inches from his face. I didn't know what to do so I pulled over on the road with no shoulder, just a ditch, and put my flashers on. I don't know about your knowledge with the insect life, but the only thing I know about the "Preying Mantiss" is what I have seen in movies and such, and c'mon they eat the head of their mate. I'm sorry I just don't think of them fondly after that. So after jumping out of my car, and trying to think of a smart way to shew it out without having to actually get near it, a nice woman asked if I needed help after I explained she said "Yeah, those you don't want to mess with." What does that mean? So now I am even more freaked out. Luckily, I rolled down the window on the passenger side and it was smart enought to slowly walk out:) I was overjoyed. As soon as it got on the outside I rolled the window up quickly. Relieved from the suspicion of whether or not I would have to be rushed to the hospital with fatal, Preying poisoning, I got back in my car. Continuing with my breakfast I stopped at a light, and sure enough what do I see glaring at me through my passenger window? That's right the Mantiss, it was holding on for his life, and I realized I had shut the window on one of his legs. So I had a good laugh on the way to work. When I got there I had to release him so I had my friend push him off of the window while I rolled down the window. It was a mess, then she informed me that they are actually pretty harmless, and they eat alot of the pesky insects. Man did I feel guilty, and here I am torchering the thing. Then we watched it eat off the injured part of his leg. I still thoroughly check the outside of my car as well as the inside before I actually start driving, I don't know if the thing had a family in there or what. The scary part is, how long has it been in there and I not notice?