Can of Worms

So my work day is done and now I can blog guilt free. Though really all I am thinking about is how I want to get home asap...but first I will blog.

Items of Interest:

1. Nubbin' Plants: I have successfully kept alive five potted plants. Because of the delightful rain we have been experiencing lately I let the plants lounge on the deck a couple days ago only to return from work to find that they had been reduced to stubbly nothingness! Some nefarious rabbit or Bambi-wannabe decided they could snack on my lovely flowers and now nothing is left! My only survivor was my Basil, thank goodness.
2.Savy sewin': I have completed a dress and it is one of the best dresses I have ever made. Like, I could wear it in public and get compliments on it. (Sara, my co-worker, is just now pointing out that I ran up to her as soon as she arrived at work, grin plastered on my face, begging to know what she thought of my dress. Okay, I fished for a few of my compliments. But I did get one legitimate compliment from a boy. Okay, he was a old man, but he did say he liked it with no prompting from me what-so-ever).
3. Movie Mania: I have borrowed some pirated DVD's from Laura that she bought in the Philippians. Each disc has over a dozen movies and sports some fabulous Chinglish. I watched "Buck to the Future 1-3" on the "The Calming City" DVD mix (Which also includes Chicago, Freaky Friday, and American Dreamz- what does this have to do with cities and why does this DVD have a picture of a cow on the front?) and have been obsessively watching "Pirats of the Carribean 1-2" (These are not some bad porno versions or anything, just someone got the titles wrong and it makes me laugh).
4. Blog Buddies: So I read Abby's
blog and learned, though I had never met her in person, that she was coming to Denver for the summer. So I stalked her a bit and we went on a lovely hike last Friday only to discover the following:
- We have dozens of mutual friends.
- Abby has excellent taste in archaic literature and period movies.
- It was confirmed yet again I fit astonishlingly well into the Homeschool clique even though I was a public school attendee.
- Abby was meant to read Lamb this summer (Have you started it yet Abby? I will hunt you down a copy).
- Abby is extraordinarily cool.
- Colorado mountains can be hard to climb.
5. Notes from the Universe: A friend introduced me to this and I am somewhat obsessed. Not only does it make me more excited about checking my inbox, it increases my generally happiness because these inspiring mantras includes words like Jolly Good and Hi Ho Silver.
6. Calvin Ball: I am on a crusade to organize an incredible game of Calvin Ball when I return to Chapel Hill in September- Just imagine it, a cool September night, hoards of hopped up youths in masks terroizing the quad with croquet mallets and other inventive Calvin Ball arsenal. Are you in? I will keep you posted as details unravel. Let the Games begin!
7. Christina! My beloved Christina arrives tomorrow and I am brimming over with excitement!
8. I really like things that make me laugh out loud. Lately that has been myself, McSweeny's, Lisa Brown's Children's Books: Baby fix my Drink, Baby do my Banking, and Baby fix my car, planning a work croquet tournament in which the losers get hit in the face with pies (organic and sugar free, of course). In a duel with water balloons and creme pies, who would win?



My message from the Universe:

And they shall say, there once lived someone, who had little idea of how they changed everything.

They will, Christa.

And, you have.
Tallyho,
The Universe