Summertime Reading

I am excited for this summer. With the slight possibility of going away to work in some foreign country about to become reality my favorite thing to do in summertime is to lay out in the sun and read. I collect books all year long through the school year when I am too distracted to enjoy it and I make a list and read all summer long. The guilty pleasure part is that they are mostly mindless easy reads.

Bees.

Bees are really fascinating to me. In my free time I like to read about them. I've always wanted to learn how to bee keep, but unfortunately I live in the suburbs. Today when I was watering my garden, I went to check on the radishes because they are almost ready to harvest. There was a bee soaking wet from when I had just spent 10 minutes watering and couldn't fly; So, I picked it up and let it sit on my hand as I walked over to a sunny area for it to dry itself. It was so fascinating just to watch it dry it's wings clean it's legs and fur as well as its face with it's little legs, at times taking it's hind legs all the way upward onto it's back. I watched it clean it's little mouth and retract it's stinger to clean it as well all with such coordination like a ballet. Around 15 minutes later after its last little flutter for drying it's wings it finally flew off.

"Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die."
- The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men

Post-it notes

Whenever I need a Post-it I can never ever find one or anything that will work instead such as paper and tape. However, when I'm cleaning around my desk I always find 5 little stacks of them and think why the hell do I have so many post-its and when will I ever need these.

good friends are good.

I think I collect jobs. I get bored at meaningless jobs way too easy. But I have had numerous jobs all in extremely different fields and from every job I've kept like a little souvenir. I have no idea why. I just realized this today when i was cleaning my room. Which hasn't been cleaned in like 8 months. Ew.

If you died

When was the last time you actually stopped to think for two seconds about how fucking incredible it is that you are alive and all things things you might have missed. Remember those kids that died in your high school so young? And all the things you've taken for granted since then. All the strange little accidents or random sicknesses where people die so unexpectedly....would you be satisfied with your life so far? Remember the last time you drank 7up out of a cup and the fizz tickled your nose or the last time you just spent an entire day outside in the sunshine just enjoying it? Remember the last time you cried and how much better you felt after words. What kind of secrets would you leave behind?

The beatles

You can only listen to the beatles for so long until your head wants to explode.

Internet broken

Internets broken, really frustrating. It won't connect to any wireless network even though it shows all the ones available around my area.
Anyone got any ideas?

Crazy Dream

Last night I dreamt that Modest Mouse came over for Thanksgiving dinner. It was the most random thing ever. To everyone else it was normal that they were there haha. And then we all drank lots of Jack Daniels.

Today was pretty much un-eventful which those days are always nice to have once in awhile. I spent the whole day sleeping which kind of was a shame since it was so beautiful out.
So if you have myspace you probably noticed a couple days ago they had that obnoxious "upload your picture to make yourself a pirate" thing.. I decided to upload a picture of jesus...
Jesus as a pirate

mm waffles

The weather outside today is absolutely gorgeous. I wish I had more time to spend outside.
I went to go water my miniature garden today and half my plants were missing. I guess the dog decided it would be fun to run through a big patch of mud the other day when it was rainy because there are about 2 feet deep paw prints running back and forth from one end to the other. Crazy dog.
On another note school is going terribly at the moment. This term I decided to only take one class online but the instructor doesn't use a calendar or due dates so I will be oblivious to whole weeks passing by, it doesn't help that it's a law enforcement class. I hate learning all this policing stuff it's so boring, I don't care about the history and evolution of policing in America. I can't wait till I'm done with all the criminal justice basic classes and can start doing more forensics.
Anyways this Video always makes my day, Knock yourself out.

Atleast you will never be a vegetable, because even artichokes have hearts.

Spidey

Yay going to see spiderman 3, it better not be a disappointment.

Sand not so much sun or surf

I really want to go to the beach it's been a while. Even though the Oregon coast isn't much to brag about since it mostly consists of rain and sand and water so cold it turns your skin red. It would be a terrible thing to go through life without ever seeing an ocean.

It's a girl!

Lizzie finally had her baby the other day. Adrianna Elizabeth. Alot of newborn babies look like aliens.. I know from working at picture people. It's so hard to tell people that their babies are the cutest and the parents all think that when really they look like wrinkly flaky aliens. It just reminds me of how fast we grow up and sometimes I feel like I act as if I have all the time in the world to do what I want So I procrastinate at life. Then someday it will all hit me like a train and I will be old. I should stop making lists of things that I want to do and start doing them.

RIP

It's been
exactly five years to this day
april 25 since you passed away
I miss you every day
Especially your smile.
You could have done amazing things if you were
still here.
Http://sanelyinsane.blogspot.com

Oh honey

Played a rousing game of "oh honey" last night.
watch will and grace and every time you here karen say "OH HONEY" everyone takes a shot
haha really stupid but amusing at the same time. Well as long as you like will and grace. I think I'm still a bit hung over.