November 30, 2006 | Pictures, The Pink One
I pity the fool that tries to take away this girl’s measuring spoons.
Archive for November, 2006
November 29, 2006 | Now I've Seen Everything, tourists
While I was driving from Ft. Lauderdale to Tampa on I-75 earlier today I saw a dead alligator on the side of the road. It really appeared as if someone ran into it. Can you even imagine how strange it would be to hit an alligator with your car? Nobody would even believe you. I wasn’t even on the part of 75 that they call “Alligator Alley”, I was way up almost to Sarasota.
I hope I never break down near there.
A Short List of Things I Learned on this Trip:
1. It is best to charge your new iPod before you go on a five hour road trip all by yourself. If you cannot remember to do this, it helps if you can remeber to take your charger out of your car and put it into your mother’s car (assuming, of course that you are driving your mother’s car). Otherwise you get stuck listening to the suck ass radio.
2. Surprisingly I know almost all of the lyrics to “You Are the Sun, You Are the Rain”. (I learned this as a direct result of #1.)
3. Wimauma, Florida has it’s own Convention Center.
4. If you are trying to write down of all of the things that you want to write about for your next post by making a list in your Palm Pilot every time you stop, you will hit a lot more green lights than usual.
November 28, 2006 | Food, tourists
Besides the obvious fact that I haven’t been posting with any regularity whatsoever, my biggest problem with being on vacation is that I can’t seem to stop eating.
Actually eating and drinking.
I know that Thanksgiving is a big food holiday, but that was almost a week ago. Ick. All my clothes feel too tight. It is like when we went on a cruise for our honeymoon and dress I brought for the formal dinner fit great on Tuesday and was embarrassingly snug for Friday night. Yes, I have been eating and drinking like I was on a cruise.
The shame.
The bloating.
And it isn’t over yet. I still have a date for drinks with Izzy and tonight I’m on my way to Ft. Lauderdale to eat and drink with an old roommate.
Maybe I’ll buy some bigger jeans while I’m down there.
So right, the problem with vacation is the general lethargy, the rapid weight gain and I miss my cats and my in-laws (What kind of freak show misses their in-laws when they haven’t seen them in 10 days? Apparently me. I realize that this is not normal, but I’m okay with it.)
Of course I also miss my TiVO. How am I supposed to watch a football game or a Top Chef marathon The History Channel without being able to rewind, pause or fast forward through the commercials like some commoner?
The good part about vacation is that sometimes I get to sleep in (I just send Ian down the hall to Grandma’s room if she doesn’t have to work that day) and the good food, beer and wine. And now we’ve come full circle. See the problem?
November 20, 2006 | tourists
I’m not ignoring you, I swear. It’s just that for some reason I can receive e-mails at my Mom’s house but I can’t send any. I know it sounds like a lie, but it is true.
You see, my Mom got a wireless router so that I could use my iBook when we were down here and I don’t know what happened, but her network doesn’t like my SMTP path.
Or something like that.
Anyway, I’m sorry I’ve been gone for a couple of days but I was busy doing this.
My point? (besides gloating that I was at the Bucs game and you weren’t) My point is that I am on vacation and I can’t work my computer and so if you get an e-mail from me sometime in two weeks that seems like I wrote it yesterday, I probably did.
