Thoughts of a Sprite

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

tanqueray in tuesday...

Top 10 reasons to live in Florida:
1. You can wear sandals in the winter.
2. Hurricane season is a great excuse for a 3 month hurricane party.
3. You can store your lawn funiture in your pool, and no one thinks its odd.
4. You have a closet designated for batteries and water
5. you get to put christmas lights in palm trees.
6. those plastic pink flamengos don't look tacky or out of place.
7. You never have to store your summer clothes, because it will be warm enough to wear them at least one day every month.
8. no matter which way you drive, the beach is never more than a couple of hours away.
9. there is an entire region called alligator alley (especially cool if you go to UF, and are considered a gator!)
10... and the biggest reason to move to Florida, you never have to wake up and ask... dude, where's my car?

That was a lot to come up with just so I could post that damned picture! LOL

bringing it back down to a personal level...
Wow, I am traveling at the speed of life... somebody apply the brake!

Friday we had the Chirstmas Parade, it was nice. Lar and I, met Ruth and Foofie at the Ale house for a lovely dinner, and then headed over to see the Chronicles of Narnia. I highly reccommend this movie! Saturday I finished outlining Chapter 15, and finished most of my Christmas Shopping. Poor Lar, I drug him along. I began the wrapping process Saturday night. I love to wrap! I use all kinds of wired ribbon, garland, and ornaments to decorate my packages, and they always look as if they are profesisonally wrapped. It takes me forever, but they look so good under the tree, and the people who open them always seem so pleased. Then there is the satisfaction I get out of being "artsy fartsy!" As Victoria would say, I am glued on it.

Saturday night, our noisey upstairs neighbors had another party. I ended up calling GPD twice. I don't mind a party now and then, but on finals weekend, until 430 in the morning is a bit much. They were pissing off the balcony right next to my room... I could actually hear their golden streams... disgusting! By the time they quieted down, I was on my second wind. I did not get to sleep until 6 am.

Sunday I tried to study... I did laundry... went grocery shopping, and tried to study some more.

Monday.................... I really don't remember the details of yesterday, it was so busy. I took my last final exam of the Semester. (it feels really good to be done with school for the semester.) I skipped half a class over this section to go to tutor zone for my stat final... he must have discussed a particular study that was not in the notes or the book, and he asked 5 or 6 questions on the test about it. I though that it was wieghted entirely too heavily. I could not even bs my way through it, questions like what statistical test did they use, and what type of sampling did they use. Grrr... probably knocked mytest down to a B...

It was also the Fire Department Christmas Dinner, so after my final, I spent the day running around like a chicken with my head cut off, as I have done for the last 5 years. As always it was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Clean up always goes smoother than set up, ah behold the power of 25 firefighters.... LOL! Dinner was great, and it was worth the exhausting effort!

This brings us to today. Work has been hectic, and I am heading to my mom's house after. Still doing pretty good with quitting. I have cheated a couple of times, but I have not bought any, and one or two is not nearly as bad as 20. I still feel horrible. I really want to just be done with it, but it is so very hard!!! I think going to Alabama will do me some good with that. I will be away from my usual surroundings, and have 10 horses to play with, as well as family to visit, and lots of stuff to do.

Tomorrow, I am going to shop with Ruth after work... at least I think I am, and then pack.

Useless fact of the day: The human brain stops growing at age 18, and is 80% water. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain. The storage capacity of the human brain is about 4 terabytes (4,000 gigabytes).

Thought for the day: A man with outward courage dares to die, a man with inward courage dares to live. ~ Lao-Tzu

I don't know that I agree completely with that thought, I think to some degree you must find a happy median, but then there needs to be some measure of central tendancy in everything in life, it is what gives us balance.

OMG, I got the coolest Christmas decoration. It is a snowman welcome mat, and when you step on it, it sings Frosty the Snowman. It is quite humorous, I scare the crap out of myself with it all the time. I am done babbleing. I think I shall end this update, and head to moms!

Whew... I told you it has been crazy busy.... (this song is stuck in my head!)

city sidewalks, busy side wlaks
dressed in holiday style
in the air there's a feeling of Christmas.

Children Laughing, people passing
meeting smile after smile
and on every street corner you'll hear

silver bells, silver bells
it's chirstmas time in the city,
ring a ling, hear them ring,
soon it will be chirstmas day.

shes_a_sprite @ 1:07 PM.

3 comments

Out Of Jersey said...

I'll stay here in NJ. I'd miss the seasons too much, and I don't think you can get a proper hoagie.

8:39 AM

starbender said...

Funny how all U can C R the mirrors! Good luck shoveling those babies out!
:o

9:15 AM

Unknown said...

Wow, at first I wondered what that snowy pic was, crikey it's cars!
I love the 10 reasons to live in Florida, gimmme palm trees and beaches any day!
I used to have noisy neighbours too, I hate when they think they can just pee anywhere, you don't see women doing that off balconies!! Thank God lol.
I'm finnishing my Christmas shopping today, I love wrapping too!!

4:33 PM