This is for Spoon

Warning...its a little graphic. One summer during my college years I did a marine biology internship in Boston. During that summer a young whale washed up on Cape Cod so we did a roadtrip/necropsy to find out the cause of death. It was grotesque and awesome all at the same time. In case you forgot, whales are mammals like we are, and they have many of the same body parts we do: lungs, ribcages, lungs and penises.

whale penis!!! For spoon!

Things I learned that day:
1. Whale lips are soft (that's me touching them in the top photo)
2. Blubber feels like tire rubber, except its 6 inches thick.
3. The whale died of renal failure from a parasite infestation.
4. Dead-whale scent does NOT wash out. Ever.

Perpetuating Creative Avoidance

1. What does your headline mean? It used to be "With love from detroit" and that was not sarcastic at all. Then I moved to Phoenix. I like Phoenix; I'm feelin' the love.
2. Elaborate on your default photo: Apparently I liked eating cheese puffs topless as a small child.
3. What's your middle name[s]? Marie

4. What is your current relationship status? Married for 1 year and then some

5. What are you wearing right now? PJ pants and a button down shirt. They don't match at all.

6. What is your current problem? The large tree in my front yard

7. Who do you love the most? My husband

8. Who makes you most happy? Stinky the dog

9. Are you musically talented? Not at all. Doesn't stop me.

10. If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you change? I'd buy real estate in CA

11. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would it be? I'd be Stinky the dog. She has it made in the shade.

12. Ever have a near-death experience? Not to my knowledge.

13. Can you dance? Sure...

14. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now? The Killers - Andy, You're a Star

15. Who did you cut and paste this from? Ian

16. Name someone with the same b-day as you: Um I think Macaulay Culkin or Michael Jackson. Ew. Maybe Both. Double Ew.

17. Have you ever destroyed someone's property? Not until tomorrow.

18. Have you ever been in a fight? No but it would be cool if i was. and if i won.

19. Have you ever sang in front of a big audience? Yes in a choir.

20. What attracts you to the opposite sex? Tall, dark and handsome.

21. What do you usually order from Starbucks? I don't. I don't drink coffee. Or caffeine.

22. Do you have a crush on one of your myspace friends? Not to my knowledge.

23. Ever had a drunken night in Mexico? No. Only sober, sleepless ones.

24. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity? Unfortunately. Alanis Morissette. The only thing more embarassing than being told you look like her is to not know who she was (at the time).
25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows? Sure.
26. Did you have braces? No but I wanted them BAD.
27. Are you comfortable with your height? One more piddly little inch and I'd be golden.
28. Do you consider yourself adventurous? Sure.
29. Do you speak any other languages? Spanish and Japanese. Ginko wa doku desuka?
30. What's your favorite smell? fresh cut grass, jasmine, sea salt & rain. But not together.

This is for Heather

per her request

As you can see there is a theme.

Confession Wednesday

On the local radio here they have Confession Wednesday. I love it!

People call in with their way-out-there confessions and whoever has the deepest darkest dirtiest one gets a prize.

I saw this link on another blog:

http://truewifeconfessions.blogspot.com/

I'm going to see how long it takes Evan to figure out which one is mine.

hehehehehehehehee J/K. I'm not that dark. Yet.

Mean Old Hag

Yesterday I was reading in the library. I purposely went to the back corner of the top floor for ultimate quiet-ness. After about an hour, these two little boys were wandering around that section of stacks with someone. They were doing karate chops and chasing each other around.

Round One: I caught the little one's eye and gave him a dirty look. He appeared unphased.

They wandered away and I thought it was over.
No.
They came back, karate chops and tag games galore.
I caught one of them getting loud.

Round Two (to the older kid): "Hey you, this is a library. You need to be quiet."
He scampers off.

Round Three, 2 min later (to the little one): He comes bounding around the nearest stack, poised for a big karate chop. I busted him in mid-pounce. I say:"Don't do that in here" in my best I-eat-little-boys-for-dinner voice. And insert dirty look.
He scampers off.

ding ding ding! I win!

I suppose I should have picked up my broom and cauldron on the way home from the library. Apparently, I am that lady.

Happy Autumn

Half-hearted apologies in advance for gross over-generalizations of local students.

You know it's autumn when you are regularly cut off by inattentive wealthy out-of-state college kids driving the Porsches/Luxury SUVs/convertibles that mommy and daddy gave them. Go ahead, wave at me when I honk at you. They may be able to provide you with an allowance, fancy cars, paid tuition and designer clothes, but no amount of money can make you a good driver.

Drumroll Please

My bathroom is 99.5% done.

I still need a curtain to cover the world's most hideous window. And after I win the lottery tonight, I'm going to get a new countertop that matches a lil better.

Stinky helped a lot.

Bimbo!

It starts with one Bimbo in the neighborhood and goes rapidly downhill after that.

We saw "The Last Kiss" on sunday. Everyone I've talked to said they left depressed. I thought the movie was pretty good. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I won't really discuss it too much.

The soundtrack was awesome!

As if it isn't enought of a struggle for me to sit still for 1.25 hours in my bacterial physiology class. Between the guy wearing the "Endangered Feces" T-shirt and Stupid Question Guy (and my own self-admitted ADD) I don't know how I make it to the end.

How can Stupid Question Guy understand how DNA denatures but is confused by "renature?" How do you get to a 300 level class without knowing what ATP is?? Sigh.

On a brighter note, fall is here! It was cool out this morning. I'm tracking the fall colors up in the mountains so we can take a weekend trip up to see the leaves.

We had our first guest in the Pink room this last weekend. And I finally finished my bathroom! I'll have pics soon.

Foosball is the Devil!!!

The only thing worse than watching your husband watch his favorite team (Notre Dame) lose to one of their biggest rivals (Michigan) at home is having not one, but TWO Michigan fans heckle him publicly at a baseball game.

That one is for you, Tara.

1/4 century

now i am 25 years old. sounds sorta old. and sorta young. I don't really feel old, or like i thought I would feel in my mid-twenties. Inside, I still feel pretty young. And then I wake up and realize I have a husband, a dog, a house (& mortgage), bills and a job. How did I get so responsible???

Last year was a pretty big year for me. Aside from moving across the country and buying a house, I feel like I learned a lot about myself. I can bake awesome pies. I have a 30 minute attention span. I do not want to go to grad school. It is possible to find a job you like. I like blogging. I am not ashamed to meet people from the internet! I know what side of the political fence I am on for more issues. I am more liberal than I thought I was. I am allergic to a ton of stuff. I'm not very articulate but I don't really care.

There were some things from the past that I was clinging to. I have been waiting for somebody to pay back some money they owe me. I've come to accept that they operate on different moral/ethical values and will probably NOT be having a change of heart. OK.

There were friends I thought I was closer to and discovered that I am not close to at all. When they don't tell you they are having (or already had) a baby, then you aren't that good of friends. Got it.

I thought that I should want to get a PhD and want to balance that type of career and family. I learned that you can't do everything. And that's perfectly okay. I finally decided I don't want to get a PhD, so that is one less worry on my list!

Sounds silly, but I learned how much I loved my pathetic little dog. She had a health scare earlier this year and I'd be so upset if anything happened to her.

It's amazing how things change over the course of a year. I wonder what will happen with 25???

Bitches!

As you can see I now have haloscan comments. Let me know if there is a problem.

Oh and depending on YOUR account and settings (like Christa's) I can't post comments.

Long time no blog

I am still alive. Sorry I've been MIA. As if any of you care!

There has been a lot going on.

1. I turned 25. I had a long, profound post all planned out but due to the loss of internet connectivity on our home computer, those plans never came to fruition.

2. The sewer pipe crapped out (hehehehe I crack myself up! get it, "crap," GET it???)

3. The sewer pipe has been replaced. Yet I still have a big hole in my yard. And my wallet.

4. Heather got her house. A new house. And luckily she has plenty'o'room for me when my house falls apart again, which shouldn't be too far out in the future.

5. We visited some family.

6. We visited our college campus. Which is actually pretty nice now. Fancy new landscaping and library. I almost wrote my name on a brick but I was all out of Sharpies.

And without further eloquence, here are the sewer pictures:

This is "before.

Obviously "during." He didn't get quite all the way around
the first day. The pipe break is "behind" the tree.

A man and a shovel dug through all these roots.

No fancy machinery or sharp tools here!!

And there you have it.
smaller pipes = water main and irrigation lines.
Large black pipe at bottom = offending pipe.

We still have a hole in the front. The tree's days are numbered. Tune in for more information. Eventually.