spooktastic

So, Halloween is coming...kind of.
And I am really happy with it because I have some cute things to put in our apartment that sort of make it cheery and festive. Also, Josh has been catching GINORMOUS spiders and keeping them in a jar where they attack and kill each other. It was pretty awesome...not! It was sitting on our floor for two weeks. I promise our place is clean, we just like to save the spiders we find right? Well, unfortunately for those killer crawlers, they were put to rest in the garbage can...still in the jar so as not to let them escape and come back to what they think is their home (which is really our home).
So, in their remembrance, I am looking forward to a ghoulish Halloween. What does ghoulish mean? It sounds like a festive word. What I am really excited for is a new live Christmas tree that I can love, water, name, and take care of through the upcoming lovely seasons. What a joyous time of year we have to look forward to.

Soon we will be photographing all the fall colors. Well, Josh will be photographing and I will be cheering.

Okay,
Boo!

words per minute

Well well well,
it probably makes your day better to know that I type 94% faster than the average person. Thanks to an online typing test (that i heard about from Real Simple magazine) I tested with a speed of 86 words per minute....
and apparently I save 5 hours a week if I type for 10 hours a week.
Unfortunately, I do not spend my free time typing. However before I made my way to afternoon kindergaten, I would sit on the blue screen of my dad's computer and practice my typing. Not sure I could spell at the time so I'm pretty sure I typed 120 words per minute.
Perhaps I should become a prfessional typest or something. Would anyone hire me to type their thoughts? NO
So, for now, I'll work on perfecting my score and this blog took me approx. one minute to write because there are 86 words.


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batteries not included

fixing your car is like buying a super awesome toy, like tickle me elmo, and it comes without batteries. and when you buy the batteries, you have to buy several packages to get one of each kind. but once you open them, you have to have a backup pair because turning it on sucks out the life of the first set instantly. so, when you put in the second pair, you have to buy a guarantee to make sure they don't break. then you have to go back and get a different tickle me elmo to replace the first one that already died.

that's what it felt like fixing my car over the past 2 weeks. it's only 2 years old...and i take care of my things. lame lame lame

also,
i had a marvelous moment with josh as we were taking a stroll through tanner park (dog park)...i learned to whistle. i never have really tried and suddenly, i made a whistle noise (for 1815th of a second) and we looked at each other alarmed, gave a hive five, and kept walking. seeing new borns doesn't make me want babies, but seeing a puppy makes me want a dog. ...and a house to have a backyard to put the dog in...and money to pay for the food for the dog...and a babysitter for the dog for when we leave town.
so, i guess we'll stay here for now.