Take out the toothpick Honey, it's time for the wedding photos!

As I was driving to the post office today, I could not help but notice that all roads into town were blocked with detour signs everywhere.

I found a sign explaining what my little one stop light town was celebrating today, a holiday that I had not even known was coming.

Apparently, today is the day we celebrate our Redneck Heritage!!  Yee Haw Y'all!!!  Time to smack the dog and spit the fire!

So in honor of this special day, I have decided to celebrate everything Redneck. 

I realize you might be asking, "But Ninja, how do I know if I am a Redneck or not?" 

Friend, I am glad you asked. Here are some sure fire ways to know.

You might be a redneck if:

You think the last words to
The Star Spangled Banner are
"Gentlemen, start your engines."

You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

You've ever lost a loved one to kudzu.

Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

 Your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.

You've ever used a toilet seat as a picture frame.

Your home has more miles on it than your car.

There are more than five McDonald's bags currently on the floorboard of your car.

 The Home Shopping Channel operator recognizes your voice.

 There has ever been crime-scene tape on your front door.

You burn your front yard rather than mow it.

You consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.

Fewer than half of your cars run.

And how do you recognize an upper class redneck? Here's how:

Thanks for stopping by everyone and have a safe and happy Redneck Heritage Day!!

How to Lose 63 Pounds in One Week

I have noticed that my trip has become a lot more real to me now that I have actually purchased my tickets.  And on a totally related note, I have also begun a new diet this week.  I call it the "I can't afford to eat till Friday because I spent way too much money on a plane ticket" diet! : p

It's amazing where we can find our motivation for weight loss, and here is the perfect example...it is the story of a man who found his perfect motivation and lost 63 pounds in one week:

A man calls a company and orders their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program.
The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign around her neck.
She introduces herself as a representative of the weight loss company.
The sign reads, "If you can catch me, you can have me."
Without a second thought, he takes off after her.
A few miles later huffing and puffing, he finally gives up.
The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens. On the fifth day, he weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 10 lbs. as promised.
He calls the company and orders their 5-day/20 pound program.
The next day there's a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning and beautiful woman he has ever seen in his life.
She is wearing nothing but Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, "If you catch me you can have me."
Well, he's out the door after her like a shot.
This girl is in excellent shape and he does his best, but no such luck.
So for the next four days, the same routine happens with him gradually getting in better and better shape.
Much to his delight on the fifth day when he weighs himself, he discovers that he has lost another 20 lbs. as promised.
He decides to go for broke and calls the company to order the 7-day/50 pound program.
"Are you sure?" asks the representative on the phone. "This is our most rigorous program."
"Absolutely," he replies, "I haven't felt this good in years."
The next day there's a knock at the door; and when he opens it he finds a huge muscular guy standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that reads, "If I catch you, you are mine!!!"
                   
He lost 63 pounds that week.

Penguin invasion!

I love that I am getting postcards in the mail almost every day now!  This week has been busy! I have received ones from Belarus, Canada, Germany,  Russia and Finland. 
It can really make a dark day feel so much brighter to remember how big the world really is :)

sad news tonight

 I had decided earlier not to make any more entries in my blog until I got my computer back, as typing on my phone is tedious work. Then I received a phone call from my best friend of 30 years telling me that her father has just passed away.   I am sitting here at work and am not even able to go to her to give comfort and it is simply breaking my heart.  Thus the entry you are reading as a means to express my sadness and loneliness here and to provide me an outlet to focus on as a distraction for a few minutes.

I would ask of you who read this to please whisper a special prayer for her when you think of it.

I find that I am very thankful that I have this blog, I thought I would find the writing of it to be so theraputic and peaceful as I do right now.

I've been Hijacked and am being held for ransom :(

This is just a quick post to let you guys know that I will not be able to do a regular post for a few more days.  My poor little laptop has been hijacked by a nasty virus that even I was unable to tackle (I am borrowing one to type this entry) and it will be several days before my friend can have it back running again.  I am shocked at how panicked I became after this happened and realize that I have become quite addicted to this cyberverse, so I am looking at this as a good thing!

Well, it is not how I would have chosen to do it, but perhaps this is a blessing in disguise to help me get over my addiction to modern technology.  I hear there is this really trendy new social network where all the cool people hang out, so I might go and check it out. I believe it is called outside or outdoors or something like that.  Apparently they even have something called sunshine and happiness there, so hopefully it won't a total bore. ; p   

So, being the helpful and annoying positive person that I am, it occurred to me that  I might not be the only bored person in search of some mischief to manage and so here are some suggestions to keep you occupied and entertained:

1. Use your secret mind power (Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes)
Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.

2. Pretend you're a robot
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Walk down the street with mechanical movements, adding 'zzzzzt' sounds with each motion. Pretending to have a motor broken in, say, your left hand can add at least 30 seconds more entertainment.

3. Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck (Amusement Potential: 5-15 minutes)
Always a good gag. For an even bigger reaction out of the person, act like you're not sorry at all for what they think you did. Comment instead on how big that sneeze was or about how there was a lot of mucus in that one.

4.  Compile a list of 10 random things about yourself. Share them with us in the comments here!

And, my favorite idea that I myself will probably be engaging in till I get my computer back in a few days:

Have a crazy photo scavenger hunt with your friends! You must send a picture text of yourself finding or doing the items and whoever completes the list first or has the most by a certain time frame is the winner!
Here are some ideas for your hunt:
1.  Kissing a bald man's head
2.  Wearing a prom dress in public
3.  Serenading a stranger
4.  Standing next to a statue and imitating it (or pretending to make out with it, that would also be acceptable)
5.  Get a piggy back ride from a stranger
6.  Get a toy ring from a quarter machine and ask a stranger to marry you

That is just a sampling of ideas to push you out of your comfort zone (have you picked it up yet that I am a big advocate for pushing yourself out of that comfort nest?) and it sure to bring about some laughs and some stories for the grandkids down the line! 

Ok, that is it for me few probably a few days unless something changes.  Feel free to email me or leave a comment if you decide to give any of these tips a try!

Hope to talk to you all again real soon!

I'll be right back???

Dear readers,  I was amazed this week to find that life exists somewhere besides my computer screen.  I have been so busy being fascinated by this fact and testing its limits that I have been remiss in the last few days with my writings here in the bloggerverse (What, no?!  Of course I didn't just make that word up, it's a real word!)
Therefore, tonight I hope to make amends to you all and as I sit here typing with some awesome (yet highly annoying at the moment as they are looking over my shoulder and reading this as I type) friends.  In honor of our crazy movie marathon, here are some life facts that I have learned from watching movies...

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts-your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris

In the movies, you are likely to survive any battle in any war...unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

Always be nice and considerate to the weird, deformed recluse who lives down the street from you. When a gang of teenagers burn down his house with him in it, in a prank gone wrong of course, you won’t be on his list. When he inevitably survives the fire and plots revenge, he’ll remember YOU were the one who made him baked goods and picked him up from the Denny’s at 3am when his car wouldn’t start. You’ll be in good with him.

When moving into a new house and evil spirits tell you to get out, just pack up your stuff and go. Don’t try to find out the history of the house or hold a séance to ask the evil spirits why they are there and a bunch of other stupid and fruitless questions. This is only going to get you involved in righting their wrongful death or you will find out your fourth cousin on your mom’s side killed the loved ones of the evil spirits and now its game on for revenge! All you really need to know is that they can make your life miserable and they want you to go. Just move, quickly. 

And if someone tells you to say the name of a dead person 3 times while looking in a mirror, I beg of you, please turn off the bathroom lights, go to the kitchen, make a sandwich, and turn on Family Guy. No one has ever been murdered while eating a sandwich and watching Family Guy.

And since our next movie is starting and I need to wrap this up I will add for your viewing pleasure some more fun facts you can learn from watching movies:

I hope that you were able to find some wisdom within these words to enrich your life, or prolong it if you should find yourself in a horror movie!

A Yankee in Queen Elizabeth's Court

I am sitting here at my computer and in a state of sheer anxiety! I am set to purchase my airline ticket today, which is the "no going back now" step to the trip.  My anxiety is stemming, not from whether to go or not, but rather WHEN to go!  Now that my trip schedule is a bit freer, I cannot decide if I should shoot for getting into London a day earlier and starting the trip off with a bang by seeing some of the major sites and taking the tours or if I should keep to my original intent and stay the last weekend of the trip there and go out with a bang. 

Decisions, decisions! 

Right now, I am leaning towards starting it with a bang and getting back home a day earlier to rest before the real world sets back in. Oh heck! Why not start and end with a bang and stay one day in town at the beginning and one at the end?!  Boom! Problem solved! :))

I can't believe that I am finally going to buy that ticket and book my hotel! It's so surreal and at the same time the realest moment I've experienced in a while! It feels really great to be so close to making a dream come true and knowing that with a click of a button and a printer, I will be holding a piece of paper that is proof that I have finally learned how to seize my life a little harder. In a matter of minutes, I will go from wishing to living. How cool is that?!

Thank you to all of the awesome people in my life, both new friends and old friends, who have helped me to move forward. And a special thanks to some new friends in the UK who have been unbelievably helpful and supportive in assisting me with not going into a total meltdown in the last couple of weeks, I am grateful beyond words.

 

 

I'm not sure if I will count this as today's project, though having the courage to buy a thousand dollar ticket to runaway by myself to a land far far away does seem to qualify as doing something that I don't do every day...but there is so much more fun planned for today (and tonight especially, woo hoo!!) that I am sure I can find something a bit more interesting to talk about later. 

 

Thank you guys again for stopping by and hope everyone is having an awesome Friday!! Now, if you will pardon me, my fingers have some very important buttons to push! 

Once More...with Feeling!

Today was day one of my one week challenge to "Do One Thing Every Day".  Today, I felt very uncomfortable and frightened several small children, so all in all, I would certainly call it a success! 

I don't know how you like to listen to music in your car, but when I am driving, I don't just hear the music, I feel the music!  We're talking a full on performance here folks, head banging and raising the roof, I rock that little Ford Taurus!  Until I come to a traffic light or another car pulls up beside of me, then all of a sudden I go all Masterpiece Theatre calm.

Well, not today Peeps!  Today I made it a personal challenge that whenever I came up to another car, I was gonna drop it like it's hot (not just lukewarm either, full on hot potato!).  And that is exactly what I did. Whenever a car pulled up beside of me, I went into overdrive and started jamming and then would smile big and point at the other driver. When a frightened mother was not gripping the staring wheel and pointedly looking straight forward praying for the light to turn green, then this is generally the look that I received all day...

At various points throughout the day, I found throwing my head around to "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi and "ABC" by the Jackson 5.  There were several really great and fun songs  but no one wanted to play with me. That is until AC/DC started to belt out their hit "Back in Black" and I look over to see a 20 something guy staring back with his mouth hanging open.  His eyes grew to the size of dinner plates when I finished shaking my shoulders, smiled and pointed over at him, then the most wonderful and glorious thing happened!! 

He actually laughed and started banging his head and rocking out too!  That light changed to green much too soon and I felt the warmest and happiest feeling of connecting with another human being as I watched his taillights disappear into the distance. 

Thank you AC/DC for restoring my faith in the awesomeness of complete and random strangers. 
And that was it for day one, not too bad of start to forcing myself to daily do something out of the ordinary.  Stay posted for tomorrow's adventure and feel free to share any adventures you yourself have undertaken recently.

And remember...Be Excellent to One Another!!

Benny Hinn visits the Walmart?!

Some days I have to stand in awe of that fact that I not escorted out of places by security more often than I am (yes, usually it is Walmart and usually it is very much on purpose. Perhaps those stories in a later entry?) and tonight was one of those nights. 
I was stopping in the store on my way to work to pick up some items that I will need on my trip and wanted to make sure that I have them on hand when I begin the grueling packing process.
While walking down the middle of the store, a group of teens came shooting up the aisle!  They were all riding on/hanging off of one of those motorized wheelchair carts. Since I do try my best not to pass judgment on people since you never know what silent disease or pain someone might be dealing with I will here pretend that I took it to heart that these kids were just the heartbreaking victims of some terrible uncurable disease, perhaps the ailment called immaturity?, and they were being discriminated against by the superstore who refused to carry enough motorized chairs for them all.  Touching, isn't it. Oh, but you just wait!  Our story has a happy ending!
It was here, in the middle of Walmart, in front of the seasonal sales, that I became witness to what has to be the greatest miracle ever seen in the aisle of capitalist America!  It was here that 5 teenage kids that the world had given up on, walked again for the first time! If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I might not have believed it either.  These 5 kids put the chair in park, in the middle of the walking area but we will forgive them this since they were obviously overtaken in their joy, and stood up and walked! It was as if the great (and false, in my personal opinion, though you are entitled to disagree as you wish) healer Benny Hinn had descended upon the Walmart and started beating bodies down with his particular brand of healing. (Do the people that he heals ever need additional healing from his beating the evil out of them??)
So overwhelmed by the moment, I didn't even realize I was speaking until the words were already out! I had begun to shout "It's a miracle! Praise Jesus, they've all been healed! They can all walk again!"  You should have seen their faces, they were as amazed at the mass healing as I was!
Of course, as soon as I heard my own words being loudly proclaimed, I dashed down a side aisle and was overtaken by a fit of righteous giggles which lasted much to long and put me in a great mood for the rest of the evening.
So in honor of the great and fantastic things witnessed this evening and the possible, though unseen, involvement of the greatest mass healer of our generation, I have decided to post my favorite video of Hinn healing his people (set to a very catchy tune that strangely fits well).  Just a note, if you are easily offended or have no sense of humor, first of all, what the heck are you doing here on my blog???  Second of all, you might not wish to hit play below.  You will probably have that annoying 20 second ad in which you can make your mind of for sure.  The rest of you who are as twisted and depraved as myself, first of all, welcome and second of all, ENJOY!!
http://youtu.be/5lvU-DislkI

One Thing Every Day,,,

As my trip to the UK nears, I realize that I have once again become comfortable in my life and perhaps even slightly complacent. Though comfortable and cozy, this is not a place you ever want to find yourself in life!  Though this suspicion had been creeping in on my subconscious for a while, it was still a moment of self-realization when I finally decided it was time to once again follow the timeless advice of some of the most amazing and inspiring people I will never meet:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

"Do one thing every day that scares you" - Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

With these things in mind, I have decided to make myself a challenge to do one thing every day! 

Whether it be one thing that scares me or one thing that makes me happy, it just has to be one moment that I make a conscious decision to engage in that I would otherwise not have taken the time to undertake.

 

There was a time, not too many months ago, where this was just simply the way I lived my life and I am doing this to make sure that by the time my trip comes around, mindfully living life to its fullest will have once again become just instinct rather than something that takes conscious effort. 

 

To keep myself true to my intentions, I will be posting here what it was that I chose for that day and how it turned out.  I can't promise it will always be entertaining, but there is a better than good chance that I will be making a complete idiot of myself (on purpose at that!) at some point, so maybe it will be worth the read! 

 

A ship may be safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships were made for...time for me to sail away from my comfort zone! Bon Voyage my friends!

 

 

A "Little" Birthday Naughtiness

For my birthday last weekend, I received what is probably the weirdest gift that I have ever gotten (trust me, if you knew my friends then you would know that is saying something!) I thought it was bizarre enough of a gift that I wanted to share it here with all of you.
 My passion for the written word is no secret and I enjoy sending and receiving postcards every week. With that knowledge, you might thing that a book of postcards would be a perfect gift, and if anything about my world were normal, you would probably be correct!
 But, alas, normal does not fit into my world view and instead this is what I opened on my birthday...

 

 

WTH??? 

Seeing as it was a male who gave these to me, I can understand how he would find it incredibly humorous.  Personally, I found it rather disconcerting and have no idea to whom I am supposed to mail these cards!  (Hey, if you have a friend you want me to send one too just to see their reaction, let me know! I love a good shock as much as the next girl!) 

 

Here are a few of the only decent cards from inside the pack that I can post here.  I doubt any kids will see this blog, but I don't really want to traumatize any adults either.  And you might be wondering if I personally found any humor in the gift?  Let's just say that I started taking notes from a couple of the cards after I began flipping through.

 

And as a strange twist, though the name and addresses on the Postcrossing website are absolutely random, today fate was kind.  I was assigned a man in German who apparently asks people to mail cards like these whenever his name comes up...guess there is a card for everyone out there!

 

Here you go, enjoy these tamer shots...

 

 

No Aunt Rita, Twerking is not a city in China

Anyone who knows me at all would probably tell you that one of the most notable and quirky things about me is my insane habit of “talking in bumper sticker” sometimes!  That simply means that I have the bad habit of spouting out silly facts in the form of one liners when my ADD kicks in and my brain starts doing flips on the inside. In case you are wondering what it feels like to live inside my head when the condition is in full swing, imagine your brain as Windows Explorer with about 50 tabs open at once and flipping back and forth between all of them.  If you can imagine that, then you can understand what it is like to be me. Not that I am complaining, I tend to enjoy every minute of the adventure!

 

One of the ways that this condition will manifest is that I have an absolute obsession with random facts and useless knowledge. Love them, can't get enough of them!! In fact, one of my dream jobs would be to get paid to dig up these little pieces of intelligence and get paid for it, kind of like a researcher for John Test or Woman's World magazine.

Here are just some random fun facts someone posted on another site, just to get you started. Continue to read below for one that you might actually be happy you learned!

 

Well, I don't see that happening any time soon, so instead I will use my little blog here to post some random (and occasionally useful to your life) facts to entertain myself and kill some time.

 

Let's start with this one that one of the guys in my Senior year of high school taught me that I have never forgotten...

 

You know after you finish pumping your gas and pull the nozzle out of the tank and there is always that little bit of gas left over that annoyingly tends to dribble on your shoe or on the cap so that you get that smell that seems to linger for hours? Don't you wish there was a way to stop that from happening and to get every drop of that really expensive liquid dinosaur juice in your tank and not your shoe? Well, there's an App for that! No, that's a lie, there is no app.  But there is a trick to almost completely eliminate any post fill tears.  After the pump has stopped but before you remove your nozzle, take the handle and rotate it completely in a 180 degree turn upside down for about 2 seconds, then turn it back to normal and remove from tank. Abracadabra!!  No more wasted gas and money!  Seriously, give it a try!  I have been doing this since I started driving and with very few exceptions, it always works! 

 

Once you try this and start using it every time you fill up, feel free to mail me a check for the extra money you are saving by keeping those last 10 drops where they belong! (hey, can't blame a girl for trying!)

 

Feel free to share this information and amaze your friends and impress your coworkers!  Or at least fill that awkward silence after your Aunt Rita asks you very loudly in a restaurant if Twerking is some sort of Asian dish.   

And just in case you don't own a car or have one that runs off of used deep fryer grease (real things, look it up!) then here is a random piece of knowledge that can save you a lot of embarrassment next time you are shopping for shirts:  Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, while women's shirts have the buttons on the left. 

That's all for now, thanks for reading!

 

Saturday was certainly an unexpectedly fun day.  Having worked the night shift on Friday night and not finding time to sleep the next morning, I had to virtually force myself to get out of the house and just do something!  I am so glad that I did too.

I got to spend the first part of my day with family at my niece's birthday party. She had an ice-cream cake, cake covered in ice cream...need I say more!

From there I ventured out to the Morganton Festical where I was excited to run into several friends that I had not seen in a while and several that I had recently seen but am always happy to be around! I have been blessed to have met some amazing people in the last several years :) 

Since there is such an ecclectic gathering of vendors at these festivals, I figured it was time to start marking some more things off my annual bucket list again.  First up, have my tarot read by the local psychic whom I am not sure even knew what the cards meant since her reading was so vague.  It was more of a reaction to whatever the clients were nodding at or smiling/shaking their heads about.  One thing she sure was talented in though was the whole, “I feel like there is much more going on here and would like for you to stop by my shop so that we can get a better and clearer understanding at what is at work here” angle.  Seriously, she used almost those exact words with every client she had while I was close enough to hear. 

 

 

Next up, time to mark off one that I had not actually expected to find the opportunity to try...riding a mechanical bull!!  Boy Howdy was that fun!!  I managed to stay on about 10 seconds before getting tossed onto the bouncy mat below, which in itself was a fun little flight!  I had to be careful about holding on and how I landed though since just last week I had seemed to bring about a hairline fracture of my little pinky finger from trying to mark off learning to spin on skates from the bucket list! 

The afternoon was full of so many more fun and exciting things, but the best way to top it all off?  Heading out to get my 200^th find at a nearby church (which I posted about earlier)! 

 

 

All in all, it was a brilliant day full of lots of happy memories to look back upon. Can't wait till next weekend! (hint...it's my birthday and I have extended a challenge to who can embarrass me the most!) I'll be sure to post how it goes!

NinjaChipmunk turns 200!

I am so excited!  Today, I, NinjaChipmunk, finally turned 200!! 

 

 

 

 After a visit with my son to the Morganton Festival, I took a quick trip over to the cache "FBC" and was able to make the find in just seconds, making it a very memorable day! Marking "riding a mechanical bull" off my yearly bucket list helped make the day even more memorable, but more about that in a later post I think.

Of course, anyone who knows about Geocaching, knows that what I am speaking of is my 200^th find (well, 200 that I remembered to log at least). So in honor of this momentous to myself occasion, I have decided to do a post on memories of caches past.

 

I think my all time favorite container would have to “Frog Elvis”. 

 

 

 

This is the coolest, creepiest container that I have every found!  Imagine wading through piles of Autumn leaves to find a pair of big glassy eyes staring back at you from under the brush! And I adore his little white Elvis jumpsuit.  Bravo and kudos go out to the CO for such a creative one.  He did, in fact, inspire me to make my own little bug eyed happy hide, “Behold the Chipmunk”.  I loved it so much that I think the next time I find the time to do a run of cache hides, I will probably make the theme of creepy woodland creatures!

Another fun container I discovered in Charlotte was disguised as a full bird feeder, but once you opened the top, you discovered that the seed was actually just glued to the glass and the feeder was hollow, except of course for the cache hidden inside.  And yes, naturally I copied this one as well and hid “For the Birds” at my local park.  Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery (or was that stalking, I can never remember).

 

 

Now, let me introduce you to a special friend of mine...first cache Piglet.  This is the little guy that started it all!  He was my very first piece of swag from my very first cache.  One look at his handsome little face and I knew my life would never be the same, and on that day with cache number 1, a NinjaChipmunk was born.

 

A Tree Grows in China

Earlier this year I joined a site called Postcrossing.com and today I received the most beautiful and random post card of a tree that grows in China.  Seriously, the picture on the front of the card is gorgeous! I have never in my life had a desire to visit Asia before, and this simply postcard might have single-handedly changed my entire opinion on travel to the far East.
Here is a photo of the front of the card for your viewing pleasure...

 

I receive a new card at least once a month I would say and I am never disappointed! If is such a delight to find something so warm and friendly in your mail instead of just the usual bills.  If you have never thought to try it, I cannot recommend it enough!  Broaden your horizons and open yourself up to the what the world wants to say to you, you won't be disappointed I bet!

 

Here are some more postcards that I have recently received from various places around the globe, see if you can guess where! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 

I Don't Like Candy Corn

In just under two months I will be embarking on the trip of my tiny town dreams and I realized that after it is all over, all that will remain are memories and regrets that I had not done something to record my thoughts and rants and struggles to make it a reality. 
So I chose to have a Marty McFly moment and allow my future self to tell my present self to remedy this problem before it happens by starting (and hopefully maintaining) this blog to have something look back at when it is all over and remember how foolishly optimistic I had been to believe that anything ever goes the way I plan.  And if, somehow, you are also reading this, then I welcome you along for the journey.
In honor of my first entry, since I still have no cool power lacing Nike shoes like Marty had in the movie and since my trip will be happening over the Halloween Holiday...I offer you these kick butt Candy Corn socks that I will wearing to celebrate on the trip. 
Also, you should know before you send me two cases of candy corn to show me how much you love my blog (or, more likely, to please for the love of all that is good in the world STOP WRITING NOW!) that I cannot stand the taste of these sugary devil horns, I just like the colors!
If you have made it this far, my candy corn feet and I thank you...