Oh, hey there Tuesday

Remember this? I’m pretty sure I have to go get an MMR, Mumps and Tdap shot for work right now. How did I get hired without having this done??? Please kill me. Or sedate me, that would work too.

OR, you could just buy me this rug and we’ll call it even. Yes, you. Now go! I’ll be waiting for it in my dismantled and under construction home.

Speaking of, we officially moved out of the hotel today. Sweet, eh? Not really. Our house is far from being done, but I guess we’re just too ritzy for them insurance folk. We’ll be roughing it for a few weeks. I’ll post some pics of our new flat once we get settled.

Since this was my last morning at the Marriott TownePlace Suits, I decided to go out with a bang. By running through the hall in nothing but a towel. Dang that brother of mine for stealing my razor! Mid-shower I had to run to my mom’s room to see if she had one I could borrow. She did. I love her. During my sprint back to my room, I encountered some fellow tenants. I smiled, and ran. It was awesome.

THEN, as I was applying my make up, I decided I really, really, really need to get my eyebrows done. Like, really. I found my dark brown eyeshadow and brushed a little over my eyebrows to make them visible. Perfection. Oh, wait, was that the dark purple eyeshadow? Awesome. I have purple eyebrows.

Hey, Tuesday, how you doin’?

Friends make the world go round.

I love my friends. I just saw this on Facebook:

I seriously laughed.

 

Current NFS:

Paper Doll, by Rosie Thomas

My article is striking.

For those of you who blog, do you get completely random ridiculous spam comments on the daily? I do, and reading them is generally the highlight of my day. Take the following, for example. Meant for my post entitled Ronald is EVERYWHERE from someone with the name of Victoria Secret Lingerie:

“Just want to say your article is striking. The clarity in your post is simply striking and i can take for granted you are an expert on this subject. Well with your permission allow me to grab your rss feed to keep up to date with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please keep up the accomplished work. Excuse my poor English. English is not my mother tongue.” -Victoria Secret Lingerie

Uh… was Victoria Secret Lingerie reading the same post as the rest of you? The same post I wrote? I think this blog is far from striking and accomplished. It’s just me… random and candid. Don’t get me wrong, though… you can tell me I’m striking any day.

spelling correction

 

 

Just for the record… I think the spelling of the word squirrel is ridiculous.

Two r’s and an el?

It looks like it should have two syllables, right?

I’m just sayin’.

I have a present, just for you:

 

Just enjoy it, alright? And don’t say I never gave you anything.  

 

Okay, okay, if you would like an accompanying story (plus some other hilarious stories) you can read all about it on Aub’s blog. Her life is a riot and in it, I have the honor of playing the supporting  role.

why I love my mother

She sends me pictures like this:

Does your mom do that?

If you need me, I’ll be at In the Venue.

Because In the Venue is hosting the following shows. Who’s with me???

January 29

February 9

March 9

March 18

April 7

Get your tickets now. Because I said so.

 

Current NFS:

Beautiful Words, by The Afters

sweet Thai goodness

I love, love, loved the food in Thailand. I’m not even kidding, it was so good. So good, in fact, I took pictures of it on the regular. One of my favorite treats is below. I wish I could remember what it was called, but I can’t. Maybe one of you will know and you can tell me? Cause that would be awesome. Since I don’t know what this delicious treat is called, I’m going to show you how it’s made.

 

Step one: find one of the cute Thai ladies with a cart fully equip to make your delicious treat. Watch her slap some butter on the skillet, grab some dough and stretch it out over the melted butter. Then watch as she slices up a banana and puts the pieces in the middle of the dough. Once the banana pieces are in place, she will crack an egg over the bananas.

Step two: Continue to watch in awe as she folds the edges of the delicious treat to make a flat burrito type bundle. She will then flip it two or three times to make sure it is cooked thoroughly. After it’s cooked she will remove it from the skillet, and cut it into bite sized pieces. Now comes the key step. She will drizzle sweetened condensed milk all over the top it off with some sugar. She will then give you a toothpick to eat it with. You will giver her some money that is equivalent to .30 cents in America and go home and enjoy something like this:

And that is how you make it!

Oh my goodness I want some right now. Seriously, does anyone know where a girl could find some of this sweet Thai goodness In Utah? I’m willing to pay for any leads…

Oh, and while I’m at it, if anyone knows of a place I can get a breakfast that looks like the breakfast pictured below, let me know.

 

Current NFS:

California English by, Vampire Weekend

Ronald is EVERYWHERE

Even in Bangkok. I love this picture from my trip last August. I came across this picture last night and I had to laugh. I remember this exact moment. We were walking down this crazy tourist street in Bangkok with Europeans all around. I remember being astonished at the amount of white people around. We rounded the corner and dirty little Thai men kept trying to get me to get me to go into dirty little clubs with ladyboy’s and mostly naked women and the like. “Ping pong, ping pong” they kept saying to me. Ping pong? You don’t wanna know. Ignoring did nothing. Finally I started egging one of them on. “Ping pong?!?!?!” I exclaimed back. The little man got very excited and started pointing me to a particular club. “Ping pong! Ping pong!” he kept saying. “No way, ping pong?” I said back. Amber started getting upset with me. “Cambria! Stop that! Don’t talk to them!” She was probably right but I could only ignore them for so long.

Anyway, enough of the immoral, evil stuff and back to my picture. The gesture Ronald and I are doing is a greeting of respect in Thailand. I got very used to putting my hands up to my face, fingers up, and bowing my head when I got a ride from someone, bought something, met someone, squeezed through a doorway with someone coming the other way through, got my food from someone, tipped someone for taking a picture of me on an elephant ride, etc. They do it all the time! I started to love it. To me, it was a very warm, mutually respectful greeting and it doesn’t seem to be dying like the handshake is in America. I completely loved experiencing a wholly new and different culture while in Thailand. I can’t wait for my next trip!

Cambria… Cambria… the spotlights?

The third Wednesday of every month means boring meeting day at work for me. I have two meetings to attend every third Wednesday and I’m generally completely lost as nurse managers and nurse educators talk about medication reconciliation forms, proper bio-hazard waste disposal, Tandem updates and folly catheter protocol. I don’t even know what I just said. This general feeling of lostness 99.9% of the time results in mind wandering which 99.8% of the time results in mind dreaming. If you sneak a peek at the nearest calendar you might notice that today is the dreaded third Wednesday in January which means I just finished the second of my two boring meetings. Today, I was impressing myself with my ability to keep my eyelids up and my head vertical and free from bobs. Maybe the fact that I presented in both meetings played a factor in my conscious state of mind today. First meeting presentation: aced it. Second meeting presentation: aced it. Second meeting second presentation: oh yeah… I was all of the sudden awaken to the sound of my name coming from at least. Awesome.

Maybe I should get some of these stickers: