Thought o' the Day

Today I had a thought.  Amazing, I know.  Maybe it was from watching I, Robot yesterday but I heard an ad on the radio for micro-chipping pets, and I thought, why haven't we started doing that with people yet?  I haven't really thought it through, but I can think of a couple of reasons it would be handy.  Schools could automatically take attendance that way, when going to the DMV, airport, or taking nationalized exams etc. it wouldn't be necessary to take 34 different types of identification with you.  Passport counterfeiting would become extinct.  It could cut down on identity theft, and hospitals could use it to identify patients.  You don't know how many times we get patients in the ER that either a) physically cannot give us identification due to being unconscious or in a wreck or near-death b) lie about who they are to avoid law enforcement, bills, other people, etc. or c) are under the influence of drugs/alcohol or have dementia and are not oriented enough to give us ID.  For me it is really a bad feeling when we get people, especially children under 16 who don't have ID on them, in bicycle accidents, hit by cars, etc. etc. and days go by before we can figure out who the person is and who we can notify.  It is a helpless feeling and you feel worse because you know someone is probably looking for this person.  It could help avoid hospitals giving away babies to the wrong parents as well.  Also, if children or people are kidnapped, it would be a good way to verify identities.  I don't think I would mind having my baby micro-chipped.  Anyways, I thought it was just an interesting idea.  I know people will have many good ideas as to why it could be a bad idea and why it shouldn't happen.  Would you want to be microchipped?

Things I Love About Spring

Smell of fresh-cut lawns after a long winter
Flowers/bushes/trees/weeds...all in bloom
Thunderstorms
Swimsuit shopping
Getting out the flip-flops
Crickets at night
New Spring fashion
Spring Break
Dolphins come back


Things I Don't Love About Spring

Pollen covering EVERYTHING
Tourists starting to appear
Toads everywhere during the evening/night
Spring forward = dayling savings...so annoying
Putting away the Uggs
Cabin fever

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Nothing like a humbling experience to knock you on your rear.   Sweet dreams!

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I missed the deadline.  Fired. We are all human, right?  Mistakes are part of learning and growing.

Not a complete fail...

While making good use of my "me" time last night I decided to wax my eyebrows.  Aside from the hot wax spilled down the front of my shirt, the small second degree burn on my thumb from the aforementioned spilled wax, and the chunk of eye lashes I accidentally ripped out, I would say it went surprisingly well.  I can't wait to do it again in 4-6 weeks.

I decided to make these really good slow-cooked pork tacos tonight, I bought all the ingredients and put them in my crock pot this am and I even bough pork tenderloin because I couldn't find pork loin in the right size.  Anywho...I cooked the hell out of it.  Like 2-extra-hours-on-high hell out of it.  I fell asleep.  I think it is salvageable; at least I wont have to worry about trichinosis....

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

This morning started out lovely, sleeping in, the new issue of Glamour and chocolate soy milk in bed.  Lazy days are the best, time for long phone calls with loved ones, naps, movies and just taking it easy.  I swear it takes my brain a few days to wind down from work.  Now I am enjoying a Woody Allen movie and some sweet potato fries.  Then I think I'll take a hot shower and read in bed.  I love my "me" time.

Gina, Frank, Harvey, Paul...

The toads are back.  Last night when I walked out to get in my car I counted seven.  I hate toads, and am scared to death that a) one is going to somehow jump into my car when I open the door and I wont be able to get it out and/or b) I will accidentally step on one and squish/mame it and/or c) the toads will gang up and corner me in a dark alley and slime me to death.  Okay, maybe not that last one, but it could happen.  Who knew the trip to my car could be so terrifying?  When I was little I read somewhere that if you were scared of something, you should give it a name and that would make it less scary.  I tried that with spiders, but no matter how many names I gave them, I was always sure they were going to wait until I was asleep and then lay eggs in my ears and bite me on the face.  I would make Banana get up and kill them for me, and when she started refusing, one of my best ideas ever came to me: I used the swiffer to kill it.  The swiffer has a large flat area at the end and a long pole so you don't have to get close enough to the bug for it to really attack you. Genius, I know.  On the way back into my apartment last night, I decided to name the toads.  I don't know if it helped.  I passed a Jezebel, Theo, Gary, Freddy and Seymour.  Here is to hoping that I do not contribute knowingly to toad casualties in the deep South this spring.