Things I'll Miss about the South

Admittedly, there aren't many things I'll miss about the South, but there are a few.....

1. Spring. Yes, spring is gorgeous everywhere, but it's especially beautiful here. Right now the trees are blossoming, including the pink dogwoods, and the air smells heavenly. This area may have nothing else going for it, but it sure is pretty in the spring.

2. Two words: sweet tea. If you've never had it, try it. But only if you can get the real thing. Ordering an iced tea and then adding sugar is not the same. If you want an easy recipe for true Southern sweet tea let me know. It takes five minutes to make it and it's delish! I can make this at home no matter where I live, but there is something so right about being able to order this in any restaurant with my meal. I never order soda when we go out to eat, only sweet tea. Yum!

3. The food. Yes, I know it's not good for me. No one should eat green beans with bacon every night of the week. No one needs fried green tomatoes more than once or twice a year. But I'm pretty sure it's going to be damn hard to find either of these things in Granolaland (aka California), never mind the more unfamiliar delicacies like fried chicken livers (don't knock them until you've tried them!). Of course, it's pretty damn hard to find decent seafood, sushi or Mexican food here, which I know are abundant in California. I guess I'll survive.

4. Thunderstorms. San Diego doesn't get those. Well, maybe once a year they get thunder, but it's short-lived and never really amounts to anything. Here we get these about once a week from April to November. This is also why there are real flowers that grow in Memphis and not just freeway daisies, as in San Diego (unless, of course, you spend your entire paycheck paying the water bill for your garden).

And that's it. Four whole things I'm going to miss about the South. Wow. I could probably write for two days about all the things I won't miss, but I'll save that for later. ;)

My New Discovery

Ever since learning the nutrition content of my beloved Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks, I've felt guilty every time I've ordered it. Today I tried something new: Iced Passion Tea. Oh my word is it good!!!! And it's a mere 80 calories. Plus, it's nearly 80 degrees here today. I'm not in the mood for hot coffee. It was also cheap-$1.91 for a grande! :)

Career Women

Two of my favorite women in the whole world are moving up the career ladder. My sister has taken a new job with her company. Something about risk management and analysis and other things that made my eyes glaze over. Woo hoo! And Meircee has a tentative offer to move up in her job to a great position with lots and lots of room for advancement and someone who sounds like a great boss. Congratulations to my favorite working girls! :)

23 Days!

Just 23 more days until baseball season opens! Woo hoo!!!!!! No teams held my interest well last season, but this year I'll start following The Padres since they're going to be my "home team" again. I always keep track of The Twins, of course. Maybe this year I can have a Padres/Twins World Series and go watch the game at the stupidest-named baseball park in the world. You do have to love a ballpark with a view of the ocean, though.

Whenever I watch a ballgame, I think of Mike's Grandma Sandi. She was a baseball junkie, too. But she took her addiction to extremes. Three televisions in the living room, all tuned to a different game, plus the radio broadcast of one game (usually the Twins) in her ear. I bet she doesn't have to settle for just three games at a time anymore. ;)

Too Good to be True!

Aaron told me today that if I buy him a television for his bedroom he'll move out of my house. I asked him where he was going to go live and he told me: "A blue house that you don't live in."

I think I need to go buy a TV. Or three......

I had a dream.......

No, not that kind of dream. I had a really weird dream. Anyone who knows me knows this is nothing new. I have always had strange dreams and that will probably never change.

Last night I had a dream that Mike and I were in bed watching Wonder Woman. Where the hell Wonder Woman came into play I have no idea, although my sister used to have Wonder Woman Underoos when she was little (sorry, Stace, I had to mention that!). Anyway, I fell asleep whilst watching Wonder Woman but was rudely awakened later by this flashing light in my bedroom. In my dream, I investigated and learned that someone had broken into my house and installed a strobe light in my bedroom. Hm......

But THEN! I was awake and telling Mike that I had a strange dream that someone had installed a strobe light in our room. He laughed at me and I went back to sleep......

Only to wake up and find him still awake, watching TV. Turns out, I dreamt that I dreamt someone installed a strobe light in my bedroom. And the strobe light was (drum roll please...) the television, of course. I have a history of dragging little slices of reality into my dreams (just ask Meircee about the time I dreamt that the FBI was on CNN saying they had found Elvis and I was positive that it was real). But, to my knowledge, I've never before dreamed of dreaming.

And why would I dream about Wonder Woman when we were watching Goodfellas when I fell asleep?! Do I subconsciously think Joe Pesci resembles Lynda Carter? Hmmmm.......