A Little Life in Everything

One day while driving the congested roads home from work I was sitting at a light watching the traffic build up in front of me.  In my peripheral vision I felt like I could see my neighboring car passenger staring at me.  I was getting a little creeped out; you know you want to look but at the same time you don’t because well it’s creepy!  Finally my inner debate ended and I gave in and  I turned . . . . this was my sight.  A big yellow lab totally relaxed and completely ignoring me.  I was shocked and let out a laugh.  Couldn’t help but snap a photo of this odd event for me to remember.

Yeah my friends this pretty bad photo is of a DeLorean!  Yes the same kind of car from Back to the Future!  I had such a crush on Marty McFly!  And yes I was only a year old when this movie came out but is was a family favorite at my house.  I saw this car at a local high school picking one of the kids up, and it wasn’t until I saw the car door raise to the side that I realized what that car was!!!  I hurried to get my dang camera phone up to get a photo with the door opening but no luck my friends.  It is as good as is gets.  I hurried and texted My Mr. informing him of the sighting.  He texted back, “I bet it had a flux capacitor and everything!”  I of course laughed about that, and texted back, “1.21 gigawatts”  It was a very cool sighting, I have been watching for it again, but no such luck.  I’ll be sure to keep you all up to date if I spot it again!

While shopping with my mom I noticed on a shelf a bunch of these fabric dolls.  Very simple I thought, ok those look like VooDoo dolls which is a random thing to find in a pink walled boutique.  So I picked it up and read the label below, to my surprise;

Well that pretty much explains it!  Guess if you need to get some anger out here’s the tool for you.  Just don’t think of it as anyone in particular.

Do most dogs cross their legs?  I find that this is a common position for the pup, yes even in sleep.  I woke him from his rest when the flash went off.  He is always so proper, crossing his paws every time he sits or sleeps or sunbathes in the window.  It’s kinda a weird and fancy trait our dog has developed.

My Car got back from the shop after repairs from being rear ended, yet again in my brand new car by the way.  Anyway the mechanic described to me what they had to do commenting that they rarely have to replace the whole steel bumper.  I asked him confused “and you had to on mine?”   He told an employee to so get the metal bumper so I could see it.  It’s crazy that someone ran into me hard enough to smash a piece of solid steel like that, I’m truly amazed.  I took some photos to share with My Mr, and all of you.  It didn’t look that bad, the car hid the real damage well under it’s plastic exterior, but underneath the poor car was pretty banged up.  I hate dealing with all this insurance stuff, it’s such a pain, please driving Gods, don’t let this happen again!

The flu is no respecter of persons.  It nailed me.  I’m hot and sweaty, even with my flu shot after a week of poor sleep and stress I guess immune system said enough!  And gave in.  Another one bites the dust.

Most mornings in our neighborhood look a little something like this.  Covered in a layer of fog that probably won’t burn off until noon.  I have to admit, I love it!  Then with all the squirrels running along the back fence it makes me feel like I’m out in the woods, minus my backdoor neighbor.

Also see the random bush in our yard?  This really bothers me, it’s totally random with no real purpose, just there on it’s own.

Anyway, fog cool, right!?

People here are really bad at parking guys, I snapped a few shots to give you and idea of what we are dealing with here!  This is a pretty common sight in the parking lots.  Not to mention, they can park any direction on the streets, with traffic against traffic, it doesn’t matter and they really don’t care.  I think the street-parking thing is more common among the locals who haven’t lived anywhere else.  Yes Washingtonians you would get ticketed in Utah if you parked like that!  Anyway I had to share these oddities, at the taking up of two parking spots is incredibly common, and DRIVES ME NUTS!

So the actual state bird is actually this lovely bird.  But if you were to come to Washington and look around your going to think that the Crow is the state bird.  These things are everywhere!  Here they are they adorning the temple grounds.  They seem to come in packs.  Like the seagull is to Utah the Crow is to Washington, though I’m not sure if these feathered rats, as I have heard them called here, ever leave.  I don’t tend to think they migrate so they are probably a contant fixture of the landscape.

Did you all get to watch General Conference this weekend, I’m filling completely rejuvenated and more motivated to give all that I have to the Gospel and my Savior.  Here’s to another 6 months to see if I can improve!  If you missed any, or just want a reminder you can see if all here.

Last side note, my Halloween house is finally up!  Found some one new idea I had to do this year!  Photos to come soon, if I ever can get a good time to take some!

Here I am having a lung treatment, fancy right?  No I didn’t like it at all. it made me feel light headed and tremble!  This just goes along with my lovely 4 week cold.  It has been such a pain, but I am hopeful that I am on the mend now though.  Here hoping!

Sorry guys for my absence, I have been sick for the past 3 weeks and finally submitted and went to the Dr.  He proceeded to get medication and some terrible cough syrup that poisoned me and made me so nauseated and sick to my stomach.  So I am hoping that my bronchitis is on the mend, but I’m still coughing so who knows!  But sorry for my absence I have been taking some time to really relax and recover.

While on the Road we came to a lake that looked like is swallowed a mouthful of toothpicks.  We slowed down to take in the scenic look of this crazy lake.  Known as Quake Lake, (Earthquake Lake) it was created by an earthquake in the 1950’s, you can read about it here.  I couldn’t believe the contrast of the smooth lake with all these protruding dead trees.  It was a awesome view, we took it in and said goodbye to the mountains and headed out to the open plains.  Such a contrast, I love road trips!