Monday, May 29, 2006

Apparently I have the gift.....

Of locating sprinklers that is. My mom apperantly "lost" six of her sprinklers in the grass in our yard so she thought I should go out and find them. I gave it a shot and found 5 of them!! (The 6th one still eludes me) So according to my mom I have "the gift," that only our gardner Jose and I possess. After that she decided that the whole family should clean out the garage, not only for organizational purposes, but also to provide space for the extra boxes I will be storing here while I am home for the summer. I love to organize and I didn't mind the cleaning part until my mom called me a baby for being freaked out by a spider. However, did I mention she was holding the spider and chasing me with it!!! Yeah, no, so not cool.

-TINK

Thursday, May 25, 2006

One more reason to hate the laundry room......

Ok so I understand that cell phones are a distration. Therefore they should not be used while driving, operating heavy machinery, etc. But what I do not understand is how it can prevent you from doing landry?! Already I have to deal with the stupid people in the lauindry room who wash or dry their clothes and then just leave their stuff there. Sometimes for days!!! Come on people its laundry its not that hard. But today I have encountered a new level of stupidity in the laundry room.
So here is the scene: I go in there to do a wash, and there are no washers left. I see that there are a few washers that are done so logically people should be coming to pick up their stuff and move it to the dryers. So I wait two minutes and a girl comes in, playing with her cell phone. She walks ALL the way around the table (the slowest way to get to her dryer) then starts to put her stuff into the dryer. So I think "Yay a washer is open!" Um yeah, no. Mid-transit of clothing she gets distracted by her phone walks out of the laundry room and into the computer lab across the hall and proceeds to log onto the computer. So she has a washer and dryer open with half her stuff in each. What!?!? Who does that? Seriously how do you get that distracted? Anyway, the other girl in the laundry room and I give eachother a confused look and she goes into the comp lab and requests that the girl come back and give up her washer. So she moves her stuff while giving me a dirty look! Excuse me but I think you are the one that has the issue since you can't even do laundry without being distracted. By your cell phone! This is something I will definitly not miss by moving home for the summer. Ok rant over...

-Tink

Friday, May 19, 2006

Can we have it all?

While watching my daily dose of Sex and the City, the show made me think of a very interesting point. Since birth modern women are told we can be anything we want, and do anything we want. We can choose to be a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant, circus performer, what ever we want. We can get anything delivered to us at any time and we never have to leave the house. We have it pretty good. So my question is, have we been spoiled by choices? Since we have so many options in life I think we may have created a society for ourselves where women have too many choices, causing us to lose our ability to chose and therefore choosing the default of nothing.
After all, once we choose something that means that yet another option dissolves. I know for myself and I think most women that they have mastered the other parts of their lives such as their career, education, friendships, but not relationships. This can be related to almost anything, but in this case I am centering it on relationships. Personally, I have a really hard time settling down. I guess I am so used to being on my own and independent. I have had the opportunity to be with some great guys, but in every instance I chose to not be with them. Why do I do this? I could choose to be happy, but instead I choose to be alone. I think that there may be something wrong with me.

-Tink

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Tuna from Ecuador????

While I was making my tuna salad sandwhich today I looked at the back of my tuna package and noticed that it said, "Product of Ecuador." Wait-what?!?!? Maybe I'm missing something but I didn't know tuna came from ecuador. I mean it's a tiny country the size of Nevada, in South America with only 1,390 miles of coastline, that doesn't scream TUNA to me. I checked out the CIA World Factbook and it does show that fish is one of Ecuador's agricultural products, but it is second to last on the list. Tapioca, pigs, and sheep beat out tuna on the list. I have nothing against Ecuador its self I just don't know if I am comfortable with my tuna coming from there, it just confuses me.

-Tink