Top ten things I am looking forward to this summer!!
1. Spending a couple of months in California with my family. Relaxing, working, and reconnecting!
2. No classes!! I am in desperate need of a break that does not leave the threat of imminent return hanging over my head. I am tired of classes, homework, and papers. Check please?
3. Related to number one...getting out of the Midwest... I need a fresh outlook...hopefully two months will be enough :-)
4. Warm weather. No matter where I am I will definitely be enjoying the sunshine. I have missed it dearly.
5. Learning Spanish. Got Rosetta Stone coming in the mail...excited to try this baby out!
6. Getting a tan. I'm tired of fake baking, give me some REAL vitamin D
7. Big Brother. It is just not summer without my favorite television show ever!!!!!
8. My Birthday!!! Okay, so it's not really a big one but I will officially be able to say, "that happened like 20 years ago" and I will have been alive.
9. Learning something new. It never fails, summer is a way better time to learn things about yourself than during the school year.
10. Roadtrip with whoever is brave enough to drive with me to California! Sure it's a long and boring drive, but it's still a roadtrip!!!!!
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
This state sucks...really
If you have ever taken a road trip across the country and had the unfortunate encounter with Nebraska, you will understand, empathize with, and chuckle at this story.
As my mom was heroically driving across this state that has no hills, endless rows of corn, no animals, one lake with a boat on it, and a tree that everyone that has ever drivien through Nebraska can pin point on a map, one large bridge with a picture of a scary old guy on it in a town that is spelled wrong for the way they want you to pronounce it, and a couple of billboards. (there is also a town called Ogalala which inspired some revisions to the Christmas song Deck the Halls simply because there is nothing else to look at or do). It is the billboards this time that allow Nebraska to have a sense of humor in my book.
These large advertisements across the state were very eye catching as they were the only thing taller than the mechanically watered corn fields. Most of these billboards had missing pieces and only made me wonder if the farmer's still got paid the same amount to have a billboard on their property if only half of it was still up. One billboard, however, raised eyebrows and allowed chuckles, also perhaps may put Nebraska back on the map so to speak.
Somewhere after Kearny (which is about halfway through Nebraska and the last memorable town before you find out you are in a new time zone and thanking whatever higher power you worship that the next state is just ahead), there was a billboard advertiseing a casino who's name I cannot remember nor its location, nor did I see it anywhere near the interstate. I do remember, however, what the Casino's claim to fame was. Where I assume this casino wanted to advertise LOOSE PENNY SLOTS, each letter taking up one frame of the billboard, the top half of probably the most important letter in that statement was missing. Whatever casino paid for this advertisement would now have any interested interstate traveler requesting their LOOSE PENNY SLuTS.
I should have taken a picture, really, it was fantastic. But Nebraska is too boring a state to want to spend the extra two minutes it would take to pull over, get out, take the picture, and get back on the road, to actually do it.
As my mom was heroically driving across this state that has no hills, endless rows of corn, no animals, one lake with a boat on it, and a tree that everyone that has ever drivien through Nebraska can pin point on a map, one large bridge with a picture of a scary old guy on it in a town that is spelled wrong for the way they want you to pronounce it, and a couple of billboards. (there is also a town called Ogalala which inspired some revisions to the Christmas song Deck the Halls simply because there is nothing else to look at or do). It is the billboards this time that allow Nebraska to have a sense of humor in my book.
These large advertisements across the state were very eye catching as they were the only thing taller than the mechanically watered corn fields. Most of these billboards had missing pieces and only made me wonder if the farmer's still got paid the same amount to have a billboard on their property if only half of it was still up. One billboard, however, raised eyebrows and allowed chuckles, also perhaps may put Nebraska back on the map so to speak.
Somewhere after Kearny (which is about halfway through Nebraska and the last memorable town before you find out you are in a new time zone and thanking whatever higher power you worship that the next state is just ahead), there was a billboard advertiseing a casino who's name I cannot remember nor its location, nor did I see it anywhere near the interstate. I do remember, however, what the Casino's claim to fame was. Where I assume this casino wanted to advertise LOOSE PENNY SLOTS, each letter taking up one frame of the billboard, the top half of probably the most important letter in that statement was missing. Whatever casino paid for this advertisement would now have any interested interstate traveler requesting their LOOSE PENNY SLuTS.
I should have taken a picture, really, it was fantastic. But Nebraska is too boring a state to want to spend the extra two minutes it would take to pull over, get out, take the picture, and get back on the road, to actually do it.
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