Green Thumbalina

On Sunday it was gorgious and sunny outside, so I ventured ouside of my apartment and took a trip with Rachel *pictured below* to Home Depot.
I felt that I desperately needed some life in my apartment. It's been snowy, icey, and grey outside for about a month. Not being able to be outdoors and being cooped up inside all the time and not being able to see the grass started to become pretty depressing so I got some plants.
They really brought some life into the apartment. I bought a lot of primroses in different colors: orange and red with yellow in the middle, some cacti, and some "folliage" (sp?) as well as simple pots to put them in. Makes a huge difference. And it's even becoming warmer outside. Very nice changes! These plants have also sparked an old interest of mine: Botany (a topic Lady G and I loved studying in high school).

Here are some links to some interesting plant sites: http://plants.usda.gov/
http://www.botany.com/
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/

Life's game.

I just took a test in a class that I know nothing about. But a lot of the questions are similar questions to the quizzes, exercises, and reviews... so if I memorize how to do those problems, I'll know how to give the answers on the test. I'll know how to pull of the class.

So what's the lesson here?

Play it right.

Life is a game in the sense that you have to play it right. It can be a gamble, but if you think smart, you can act smart. And therefore, you can be smart.

Trolls

Sometimes when I'm down or something is getting to me my mom says, "Don't let the trolls get ya down." Well...today was a Munday not a Monday. And the trolls definitely tackled me today.

the cheer factor: http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html James Lileks is insanely hilarious and sharp. And the Official Institute of Cheer is a no fail cure for any frown.

Our Close Up

Recently, I have been talking to a guy (through facebook messages, of course) and he says that he's continuously "caught up in laughter with my lucky insightfulness." He says that I speak with wisdom and confusion, with curiousity. That I complicate things because I try to find the positive and negative in everything.

Perhaps I try to look at life too closely?

Life has both good and bad. When I'm looking at it from every angle, I'm just doing that. I'm just trying to understand the things that come my way. Usually, it makes me appreciate them more. So I think that it's fair to find the positive and negative in everything, as long as you don't let the negative affect you. And I don't, for the most part. I did for a while there, but I'm not now. I'm all smiles.