I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’m obsessed with Facebook.com. This isn’t like my old obsession with MySpace.com. No, this is real obsession-the kind that involves updating my status and checking other peoples walls! I’m afraid this is going to interfere with my free time too much. I’m constantly checking to see if old high school classmates sign up and try to friend them. Even if I didn’t like them in high school! It’s crazy. I think I need a 13 step program and a support group.

Is officially done for me. Yay!

I’m so pumped! I planted maybe 10 tomato seeds and I finally have one growing. I don’t have a lot of luck with gardening, so this is very cool. Soon I might have delicious Cherokee Purple tomatoes to eat. Yumm

I visited my sister-in-law and nephew this past weekend and had a fabu time. We did a little shopping and a yummy lunch. My nephew told me more times than necessarily how old his mother is. “Aunt Tara, did you know my mom is 31!” “My mom is older than my dad, did you know that? By YEARS!!” “I told my teacher that my mommy is 31! Are you 31! That’s really old!”. Sis-in-law was not nearly as amused as I was. My brilliant nephew, who knows all about Martin Luther King (the first king of America), also told me that there were dinosaurs until 1980. I was a bit surprised as I vaguely remember 1980. I told him I didn’t see any dinosaurs in 1980 and he told me I probably wasn’t paying any attention. That’s possible, as I’m sure the T-Rex was tiny and easy to miss He couldn’t tell me where the dinosaurs went after 1980. They probably turned 31 and died of old age.

While I was visiting, my brother Homie G called and I got to talk to him. I haven’t talked to him since early January. He told me I was the best letter writer ever! A high complement, let me tell you. I write the kid two to three times a week. If I wasn’t good before I’m good now. His comment got me to thinking about letter writing. It’s a dying art. I love writing letters, thank you notes, and emails. I like blogging too, obviously. I wonder why more people don’t do it more often? Who doesn’t like to get mail, real mail!? By a person that they know…who isn’t asking for money? I’ll probably never understand.

I rented Sweeney Todd last night. It wasn’t quite what I expected. It’s a Tim Burton film, so you know it looked cool. I loved the special effects. I wasn’t all that into the music though. I’m a big fan of musicals so I expected to like it and sadly didn’t. Helena Bonham Carter was a lead character and I wasn’t impressed by her singing. I had a hard time understanding what she sang, her voice seemed really soft to me. It was really bloody! I should have expected that as Sweeney Todd is the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Even though it looked cool, I wouldn’t recommend it.

Random things that came to me while driving:

I’m suspicious of people with “Free Tibet” bumper stickers. Do they know from whom Tibet should be freed? If I gave them a map of the world, could they point out China, let alone Tibet? I’d say more than 50% couldn’t.

I have never been tailgating or seen a college football game. After helping work the spring football scrimmage I know I never will go tailgating or see a college football game.

Why do people record themselves doing criminal acts? Do they know think that a film of them on youtube.com beating up someone won’t get them in trouble? It makes the lies that parents have to come up with to excuse their kid’s behavior more creative.

I think the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas are doing their publicity all wrong. First, they need to object to people calling them a polygamist group. Even if it true, it has a negative connotation. They should asked to be referred by their group’s full name. Second, they should not have the quietest, mousiest woman in the group be the speaker when they are interviewed. Third, they should rehearse the answers to their questions, as they seem to get the same question over and over. “Why do you dress that way?” ” Are you happy?” “Why does your hair look like that?” I’m particularly annoyed by the questions and answers about appearance. They should talk to other conservative religious groups who don’t dress in modern fashions, learn from them. I heard a reporter ask these to one of the women, who promptly said “cause we like it”. How about, “We believe in dressing modestly and to be humble to God” or something like that? That’s believable. Maybe I should offer to be their PR person. My rates are cheap!

I may be the only person sad that jury duty was canceled. I was excited, then kinda nervous, then annoyed that I had to block off two days to go to court. Now I don’t have to go and I wish I could. Weird.

When I learn something new, like a five year old, I have to share it! Don’t ask me about my new audio book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. I have trivia that will make you hurt. I love science.

Funny to me note-many of you know I’m a creative speller (aka bad speller). If you type Boink instead of Bonk in Amazon.com, you will get a list of books with covers you may not want people to see on your office computer

Why is it when something is broken, it usually doesn’t break in front of people? This is a problem I have a lot with my car. It does a weird thing, like the window won’t roll down or radio won’t turn off it the doors are locked. So I take it to the mechanic, where everything works fine! Then the guy looks like I’m crazy and making things up.

Apparently, my personal laptop likes to make me look foolish too. I was at home and went crazy. Blue screen of death, shutting off on its own, etc. I try to fix it myself-nothing. I bring it to work to have the computer people look at it, but I don’t remember to bring the cord. Yesterday, I remembered the cord and the software in case it needs to be reloaded. The computer dude opens it up, and magically it works. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!! Why? Someone tell me why?

Yeah yeah, I can hear some of you now. Buy an Apple. Apple will get my money when starts to make tablets as I am in love with mine

I love reading the Barf Blog. It has the most interesting news articles, mostly disturbing. Sometimes frustrating. Here is another.

The moral of the story? Throwing animals is bad. THROWING ANIMALS IS BAD!! People who throw animals are stupid.

Man-I love learning new things. Here is what I learned from the Testosterone Factor, an episode of National Geographic Channel Explorer. Hold up your hand and look at your ring finger and your index finger. If your ring finger is longer than your index finger, you were exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb. This has correlated with having a high sperm count, assertiveness in women, and athletic ability.

I know that correlation isn’t cause & effect, but still isn’t that nifty information?

Our paper posts restaurant inspections online. I vowed never to read them again a while back, but something drew me it tonight. This may not be a new feature, but I found out that they also post inspections from campus. Let’s just say, I may not be eating there anytime soon.