They've Won the Battle...

But not the war...

I've posted two prior blogs about battling the bugs. In both cases I came out on top. In this case, they may have gotten one over on me.

SO, I was in India last month and constantly on the lookout for huge hairy spiders the size of my hand. I like to know where my enemies are at. So one night I see my uncle's eyes get wide and he jerked the door to the outside open. I immediately sensed something was off. He quickly left and came dashing back in with some aerosal can of something unidentifiable to me (they don't do RAID in india). I was like, what is going on here?! So I got up and looked behind the door and there it was - a ginormous, fat, hairy spider climbing up the wall. He had opened the door so I wouldn't see it because he knows very well my fear of these 8 legged creatures. My eyes got wide and I immediately backed away to the chair I was sitting on and stood there, ready to jump on it if anything went wrong when he sprayed it. He opens the can, and starts spraying, and the spider immediately stops. He stops spraying and the spider continues walking. "It's not dead, keep spraying!!" I demanded! My dad said not to worry that it would just take it a few minutes to die. I was like, few minutes?! What kind of insect takes a few minutes to die when you spray it with insect killer for 10 seconds?!

So while I am waiting for it to die and keeping a close eye on its exact longitudal coordinates, I decide I should take a picture of it so I can prove to everyone who thinks I am crazy that there really are spiders this big in the houses. So I get my camera out, take a step forward and start zooming in to take the picture. Now here I am, about 5 feet away from this tarantula, arms extended, zooming in, when all of a sudden a flying grasshopper the size of 2 fingers comes FLYING in and hits me right smack in the middle of my neck. In my hands were my $200 canon digital elph and my purse and I THREW everything in the air across the room and JUMPMED on my dad screaming "get it off, get it off!!!" The entire house full of 10 people come rushing in to see what the heck is the commotion and everybody thinks that the spoiled american girl is screaming about a stupid grasshopper on the floor AND now I have a small dent in my camera. AND now the tarantula has fallen dead in a crumpled heap so there is no point in taking a picture. They may have won this battle... but I am still 2 for 1 in this war!

Dumb and Dummer

Does anyone else feel like they were at their smartest point in life when they were 22? 18? Perhaps even 17? I took my SAT's my Junior and Senior year and surprisingly scored about 60 points higher my Junior year. Did taking AP Calculus my Senior year make me an idiot? Probably not... however I do know that I was definitely at my smartest point in life sometime in college. I used to be able to whip out code faster than most of the people in my classes or at work. I still to this day do not understand why it can take estimates of 80 hours of work to add a link to a webpage. In 80 hours I think I programmed half the transfer funds system shortly after college graduation. Those were the days... I would be lucky if I could figure out how to write the Hello World program in a day now. I recently found an old high school essay and had to pull out a dictionary to figure out what I was saying 10 years ago. Who knew I had such an advanced vocabulary at one point in time. It definitely makes me feel stupid when I am on a conference call and I know there is an SAT word that would be perfect to use. Unfortunately my brain does not want to fetch it and I end up settling for a word like "thing" ... or something. Right... so in an attempt to make myself at least feel semi-smart again, I am going to start reading more books. First on the list is The Alchemist! More to come on this...

The Things that I Love! <3

I love my family, I love my friends, and I love God! I love my job at the Bank, I love real estate, playing poker, animals, being silly and laughing hysterically, being stupid and random outbursts of song and noise! I love being indian and I love indian food. I love my house, I love Charlotte, I love North Carolina. I also love Los Angeles and Vegas baby! I love learning, taking classes, continuing education for Real Estate, the prospect of flipping a house, and do-it-yourself projects! I love meeting new people and going on trips with friends. I love using coupons and scoring a 'deal' :) I love investing. I love Friends, General Hospital, American Idol, and most reality tv, lol. I love Sara Lee cheesecake ice cream, cookie dough, and desert! I love the ice cream man! I love helping people, giving, and making a difference.

People should always take a moment to stop and think about the things in their life that they love. The world would be a much more positive place!