most embarrassing moment of my life

I only share this because 1. it was hilarious and 2. I hope all of you will share your most embarrassing moments at some point as well. So there I was just cruisin into the parking lot by the wilk on my scooter when my phone starts ringing. I decided I would stop at the scooter parking lot entrance to answer it. I flipped open my phone and told Rick to hold on for a minute while I took my helmet off. I realized that was too challenging with only one hand so I just shoved the phone against my ear with the helmet on.
As I was talking I decided I could slowly drive my scooter towards a parking spot with my left hand (even though the gas is on the right side of the handle bars) while still holding onto my phone with my right hand. But then I started going a little too fast while heading straight at someone's nice huge motorcycle probably owned by someone that could kill me. So instead of having an accident with a parked motorcycle (brakes weren't an option either, that was too tricky to reach with my left hand) I turned to the left, but of course all of this was incredibly awkward and I was still trying to talk on the phone and balance the masonite board and watercolor paper I had by my feet. So I fell over. Not gracefully either. I was laughing and feeling stupid and then felt even stupider when I realized people had seen me because everyone was frantically asking me, are you alright? are you alright? Humiliating. So the moral of this story is: don't talk on the phone while trying to drive a scooter with your left hand.

running with toothpaste

On Saturday I did the Rex Lee Run, my first race ever. I had a great time. I was a little late, that was funny, both for me and the people watching me hear the gun go off while I was still running to the starting line a couple blocks away. Another funny part was these little bags they gave us at the end, mostly flyers, and then a tube of toothpaste. All the writing was in Chinese. I was a little skeptical to use it at first because for all I knew on the back it said is only to be used on dogs or something. But I tried it out anyways. Not bad. Kind of a minty bark taste. Fresh breath in general though. So if anyone is debating doing the Rex Lee Run next year, keep in mind it is good clean fun, you get the t-shirt of course and interesting toothpaste. and remember to be on time, it' s less embarrassing that way.

cooking 101

I will admit that cooking isn't one of my greatest talents. I'm not horrible, I think I can make quite a bit of decent food. Occasionally though, I just don't pay attention to what I'm doing or my non-measuring tactic doesn't work out. Sometimes I accidentally grab the poppyseed container instead of the pepper to throw onto some fried eggs. That's not really a big deal though, they're pretty similar. This morning, however, as I was attempting to make some rice pudding I went to a shelf of baking ingredients, grabbed the vanilla and threw some in. Suddenly something smelled really bad. No, it wasn't vanilla. It was apple spiced vinegar. ehlk. Not exactly the flavor I was going for.

ugliest cat ever drawn in the history of the world

It's going to published. I'm sorry. I just didn't have time to redraw it. I just thought I would warn all of you.

human glow stick

You know your friends are cool when instead of inviting you to go with them to the movies next weekend they invite you to go to puerto rico. What an amazing place, I highly recommend it. One of the highlights of the trip (no, it wasn't when my friend told me I looked like one of those ugly girls in the movies) was when we went kayaking to this lagoon at night and went swimming with bioluminescent algae. I felt like I was a human glow stick. You should try it.

you know...

You know it might be too cold to ride a scooter if:

1. you have to not only scrape your mirrors, but also your odometer, your ignition button and your seat.

2. you are wearing half of your wardrobe to stay warm.

3. you are wearing so much head gear you can't turn your head.

4. your arms are frozen to stick out in front of you when you arrive at your destination.

5. you can't find your scooter because there is so much snow covering it.

But other than that, a scooter is great year round. (although, more fun in the summer for sure)

changing the world

More like, changing the way I look at it. I mentioned before that my new hobby is science. What I especially like about science is how I look at everything differently the more I learn and I think about science, even though I hardly know anything. I can only guess how different life would be if I had a career studying this stuff. I've noticed myself just walking around recently looking at objects and thinking about what it is made of and all the tiny microscopic components that combine together to create whatever I'm looking at. Or sometimes I just think about breathing and how many billions of things are going on with my body right now to make it function the way it does.
Maybe lots of people do that but I used to only look at the design of objects, the way the light falls on it, or it's hue but I guess I'm branching out in the way I think. An example was today when I was washing my hair I was thinking of why we shower and how the chemicals work to make it so we don't smell. (I had just been running and...well, I smelled bad)

I used to think it would be cool to marry someone who got an undergrad in accounting then went to law school (there's a ton of legal stuff and complicated taxes with freelance art) but I think I would like to add a Phd in microbiology or physiology or something equally fascinating. Actually, maybe it would just be easier to get those degrees myself. That's more realistic than getting married.