Things I learned while in Texas this weekend:
- Using a flash when taking pictures of a bat can interfere with their radar. Whoops.
- A Mexican Martini shares ingredients with a margarita, but is really nothing like it (despite what our waitress tried to tell us). I would argue it may even be more delicious than a margarita and it’s certainly tastier than a martini. Blech…martini.
- If you get poison ivy, you must see a doctor if you actually want to get rid of it. If you don’t, it can “go internal”. We met a lady whose sister had it for 6 years and finally had to be “cleansed”. *shudder*
- Snakes grow approximately a foot a year until they’re 20. Then they eat you.
- If you cut down a cedar, 18 babies will shoot up from it’s roots.
- If a cedar burns, it burns so hot that it “kills” the soil and nothing else will grow there in your lifetime.
- You can make gin out of Juniper berries and some other stuffs. I’m fascinated by this, even though I loathe gin. It’s like dandelion wine. Interesting, but not interesting enough for me to try.
- Texas mosquitoes love me, and I have no less than seven quarter sized welts on the back of my left leg and five on my right to prove it.
- I am very cranky after I nap. Actually, I already knew about this. I’m starting to think I should have it engraved on a kind of Medic Alert bracelet.
Potential trips on the horizon:
- Hostel in the Forest with Kimbo at the end of May
- Seattle with Julie and Slim in July
- Somewhere out of the country with Kimbo before October (her first time, she doesn’t fly, she’s having a big b-day)
- SF with Gaea and Erinn in October for a “Closer to 40 than 30″ group birthday celebration
- Anchorage for a white Christmas
25 Apr 07
10:22 am
LEAVE OF THREE! LET THEM BE!
My brother and I are EXTEMELY allergic to poison ivy. It’s usually two trips to the doctor for us.
25 Apr 07
10:24 am
Which reminds me of one more fact: only 50% of folks are allergic to posion ivy.
25 Apr 07
10:26 am
if i see poison ivy, i get it.
25 Apr 07
10:52 am
Hola! Your martini link is broken…just FYI, here’s one http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink8085.html
Sounds yummy!
25 Apr 07
10:56 am
Whoops! Good call, linky all better nah.
25 Apr 07
2:21 pm
Utah?
25 Apr 07
2:41 pm
Howdy, damn it. By the way, I’m allergic to my husband, Ivy. Haven’t found anything to get rid of that yet.
25 Apr 07
3:00 pm
martinis and gin are vile, would rather drink absinthe
25 Apr 07
3:12 pm
18 babies shooting up is sad and scary
25 Apr 07
3:16 pm
Question??? How is one cleansed of Poison Ivy?
25 Apr 07
3:40 pm
For me, it usually takes 2 rounds of steroids… but a “total cleansing?”
::Shudder::
25 Apr 07
3:50 pm
@ Jennifer I am so fired. But in my defense I was looking at my Google calendar and listing stuffs. Ooohtah in the fall.
@ Liz howdy, back, damnit with a mullet and chair dancing!
@ Dtox I would rather drink battery acid than any of those three items.
@ Tulio if I knew it wouldn’t have been in quotes
@ Angie you’re right.
27 Apr 07
8:39 am
YOU forgot to mention the RAD 2yr old you met and how she gives the best hugs in the world.
27 Apr 07
8:46 am
@ J only b/c I don’t want to share! She is rad, and she clearly has impeccible judgement since she loved me right off the bat.
27 Apr 07
3:15 pm
For a second there I thought I’d forgotten to purchase a plane ticket to Seattle.