NC

So the fam and I went to North Carolina for Christmas to see my sister and her family. While we were there, this happened:












It was pretty mind blowing.

We also visited Kitty Hawk, the site of the first flight by man ever. I learned a lot about the Wright brothers:





















And I went to some of this:





















And I played a lot of this:

















A successful trip, I would say.

What would be my Horcruxes?

Good question.

I just realized after sitting here staring at this for 10 minutes that this is very hard to do. But I will try.

1. My brown sandals. These things have been with me for like 10 years. Or more. I think Melodie told me one time that they are out of style big time but I chose to ignore her because I like them so much.

2. My yahoo email account. I don't know how this would work. But I still want this to be one of my horcruxes.

3. My fishing pole. 'nuff said.

4. I'm thinking a diamond of some sort. Because diamonds are indestructible, right? Wait, I just forgot how you destroy a horcrux. Dang it. Oh well.

5. My mountain bike. Cause I love mountain biking.

6. Uhhh... can't really think of anything else. Guess I only have to split my soul 5 ways.

Wow. I need to re-read HP 6&7. In a big way.

Hate it when that happens

Oops.

That is what I thought as I got in my car today and viewed the clock time on the dashboard. Normally I get up at 7:45, and I'm in my car by 8:15. Today I looked at the clock in the car and it said 7:30. I paused and thought: That's weird, somehow my car clock got off. I then decided to verify with my cell phone. Yep. 7:30. I had somehow managed to set my clock alarm an hour early. So I just woke up and hour early. Dang it.

The funny thing was, as I was realizing this, I was like 'What do I do? Do I go back to bed? Do I just drive to work and get there early? Well, I'm already dressed and ready and in the car, so I may as well just go to work early.' So I did. And I somehow chose to use this precious extra hour of work time to blog.

Swearing in contemporary literature

OK, since when did it become vogue to use foul swear words in contemporary literature? Let me explain what I mean.

I have bought two books recently off Audible.com that have both been sort of travel books. One talks about the future of China and one talks about a study this guy did about happiness in different countries. Both contained, early on in the book, a certain foul swear word. And of necessity I was forced to stop listening to the book, because I didn't know again when this certain word would offend my ears again.

Also, I recently checked out two books from the library, both of which were New York Times bestsellers. One was by an author that most people reading this would recognize the name (OK, it was David Sedaris). Both of these books, again early on, used FOUL swearing, and I had to take these books back because I quite frankly don't want to be reading locker room language when I'm told I'm reading great literature.

Wow, has "modern literature" really become completely classless? Do these authors think people really want to read this trash? Its just too bad, because now I'm scared to buy books for fear that the book's language is going to disappoint.