Home Depot

I am trying to increase my gardening skills, since my little sunflowers have been growing big and haven't not died yet.  Today my friend gave me a giant fern.  It was left over from our exhibit booth at the South Florida Fair.  She was able to take home all of the extras and had one to spare!  It was a little sad looking and a little brown.  Bobby and I went off to Home Depot today to try and find it a nice new pot.  We found one and a few other treasures.

I also ran to Michaels to look around and found a few more treasures!  I did a mini makeover of the family room today.  Its looking a lot more grown-up and a little bit more like summer if I do say so myself!

Before:

If you look at the reflection in the t.v. I am sorry for the mess.  Bobby is building a new computer in the living room.

After:

  

 I added my little sunflowers to these new ones.  I thought they needed some friends.

 A new little bird: 2 dollars

 New Fern!

V.I.P.

Today I received an e-mail at 6:00 am saying that I-75 was closed due to fog.  Must be pretty bad if they close the main highway between here and Naples.  My carpool decided it would be faster just to wait it out with everyone else on the highway instead of driving some crazy back country road and driving into an alligator infested canal.

As we drove closer to I-75, traffic started backing up and we could see the flashing lights of the police helping to direct traffic off the exits.  Hundreds of cars lined the frontage roads and the exit ramps were at a crawl.   As we slowly drove up to the row of cops, my co-worker, who was driving, rolled down his window to see what the situation was.  I told him that we should just exit like everyone else.  He is is big guy from Brooklyn, and was wearing dark sunglasses and his official white collared work shirt with the tribe's logo.  The window barely made it all the way down when to our amazement the cop waved us on towards the highway. Not a single word was said on our end and we all just nodded to the cop, pretending that we were very important and obviously on official business. 

We all started laughing so hard.  We couldn't believe that the cops just let us onto the highway, leaving behind hundreds of stranded motorists waiting for the fog to lift.

Now if you'll excuse me, I am very important and have very important things to do!

Comfort

Today as I was busily making copies, taking phone calls and typing away at e-mails to professors, scientists, and co-workers, I realized how comfortable I finally am at my job.  I remember my first weeks, not sure what in the world I was doing there and not knowing where anything was. I wondered when I would remember where the 3-hole punch was and how to use the fax machine.  When it would all feel normal.

Today it did.  I like that.