Adorable

My mom requested I scan some pictures onto a disc for her.
Naturally I’ve kept my own copy of everything.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful, wide-eyed baby?

I love the smiles on these kiddies.

Iggy: You’ve got a cute smile too, we were just all grown up in most the pictures. Too grown up to call adorable :)

5 Days Later

I finally planted those seeds on Saturday. And look at these pictures I took last night!

If I can keep them healthy I'm going to have a good amount of string beans and cucumbers! Yummy! I didn't realize vegetable plants grew so fast.

And here's how the flowers are coming, they're just starting to peek out of the dirt.

I've never done this before and I wasn't sure anything would grow at all. If real edible vegetables grow and beautiful flowers bloom, this will be very exciting!

G'day!

I always eat my lunch at my desk while I work. Well today I must have been working hard because it was 2:30ish and I still had like half my salad. A coworker walked by my desk and said "still grazing?"

Also, one of my coworkers is moving and my boss asked if I would call the removalist. Then she paused [maybe I looked confused] and said, "I think here you call them 'movers.'" [I have such a glamorous job.]

Haha. Australians.

Sign Disobedience

I realize it’s not unusual to see signs being ignored, everyone everywhere does it. But here’s a couple of places I’ve seen it lately.

JFK Plaza, Philadelphia

Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland

Can you guess what they made me think of?

Don't forget to guess.

If you guessed a sign like this:

From this book/tape:

Then you were right!

Click here

Disclaimer: I'm working from memory, so if I've mixed up a Standin' Tall reference (I don't think I have) I'm sorry.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

I’ve been excited about planting some seeds out in my backyard. A few vegetables, some flowers. But the weather has not placated me. I’ve been waiting for the rain to let up. I’m probably a little early on some things anyway [and a little late on others] but once I decided to do it, I just wanted to do it! The trees that crowd my backyard aren’t going to make it easy for them to get sun. [My tiny backyard has 4 trees, not to mention the ones that come over the fence.] This may not work, we’ll find out!

This is my first attempt at this, all gardening advice is welcome!

ANZAC Day

I’ve been pretty sick lately. But this past week I’ve been getting better – I’ve been out of bed and back at work. But since I’ve been back, one of my co-workers has been on vacation. I say this because he is the one with the most … Australian vocabulary, so it’s been a few weeks since I really had to interpret Australian. But today is ANZAC Day so I am going to try to remember some of the words and phrases I’ve learned to expect.

Phrases like don’t catch yourself a light. how’re you traveling? get some yum yum? and good on you. And words like nibblies, mobile, tele, bin, uni, and texter.

There they are. Happy ANZAC Day!

The Commute

If you’re dumb enough to not put the name and address of your establishment on coupons you’re giving everyone exiting metro, at least call it out repetitively. No waffles for me. I don’t know where to go.

Speaking of metro …

Did any of you see the set up at Rosslyn station this week? It was there right in time for the Russell Crowe/Ben Affleck movie State of Play they were filming, and then it was gone.

Speaking of metro … again …

My bus driver of 8 months is gone. [So the one I’ve had since I moved to my new place.] I think he is the best one in the whole system. I may have had a little crush on him.