It's that time of year.

Finally we've made it to the time of year when dinner can be made outside without having to wear a coat...or snow boots or something.  Tonight dinner was so awesome.  Almost all of it was made out on the grill.

A dinner of awesomeness

The Strange Day

I overslept - which isn't unusual.  It happens a lot.
I found ants in the kitchen.  Called Orkin and arranged for my Orkin man to come around lunch time.
So I was running late getting out the door to go to a passport office.  Almost forgot my birth certificate.  Finally got there and then was beat out of the last spot on the list by a guy and his little kid thanks to my politeness and his huge work truck.
So I went home and worked.
IT guy and I worked for the longest time to get my home printer to work with my work computer.
Orkin man came and did his job.  Turns out it's his last week and next month I'll need to break in a new guy.  Hopefully Samson will like the new guy, too.
I worked a bit more and then went to Walmart to have my passport picture taken by a little old Indian lady who kept calling me "dear."
Samson and I took a walk.
I made couscous in the rice cooker.
I filled out some paperwork for getting to meet my sponsored child in Guatemala.
I worked on church music.
I watched TV.  (But that's very normal.)
Tomorrow morning I will try going to the passport office again - hopefully with more success and less anger.

A lot of "if...then..." thinking today.  If I hadn't overslept...If there hadn't been ants...if I had remembered my birth certificate before leaving the house...et cetera, et cetera...  But thinking like that doesn't help anything.

And how surreal, it occurred to me today, that I was just in Arizona a few weeks ago and I'm going to Colorado Sunday (straight from the choir concert) and here I am trying to get a passport and airfare and all that for going to Guatemala in June/July.  Arizona feels like a dream.  Colorado feels like it happens all too often (poor Samson!) and Guatemala?  A passport?  Me?  Really?  Wow.  I will be in another country for my birthday this year.  It doesn't seem possible.  What is going on this year?  So much strangeness!  What's next, I wonder.

Just Saying

Found this quote online today.

"Courage doesn't happen when you have all the answers.  It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life."  - Shannon L. Alder

Interestingly, she is an LDS author...not my usual source for such things, but it was an interesting thought.

Interesting YouTube Channel

I think I could watch this all evening.  My brother sent me a link to one video and now I just keep watching video after another.  It's interesting, intelligent, and touches a curiosity I've seldom heard shared by anyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce

Check it out if you are feeling curious about things like language and human behavior and can handle science, humor, and philosophy happening all at once.

Transgender Poultry

This commercial amuses me greatly (especially the cafe scene)...until the farmer does something no real farmer would ever do.  Any of you city kids know what I'm talking about?  Hint: read the title of this post again.  Then watch the video again.  Repeat until you figure it out.  Farm kids everywhere are cringing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1wFKKWMCA

ANTagonists

Nothing says "Happy Easter" and a day off like a kitchen full of ants.  Yuck!  There was one a week ago.  I thought it was an anomaly.  The next night there was about a dozen or so in one of the cupboards.  The following two days there were none, so I thought maybe the invasion was over.  Saturday they were all around the sink.  Sunday they had spread all over the kitchen - on the floor, around the sink, along the cupboards.  Monday there were even more.

"Say hello to my little friends"

One of the two entrances

Thankfully my Orkin guy was able to come yesterday afternoon.  They seemed to know he was coming because the number reduced drastically by the time he arrived.  But he sprayed some stuff that seemed to do the job.  Now there are just random stragglers.  He said they should be completely done and gone by the end of the week and to call if they aren't.  That was a fun little adventure I'd rather not repeat.