Tag Awareness Day

      I tend to tag my posts, so today I will honor the largest tags:  Gardening and Camp Chrysalis.  We're ignoring the fact that I probably mentioned my break up about as much as I mentioned camp because it's now about pressing onward!  "Pressin' on!  My distress is going, going, gone!  Pressin' on, pressin' on....to go back to where I was would just be wrong!!! I'm pressin' on."Relient K (click here for YouTube video)

      Right now it is raining outside so our garden is getting watered for FREE! Some say that nothing is truly for free...but the weather is, right?!  A Doe came around and ate up our cantaloupe and cucumbers down to the root and chomped down the leaves to the squash and zucchini.  She also managed to trim up the tomatoes a bit, the pieces that were sticking out of the cage.  Needless to say, we plan on finding a way to put a fence around it all...though right now my dad fashioned some temporary ones.  I wonder if we'll replant some things... if it's not too late. 
      Why aren't our roses blooming anymore?!  They did so well for so long and after their last pruning they pooped out on us.  Our hibiscus are blooming now in their place though.  We need to plant more fragrant flowers so that the bees and butterflies hang out at our place!  Slackers.

       Staff training for camp has begun.  I think it rained around this same time last year too.  The owner of Beeswax Co. asked me if I was working this summer at camp...so I'm thinking he doesn't realize that if I worked at camp I wouldn't work for them.  Peace out, I'll be at camp!  Just kidding...  I am going to Ebert Ranch Camp with the middle school youth as a sponsor.  That's exciting because I've been to Ebert except I didn't get to live the camp life there, it was just for staff training.  I'll get my own horse!!!  Woohoo!
     There are a handful of returning staff so I hope to go up there one of these weekends to visit my favorites!  There have also been quite a few changes made to how the camp is run and also aesthetics.  I want to know everything!!!

      On this Memorial Day Holiday I have thrown some pots including a medium planter for my friend Marta's graduation present.  I  also made a wobbly and a not wobbly ring holder.  Meow meow meow. 

...my brain is ever changing...

Ed Sheeran and Christina Grimmie on the Voice <<<Click those words right there to experience my "Star-Struck" moment. 

I had been bee-bopping around the house as my mom was flipping through what seemed like a million different channels.  He life seems to revolve around these television shows that she can't bare to miss.  I've learned to not get attached...plus I can watch them back on demand and Netflix when I feel like binge watching some shows.  ANYWAYS...as soon as I saw dear Ed Sheeran on the voice I stopped my little feet and just stared as I watched their performance.  I love Ed Sheeran and I love that he loves Taylor Swift and I love that he performed on the voice.  Ahhhh!

Josh Kaufman and Robin Thicke on The Voice <<<Not as good...but I play fair.

I truly enjoy writing letters...

      I do not suggest that you gain a pen pal via work- customers shouldn't know your personal email.  It's just weird.  I don't really like answering the phones at work so when I have a talkative customer stabbing my ear drum with the yappin' I just think:  Be nice, Laugh even when it's not funny, Laugh even though they're awkward, and tell them everything about you!!!  Erghhh...yeah, I have no filter.  You make the mistake once and then never again, or just learn from me and don't do it in the first place!

      This man is obviously older, probably in his 50s because when they used to be in their 40s my parents were in their 40s so everyone's age range has been bumped up 10 years, sucks for you.  He was too excited about hearing someone's voice and believing that I was Alanis Morset and a hanger of the moon.  Seriously over-stimulated by our conversation where he was just talking and I interjected my 2 cents every now and then he made out with my email.  He let me keep my soul, so we're lucky. 
      Starting off our short lived pen-pal-ship he named me "Em" and I described a situation where my family was living in a conservative environment while they are quite liberal.  You can't just say anything related to politics and get a chuckle- he spouts out with big meaningless words (I believe that you should say what you mean instead of using big words that use zero emotion and effect zero people) and puts down anyone driving around with an Obama bumper sticker.  "Okay," I think, "You're a hater so we can't friends." 
      The thing about haters is...they always want to have a right and wrong answer.  Then, instead of just sticking up for what they think is right they use more big words and disappear without further responses.  I call this the "Hate-and-Run".  Granted he did give me his number so that I may call him between the times 2am-2pm EST.  Uhhhhhh...no thanks #1 that's weird, #2 I didn't even like talking to my boyfriend when we were dating #3 gross #4 I'm not going to debate politics with you over the phone when I know practically nothing I'm sure to your standards (his standards don't hold up to the media apparently...I guess he works for the UN or something and knows what's really going on yeah right) #5 does your pregnant wife you just mentioned the other day know you have a new pen pal #6 I'm still creeped out.  You get the point.
      My response to his haterade was to R-E-S-P-E-C-T (in a nutshell, that is).  He also hated on anything but homeschooling kids so I said something along the lines of:  It depends on the parent and it depends on the child.  There is no cookie cutter-right way to do things.  All home schooled kids don't turn out the same and that goes for private and public schooled children as well.  I didn't respond to any of his negativity with a right or wrong answer and then he called them my political views when really I'm just living life and responding to it the way I see it.  People have their jobs to run the world and I have mine to not fall flat on my face. 
      Let me quote something, "So you know some home-schooled kids?  That's a good sign!"  Like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? 
      I guess what I should pull out from this so that it makes me feel good is.......that I didn't run away from the talk of politics and instead I gave my genuine opinion.  All I can respond to would be the things I know about while certain things just don't affect me yet.  I think it's okay to stop someone trying to debate with you if you don't know how to respond.  It's easy to say, "I can't help you win because I'm not on your side." or "I can't help you win right now because I know nothing of it." or "I won't help you win because I'm on the other side of the fence with a different problem."  Make up your own!
      I truly enjoy writing letters...but I think I'll stick to snail mail and emails to my gal pals.  I used to have man pals but they must have fallen off the face of the earth...when it comes to snails.