stuff I think about

Why don't poinsettias have a fragrance? They should. You would think, with all the bio engineering, et al, they could give poinsettias a fragrance. And I know just what they should smell like...peppermint. Wouldn't that be awesome?? Yeah, peppermint poinsettias. I dig it.


This morning I totally reaped the benefits of retirement. When our weatherman said, the windchill is -7, I said, shit! I have to get gas!! While I was getting ready for work, my retired husband happily changed his clothes and bundled up and went to the gas station to put gas in my car. His retirement really works for me sometimes :-)


I think I forgot to mention that I finally hooked up my Amazon Echo. Do you know what that is? In case you don't;

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-SK705DI-Echo/dp/B00X4WHP5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452523513&sr=8-1&keywords=echo

My guy finally relented to giving it a try. IT'S AWESOME! Seriously. Yesterday he asked me about playing music on the Echo. I told him to ask it to play something - he did - it did - he's happy. Also, you can tell it to add things to a to do list or a grocery list and it automatically syncs up to your phone app! For instance, if we're almost out of butter, I can say, "add butter to the grocery list." It does. Now, I can open the app on my phone and click on "grocery list" and low and behold, there's butter! Also, I programmed my work address into the traffic section of the app and now, in the morning, I can ask, "what's the traffic like this morning?" It will tell me where it's slow and approximately how long it will take me to get to work. It really is amazing, just like the Jetsons! 


Last night, the missionary girls stopped by for a quick visit. Now that I've told them I'm not going to convert and become a Mormon, their visits are a lot less frequent! They're also less "religious." Anyway, I was asking them about their Christmas and when were their birthdays One girl said, 9/11. Bummer. She said, "yeah, but it didn't really mean anything to me at the time though. I was only 5." FIVE. A couple things went through my head...1, dang, I'm OLD! OMG I'm gonna be fifty SEVEN! What? And then, wow - so 9/11 really doesn't hold any kind of significant value to her. It's just history. Like 12/7/41 is just history to me. I had never thought of it that way. Interesting. 57?!!?!?! 


I very rarely play the powerball lottery. A few times, when it's reached a crazy amount, like 200 million plus, I'll buy a couple tickets. But I didn't even buy a ticket to last Saturday's drawing. I guess I probably will now. I mean, 1.3 BILLION!? Holy cow. I'd take a chance for that :-) 


Speaking of holy cow, (see what I did there) Indian food is kind of yucky. That was Mom's pick for our dinner out last Friday. To be fair though, it didn't actually suck, but none of us would eat it again. I know what you're thinking, a billion people can't be wrong. I bet though, if you gave them a choice of tacos vs daal bafia, they would totally choose tacos!!!