Jessica Moe

I have a whole bunch of things swimming around in my head so…sorry if this seems to jump around…trust me, it will…

So, I have discovered the real reason why you should really stay on top of keeping your house neat and tidy and organized.  Movers. If you ever have the occasion to have movers, you will really appreciate the hard work you put in week in and week out.  A place for everything and everything in its place means that you will be able to have them swoop in and with little or no direction pack you, and take you away. This was not the case for me.  Now, I have to say, in my defense, that I never REALLY moved in here. I always felt temporary because we knew where we were going shortly after we got here and so there was so much looking ahead…Plus, this place was partially furnished so there was so much trying to keep things like plates and cups and silverware separate…that things were always in two different places…some cups were here while others were there and inevitably, some things got mixed up…I had to pick out the things that are mine from the things that are hers and that was difficult.

I have spent the last two days up ALLL night.  A grand total of 5 hours of sleep in 48+ hours.  Now, I have to say that I made up for some lost sleep today. It’s so hot that it just slows you down.  Well, it’s not really hot–just muggy. So I fell asleep for about 3 hours this afternoon after allw as said and done and was in a fog when I woke up for about 2 hours and then I fell back asleep for about 6 hours…when I fell back, Issa fell asleep with me for about 2 hours and then let me keep sleeping until about midnight when he realized that I wasn’t waking up on my own…he had to wake me because there is still so much work to be done.  Of course, he had to go to bed because he has class.  SOOO, it’s just me again and I am sitting here writing in my blog at 1:00 and it seems to me that the night is young after having been awake for the past two nights all night….

Really, I am just typing here in order to put off the inevitable. I have to get up and start walking around.  I am telling you I have never in my life had more sore feet.  I am not sure if it is a result of walking around in high heels on Wednesday night or walking around on the wood floors barefoot.  I think it might be a bit of both…The balls and the heels of my feet hurt soo bad (do the extra “o”s admit of degree? Doesn’t the word “so” in and of itself mean that it is really bad? Do the extra “o”s really matter all that much?)  Issa was kind enough to rub them for me this afternoon but it just wasn’t adequate. I have tried to put flip flops on in order to pad my walk around the house but I have worn down the rubber in them so badly that they really don’t provide any cushion.  I think there should be some kind of surgery to inject fat into your feet…now that, I am all for. Oh my goodness how BORING is this post?  Sorry.  I am just person deprived. Nobody to talk to.

Anyways, so I was cleaning out the bathroom and throwing out the things we don’t need anymore when I came across a product that I would like to share with you.  They are the Sudacare Shower Soothers.  Now, granted, these are generally speaking for when you are ill…but there is something about a little vanilla vapor to get you breathing deep while you are taking a shower that really helps you unwind.  I googled “shower tablet” and found that Queen Helene makes some aromatherapy shower tablets and I have to say that when I get to San Diego I will be purchasing some of these dissolving tablets of wonderful because, as you may or may not know I am quite the shower person. There is nothing I love more than a good shower.  Sure, baths are fantastic…but they don’t stay hot for long enough and I am impatient so I will get in while the tub is filling up and by the time it has, I am ready to get out again. I do like the fact that you can mix in aromatherapy bubble bath, however, but these tablets combine the best of both worlds.

Oops, I just sneezed all over Issa’s computer. Oh, he will not be happy about that.

Ok, so moving on.  We bought a car!  Woohoo!  It’s a 2004 4Runner, silver, Issa’s dream car…and I have to say that owning this car really makes me feel like a grown up.  Ok, let me get more specific. This car has metal rims on the tires. That makes me feel like a grown up– hahaha…Seriously though, I don’t know why…it’s just that all the cars we have had have all had plastic hubcaps.  This one just seems more substantial.  So, on tuesday we will be taking off driving cross country just shortly after graduation in our new car.  I feel bad putting all those miles on it, but it should be fun.

Just ordered bbq pizza….mmmm….Hey!  It’s dinnertime for me, don’t judge. 

Ok, so I was thinking that I should save this for another post but I am beginning to find that there are a whole lot of people here that are not so bad and while I hate to admit it, I think Philly is growing on me a bit here before I go.  Sure, our car was stolen…but meeting people through the selling of things on craigslist.org has really brought me to some kind people.  So, in a nutshell–maybe its not so bad afterall…or maybe its not so bad now that I am leaving. 

You see, I met this girl through posting the free section of craigslist.  Like a smart girl, she is furnishing her apartment on items that she find for free or cheap.  I think it’s sooo much fun to do something like that and more than that I found that I really liked talking to her.  So, I think I made a new friend in these final days here and Oh–she’s a Becca!

Ok, well. Enough is enough. I really have to get going. I have just wasted 45 minutes and I have a bbq pizza on the way.  Yes, I realize it is 2 in the morning, sue me!

Well, as you may know my life has thrown me a bit of a curveball right now.  I want to keep up with my posting on here but since I am too busy to type a big long blog I thought I would share with you a list of 55 useless facts….So, without further adeu….

1) The soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles.

2) Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

3) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.

4) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

5) American car horns beep in the tone of F.

6) No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.

7) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

10) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

11) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

12) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

13) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.

14) American Airlines saved 40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

15) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

16) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”

17) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

18) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

19) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

20) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

21) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

22) Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

23) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

24) Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

25) Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

26) All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

27) The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

28) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

29) Pearls melt in vinegar.

30) It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

31) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

32) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

33) It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

34) Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands.

35) Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

36) The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

37) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

38) A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

39) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.”(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

40) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.  Spades - King David;  Clubs - Alexander the Great;  Hearts - Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

41) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the expression “to get fired.”

42) Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

43) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

44) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

45) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

46) The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

47) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

48) The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

49) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

50) All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20

51) A pregnant gold fish is called a twit

52) Rocks explode in microwaves

53) Steam rollers don’t actually roll steam

54) 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

55) Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than
products like Draino