FYI

Alex told me the other day that he read my blog and took the "Which LOST character are you?" quiz.

All I have to say is, Sayid rocks.

Floor Eating!

So another thing that I have noticed since I've been back form Ghana is that Americans are clean. Actually I remember the first week I was home I didn't shower for 3 days and I remember looking in the mirror after those 3 days and saying "Damn my hair looks good!" and I really thought so too. I have since been acclimatized but I also remember thinking the floors in my parents house were so clean and I frequently found myself wanting to lay down on the carpet and thinking how great wall to wall carpeting was and how clean a society needed to be so that we could have permanent carpeting and not have to take it outside and beat it everyday. I'm sure all of my Peace Corps friends remember the Swish swishing of the palm frond brooms in the morning and remember wondering when we first got there why they swept so often and why they swept the dirt drives in front of the buildings.
Well my fellow Americans, I hope we can all come to the realization that America is A LOT cleaner than a lot of other places in the world and our floors really are clean enough to eat off of.
Here is an article that Ingrid alerted me to, that proves we already know it.
The 5-second rule is America.

parking for sale

I think this article speaks for itself.
maybe we should take this as a lesson and spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars we are spending on parking spaces on public transportation.
- Gooooood IDEa!...

Love, sweet love

So. I can't say much about marriage since this will be my first time, but as it stands so far it's pretty fun. Actually I never really had an idea of what marriage was like so it's very interesting how things work out. I once had an idea of what my fairytale wedding would be like but that has been disbanded by the 6 weddings I have been in and from those I have completely decided there will be NO chicken dance, NO Macarena, No dollar dance, NO shoving cake in anyones face and ONLY open bar. (if someone decides to dance on a table that would be fine too.) Actually as my family has made it clear over the years that I have known them, a party is a party, but that's not marriage. Quite agreed. And I'm so excited about it, I can hardly think about anything else other than Alex. Dreamy Alex.