Today was pretty oatmeal.

Hey Gummy Bahre,

So word on the street is that you're on the road, and are hopefully getting to Rachel's by midnight, just in time to read this day's entry! Perfect timing.

So today was alright; I had work until one, and after that, I just kinda putted around the house. We have a new employee at Bosco's named Syrena (sp?), who is very nice but just seems a little...off to me. She's very very slow in her talking, not like she's choosing her words very carefully, but talks pretty slow, which I'm guessing you're used to now, given how everyone down sawth speaks a bit more slowly than us rushed nawtherners.

I decided to grab some five guys on the way home since I wasn't able to hang out with John today, and took a nap on the porch. I REALLY wish I could've headed down and seen him; I'm curious to see his reaction to his birthday present. Let's see, after that I watched Zach play some video games for *looks at the clock* 5 hours and some change straight. Now he's getting some ice cream, and I think I'll join him. Only saturday and sunday separate us! It's just around the corner, peeking and giggling!!! Sorry this blog post wasn't very eventful, hopefully tuesday's will be better!

Sweet dreams and safe travels my Molly, I'll read you tomorrow.

- The Mouse

I am oriented!

Hello David!

I just got out of my last session for RUF intern orientation, which means...

I AM NOW FULLY ORIENTED!

I'm like a confident sailor, like a full-fledged eagle scout, like a master star-reader, like...the proud owner of a compass. I know what's UP.

You know what I'm not DOWN with? This beat-boxing challenge. It will be difficult, and I accept the parameters of your request, but I don't expect it to be "fun". I mean, expect to be blown away, but right now, I'm just gonna sulk a bit.

I'll probably be going out tonight with my fellow interns to fellowship it up, this being our last night together until training at the end of July. I'm finally getting to know people, and now we're leaving. Ah well, at least everyone will be connected on Facebook. Tomorrow morning I will be heading north, stopping in Columbia to get me a Marcia-mellow and then heading to JMU to crash at Rachel's for the night before making the long second half of the drive back to Granby. At least I will have company. I mean, don't get me wrong, Yi-yon is an excellent navigator. I mean, he got me this far. He's just not the greatest conversationalist, so the car ride can get a little boring. Please don't tell him I said that though; I wouldn't want his feelings to be hurt.

I should be back in Granby by Saturday night, Sunday I will spend sending out support letters, and Monday I get to spend with YOU!

FOUR MORE DAYS!

I can't wait to see you!
Love,
~The Princess~

Lemme hear those funky beats

Dear Bonehead,

Twice?! You're dropping the ball. This time I'm going to be a little lenient and give you something FUN. Next time I won't provide any such concession.

Your challenge if you choose to accept it, is to make a beatboxing video. Requirements are that it has to be at least a minute and a half in length, and you have to use the word mustard in it. Why mustard? Because I had kielbasa for dinner tonight. I recommend that you make the video using a number of different video clips, having one clip be one sound, like you making the the noise of a highhat, and layering that (or following it) with a bass thump. Just a suggestion. Actually, you know what? I'm gonna make that mandatory. My challenge, my rules. If you have any questions, let me know. It's due next wednesday, I expect it to be this summer's smash hit.

Eagerly awaiting your jam,

-The Mouse

Pub and Ice Cream

Good Evening Moll Doll,

Today was a pretty cool day. This afternoon my family and I headed over to the Half Door pub, a place you and I have to stop by some time. It's a really typical pub; dark, wooden, and sticky. BUT the food was surprisingly good. I ordered a Philly Cheese Steak which was THE BOMB, which is saying something because it actually had (gasp) onions on it and I hate onions with the intensity of two suns. My dad ordered a strongbow, which was an alcoholic cider, and it tasted just like regular cider. I got a schneider hefe weisse (wheat beer) which might end up being one of my favs. 

After finishing up dinner, my mom took us out for ice cream at J. Fostsers! I hadn't been there in a while and forgot that they made their own ice cream, which is awesome by the way. I got a cupful of "Graham Central Station", which is...well, I'm not sure exactly what was in it other than graham cracker, but it was really rich and good. 

Now I'm home again and relaxing a little before I head off to bed. Tomorrow I bring my car in to get a new belt, and then depending on whether or not monadnock happens, I'll be hanging out with John hopefully flying kites. I miss you Gummy Bahre. Tomorrow it's only 6 days! Hope you're having a good time in Georgia, I expect interesting stories tomorrow!

-The Mouse

I got electrocuted!

Good evening, David!

I forgot to mention Wednesday that I had gotten electrocuted on Tuesday. We were playing Bang, and Molony killed me (as he is wont to do), and I got up and saw that John's charging cable had come apart. You know how those cables come in two parts, one that goes from the wall to the box, and one that goes from the box to the computer? Well, the first part had come detached from the box, so I thought I would be helpful and plug it in for him. I picked it up and immediately felt a shock going through me. At first I didn't even know what was happening, whether I was in pain, or where the unsettling nuisance was coming from. But then I instinctively yelped, "Ow!" and dropped the cable. It was actually only after it left my hand that I fully understood what had happened. I unplugged it, and Cameron picked it up to look at it and saw that the wires had been pulled from the end of it and were both exposed. Electrical engineer that he is, he informed us that if the two bare wires were to have touched, it would start a fire. He threw it away, and I nursed my burning thumb. It wasn't actually burnt, but it did sting. Molony asked, "The current went through your back?" because apparently when I picked it up, I bent backward and my hand went quickly and involuntarily to my back. Cameron explained that the current would've gone through me and to the floor, where I was grounded. It was all very quick and freaked me out at the time, but I felt pretty awesome afterward. Have you ever been electrocuted by a socket? It's the weirdest feeling; you don't necessarily feel pain, per se, at least not at the time, but you feel vibrations through your body that are very uncomfortable. Anyway, I'm alright now of course, and happy to tell the tale and add it to my list of Times I've Been Electrocuted.

I'm off to my cousin's house tomorrow, Marcia's Sunday, and finally Atlanta on Monday! Pray for me!

Love,

~The Princess~

Can't think up witty title, help!

Hey Hey Hey Molly Bean,

Pretty uneventful day today; went to work, it got really hot this afternoon, which brought back memories of the insane amount of watering I had to do last summer. Today I watered the entirety of bosco's but after finishing, a couple hours had passed and I had to start all over; everything had dried out and needed watering again. It was a little bit frustrating, especially hearing 3 different bosses tell me that I need to water more, but I shouldn't complain. I have a job, I'm able to chat with the customers, and I get to work outside. AND you're going to be home in a little over a week! Life is good.

I don't find plants anywhere near as interesting as some of my coworkers, but there's one practice in the world of botany that is actually pretty cool. It's called grafting, and it involves frankensteining two plants together; you literally cut two trees in half, almost always of different families, and paste them together with a wax. What's neat is that not only will the trees survive, but they'll become something entirely different. They'll mature and take on properties of both of the trees used in the operation. That is just too neat. Imagine if you could do that with animals. Think of all the delicious foods you could make...grafting together the utter of a cow and a chicken, resulting in cheese that you might actually enjoy!! The possibilities make my mouth salivate. 

Oh! And look up Axel Erlandson for neat pics of tree grafting gone terribly right. Here's a pretty cool one:

Can you even imagine a treehouse made out of several trellises like this? John would be so jealous.

I love you, and will talk to you soon!

-The Mouse 

Horses and kindness and protectors

Good evening, my David!

I had entirely forgotten that it was my day to post, until you so kindly reminded me in that facebook message! Today we went to Jamestown, both the gallery and recreated settlement, and the historic original site. It was pretty cool. Yesterday we had taken a trip to Yorktown. You know how at recreated places, like Sturbridge Village for example, there are people who dress up in character and talk to you about the times? There was one man there who was old and a little loopy. He thought that me and John, and Steph and Cameron, were dating, and kept making awkward comments assuming this. For example, he started talking about ailments, and asked if Steph had had trouble with her memory lately. He asked if she could remember the name of her boyfriend. Then he asked Cameron if he could remember the name of his girlfriend, and when Cameron hesitated, unsure of what to say exactly, the man said something along the lines of "You only have one right? She's gonna be unhappy if you get her name wrong." He finally asked, probably because we were all giggling uncomfortably, whether we were dating or not, and we said we were all friends. However, John then said that both Steph and I were dating Cameron, and I don't know that the man knew what to make of that (John's sense of humor is subtle...sometimes). He asked what John was then, and John said, proudly, "I'm the Protector."

John brought up an interesting thing to think about today: We used to ride horses everywhere, and use them to pull wagons. Then we invented cars, which soon replaced horses and horse-drawn carriages. Now we have trailers which we attach to our cars to bring horses places. Just an interesting situational twist.

Watched the Glee finale yesterday. What a letdown. We also watched the final two episodes of HIMYM for this season, which was much better. YOU MUST WATCH THEM!!! Oh my goodness, you will be so excited with the finale.

You. Me. Hanging out two Mondays from now. Waking up early and all that. I didn't think I would miss you so much, but boy am I feeling it. I can't wait to see you in a week and a half!

I will read you tomorrow,
~Molly~