THE ZOO

If any of my friends are reading this, I’m sure they will immediately question the title of this post, and assuming that they were to continue reading, they probably would expect a post about how much I despise the zoo, or something close to that nature.


While they do have good evidence to think this way, I am going to prove them wrong, and write about how much I enjoyed the zoo. However, keep in mind that I just used the word “enjoyed,” and this will, by no means, be a regular activity that I will partake in more than once a year.

But now that we have things straightened out and explained… on to my day at the zoo.

Side Note: the girl in the following story (and picture below) is named Minnesota. Her real birth name is Jamie Lee Woods (not after the porn star). She was born in Minnesota, hence the nickname, and went to Capital University in Columbus, OH, where we met and became best friends. She moved back home after college, as did a lot of people including myself, and finally came down to visit the great state of Ohio back in April…

When I found out my best friend Minn was coming to Ohio and staying with my family and me in Cincinnati, I realized that I would have to find things to do, and being that I don’t have many, well any friends down here, it was going to be a challenge. So taking into consideration her likes and dislikes, I knew that Kings Island and canoeing were out; but shopping, desserts and the zoo would for sure be accepted with a smile. Although she was surprised with my proposed plans, she was very excited and ready to shop, eat and explore The Cincinnati Zoo.  

We went on a nice, sunny and temperature-friendly Monday afternoon, Beforehand, we grabbed a quick and healthy lunch at a nearby outdoor café. I felt very urban - nothing like I live West Chester with my parents. We then proceeded onto the zoo… which, I will say, it was not that bad, in fact, I may have enjoyed myself. We saw giraffes, a male elephant, and we even pet a snake! We saw lions, white tigers (unique to the Cincinnati Zoo) and all sorts of animals I don’t see in my backyard. We also saw several zebras and it occurred to me that I have never seen a zebra before – their kind of neat! I love the stripes on their coats – zebra accessories here I come!

So readers, there you go… you just witnessed my first, and most likely my last, positive post about the zoo. Maybe I realized that looking at exotic animals actually can be fascinating, or maybe the fact that I wasn’t stuck in front of a computer all day made my day at the zoo tolerable, but I think it really came down to me being able to hang out with my best friend all day! 


Hope you enjoyed my yearly zoo visit... miss you mumsy!


-E-

New Hardware

Once again, short post coming your way (if there is anyone who is actually reading this) but I JUST, as in today, got my new macbook! I'm so pumped, I also joined the world of technology and got an ipod touch as well!

I'm hoping this lovely, pearl white, shiny laptop will help me blog more and perhaps get a steady flow of posts going... and some pictures to add some color to this blog. 

See ya!

SUPER!

Okay, this is going to be a super, quick random post, only because I woke up too early this morning and I'm not sure what to do with myself, and also because it's been quite awhile since I posted, and I told myself I wasn't going to let this blog get lost in cyberspace, like my last 4.

Last night, my sister was in my room, and we were just chatting about life in general, well actually, we were listening to old school Backstreet Boys (future post will come about this topic) and my sister commented that my "new word" is super. At first I was super confused, but then I came to realize that I probably say this word at least two times during a conversation. I don't know if I'm trying to make my life more exciting by adding this adjective, or what, but looking back on text messages, previous conversations with people, and heck, even this post, I do use it a lot.

Is it too much? Too over the top? Eh, it might be, but I'm going to run with it, because I think the word is just super.

Aimless

Okay, so most of you my two friends, have seen me start this blog more than once, well, three times to be exact. I start off pretty well, meaning two posts, maybe three in a row then I stop. I'm one of those type A, crazy organized sorts of people who always need direction and always need a purpose - so it would be no surprise that in starting a blog I would need exactly that: direction and a purpose. I think the problem with keeping up with my blog is exactly that, I have no direction and I really have no purpose to start a blog. I have thought of a dozen ideas - Food Blogs, Fitness Blogs, How to Stay in College Forever Blogs, but nothing seems to jump out and strike my fancy.

So in need for a direction and a purpose, I decided that my blog's theme will be exactly opposite of that: a "No Direction and No Purpose Blog." In saying that, I apologize in advance if one day I am telling you about my need to escape living at home with my parents, 21 year old brother and 20 year old sister and then follow with a post about ice cream and chocolate.

On that note, hooray for my first post of my no direction and no purpose blog. I'm off to the ever fashionable Kohls to find a dress for a wedding I am SO excited to attend.... (please note my sarcasm).