Elle's Guitar Recital

Friday night I went to my 10 year old sister, Elle's guitar recital. It was so cool to see her on the stage strumming away! It's weird to me that I was just about her age when I started guitar lessons - and that she's now learning some of the songs that I learned during my lessons! Pretty soon we'll writing songs together :)

Here's a cute video of her on stage with her guitar. The loud voice you hear is her teacher, who needed to sing that loud to be a crutch for the students. But check out those mad skillz! Those base runs! That's my little sister!

How to Annoy Me

Stand right in front of me in line at Old Navy. When it's your turn to go up to the only working register, spend 18.5 minutes explaining to the sales person that you were shopping in the store on Saturday, and while reaching for a pair of cargo pants high on the wall, you fell and you'd like to speak to someone straightaway about receiving some sort of settlement from Old Navy.

Or if that's not your style, you could also try being the sales person at Old Navy and not clueing into the fact that the lady talking to you already wants to sue you so it's probably a lost cause to scramble to find the right information to give her. She'll never become a faithful shopper again. Don't even pay attention to the fact that there's a huge line of dedicated shoppers waiting for your service.

How to charm me:

Stand right behind me in line and after 15 minutes call out "Do you mind if I check out real quick while you're figuring out that it's your lawyer you need to talk to, and not the sales clerk?" I almost - ALMOST - asked for her email so we could be friends. Virtual BFFs.

The Davis Brand

Back when bodily functions were a regular topic of discussion on the playground, farts were said to have a specific "brand", that brand being your family's namesake. For instance, everyone in the Thompson family has the same brand of farts. They all smell the same. So I'd like to pose a question. Do family brandings come about because of genetics - same makeup of bodily acids and other digestive fluids... or is it simply because those in a family unit generally eat the same foods? Before getting married I was sure it was because families eat the same food, which is different from their neighbors food. However, now that Steve and I have been eating the same foods (at least for dinner) for the last four years, I'm convinced it's genetics mainly, with perhaps foods as a very small factor. Why? I have never mustered a Gordon fart and still consider myself completely incapable.