Punctuation-o

Normally I like the English language.  I'm no fanatic or anything, but I don't care that much that it's supposedly one of the hardest to learn because I learned it ok.  By now you probably know that if I start off by telling you how I like something I'm going to move on to complain about it in some way or another.

Really it's question marks that bother me.  In Spanish (disclaimer: my knowledge of Spanish grammar comes from EXTREMELY limited experience) you can put your question marks just around your question within a larger sentence.  In English YOU CANNOT DO THIS and it makes me frustrated and confused when I try to compose a sentence that isn't a question but contains a question.  And because this is how my life works I cannot currently think of a sentence like this.

Unrelated: Do you ever run into the problem of typing question marks instead of exclamation points and vice versa while texting?  I don't have this problem in any other medium.  Biggest offending statement? "Guess what?" Let's be real, guess what is not a question.

That is all.

Something Disturbing

This morning I woke up at 4:30am to a text message that had been sent twenty minutes before. I was startled to see it was from my dad's phone. I quickly read the message that said, "Thanksgiving 2 on sunday at moms. I would like you all to be there. Ginger of course you'll be there in spirit. thanks dad." I went back to sleep and figured I'd talk to my mom at a more reasonable hour and ask why she had texted from dad's phone. (Sidenote: Usually if you text my dad he asks someone else to find out why there is a weird icon on his phone's screen. When he finally gets the message checked he calls you and says, "why did you send me that d*** thing, you know i don't know how in the h*** to respond.) To my surprise when I talked to my mom, I found out my dad had sent the message himself. His phone was just replaced by one with a full keyboard because his broke.

I really just don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that the message was sent at that early hour or that my dad sent a text. What is this world coming to?

I made this cake for my friend Ashley's birthday on Sunday.

A New Idea

This picture is not as random as it seems.

What do we do more than a whole lot of other stuff? That's right folks, we text. And the title of this post is also associated with this. I don't know if I'm creative enough to try to pull together this idea, but if it works I'd like to make a few...trial runs? That's not the word I'm looking for, something like prototype or the like. Anyway, the point is that if I can get creative enough to make a few samples then I think maybe I can get something started. I'm just not sure I have the skills.

More info to come.