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I've decided to join the blogging world!  Now I'm not certain that I have the most exciting life to blog about but... I would like a place to write about my experiences, adventures, thoughts, and other such items to share with my friends and family.  My parents aren't on facebook (yet!), so here is an easy way for you to stay connected with my daily life! And much easier to figure out -- you just read it!  Now I would like to preface this with the fact that some may say I'm not the greatest story teller (thanks Mom!)... so be warned that this could roll over into my writing abilities.  I'm not entirely sure where to start, either, so I'm going to go ahead and begin with my newfound task -- I hope that this task will turn into an enjoyable, leisurely, anticipated hobby but at this point, it's a task -- gardening.  I received a few (10+) plants from a regular at work... how thoughtful, right?  Right... unless you don't know how to garden and can't manage to keep a cactus alive, let alone something that needs soil, sun, and water.  But when I got them I thought to myself, "ok, I'm not going to let these ones die! I'm going to plant them, keep them fed, and enjoy the wondrous foods that they produce!"  One minor problem: I had no idea what they were.  Some had labels, one of which looked like it said "yellow pimp." I polled my coworkers and they came to the conclusion that they were all cucumbers.  I decided to email the regular just in case... turns out, there were over 6 varieties (peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, I forget the rest)... none of them were, in fact, yellow pimp.  Yellow pepper, in case you were wondering.  So I brought them home and thought that first on the agenda would be to go to Target (isn't that always the answer?) and buy the necessary "gardening tools," like shovels and those prong forked things to break up the soil.  Good plan.  I went to Target and guess what, they sold them in a pair -- mini shovel and pick thing!  I also thought that while I was planting plants, I would buy some flower seeds and make a pretty flower garden.  Another good plan.  One shovel, one pick, and 8 flower packets later... I was ready to garden.  I stepped outside at home... and had no idea where to plant the darn things.  There's lots of dirt (errr soil) around my house... how was I to know which was best?  I remembered something about worms growing, I mean living, in good soil... so I tried planting them where I found (and split in half) many worms (they grow back, right?).  So, I now have various vegetables growing in front of my house, on the side of my house, and behind my house.  Next were the flowers.  I always thought that when you bought a packet of flowers you opened it, scattered it around in some dirt and voila... flower garden 2 weeks later!!  Apparently, the directions were a little more difficult.  "Plant seeds 8-10" apart, 1/4" under the soil, press soil on top of seed, best in full sunlight, make sure soil is moist, better if planted indoors first and transplanted at 3" tall..." what?  Do they realize seeds are the size of... a poppy seed? So I opened the packets, scattered the seeds, and am hoping at least 3 flowers grow.  So there I was... 10 vegetable plants and 8 packets of scattered seeds later, and I was done.  I felt so accomplished -- I, killer of all plants, had gardened!  This was Saturday.  I woke up this morning and could hear the wind whipping outside my window, definitely a jacket day.  I stepped outside on my way to work and decided to check on the fruits of my labor.  My plants, my precious plants, were wilted and flattened to the ground... the wind had gotten the best of them.  Maybe I should stick to cactus, they take a lot longer to kill. 

R.I.P. yellow pimp