Randoms Nibs

I love Chewy Runts! I thought they stopped making them because I hadn't seen them in a super long time, but last fall I came across some at Toys 'R Us! Which is the only place I've seen them at.

It's been Shamrock shake season! Oh yum, they always come in February but leave again in March-ish. Seasonal shakes are yummy but it sucks that they are seasonal (like egg nog shakes, yum).

I bought 1 miniature Reese cup in pastel foil at Wesco a couple weeks ago & lost it in the few blocks home. Not sure where it went, never found it in my car or on the ground. I know I grabbed it & remember specifically where I set it in my car, a place that would have made sense if it were under my seat & it's now. It remains missing to this day.

On the 12th, I remembered I needed to go to the Secretary of State. At 4:35pm. They close at 5. Luckily made it over there & there wasn't anyone else not being helped when I got there. I got 3 stickers: the tag for my plate, my change of address, & a heart sticker to go on my license for being a donor. That night I got pulled over. Because my brake lights don't work properly when my headlights are on. When I touch my brakes, the one in the back windshield comes on, & the taillight ones actually go out apparently.

This year on my birthday, I turned 2 times my favorite number.

Richie is going to school again. He is in a preschool program, he goes for 3 hours Monday-Thursday afternoons. He's been going for a week & he likes it (as do I).

Random fact I recently read: "Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes. Biology nerds know that these mutations often occur in the womb. In this case, the OCA2 gene, which is also involved in the production of melanin, is disrupted to make the eyes blue rather than brown." "People with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor, according to new research. A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. The mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, so before then, there were no blue eyes." I'm not a mutant! (Brown-eyed girl, sha la la la la la la la la la la te da)

I'd like to take a road trip. Where to, I do not know. It's been almost a year since I went on one. But they are fun & exploratory.

I'd also like to ride in a plane. I've never done that at all.

The crown of the Statue of Liberty is open until sometime next year. I want to go hike up the 354 stairs. It would be awesome! When I visited NYC in March 2004, the Statue of Liberty was still closed after 9/11. You could go there, but not inside. The closest I got was looking through binoculars at Battery Park. I didn't have time to go out there. (I also want to go to the top of the Empire State Building.)

Spring is here! Calendar says so. Mother Nature seems to keep forgetting she read that memo, since she gave us beautiful weather beforehand & then it was cold & crappy & snowy on the first day. Oh Michigan, you are so cruel sometimes!