Native North Carolinian

Have you checked out ZooToo? It’s an online social community for pet lovers, where they can meet other pet lovers, organize local activities, and generally hang out with others who share their love of animals. Zootoo also makes it easy for pet lovers to help the pets who need it most by donating food to shelters. They have other ways to help pets too, just check out the Help pets page.

What makes this apply to North Carolina? Well, for one, we have the same pet problems here that everyone else has: overpopulation, lack of shelters, etc. Secondly, zootoo lets you find a local pet shelters and services, yep, even here in North Carolina. Hard to believe, huh?

And true pet lovers will enjoy the pet news, too! Listen, just go check the site out, and register. Because when you do, you not only get a chance to make new friends, but a pound of food gets donated to a pet shelter. Do it.

That’s what we’re doing this weekend. We are leaving the coast and driving across the piedmont almost to the mountains to visit my famfam. Uncles, aunts and cousins, oh my! The kids and I are crazy excited, and dh is tolerating us pretty well. It’s gonna be a low-tech weekend. He’ll have his license and medical id bracelet, I’ll have my knitting, and we’ll all have a good time, provided we can hold it together for the three hour trip!

Still hot as blue blazes outside, and now we’ve added football practice to the mix. Happy August, ya’ll! All that dirt and sweat are sure to lead to an acne epidemic, don’t you think? Might be time to expect an increase in the water bill, too! More showers, more dirty clothes, more fun!

You know, when I think of tape drives, I’m dreaming like a redneck. I’m picturing a device that will aloow me to play cassettes on my computer. You know, the boxes and boxes of them in the top of my closet, with really cool old music on them?? Those ones. My husband the computer tech assures me that is NOT what they mean.

Wanna know how to lose weight in North Carolina these days? Step outside. Breath in and out 5 times. Count it as exercise, because it is. Unless you are a fish.

And let’s talk about fish and breathing and humidity. Do you know how humid it is? It is so humid here that the flying fish aren’t even bothering to go back in the water. They are just sailing in the sky like kites.

Lately, I have been encountering a lot of photgraphy sites that boast some pretty advances techniques as far as photoshopping and such go. It’s pretty hard to compete, looks-wise with airbrushed models, isn’t it? The same applies to the panoramic vistas you see of vacation spots. Such as the one I live in. Arguments about why we have to improve on the blue of the sky God gives us aside, I just don’t do that. maybe that makes my pictures more boring that other people’s pictures, but I prefer to think of it as more real.

Speaking of real, check this out:
Uh, never mind. I have to get some tech help to get it uploaded.

We have been having some weird weather lately.  First it was blistering hot, and then it’s been cooler and rainy.  Is calling 80 coller when it’s been near 100 accurate?  I’m not sure.  And is it really considered weird anymore when it’s happened that way for several summers?  And do you realize that we aren’t through with upper 90s for temps, that we have at least another month to go?  The governor should order personalized pens.  They could say “Don’t like the weather?  Wait 10 minutes!”

of a great idea. You know how kids used to set up lemonade stands? What if we could start a new trend, where kids sold bottled water instead. After all, if I am out walking and sweating, I don’t really want to add calories from lemonade, but I do want a nice cool drink. There is a legitimate need to fill, and a cool (haha) small business opportunity for some smart kid.

Man oh man! I mentioned yesterday that the humidity makes really bad hair, but it does something else that is equally hazardous to your good looks and charm. When it get’s really humid, the temperature stays up at night. Or the temperature being high at night make sit really humid. I;m not sure what comes first. What I am sure of is that it makes it really difficult to find a relatively cool time of day to exercise. One almost begins to consider diet pills.

PS: it occurs to me that I sound as if I do not enjoy living here. In truth, except for about a month of high summer, there’s nowhere else, I’d rather be.

I guess my last post sounded like I only buy apple products. That’s not the case, and I don’t think it is for most of us. In the land of reality, I consider bigger and cheaper to be the hallmarks of the best products, MP3 players particularly. And they must always. always have a screen. My current player is a Creative Zen plus 2 GB, and I was kicking myself for not going wi the 4 GB within a week after I purchased it! When it comes to memory, size really does matter!