Really....

I've been mulling this over for a long time. Often times in my everyday life I come across incredible situations that make me say "really?!". So after a long hiatus from the blogosphere I'm here with my first installation of Really?!

It's taken from my everyday life, some of these have made me laugh or made me shake my head. Others make me wonder about the state of humanity. Without further ado I now present:

Really?!

Let me set the scene for this one because I was absolutely floored. Here I was, breakfast in hand waiting for the light to change so I could cross the street and random guy selling the Chicago Tribune looks at me and smiles. Okay cool, I'll take a smile.

Random guy: You're very pretty

Me: *smile* Thank you

Random Guy: Can I have a kiss?

Me: *smiles and laughs awkwardly* Nooo

Random guy: Just on the jaw...

Me: No

Random guy: Your husband won't know.

By now the merciful lord has allowed the light to change so I walked off to the safety of my job. But all I wanted to say was, really?! Who does that? Why is this an interaction? Is something wrong with me that I attract strangely odd and completely inappropriate men? Why do homeless guys hit on me after asking for money and think it is okay?! Ahem...I'm okay now...

On to the next! 

I love working for my job. I always hear the most ridiculous things. We have a front reception desk which of course sees all types of human oddities. I'm not allowed to work this desk. It's probably for the best. My face would give away all my thoughts and people would be angry. So imagine my delight when I got this tidbit 

Coworker: OMG!!! this butt ugly man just came over & said I got my face "painted up nicely." LOL! This front desk... gotta love it.

Me: wow... 

You got your face painted up nicely? For real? Painted up nicely like some sort of Claude Monet or Van Gogh?  Maybe that's just an old school saying and I'm woefully out of the loop. Yeah let's go with that.


Those are my really?! moments for the day and I'm sure there will be tons more to come. Let me know your really?! moments, because after all we all need a good laugh.


-L

Ladies and Gentlemen

* I just decided to go ahead and post this since I had already written it up.

Finally I'm back to continue writing about my Canada trip. It's been a much longer space between posts than I meant but hey life happens.

 Even though I hate hills, I've got to say the reward at the end of the trip is definitely worth it. Most of the time you hear the falls before you see them. They're just that loud. Hearing them though is nothing compared to seeing them. As expected there are tons of people looking at the falls. Plenty snap pictures and some just stand and stare. I liked doing both. Even though I saw these same falls last year it was still all new. The experience of going with both of my sisters this year as opposed to just one was much more exciting to me.

American Falls, R. Green 2010

Though these pictures are of the falls in the day time we actually didn't go see the falls until it was getting dark. The day my sisters and I flew to Canada there was so much drama. One sister forgot her passport and we were separated for many hours. My trip basically began with a headache. I was not able to relax or be content until knowing my sisters and I were all in the same country! Despite the headache and the craziness of the day, once we were all together we were able to begin enjoying ourselves.

We had a kind of crappy dinner of Wendy's and hot dogs. Personally I hate to go to another country and eat the same kind of food that I can eat at home at any other time but hey you gotta compromise sometime. The only thing that really kept me from writing off my first day of Canada as a crap shoot was the lovely surprise that we experienced while at the falls. We were just waiting for them to turn on the colored lights but were met with something much cooler.

FIREWORKS!!!!!!!! Last year we missed the fireworks by one day so it was definitely cool to come and see it this time. I don't know why there were fireworks. It was off schedule but hey I'm not complaining. It made for some really cool photos.