Excited, An understatment

This month I, Tamara Leeper, get the distinct pleasure of flying to Portland to:

1. See Ryan and Chris who ditched the San Diego friends to be cool and live in Oregon like everyone else eventually does. I can't even poke fun at them cause they are not even posers as proved by their incredible photograpy.
   
2. Hike in the Oregon wilderness with the promise of waterfalls. Something that has been on my list of things to do for years because Oregon = green and reminds me of Nor Cal unlike the desert of So Cal.
3. See Karyn, who sadly I have not seen in like AT LEAST 5 years and that is stretching it. I love Karyn :)

So thank you William Shatner for your incredible negotiator skills.

Menthol Monster

My sister is weird. I love her and I am practically her myself however, sometimes I think, "whaaaaa?"
Yesterday I received a package from Jenni containing three things:

1. A card, of course. With piglet on it and mushy gushy stuff like "I love and miss you" I am okay with that mushy gushy stuff.
2. An awesome handmade scarf that is super soft.
   
3. And finally, last but certainly not least, the reason for this blog entry entirely: the menthol smelling sock monster below

I do not pretend that I get this little monster in the least. It has given me quite a few laughs though. Jenni WHAT is it? LOL

Obvious and the Oblivious

Its back. That little springtime is almost here, lets kick it into high gear and actually have a backyard garden to relax in mode I semi embraced last year.
My jasmine has started climbing the walls of the apartment and the blooms smell amazing. The leftover onions are still hanging out in the ghetto planter box that gave me that nasty bruise last year. My aloe looks like it would rather die a thousand deaths then live another second in my garden but my Rosemary and mint LOVE me.
So after suffering through the fall and winter feeling like a gardener looser and doing nothing to change the state of my sad garden, two weeks ago I took action and put some good hard work into it. Cleaned up the trash and spread the rocks that Susan so nicely donated to me. Went and bought some pots and plants for my newest idea to keep the idiotic apartment gardeners from ruining my "wall" I had built for the umpteenth time.
The idea was to rebuild the wall again, because apparently stepping on it and collapsing it SEVERAL times did nothing to help them learn from their mistakes, (oh and thanks gardeners for collapsing the wall so many times and NEVER putting it back together) and then put plotted plants on that level so they would not step on it. Obviously makes sense right? I mean if you saw a wall that had previously been collapsed with new plants on it would you step on it? I wouldn't but apparently I am not as oblivious as some people. They went right ahead and found a nice little space next to my plants to put their big fat feet and collapse the wall again.
Not only that but somehow I just knew after last year's weed whacker incident with my onions (oh yes they did) that they most likely had done something else as well. I was right. My nasturtium that I was so happy had seeded itself from last year was gone. They had pulled it out like a weed and went ahead and clipped all the branches of my pepper plant as well.
Apparently my landlady had not talked to them like she promised. Big surprise. I guess I will have to make a sign. That's classy.

Wait for it......Awesome!

So Tina is amazing and got tickets to the Adele concert for Christmas for me. Thank God she thought to get them early because after the 2 Grammys it was a completely sold out show!
Here is a list of the happenings of the night:

1. Crazy teenage couple decided to place themselves right next to us never giving up trying to scoot closer to the stage and not caring how many people they left dead and bloodied along the way just so they could get closer to the stage not caring how many people they left dead and bloodied along the way just so.... Also they were REALLY weird. LIKE AWKWARD. The guy kept reaching out his hand tentatively as if to try to pet a venomous snake that would attack at any moment. He would switch between that and blowing kisses to her and texting his mom. I can't make this stuff up. It was so strange. The girl was just annoying.
   
2. The opening band for the show was called "The Script" from Ireland. They were pretty good, actually I think I did really like them (and their accents), however the lead singer was like an awkward version of Orlando Bloom if he were in a band. That is the only way I can describe him. They also swore a lot when they were not singing and talked about beer(and drank it LOL).
3. 

A M A Z I N G
Adele was sooo awesome! She had this very real humble attitude about her.
LOVE LOVE LOVED it.
Thanks Tina!