Dear Rachel,

I'm not feeling particularly humorous or creative today. I'm in more of a cold sarcastic kind of mood. So please forgive whatever you may find boring or offensive in what is to follow these introductory words.

I will take you up on your offer to get a blog tattoo. I also request approval privileges for the final design. And I request that you pay for my bird tattoo.

Jie just got on Skype. I'm going to talk to her. Because 1) I love her, and 2) She's in China. It's cool to talk to someone across the world.

I am very cold. This weather is upsetting me. Perhaps it has influenced my mood. Curse it. I wonder if hell is figuratively hot because it seems appropriate to me that extremes of temperature in both directions would be present in a situation of eternal suffering.

I would like to go visit Austin again. Perhaps this summer. Want to go?

It took me three visits to the Verizon store, but I finally got a new phone. Well, it's the same phone, just another one of them. The second visit to the store, I had to wait a long time (while my guacamole went bad in the car sad face), and I amused myself by playing Angry Birds on a tablet. I now want a tablet. Or a kindle or an iphone. I want something that would allow me to whip my bible out, anytime, anywhere. It would be a powerful Jesus juking tool.

I'm so cold.

I wish there was a job that allowed me to be a professional Wikipedier. Wikipedia reader. Wikier. Wikipedestrian. I could read Wiki pages all the live long day. Today it was Albuquerque, NM; Alburquerque, Spain; and Route 66. I learn so much. I also recently read up on the three major cities of the Netherlands. Would you like to know about them? Rotterdam is where money is earned, The Hague is where it's divided, and Amsterdam is where it's spent. Or, rather, Rotterdam is for working, The Hague is for living, and Amsterdam is for partying. See? I'm ready for Dutch citizenship.

I wouldn't mind Dutch citizenship.

I made a plan for how my children will become multi-lingual. I've got Spanish down, of course (though it slips away bit by bit each day, taking a piece of my heart with it), so I will teach them that. Then I will learn French, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin, and Korean. My hubs will learn German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, and Klingon. That way they will be prepared for our increasingly global and possibly intergalactic society.

Cold,
Becca