While thinking about things I am grateful for my car came to mind. After all, it’s a little old, but it runs amazingly well and other than new tires and an air conditioning leak (that only started 2 years ago mind you), the car hasn’t needed anything major. Anyway, this frame of thought led me to tweet something about it, bad math included!
Of course I was surprised to hear back, especially that they wanted to see a photo! Well, I did indeed find an old photo of the day I actually got my car. Then I took a photo of it (obviously different times of the year/different places). Oh, and then I broke out the calculator and checked my math and was embarrassed that I wrote 14 years when it’s actually 15 years old! At any rate, the car has held up beautifully, inside and out. If only I could say the same for myself!
I plan to drive it until it absolutely dies and won’t run anymore. And of course when that day comes, I hope to replace it with another Honda.
Science is cool. It’s even cooler when it gets together with technology to create a time lapse. Case in point, the Dinosaur Plant! The plant comes all curled up and dry. This is what happens when you add water to hydrate it:
Pretty neat, right? They can “sleep” for 50 years without dying. Turns out they lived during dinosaur times and used to grow up to 150 feet tall. Now they are little, and dry up to be able to tumble around until they find puddles. Fascinating stuff nature!
One of my favorite things about the new year is getting new calendars. Yes, calendars plural. I love organizing stuff, and this year we got an awesome selection of calendars. My husband got Angry Birds, I was given the Farmer’s Almanac calendar, and I am waiting for a Totoro book from Japan as well. Together we are very excited about the Build-a-Robot calendar we got! If you love paper craft, this is the calendar for you, and it’s on sale right now for just $5.99, so go get one while you can.
It’s not January yet, but I spent a bit of time tonight building January’s robot. It was really fun to put together, and helped me beat away a bit of the winter blahs. Every month has a robot ready to put together with a little folding and some glue. The robots come ready to punch out of their papers, so you don’t have to cut anything, and they have all the folds marked for easy putting together.
I can’t wait to put together a new robot each month! It was really fun to put this one together. If you want to have a little fun each month, the Build-a-Robot calendar is sure to be your new favorite calendar.
My husband’s Christmas stocking had a few fun things inside, one of which was a PotatOS kit. Yep, more Portal 2 fun. The kit even came with the science project poster from the game. We really hope there is a third Portal game, we are having withdrawals.
Life is my laboratory! Exploring all the fun things that life has to offer, and sharing them with you. I share my world with my husband, our adorable pets, and our ever growing flock of pink flamingos. Need to get in touch? Feel free to email me!
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