"What Up Moon Pie?"

Grandma's say the darnest things: 

I updated my family on how my cousin and his family were doing after I met up with my cousin for dinner the other night. I told my family about how my cousin is dating a girl now and they are thinking about getting married. This is how the conversation went down:

Me: So she's mixed, half white, half black.
Grandma: Really? *confused look*
Me: Yes.
Grandma: What do you mean half white and half black?
Me: She's mixed, like may be her dad is white and her mom is black or vise versa.
Grandma: So what does she look like?
Me: I don't know what she looks like, I've never met her.
Grandma: So.......does that mean half her face is white and half her face is black? 

Wait........REALLY?!?!?!? Did she just ask that question?? I honestly didn't know if she was kidding or not. But when I looked at her, she had the most honestly puzzled look on her face that I knew her question was not a joke. At that point I really didn't know how to respond. So my family responded for me. Everyone burst into laughter and when we were all done laughing, my mom broke it down for her what it means to be a mixed black/white person. And we even gave her examples like Leona Lewis and Obama.

This is a great example of why you should not spend 99% of your day sitting at home watching Chinese soaps all day long. Because if you do, you end up asking questions like this.


Crazy HOT!: 

I don't know if I've just spent way too many chilly summers in Nor Cal but I am DYING in this So Cal summer so far! I can not seem to stand the heat down here!! In the words of Carly Rae Jepsen: "This is Crazy!" As much as I don't want to admit it, I think I got used to the cool breezes in Nor Cal and the gentle sunshine that only shows up every few days or so. Down here in So Cal it's seriously like 100 degrees everyday! And if it's not 100 degrees, it's intense sunshine that will give any self-respecting elderly Caucasian Grandma skin cancer within 10 seconds of exposure!! What have I done to you Mr. Sun that you have to send down your death rays at million degrees per second from 7am to 7pm EVERYDAY?!?! I've never been this fearful of sweating or developing a raging case of skin cancer....or worse, juvenile-onset cataracts and macular degeneration!! Or perhaps some wicked pingueculas or pterygiums!! This is it, I'm not going outside unless it's absolutely necessary, and when I mean absolutely necessary I mean on an emergency basis, like if my house was on fire and it was cooler to be outdoors instead of being indoors. I'm gonna rock the indoor A/C and just wait it out this summer until winter comes to save my butt.

Wow, I bet you anything the 22 year old me would have never guessed the 26 year old me would ever say anything like this! Maybe it's the heat stroke talking or maybe I've just lost it but Nor Cal summer doesn't sound so bad right about now...


"What Up Moon Pie?"

Just a Big Bang Theory should out because I LOVE THAT SHOW! Woot woot!