From Phoenix to Santa Fe...

Business trips... most likely the only two I'll go on all year. Pretty good trips but there were just a few odd things I felt compelled to share with you...


First off- the most recent trip to Santa Fe. Below you- please note a picture I took in the Women's bathroom in the Albuquerque airport. Yes, this is what you think it is. A sharps collector most commonly found in a doctors office. Not a restroom. Please also note the MANY syringes in it. I could have grabbed a few used ones had I wanted to. Um....?

Secondly, Phoenix. Everything was great... spent time with my aunt Coco (haven't seen her in over 5 years...), great food, great bed, great mojitos.... yum. But take a look at some pictures I took of the inside of our great Hyatt Regency downtown.

UM, yeah. Creepy. For anyone who has seen "Donny Darko" and remembers the horrible rabbit "Frank"... you know what I'm getting at. Larger-than-life, odd looking random animals crawling up the sides of the hotel, doing stunts, leaning over the elevator so every time you come to the main floor "FRANK" is there to greet you. ACK! Want a picture of "Frank"?

http://http://www.cba-analisi.it/public/gallery/vari/2005-06-13_15-05-36_FrankEyeGlow.jpg

Seriously people.

Phobias

Phobias

There are some VERY odd things to be afraid of... see list of some of my favorites below. :O)

***How can you possibly be terrified of freedom???

Bolsheviks- Bolshephobia.
Bridges or of crossing them- Gephyrophobia. (My dad actually has this one…)
Beautiful women- Caligynephobia.
Chickens- Alektorophobia.
Chopsticks- Consecotaleophobia.
Eight, the number- Octophobia.
Freedom- Eleutherophobia. (No thanks, I'll have communism please...)
Gaiety- Cherophobia.
Garlic- Alliumphobia. (Can anyone say Vampire?)
Japanese or Japanese culture- Japanophobia.
Kissing- Philemaphobia or Philematophobia.
Looking up- Anablephobia or Anablepophobia.
Menstruation- Menophobia. (The bears... they smell the menstruation!!)
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror- Eisoptrophobia.
Money- Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia.
Northern lights- Auroraphobia.
Opinions- Allodoxaphobia.
Otters- Lutraphobia.
Phobias- Phobophobia. (You can have a fear of phobias???? Honestly…)
Poetry- Metrophobia.
Puppets- Pupaphobia.
Staying single- Anuptaphobia. (Don't we all at some point?)
Snow- Chionophobia.
Teenagers- Ephebiphobia. (No comment...)
Ugliness- Cacophobia.
Waits, long- Macrophobia. (I have this one)
Words, long- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia. (Appropriate)


If you need to see the whole list here it is: http://phobialist.com/reverse.html

Falcon Cam LIVE...

Check this out- so entertaining! The mama falcon is watching over her little baby falcons- all recorded by this live cam. She fed them a rabbit earlier today I heard... I wanna see that!

http://sanjose.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=&clip_id=&publish_id=91&event_id=

Haha.