Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Gel highlighters and heart models

Today I went with my parents to take my grandma to the cardiologist. First we stopped at Walmart and bought some storage things for my bro's apartment (he is going off to college this year but next year I will probably be living with him while I go to college as well) and I got a pink storageish thing. That is like a small shelfish thing that has three pull out compartments, a top "secret" compartment (that's what my dad called it but the top was see through so not very secret) and two open compartments on the top. Then I was walking by the school supplies and saw the pens. Now for those of you who don't know me I have an obsession with pens. So this is why I was so drawn to the supplies. I saw these things called sharpie gel highlighters and just thought they were a gel like ink thing. I was curious enough that I bought them and was awesomely surprised. The are these twistable things that have a gel glue stick like quality. The best part is when you write with them it feels like cray pas (oil pastels). 

    and  = 5,000,000,000,000 pts. of similarity 
So after this we went to the cardiologist. At first I was suspecting that this was going to be a terribly dull activity, but I was wrong. When we entered the examination room two thing pulled my attention to them. One was a model of a heart that had hinges on it so I knew that you could open it up. The other was a set of test tubes that had a substance in them that reminded me of agar gel (this reminded me of microbiology which made me happy). From the moment I saw the hinges on that heart model I knew I was destined to open them.  So I waited patiently as the nurse checked my grandma's pulse etc., because I knew that when she was done there would be a little time in between her leaving and the doctor entering. Just as the nurse was finishing up the doctor walked in. My heart sunk. After the doctor left we had to wait for the nurse to come back to discharge my grandma. I saw my chance and seized it. I hurried over to the model and started to look at it. My father said immediately and Faith was like NOOOO. And that is the conclusion of the heart model story.  We went to lunch after this at a steak n' shake. After this we went to a second hand furniture store to look at stuff for my bro's apartment. First my dad saw/became obsessed with this weird wood thing. Ok so I am aware that you can't read the text now that I posted the pic so the bubble on the left says "Shelves that are unstable and make me fear for my life if there is a small earthquake" and the one on the left says "Area that dad said we could keep our shoes off the floor and so bugs won't get in them...WHAT?!" 


Then while wandering around I found a CEO chair. Now I have always had a secret passion to have a CEO chair since my dad has a CEO like chair in his office (even though he is just a minister and not a CEO). I love the idea of spinning in a CEO chair screaming you are fired! 

 I have an INTENSE LOVE for these types of chairs.

Then we found the most wonderful thing I have ever seen (minus the CEO chair). A 1950s style table of awesomenessnessness. First I was like no yuck cracked earth crust blue design on the top, but the longer I looked at it the more I realized that I had given it the wrong name.....then it hit me it was: THE DINOSAUR SKIN TABLE. Now with just that simple name change my hate for this table turned to love. I now feel obligated after that big build up to describe it to you with the help of a picture of a table similar to the table I saw but it is red....:

1. First look at this table 

Then imagine it is a light blue with dinosaur skin textured look where the textured part is a darker blue....wait....why I am I doing this explination when  I can maybe to this table justice with an amateur photo shop job. 


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