I love seeing the local irrigation canals because they give you these perfect reflections of a slice of the sky. Today was a rushed day because I needed to go to school, drop off some things at the library, and finish preparing for tomorrow’s trip to New Jersey.

I finally broke down and bought a hair straightening iron. All this time I thought I had straight hair already! But in reality, it just tries to decide every day if it is wavy or not and in the end doesn’t make up its mind and just hangs there in its own messy way. This thing will help… and it looks kinda slick and cool, too! I hope I don’t totally kill my hair with it, because it sure makes me look nice – and is easy to use for a styling ignoramus like myself.

I’ll be out traveling this week for business, so I figured it would be a good idea to get some decent clothes. It was hard for me to find anything! I just don’t like what is around and "fashionable" these days. I am tired of seeing the same 4 colors (brown, blue, white, orange) in all these chiffony tops that look like underwear… It took me hours to pick out one shirt – and some undies.

A friendly customer at Indo Euro brought a bag full of guavas from the trees in her yard and Sonal let me have a couple. The large ones are Hawaiian, the small ones are an Asian variety. They smelled so sweet, it put a smile on my face all afternoon. And they tasted great, too!

I found this poster a couple of doors down from Indo Euro. I love that this strip mall is so diverse! With a little more effort I could probably decipher this young man’s name in the Cyrillic writing and thus possibly find out somewhere online why he is so fond of heavy make-up.

Last night’s thunderstorm was so loud it woke me up a few times while it was hovering over our house for an hour or so. A couple of times the thunder and lightning set off some people’s car alarms. In the morning, which was refreshingly cool (in the lower 80s), I stopped on the way out of the apartment complex to snap this picture of our “new pool”.