Kneecaps and Other Madness

We are leaving for Georgia in 5 days.  YIPE!  I should totally be packing right now, but a queen loves a little procrastination.  I can't completely label it procrastination, though.  Many of my recent days have been filled by spending quality time with my little brother (the 20 year-old).  We have had lots of important things to do:  we talk religion, we talk politics, we talk the importance of knee-caps and how without them our eyeballs would bulge out... (don't even try to figure that one out- it was very late), we talk palmistry and dream interpretation (while I value political correctness to a certain extent and I respect palm reader's right to their chosen professions, I must admit that we do this with a certain air of... dare I say... mockery.  Not a lot.  Just a little.  An air.), we talk missions and baptisms, we talk crazy people... heck, we talk like crazy people, we sing off key to the songs on the radio, we annoy my mom and pretty much everyone else in the neighborhood, we discuss our future businesses that we're going to start together someday (get your family's pictures taken while you wait for custom wood furniture to be built, anyone? We're gonna be rich).

 I have also enjoyed watching late night television with Tim.  Our Favorites: "Say Yes to the Dress," "Chopped Champions," and "Psych".  Sick addictions, I know, but I figure I will be moving soon and won't have TV, so I may as well indulge while I can. Plus it's all in the name of building sibling relationships, so I can justify it.

We also ventured into productive territory once.  Yesterday Tim read part of my camera manual to me.  I have this incredibly gorgeous camera that I hardly know all of the functions of.  When I meet someone who is also interested in photography they say things to me like,
"Oh! Does the Nikon D7000 bdslkbflsvflvsflbvsbfvkjsbvfkjlbskfjbvskjvfkjsvfkjvsv x cvkjsbfklavgsljfglwuegrbsk f sfbvwiuebvfil?"

And nervously I respond, "Um, if that means that it takes pictures, then yes. Yes it does."

So I decided I should read up on what the camera actually does so that one day I can respond, "Well, I prefer abdagsdflibsdfilbskldbf,  though my camera does efkgdgfvjdsbvdjkbsfg," or something all cool and jargon-y.  The problem is that I read a paragraph from the manual, lift my eyes from the page, and my brain is wiped completely clean again.  I cannot get myself interested in the technical stuff. I just like taking pictures, okay????  So, Tim agreed to read the technical poo and to show and tell me what it all means in ways my brain can hold onto.  I think some of it may have actually worked.

So, obviously my having not packed is definitely not completely procrastination. I have been B.U.S.Y.  Also, one of my more recent stress dreams involved us opening our storage unit in Texas to find mountains of dirty laundry, so I haven't even wanted to go near a pile of clothing in real life. 

It'll happen... just maybe Saturday night.