I finally finished writing and mailing the rest of my Thank-You Cards for those who sent me graduation money. My mother keeps nagging me for sending them so late. I guess it’s “customary” to send them out about a week after they’re all received. I’ve waited until about halfway through summer, so about 5 weeks. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if after a certain time frame, sending Thank-You’s is more of an insult than a thoughtful gesture. In general, is there an undeclared time span that one needs to send out Thank-You’s before they become absolutely pointless? I usually wait about a month after holidays and birthdays to send out Thank-Yous… I figured it would be the same for my Graduation money. I could be over-analyzing this. Who knows. My friends sent theirs out at different times as well. Some sent theirs out within a week after graduation, others still are sending them out. I guess it’s just different for different people.

I’ve got nothing too interesting to blog about lately, so I’ve got a set of questions that I found on Pim’s blog.

1. Would you say you have an accent? I sound so absolutely boring. I’ve got no sort of accent or dialect to my voice whatsoever. I guess living in the melting pot of all melting pots does that to you. (Las Vegas)
2. Do you hope to be married (married again if divorced)? Eventually…
3. If you could take one technology to a desert island (the obvious satellite phone excluded), what would it be? This one’s a toughie. I’d love to bring my iPod… however, it would eventually die, seeing as I can’t charge it because there’s no electricity. And my cell phone wouldn’t have any service, so that would be pointless as well. I guess I’d want to take something that could help me get off the island. Or, like Pim… I’d want a man on the island with me haha!
4. What is the last activity you bought a ticket for? A plane ticket to Reno, NV for a NevadaBound college trip… I ended up canceling the ticket because I decided I didn’t want to go to Reno.

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I never thought I’d actually come around to saying this. I’ve begun to fall in love with all the little perks of UNLV. I don’t think it’s because I’m anxious to go to school. After today, I really think UNLV isn’t half bad. I went to a Registration event sort of thing today and took a tour of the newer parts of campus. (As a side note, UNLV is under constant construction because it’s a newer school) Everything was super nice, and there was so much free crap that it was unbelievable. And because we’re 2 miles from the Strip, I guess we get a lot of free concerts from performers on the Strip. The guy who started the whole PostSecret thing had a little venue thing here not too long ago, too. Enough of my rambling. The PostSecret blog is a great way to kill time, especially if one’s looking to broaden their horizons about people’s inner most secrets.

I don’t remember how I stumbled upon this one. This one cracks me up. People are always talking so much crap about WalMart. I’m curious to know what people really think about WalMart. I think they’ve gotten so big that when they’re present in a small town, they make it virtually impossible for small businesses to be even remotely competitive in the food industry market. And even if people protest to not have WalMart Supercenters built in their small towns, once they’re built, people sill shop there just because of the simple fact that they’re prices can’t be beat. My family shops there on a regular basis, but not all the time. Then again, we definitely don’t live in a small town, so my whole mini-blurb about WalMart doesn’t even necessarily affect me. Oh well. Random thoughts of the day.

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So I was in my first car accident on Tuesday. I meant to post pictures and post an entry on Wednesday, but the day just got too busy and time consuming with work projects that this had to wait until today. I was in a minor fender bender accident that was not my fault. I’ll re-edit the post when I get home and post the minor damage shot.

I was on a busy street driving to what was supposed to be my dentist appointment before work, and I was stopped at a red light with another car in front of me. Then out of nowhere my body slammed into the steering wheel and the only word I used to describe my complete and utter shock was “Holy Shit!” To be quite honest, I always know my surroundings, but there was absolutely no time to react to the van behind me coming at me from behind. I barely even looked in my rear view mirror before I was hit.

The accident ended up being a 4 vehicle fender bender, with me being the 2nd car from the front. The first 3 cars were at a complete stop, and an older woman, who was obviously not paying attention, failed to brake on a 45mph busy street during peak morning traffic hours. There’s only a few scratches on the back end of my car; luckily, the back end wasn’t smashed in. The van must’ve hit me just right to where the bumper reacted greatly, or the woman in the van had enough space from behind me to attempt to brake the momentum from the stupid old woman driver. Needless to say, after two hours of watching police officers fill out police reports, and listening to the old woman bicker about how it was our faults was pretty entertaining. Despite her bickering and stupidity, the police ended up giving her full responsibility on the police report. She was not too thrilled about that one. She kept referring to all of us “inferiors” as a “pointless waste of time and inconvenience to her day”. Quite frankly, by her creating this inconvenience for herself, she also created inconveniences for everyone else around her; the three cars in the accident, and those driving on that busy street… which was now tremendously backed up with cars honking at us. Not a great way to start out my day, but hey; I missed the dentist. (that sentence kind of rhymed a bit…)

And this website shows the statistics of the best and worst cities for safe driving… I find it interesting that we’re number 76…. clear down on the bottom… with a D rating.
I will post pictures later. And as a quick side note… my 4th of July ended up being absolutely amazing!

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