I ate the best salad berkeley had to offer....

It was called Italian, and it contained: artichoke hearts, tomatoes, mozzarella, grilled green and red bell peppers, garbanzo beans, romaine and arugula lettuce, and came with a vinaigrette. Of course I added pepper and didn't eat the focaccia bread, because I am Rachel and I can.

Then we proceeded to walk around Berkeley in monkey masks. People smiled, children waved. and at one place we were stalked by paparazzi and had to take like 5 different pictures with people at the restaurant (where we were just getting a beer). I feel like my fifteen minutes of fame has come and passed all because of a monkey mask. Later, we met a professor of women and arts, who initially mistook us for "guerilla girls," a group of women that go to feminist art shows and tear bad representations of feminism/art of the walls. After explaining we were not, said, "gorilla girls," she proceeded to invite us to be her VIP guests at the next feminist art show, showcasing feminism and the recession. Basically it was a badass day. Here are some monkeys monkeying around.

Also, we had a dance off and are planning to make a music video. World prepare yourself.

I know, I am the shit. Praise me. Just kidding. No. Really. Don't.

Stickers and Yard Sales!

So while Auntie and Tunnel were home we had a surprise birthday party for Auntie and it was ELVIS THEMED! awesome! Here are the pictures from that, then I would like to impart on you some awesome sites from a yard sale I went to.

Elvis has left the building!

Now on to the coolest yard decorations ever!

That's right, that is a bathtub fountain!

And a bench made out of horseshoes!!!

What another bathtub fountain!!!!!

Yep! THREE, I kid you not, THREE bathtub fountains!!!!!! I really want one!!!

And some freaking awesome old school farming equipment!!!

Then we ate at the Auction yard, I had my usual (2 eggs over easy, sausage, hash browns, and wheat toast!) because I didn't want to risk getting a stomach ache from the famous, and oh(!), so delicious biscuits and gravy. 

After that I used some duct tape to fix my already janky drums, the hi-hat was broken, which I later had to re-fix it because duct tape does not hold up to the drumming of one, Rachel Lloyd. 

Next up on livin-n-lingo.....Bridal Shower of Madness! Just kidding on the madness part, but also, does anyone know why I chose "livin-n-lingo" as my blog name? If you do message me and I will give you a beer.

New Websites

So, basically I am always behind the times, but(!) I learned about some new websites that you may be interested in or you may not. But I will be checking them out and letting you know about how the go and the cool things that I find in the process of searching. Here they are:

formspringme.com

stumbleupon.com

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

thats about all for now, later I have pictures of camping, gardening and chicken cooping!

Lady Gaga

So everyone already knows how obsessed I am with this song, since like Christmas:



So this is the conversation I just had with my mothing:

me: (listening to bad romance)
mothing: (♫ i want your loving.....♫)
me: o_O ????????
mothing: (walks away)
me: scoop, hold on i gotta check this out; mothing? how do you know lady gaga????
mothing: who is lady gaga?
me: you were just singing her!!!
mothing: maybe because I listen to 70's and 80's music?
me: baHAHAHAHAHAHaaaaaa, what? no! (walk away)

For every mystery, there is someone, somewhere, that knows the truth. Perhaps that someone is reading. Perhaps...it's YOU! If you have any information on this case, please write to us in the comment section...You need not give your name. Authorities need your help. This program is about unsolved mysteries. The re-enactments and special effects are actual eye-witness accounts. What you have read is not a news broadcast.

Modoc Rocks!

In class, I had my Earth Science students do a worksheet on a brochure called "Modoc Rocks!" Basically it was about all the geological hot spots in Modoc county, and since I will be here a little bit long and the weather was seemingly nice, I thought I would take a couple friends on the tour. Here is what happened. (Baby Kangaroo and Koala, both thought we would get stuck. Well, guess what, girls don't get stuck, because we aren't stupid!)

We stopped at a cemetery in Davis Creek, and I thought this tombstone was super cool with these flowers. That stop didn't last very long as it was balls cold out.

On the way to our first and second stop, we drove a long a dirt road, which turned to a muddy road, which then turned into a few feet of snow. Never having got to our first two spots (spots 2 and 3 because we actually skipped going to spot 1 - it was a resource office or something), we got out of the Jeep for a little nature time anyway. The Warner Mountains have a lot to offer.

Ash taking a picture of me taking her picture!

The view coming down the mountain was pretty sick as well.

On the way to spot 4 we saw a derailed train, that has been there for several years, but apparently it has been a long time since I have been on that highway and I thought it was the coolest thing since railed trains.

Spot 4 was Chimney rock, this picture is of the surrounding rocks.

At one time a cabin was built in to this rock, and it has all the names of the people who were traveling through at the time it was made.

Ash likes to climb.

This is a pretty sick pic, I think at least.

Sorry for the finger....but you get the point.

This was a really beautiful day!

I can't believe I was the only one without holes in my jeans. THAT never happens! I just noticed that everyone has the big hole on the left knee...that is totally the same in all my holey jeans! Weird.

I also forgot to wear my boots. I suck at this trip.

We found a bridge.

I just find this hilarious! Hahahaha, good one.

Then what happened to us, was a series of unfortunate events, like we ran into more snow and weren't able to get to like 7/10 places on the tour. Although, we didn't get to see the sites on the tour, we still saw a lot of cool things. Also, we made it out without injury and WE DIDN'T GET STUCK! Yay, us. But I guess it was a nice car ride, good thing my mom had tissue in the Jeep, because we had to pee in the woods several times. At least I got an ice cream!

When we got home Ash got a tattoo!!!!

I feel like if we go on this tour again when there is no snow and the roads are accessible, I will write more about how each spot was formed and crap like that so I feel like a real teacher. For being a teacher, I mostly just feel like I am the one that is learning. Perhaps if you view yourself as student of life, you will always have something to gain, and the more you experience the more you can teach.

Slacker McSlackson

So, as you might have noticed I have been slacking a lot on my blogging. I blame it on traveling, work, not sitting in front of the computer, and also that I have not had my laptop in a long time. Well, guess what ladies and gentlemen, I now have my computer back and I intend to make use of it. Starting tomorrow I am hoping to be back at my normal 3-4 blogs per week and also take you through the glorious process of moving/finding a job all while still maintaining the crazy things I do in the mean time. As for right now I am drawing and listening to records, so expect tomorrow's blog to be full of all things good and rocky! (Foreshadow, hint, hint, foreshadow...) Oh, and I am trying to convince my students to make a music video, so if you have a song suggestion, let's hear it!

P.S. A woman over the age of 60 called me "lady," I could be here granddaughter! LADY YOURSELF GRANDMA! Or if you must call me lady, at least call me "Lady Rara."

P.S.S. THERE WAS SNOW ON THE GROUND WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING!!!! NOT LIKE A LITTLE LIKE OVER AN INCH....WTF IT"S MAY!