Earth Hour

I heard about Earth Hour first here, and then it was popping up everywhere.  We weren't home to participate, but I did unplug items (computers, printers, etc.) in honor of the event (which is something we should be doing all the time, anyway).

And it has to be mentioned, I heart Google's page display for this.  Pretty effing cool.

Hooters

So, after living here for what... 17 months?  We finally decided to make it official, and get WV licenses.  The problem is there's no place locally to just run down and stand in line and get it done, so we opted for the Charleston location because:

a) STARBUCKS!
b) It's cooler
c) STARBUCKS!
d) we were going that way, anyway
e) they're open on Saturdays
f) I think there's a Starbucks around there

Well.  I Mapquested the address, but it didn't come up exactly.  It did that thing where it gave me some options, and I just picked one.  Because I obviously know where I'm going if I'm Mapquesting the directions.

Stupidly, I thought it wouldn't be that hard to find, and we decided to kind of wing it, and ask for directions if we needed.

Oh, we needed.

It wasn't where we thought, not even close, and we drove all over the stupid, damn city looking for the stupid, damn DMV.  We drove up a ways, and back a ways, and then over the river, and then back to where we started.  We got directions at three different places, and the directions from two people (guys) mentioned that it was past Hooters.

Hooters?  Really?  In Charleston?  West Virginia?  Seriously?

We decided to change our parameters, and look for Hooters instead of the DMV, because clearly that's what we were doing wrong in the first place.  That, and trusting Mapquest.  Two different sets of directions mentioned the place, so it had to be there somewhere.

We finally found Hooters.  The orange owl sign was shining at us like a beacon across the city.  Right past it we found the DMV.  We are now card-carrying West Virginians, and celebrated with lots and lots of Starbucks.

The price of awesomeness

Dear Tattoo,

You're really great, and I love you to death.  However, you need to get to steppin' with this whole healing thing.  I am thisclose to clawing my arm off with all the itching, and that would be a shame.

Love,
That chick with all the fingernails