Lizard Chasing and other exciting and eventful moments

So I stopped in the bathroom.. and I hear my mother shriek.
I came out and my mother said that a lizard had leaped at her from the plastic plant on the bookshelf when she tried to move it.
The following events led to some entertainment value.
I saw the lizard.. who matched the carpet exactly...

and my long lessons in lizard chasing came to mind...
I spent a good 10 minutes chasing that lizard around the house on my hands and knees.
Stalking him from various angles...
blowing air on him when he hid...
send a yard stick towards him to make him run the way I wanted...
finally...

I caught the little guy.
I missed doing that.
Every time that my brother and I went to florida, we would catch lizards.
I suppose that severe boredom leads to that~

Then we went around cleaning the house and all that jazz.
We finally crashed, completely exhausted.

We finally arrived in Sarasota and my cousin picked us up to drive us to Bradenton.
We were then provided with the obnoxious task of fitting 4 large suitcases into a luxury lexus sports car.
ha.ha.ha
Don't judge us for packing so much! We're staying for a month!
haha so anyway...
we got to Bradenton and played in "the catnapper."My grandmothers amazing elderly folk chair that lifts her to a standing position and then all the way down into a reclining position...
quite fun. never give a teenager (or two) a remote control. haha.
then my mom and I headed over to the nursing home to see our grandmother.
Let me tell you... the ratio of mentally insane and demented elderly people to sane elderly people; 234,345,343 to 2.

I was followed all over the halls by crazy women... I take two steps... they wheeled two steps...
then yelled various things... incoherent things... psychobabble...

then they yell at you and call you ginger...
anyway... It creeped me out...

saw my grandmother, she was thrilled. A real sweetheart, that one.

by the time my mother and I left and had the chance to grab dinner, it was almost 11.
We headed to Beef O'Brady's where we stared blankly at the menu.
The waitress stopped by like 3 times to ask us what we wanted.
we just pointed to the menu.
perhaps the insanity of the old people rubbed off on us.

I woke up less than bright eyed and bushytailed...
packed as I had so many things happen preventing this before...
(5 girls from my old high school died in a violent and horrible car accident where they hit a semi truck head on and their car exploded)
My mother and I snagged our flight...
lost our boarding passes...
found out that security had forgotten to return them...
the flight was okay...except for the man who completely invaded my personal space during the first flight.
he shoved his legs over onto my side so he could sleep comfortably.
then when he was reading, he kept elbowing me in the ribcage. classy. jerk.
I didn't stick up for myself and say anything...
but when he went to sleep and leaned all towards me... I noticed his business attire...
and I made sure to sweep my crumbs off of the tray and onto his pants...
and to crunch obnoxiously loudly to annoy him.
I may not have mentioned that he was invading my space...
but I certainly drove him crazy anyway ;-)

hah I'm a sneaky one.