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English major or not, you should be offended by bad grammar. I know, I know, everyone is not an Akeelah or a Grammar Girl. And, please, I love a good typo, slang word or old fashioned Americanism (bizarro, shitload, douche bag) as much as the next person. I drove by a restaurant advertising a “$5 Cuban Sandwish” the other day. But, come on, a little good grammar goes a loooong way!
We live in a world of texts and 140-character thoughts, so it’s not out-of-this-world that we would want to think of ways to speed things up and shorten them. To be honest, I barely copy edit myself when I write this bloggity-blog. (I should. But, I don’t (always).)
In any event, I hope my nephews grow up knowing that tomorrow isn’t 2mrw (or whatever they’re using these days!); you has two other letters beside U; and there are more ways than 
to express emotion.
Here are a few grammatical pet peeves of mine, what are yours?
1. your/you’re. Is it yours? I hope you’re happy with the answer.
2. their/they’re/there. They’re over there with their children.
3. toward(s)/backward(s). No s. It’s not technically wrong, and I’m sure there are people who fight for the s, but not me. Not here. Of course, if you move to the UK or AU, by all means…take that s and run with it.
4. redundancy. I know I’m redundant in writing in several, if not all, of my posts. However, I’m a fan of brevity in writing. There shouldn’t be two twins (unless there are 4 babies total! And, if that’s the case, run!). You don’t need to make advance reservations.
There are many more, but I don’t want to get into a lesson here. Teacher, I am not. I’ll leave that to the certified.
But, if you want to laugh at the grammar misfortunes of others, click here.
Connecting water & electricity & gas: $402 (yes, a $402 deposit for Lake Worth residents!)
Gas lines turned on and checked: $150
Changing address on license: $25
Owning a home: PRICELESS
Fork in hand, we now have ourselves a piece of the pie – a home! Dig in! We are so excited, and there is so much to update … and it will come … soon. Moving, for lack of a better word, sucks. It makes me sweat and what’s worse, I realize I am a pack rat. Do I need to keep my high school yearbooks? What about the anniversary card JP gave me … 6 years ago? Well, now that I have a house to fill, it seems the answer must be a resounding YES, yes?!
And they say stoners are lazy. Well, not those in Australia – that is, if you’re a wallaby. Straight from the headlines: Stoned wallabies make Australian crop circles. I would much rather read about high macropods than murders anyday.
“We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” the state’s top lawmaker Lara Giddings told local media on Thursday.
What’s more, I like that the short article ended on a factoid:
Australia produces about 50 percent of the world’s raw material for morphine and related opiates.
Take that Intervention. Better start planning a franchise series Down Under. (I only have basic cable, and fortunately, A&E is one of my choices. Whenever I hear the theme music to Intervention, I tune out everything. The drama of going from star ____ (insert talent) to dead beat ____ (insert drug/alcohol) addict is intense. I’m so addicted…I think I need an intervention…)
Now that summer’s rolling in, I’m sure most of you are heading somewhere on vacation (or at least planning or wishing for a vacation). And vacation usually means a night (or 2, or 3…) in a hotel. I love staying in hotels. The black out curtains. The super cold AC (well, that’s more for JP). Knowing you’re someplace other than home. In fact, I’m still thinking about the awesome sheets/bed at a hotel we stayed at in San Francisco. There was also the Jupiter Beach Resort where we had our wedding – super cute amenities to take home.
I found this article from Travel +Leisure on CNN.com quite amusing – Is it OK to steal hotel amenities? It said that most places actually want you to take home their goodies. It makes sense. You arrive at Cute Bed & Breakfast. Take home Cute Bed & Breakfast soap and lotions. Use those soap & lotions at home a couple of weeks later, then think of Cute Bed & Breakfast again.
What do you take from hotels??
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On another note, has anyone else noticed the rise in mentions of Australia on US television lately? Seriously. Andrew Zimmerman and his balls-tongue-eye-eating self went to Australia. The former Girls Next Door star, Bridget Marquardt, opened her new show with a trip Down Under visiting Bondi and the Gold Coast among other places. Just this morning, Good Morning America had some guy on talking about Australia’s deadliest creatures.
I think it’s a sign. Must. Go. Back. Soon.
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