Pineapple growing update

Remember the pineapple I started rooting here?

Anyway.. this is what it looks like now (Sorry the formatting is all off. I'd fix it but my brain is already working overtime)

 It's been in water. I had tried moving it to dirt the week after I blogged about it and can safely report the pineapple did.not. appreciate it and tried to die on me. Larry actually had said "time of death 6:35" in his hint that it was dying but I refused to listen.

I moved it back to water and it's pretty much recovered. The leaves that didn't rot in the water are growing and the new leaves are growing up from the center.

The one in the mug was started a week or two later, The bottom is less rotted looking. 

the original plant

Eventually the stalk will grow up and the pineapple will grow on top of it. Like this

I have not successfully done this, but google image search shows me this should be my final result.

In other non-growing news...

Sonia's Geology rocks! Play was tonight. I guess ferns do speak. (Sonia was a fern) Not only did they speak, they also sang and danced and kidnapped "Professor Rock". Oh.. it was a musical. I have movie of that, too, the quality is kinda iffy but if I can find the patience to try to upload it, it'll appear here. As it is, I'm typing and then once I'm done that part, I'll try to find my camera for the pineapple and play pictures and upload them. Or I'll just leave the computer, let it turn itself off in 5 minutes and get distracted by something else that is more pressing.

I love my "new" car. Love it. Actually I love driving something normal sized- not a big truck, not a minivan. And I love 40-something mpg. I've spent the better part of what felt like eternity getting all the paperwork done on it, but as of today, it's fully registered to us and I have the stickers to get onto base with it.

And that was surprising. When we first got here, to get on base I had to pull over, go to pass and ID office there with registration, insurance and ID and get a temp pass. It was also that way for a few Navy bases I'd been to. Here, I just showed them my ID and they waved me in.

And I was thinking "welll..... WHY bother sitting through this line for 2 hrs to get stickers for the car if that's all I need to do to get on base...???" except one of the gates I tend to go through to get onto base requires that you have said stickers, so I waited to get them. And Larry had been flagged that Kayla didn't have a valid social security number in the system which I guess meant that she didn't officially exist or have medical benefits (?) so after ignoring them twice I needed to go and get that card to them. It's the same waiting room. I had 2 deli tickets- one for the stickers for for Kayla's information update. Deli ticket 1 was called during the second "family Feud" we got to watch waiting. The second deli ticket was during the final round of the second family feud. Oh. and we also got to watch the mid-day news.  After spending an hour at the DMV office at the AAA office.

Speaking of.. did you know you can go to a AAA office in lieu of going to the actual DMV? Handy information to have. Yesterday's trip to the DMV at AAA took me 30 minutes total to find out that I filled out a form wrong and needed Larry's license number and him to re-sign 2 places.. so today I went there in high hopes of a short visit and it was.....
not short.
But relatively it was substantially less time than I've spend at DMVs. So it's valuable information to know it's an option.

Anyway...

In homefront news, we were visited by the stomach bug this weekend. I still haven't dug myself out from the laundry back log that doing that much rag and blanket laundry can create. And my rugs are clean.  Now. Nothing like a child vomiting all over the bathroom floor, coming out to tell you they missed the toilet and proceeds to erupt over the hallway carpet.

In other news I'm going in for a re-check after my Lasik tomorrow. As much as I do.not. not.not. want to go through that again, I have a sinking feeling that my vision either needs to be "touched up" or I need glasses again. Larry promised I will be better drugged this next time. I deleted the post on my fun Lasik experience when all those odd dots were showing up on my map. Not that it's really personal, but I just wasn't sure how many people and more specifically who might be reading about my trying to drive after it. Although my fender scratching accident was the week before the Lasik.. I just don't need evidence "out there", I guess.  I still run into psycho chick, metaphorically speaking, although I still avoid her like botulism. She still has "angry gangster girl" body language so it's not like she's making friends with anyone else at school. She brought gangster boyfriend to the school music performance earlier this week. (oh, yeah, did I mention tonight's production was the 4th this week?)

So.. before I turn into a pumpkin let me go find my camera and camera cord and get some pictures up here.....

Ugh. Learning new tricks over here at the pound. This old dog can't get my video to upload here, so we're learning about uploading to youtube.  If it goes correctly you'll have video. If not, you'll just have to take my word that Sonia was in a play.  (oh, yeah.. don't mind the little big o propaganda in it. At least there wasn't mention of global warming and carbon footprints. Probably one of the reasons I'm so hostile to the concepts is that they're preached like religion here. Of course we live in densely populated smog, so it feels more of a real life issue than, say.. somewhere like, uh, Kansas. If only the smog that comes up from TJ could understand that CA doesn't want pollution. but...NO.. we send our cars deemed too dirty to drive here in CA to  Mexico and then they freely come back over the border with their smog and then the warm breeze brings the rest of it up. Don't worry, I'm sure once we close the borders to people and drugs crossing illegally we'll figure a way to keep the smog and air pollution from crossing also)

So.... now.... we have video. I can still learn new tricks.