Surprise olympics...

Have you ever been in a hot and heavy competition and not know that you were competing for something? Well I have. I call it the "surprise olympics"...This is how I found out, I picked up some water bottles on my way out the door on our way to evening chow/dinner and as I stand up with the trash in my hand to go put it in the dumpster Rachel is standing at the door and says in an excited out of breath voice ,"I'm done, I win!"I was a little puzzled but I didn't know what to say so I was like,"cool, let's go" so as we are walking up the trail to chow she goes' "I am the first one on the side walk, I win!", I caught on right then, see about TWO MONTHS AGO she and I were competing as to who could get ready for chow first (and we both knew it was a competition), well I won and forgot about it, Rachel hadn't. SO here I am in this situation where I never know if I'm competing or not so to play it safe from time to time I occasionally dom something really fast and say, "I win" She is like, "no, I was XYZ123 first" whatever it was...I like this, it is sort of like Calvin ball in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip... whatever goes as they play they make up the rules...



To get me to use the backspace instead of delete she leaves the number lock on, (she just denied it though)...



Rachel is OCD about soap, that is probably the wrong term or mis-diagnosis but I think its fitting because she does seem to have a quiet, desparate obsession and compulsion to and about all things soapesque. She is saying things about lanolin and oatmeal and glycerin that make me hungry sometimes. I think it is some internal psychological trauma induced by doing 3 weeks worth of calculus without a graphing calculator...Right now her favorite soap is Palomolive and Yardley oatmeal....right now I am digging this bar of Neutrogena and a bar of Bulovi that I found in the shower trailer. I think we are on our way to being soap zealots...you know the ones who corner you in the soap aisle and scare the crap out of you with VITAL soap emollients information and chemical facts. It happened to me at this food co-op just before we left in the nut aisle, this guy was raging about invasive nut species ground nuts versus tree nuts and monounsaturated oil content...sea salt or iodized table salt..man, I just grabbed what I needed and got out of there.... I somehow felt like I had disapponted him with my selection...



Anyway right now, I am supicious that I am in a competition to go to chow...again... she has this mischievious thing going on...



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