Are you Kidding Me?

Sometimes I really feel like I am living in a foreign country here in SoCal. Things that I take for granted and see as an every day occurrence at home just don't happen here. One example is cooking....people here just don't cook. There are grown women that I've worked with at various hospitals that have families and children at home and they go out to eat or order in food every single day of the week - I guess it's just passed down or should I say not passed down. They think it's something special and wonderful when they bring in something pre-made from Costco...sure makes me appreciate the love of good food and cooking that was instilled in us growing up! Last fall Jason and I went to an apple festival in the mountains near us and they had a petting zoo...well all the ladies in thier heels, perfect hair and make-up and Gucci bags are walking around (this is normal to do at an apple orchard right?) and we saw a lady stop at the petting zoo point to a goat and say to her kids...oh look at the cute deer!!! And the perpetual cycle of ignorance continues! I once heard the receptionist of a clinic I was at calling different day spa's and asking them if they did eye lash perms!!! I didn't even know there was such a thing! Apparently it's quite common here, but who in thier right mind would want that caustic perm junk by thier eyes?

Today I was at my clinicals and one of the sonographers said "It was so cool I saw a squirrel running on the power line yesterday - I've never seen that before!" and everyone else was like "oh that's so cool!" ARE YOU KIDDING?! I really thought it was a joke that they were making such a big deal out of seeing a squirrel...but kidding they were not. It just made me think of the group at UO that wanted to make squirrel fishing a club sport...not that I condone such a thing but talk about contrast to go from never seeing one on a power line to having such an abundance of them that you can reel them in with a fishing pole! Oh how I miss the great Northwest!