Common Mistakes Made in Caring for your Plant

I love plants. I guess you could call me an indoor plant enthusiast, or a planto-phile. Caring for and nurturing little pots of nature are one of life's most rewarding activities-- right behind clipping your nails after ten weeks of growth and organizing your tupperware drawer from smallest to largest. I am just THAT crazy about plants. If you have ever owned a plant, you would know that each one takes on a unique personality, this is why you should name your plant. Giving your plant a name that fully expresses who he/she is, will help your plant reach his/her full plant potential. Thus, I have named my plant Planty.

Meet Planty:

Over the course of our four month friendship, I have been Planty's sole provider. This is a huge responsibility, one I have not taken lightly. But even the most serious plant mothers, especially first time plant mothers, can make mistakes. I have put together a list of common "caring for your plant" mistakes below. Read the list, know the list, learn from the list, become the best plant mother/father you can be!

1. Just because your plant needs alot of sunlight, you should not infer that it is a desert plant that only needs to be watered every other month.

2. You cannot substitute Diet Snapple for water.

3. Negligently using your plant as a dirty underwear hamper will have a negative impact on your relationship.

4. Plants typically dont enjoy being walked, and may uncooperatively stand still in defiance of being leashed. Trying to force it to walk down the sidewalk, may result in your plant tipping over.

5. Do not assume your plant likes to be sung to (even if you think you belong on American Idol).

6. Plants need sunlight, they do not need sunscreen.

7. If your plant starts to turn brown, you should remedy this immediately with green Crayola markers, in the event that some "good samaritan" happens to call Plant Protective Services on you.

Follow this advice and you are well on your way to becoming a better plant parent! Happy Plarenting!

the world's a stage, and i'm in the audience

Right now I'm living on borrowed time (and borrowed money). This waiting game is frustrating. To make it worse, I decided to increase my time in limbo (aka school) by applying for a joint degree.

That's ok, at least I still have dreams.

Speaking of dreams...... Signs of finals week are creeping up everwhere. Three weeks ago was the first time this semester that a professor had brought up the word "final exam". I remember thinking "it is way to early to be bringing this subject up!" But now, exams are all we think and talk about!

Last night I had a dream that I was in the middle of a take home Contracts exam. I had four cases to examine and two hours to complete it. The cases were supposed to be from our Contracts casebook and I quickly found each one in the table of contents. But flipping through the book, they were either not there, kept changing pages, or the page number I was frantically searching for became suddenly elusive.

I raced against the clock, but the time I was given just kept bleeding away. I eventually had to turn in an incomplete exam. I couldn't stop kicking myself, I kept asking how I could be so unprepared as people around me exclained how easy the test was.

I woke up in a sweat at 5am with the strongest determination to crack open a book that I felt all year. But then I drifted back into uneasy sleep and woke up just in time to be five minutes late for class ;).