everything is dumber, apparently, in texas

Dear Texas, 

You should probably remove State Representative Betty Brown (R ... shocker) from your roster of residents. I'm just thinking of your best interest here ....

Tuesday, State Rep. Betty Brown (R), during House testimony on voter identification legislation said that Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Wherever you decide to deport her to, just please exclude Chicago, Columbia or D.C. as your list of options as I don't enjoy spending time with people this incredibly stupid. 

Love,

Sammi

the day of fools

I have to hand it to Christy Solberg and Katie Shuh for pulling quite a fantastic prank on me.

Here is a photo essay complete with my mental dialogue.

So I walk outside to my car. 

The only problem there is that my car is missing. 

I go through all the possible scenarios. 

I drove somewhere and left my car there. Not likely. 

Grace took my car. Likely, but not this time around because she has Hope's car. 

Someone stole my car. Unfortunately, that seemed most probable.

See below for missing car:

Then it hits me. Today is April 1st. 

April Fool's Day. 

You think I'd be slightly less shocked seeing as I woke up to the television, staircase and light switches covered in tinfoil and a fridge filled with mugs and bowls. 

This still begged the question: so if not here ... where is my car?

See below for answer:

My car Lex is in the garage. Covered in ... you guessed it ... tinfoil again.

Don't worry, loyal reader (hi, mom), I pranked them back.