living in a right handed world!

Living in a right handed world! Even if I drink out of a soda can it is meant for right handed people!
Here is an example of drinking a soda, holding the can with your right hand, the logo is conveniently displayed. (photo below)

drinking a soda holding the can with your left hand (photo below) the logo is blocked and the nutrition label is showing.

Marketing has strategically placed the logo on the left side of the cans to fit into a right handed market of people. When I am drinking the soda or other canned beverage I am using my left hand and not displaying the brands logo. HA!

photos provided by the internet.

Back to license plates!!!

I am heading home from lunch with a friend of mine and I am driving behind a car with a personizled plate. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?

Can you figure this out and then leave a comment below to tell me what I am not figuring out?

The plate reads, "ITS HKY"

It is hicky? It is Hockey? HUH???

I know that this is a personalized plate, because the generic plates have to include numbers as well. This one is trying to communicate something, and it is probably so easy, I am just looking too hard. LOL

Yesterday I did see one plate that read, "IOU POP" which translates to: I owe you dad! As in the dad bought her the car she is driving around in. I think...? It was a BMW Suv. Cute.

Then for people with bumper stickers!!!! Don't put political stickers on your bumper! They are permanant and get outdated! How about all the Hillary Clinton supporters who placed a "Hillary Clinton '08" on thier car? AND now she is not even running for president. She fell out of the race and now some people have a sticker stuck to their cars filled with false hopes.

I have a bumper sticker on my car from when I lived in Burbank, CA. It is for the local radio station, Star 92.5 FM. I am driving around Missouri now advertising a radio station that does not exsist here. So I too have outdated myself. Bumper stickers are hard to pick out which to permanently put on your car, with out getting stuck with one you can't take off later on. OOOH, That sentance was deep.

I am rambling on now...anyway, could one of my blog readers please figure out what the plate means? Thank you.

License plates are confusing!!!

Growing up in California, the license plates all start with a number and have seven characters of letters and numbers mixed together at random combonations. The personalized plates read cute and catchy phrases using up to 7 characters and can start with a letter instead of a number. So if you see a California plate with a letter as the 1st character, try to read what it says because some of the personal plates are a chalange. Back when I first got my drivers license, I was standing in a very long line with my mom. We had enough time on our hands to look through this giant binder listing EVERY personalized plate in California! This way you could see if your phrase was already used and needed to alternate it a bit to get on your own car. This is when I first realised the plates had 7 characters and my name also had 7 letters, of course the light bulb goes off and we both flip over to the M section. MARTIEL was already taken! Some one is driving around a car IN CALIFORNIA with my name on thier personalized, license plate!? Is this another person named Martiel? AND this person is somewhere in California??? 1 in a million odds! Oh well.

Years later when I was an Interior Designer in LA I bought a personalized license plate. It read, "(heart shape) DEC8TN" Can you figure it out?


It translates to Love Decorating! and the heart shape is one of the characters to choose in personalizing your plates in California.

Later on we moved to Ohio, and the plates all started with a letter and had 7 characters. This was so confusing for me to adjust to, when I was use to the letter plates in CA being the personilzed plates...and here in Ohio I would sit in traffic trying to read a plate only to figure out it was a random selection plate and not a catchy phrase. Silly. Some of the plates were personalized and some were not.

THEN I move to Missouri, where I currently live. The plates here are back to starting with a number, and then a mixture of numbers and letters. AND the plates in Missouri are only 6 characters long and not 7 as in California. My name would not be on a Missouri plate...

Today I went to the DMV, to renew my plates and add on the little sticker for the next year. ONLY this year Missouri is changing plate backgrounds, from the teal and white stripe, to a white, with blue outline of the states shape on it and a little bird on the bottom. This means I had to get new plates to replace the "old design" plates, that I have on my car. AND!!! these plates start with a letter now instead of the number (still with 6 characters)! Now it will start to get confusing to read plates on cars durring traffic time. I will have a harder time knowing which are random, and which are personalized. Just as I did in Ohio, with reading plates, I could not tell sometimes if a plate was personalized and just didn't make sence to me or if it was a random plate on a car. ARRG!

My Name is a Town in France!

I googled my name, Martiel, to see what popped up. Google Earth shows a town named, Martiel, France! I want to go here and see my name everywhere...like on street signs or as Martiel's Cafe, Pub, Etc. Shops...or a milage sign that reads, "15 miles to Martiel" HAHAHA....only in France the nilage marker may read in Kilometers? I think? I made it on the map! The town of MARTIEL!

Check the site out:
http://www.maplandia.com/france/midi-pyrenees/aveyron/villefranche-de-rouergue/martiel/

Google your name and see what comes up.

random pics from the FL trip

Looks like Andrew made a new friend!

More to come...

Just posting some pics.

There is not much to write about on my blog tonight, I just have some pics to share.
-Martiel

YES, I entered a coloring contest at my local grocier store! (didn't win) I played around with a fun photo editor program: All edited by me below!

Happy July

Andrew and I celebrated the 4th of July here in St. Louis, MO. We went to a carnival with Carissa, Marlon, and thier 2 kids. It was an All American Classic. There were carnival rides, a farris wheel, games to play and win a prize for 50 cents a try, popcorn, cotton candy, and hot dogs, etc. We started off with 20 ride tickets, each ride would "cost" about 2 or 3 tickets. At the end of our carnival fun, we had 6 tickets left and passed them down to a little girl waiting in line to go on the wiggle worm ride.

There was one carnival game, which I thought was a rip-off. The man had a booth with a radar gun hooked up to read the speed of a baseball pitch, the person playing gets 2 balls for TWO DOLLARS!!! ...to first throw one ball, and the meter reads the speed, then with the second ball you throw it trying to guess your speed, based on the first ball to make a ball park guess (pun intended)... the guess needs to be exact in order to win a prize!!! All of that for $2.00, is a rip-off, and most likely no prize in the end. I took a stab at the game and first I threw my pitch at a speed of 24, then had to guess the next balls speed and went down to 23, only to get a speed of 25! stupid game. I throw like a girl! haha oh yeah that's cuz I am a girl! Andrew threw at a speed of 35, an 38.

When we were waiting to go on the farris wheel there was a bridal party with the bride and groom all getting on the wheel and the photographer was there taking the wedding photos. (I took some with my camera, to post later). I thought this was such a cool idea to be married on the 4th and have a classic carnival back drop to use for wedding photos. Later, the happy coulple took photo opps by the cotton candy vender. A very cool idea.

After the carnival festivities it started to get dark for the firework show to start, over by where we had parked ended up being a perfect spot to watch the fireworks, we all sat in the parking lot with our pop up chairs and watermellon in a cooler all set up and sitting pretty.

The 4th was a blast!

Dolphin Swim

Another fun time in Florida was spent at the Theater of the Sea. I had the chance to swim with a dolphin! I also have some pics of our time at the aligator park. We rode in an air boat down a swamp and looked out for aligators.
The dolphin is pulling me as a grab hold of his fin. FUN!
Ready for our swamp tour in the air boat.
There was a "Don't swim in the water" sign...DUH!
Then had the chance to actually hold a little aligator! as well as a banana snake.