Good Idear: Eat a Bananar in Your Cah

Tips for talking Mainish:

Beginners--
-Add an -r to words ending in vowels. Some good examples are listed in the title- idear and bananar (yes, I've heard both of those used within the past week).

Slightly more advanced--
- Take the "r" out of words and replace it with an "h". A good example I heard just today was "cah" which translates to car or pahk which means park. (This one is useful in all of New England.)

Let me give you an example of a real life scenario:
Gifted PT Student: So was there a specific incident that lead to your shoulder pain?
Mainer: Yah, it happened when I was working on my cah.
Gifted PT Student: Sorry, what was that?
Mainer: I was working on my cah.
Gifted PT Student: (to himself) Oh! his car
(to Mainer) What exactly happened?
Mainer: Well, I was working on my cah, and I had my ahm extended really fah out, and I was turning the....


That's all the detail I really remember at this point. That might not be the actual conversation but very close. Just remember- if you try these tips, especially both of them together, if people from the MidWest are looking at you weird and having a hard time understanding you, you're probably doing pretty well.

Otherwise, what have I been up to? Hmmm... well Tuesday at guy's night, we watched this Navy Seals training camp video. Holy Crap! They guys are crazy and huge. I wouldn't mess with one of them if you can help it. I can't think of a reason you couldn't avoid it. Well, I guess if you had an unresistable urge to become a tyrant of some small country, then I guess it could become an issue. Anyway, the training is freakin' intense. It starts out with about 89 ridiculously jacked guys and ended with only about 20. Two guys finished "hell week" with broken legs. Yep- a little crazy.


Wednesday was a surprise going away party for my friend Amy. I missed the surprise part unfortunately, but I didn't want to confuse them have and a good surprise wasted on me. It was probably safest for me to be fashionably late. I had a good excuse though. I had to go all the way to Damariscotta for my first day of house sitting. I didn't want to make the poor dog hold his bladder for a whole day right off the bat. I was house/dog sitting from Wednesday to Sunday. The dog's name was Simon (part wiener dog, part Beagle). He was able the easiest dog ever to take care of. He was pretty laid back. He had some attachment issues though and felt the need to follow me around to every room. The home owner provided me with a ton of food which was nice, especially the ice cream and cookies part. Mmmmmm!


Most of the week was really gloomy and rainy. On Saturday, the rain managed to quit long enough for my friend Sarah and I to spend the day outside. We chilled out at Popham Beach and ate some delicious sandwiches prepared by your's truly. (Note: Avocado on a sandwich really adds a tasty twist.) Tide was pretty high when we got there but eventually went out enough to allow some additional beach space. The waves were pretty big and it was awesome watching them splash against the islands. All the waves crashing put a sort of mist into the air and it looked pretty sweet. Some guys were crazy enough to go surfing out there. Yeah- Surfing! Who knew anyone did that in Maine. They obviously had some dry suits on because the water is still COLD. Gotta catch the waves when they're there though I guess. Anyway, we then went over to Seawall Beach and to Morse Mountain. I can't get over the view from Morse Mountain. It's incredible.



Sunday I returned home from house-sitting to see a huge mess all over the house courtesy of my landlord which I had the pleasure of cleaning up.









Well, that's all for today. I'll attach a picture of a part of my house as Elisa has asked several times and since I don't have anything to really add, it is a good time.