Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately...

1) I was at the gym the other day and some boys in a class of small children were releasing barbaric YAWPs, running across the floormats and throwing themselves into the padded wall. I was thinking to myself that it looked terribly fun, and I wanted to join them. But when a middle-aged woman does that, it's not cute.

2) With the resurrected fandom of Sherlock Holmes screaming for more, I don't understand why there isn't a massive demand for a re-release of The Great Mouse Detective. I distinctly remember having a child-crush on Basil. But then again I was also in love with Justin from Rats of NIMH so I may have a rodent fetish.

3) I just signed my name to 325 letters that will be going out to Ohio public libraries. You know the point you hit when a repeated word has lost all meaning? When it's your own name it causes an existential crisis.

Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately...

1) I went to see World War Z, and I admit that I actually kind of liked it. However, I have to point out that the character of Brad Pitt's wife had two main purposes - to be almost raped, and to make a badly timed phone call. After that all she got to do was stare at a phone longingly and make beds.

2) Walking on the beach repeatedly gives you a free pedicure. It's hard to enjoy that though once you realize how much of the beach is probably composed of other people's dead skin cells.

3) When it's really hot, people always ask me, "Is it hot enough for ya?" Sometimes I wonder if this is their way of saying they believe I'm going to hell. Then I wonder if having that thought at all is a reflection of my own paranoia. Then I eat ice cream.

Thursday Thoughts

I survived one helluva storm last week, so this week's thoughts are related -

1) Among the ruins of one of the trees we found a poor dead birdy who must've been hanging out in his home when his home broke in half and fell over. The weird thing is that while I was stacking wood onto the word cord I found a perfect, unbroken robin's egg nestled into a fork. That egg had fallen at least forty feet onto the ground, been passed over by the chainsaw, somehow avoided the metal head of the wood splitter and was now staring me down over at the wood cord. I have to imagine that the dead adult bird was probably thinking WTF?!?! SERIOUSLY!??!

2) When you live in the country, tornado sirens from town can sometimes be heard over the storm. The complete dead calm that preceded our particular storm last week made it possible for me to hear the sirens coming from three separate towns as I stood in my yard watching clouds rotate right above my head and thinking... WTF!??! SERIOUSLY!?!

3) Smart people own emergency radios powered by hand cranks, requiring no electricity or batteries. Really smart people know exactly where they put them so they can find them in.. um.. an emergency. I am only a smart person. However, I can tell you exactly where I used to store it in my old house. And I was thinking as I ran around my current house looking for it... WTF?!? SERIOUSLY!?!?