So many threads, so little time. There are stories I’ve wanted to tell, anecdotes and gripes and mini-rants and just some insights into my life. Never will be told.
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[li] I am TOO Organized For My Own Good- or - “Dude, Where’s my pants?” - about how I’ve been on a cleaning binge over the last week, got everything into boxes, cleaned out the pantry and the medicine cabinet, got rid of ill-fitting clothes, and I just need to vacuum the rugs (vacuum broke), but now I cannot find an entire box of garbage bags, the DVD remote, or my favorite pair of black shorts.[/li]
[li] DVDs I Really Need to Replace - how I now have frozen scenes in “Lilo and Stitch”, “The Magnificent Seven” (haven’t even watched the whole thing, so I don’t know how it ends!), and “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings”, disc 2 of the extended version. Not the DVD player - all of these have a small scratch on the disc itself, and I assume it’s where the play stops and pixilates. I’ve already did the disc cleaner thing and the DVD player cleaner thing. These seem to be lost causes. This happened before I lost the remote in the house.[/li]
[li] A Ten-year-old Restores My Faith in the Goodness of Human Nature - how a girl at the theme park spent a good chunk of her money playing one of the carnival-style games to get a specific prize (trade 2 smalls for one medium, trade two lmedium for one large, etc.), won an equally good (but smaller) prize, only needed one more to trade up for the really big prize she wanted, and then turned around and gave the toy to a small boy who tripped on the curb and ended up with a bloody nose. Gave him the prize she worked so hard for and spent so much on that she needed to trade up just to calm him down while we waited for First Aid. My supervisor okayed the trade without the needed toy, just the ones she had at the time. And the mother was grateful, and the boy stopped crying. Kept on bleeding, but stopped crying. As powerful as Spider-Man is, he can’t stop a bloody nose.[/li]
[li] My Cat Did the Cutest Thing/ Made The Weirdest Sound/ Caught The Biggest Lizard In The House/ Et Al Today - okay, there would have been about thirty of these threads, depending on which personality (HyperKitty, DammitCat, Your Majesty, Cat From Hell, Falls Over With An Audible Wump Sound) was the dominant force in action. And I don’t have a website, so I can’t post pictures- especially the GodzillaKitty ones.[/li]
[li] I Rode the Coolest Roller Coaster The Other Day! - but I can’t say more 'cause it’s still in testing mode. And I got to see how all the special effects work with all the worklights on. But take it from me, it’s definitely cool.[/li]
[li] I Love My Fluffy Pillows and Comforter - washed the pillows again, and now they are about four times as fluffy as they were before and they smell so clean. And the cat (ShedsAtWill) immediately laid down on it and spread cat hairs all over it. Not even out of the laundry basket.[/li]
[li] Groceries I Do NOT Need To Purchase For Awhile - about how I make a list, but get to the store, and can’t remember if I already have <item>. And since I don’t want to make another trip, I bbuy it. Or worse, the item is hidden somewhere else, and I don’t find it, and buy it, and find out I already have it. I now have 3 cans of Non-Stick Cooking Spray (Canola Oil Flavored), 2 boxes of baking soda, 12 cans of tuna (I swear the ones already in there were cans of cat food, which I did NOT buy, but actually needed, so the cat got Bumblebee Tuna in Water for dinner. And liked it.), and three spray bottles of Formula 409 cleaner (I swear they were not anywhere locatable when I made the list. And I keep buying 75 watts bulbs, but the lamp only takes 60 watts - I swear they hide on me.[/li][/ul]
Sigh. Just some MPSIMS aspects of my quiet life. So tell me some stories I’ll never hear from you.
Postscript: I now see the box of garbage bags - they are on top of the refrigerator. Now to find my pants.