Deep thoughts...

As I peer into the bag where the remaining tortilla chips are all just pieces and try to decide which broken bit will be the best one to scoop up the last of the salsa, my mind pictures each of them cowering and trying to hide while thinking "Don't pick me!" Then I wonder... is that a creative writer's mind at work, or is it possible that I am just a little demented? Hmmm...

Life moments...

So... there's this commercial that I just find a little creepy. The dad is off dressing up as a weird robot while the little kids 'charge' their glow-in-the-dark pull-up underwear under the lamp. He charges into the room and shines a big flashlight on their underwear (which they are now wearing) and yells "extra charge" or something to that effect. In my sarcastic, facetious way, I say to my husband, "Oh yeah, that's not weird...let me just run into the bedroom and shine a big flashlight on your privates". Now, usually he will either agree or disagree with my rants and we will have a lively discussion. Tonight, however, after several seconds of dead silence on his part, I hear, "OK". 
...I do NOT look at him because I can HEAR the damn grin...

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

I love Autumn. I love plants. I love All Hallows Eve. What better way to ring in the season than to do a little surgical alteration to a skull and then give him plant hair?!

I think my skully friend looks very festive with his green sorta-dreads! Hmmm...maybe I shoulda left the knife in. And added a couple of spiders... Every handsome scary guy needs a little hair decoration, right?! 

Well, until I decide which freaky and frightening things to decorate his lovely head with, he is living happily in the sun room with the sparkly witch signs. ...and the real spiders... ;-)

The dream vs. the reality...

The Dream...

The Reality...

To be fair to myself...I closed the storage (it cost as much as a tank of gas each month!)
 and what doesn't fit in the garage yet is in the house. And I am more or less camping between 2 houses, and things tend to stay where they get dumped when I am sorting what to take and/or bring back! But I am going to take a stab at this particular mess today. I have 4 different projects going on that table. Maybe if I sort a bit, I can actually get some work done!

Things learned...

I have learned certain things over the years...some rather important and/or earthshaking, some not so much. For instance; When I was young, just starting out having my own space, I thought that a coat rack was the coolest piece of furniture. You know, the lovely oak ones that stand by the front door with all of the beautifully curved hooks on which to put your hats, coats, scarves, etc.? Well, after many years of waiting, I could finally fit one into the budget. I was so happy! I brought it home, placed it reverently in the corner, polished it to a gleaming shine, and stood back to admire my long-sought piece of furniture. Then came the hats. Lots of hats. And coats. Bulky coats, light-weight coats. Sweatshirts. Some scarves, a bag or two... One day, I had to face the realization that what I had envisioned and treasured in my mind, my beautiful, elegant piece of entry-way furniture, had in reality, turned into a giant pile of laundry-on-a-stick...in my living room, right by the front door, the first thing people saw when they came into my house. Eventually everything made it's way back into closets and the coat rack was donated to the Goodwill. A story about a bad furniture choice? Absolutely! A subtle life lesson? Possibly...