My little blog doesn’t get much traffic. I’m okay with that. Sorta. I do check my stats and like to see how many views I get. My goal is to get 10 views a day – by someone other than me and lately I’ve been reaching my goal fairly consistently. So yay for me.
Smiley’s
The iron-capade of ’15
This, unfortunately, is a true story.
It was time to do my weekly ironing. I went into the washroom and got the ironing board out and set it up in the living room. I then went back to get the iron. No iron.
“Well, that’s the doggonedest darndest thing,” I said in not so many words. “Where can it be?”
Our wash machine keeps walking and it just had an episode last week where it tried to walk away. This has been the cause for thing to get knocked off the shelf by the dryer (see detergent escapade). But if the iron fell it would have had to leap over the row of items next to it. Not a possibility though I looked several times.
More Absurd Dreams
I’m going to share a dream I had the other night. Even though sharing it with you a fine folk puts me in danger of being contacted by some suit in the Homeland Security Department. But the dream made me laugh – after, of course, I was awake enough to realized the absurdity.
Upgrade
I received my new, shiny iPhone 4 nearly 3 years ago. I remember it well because it was also the day my grand-niece was born. I’ve been fairly happy with the phone (and the niece though I don’t get to see her very often). It has served it’s purpose with me. There was the frustrating dilemma in mid ’14 when I learned you must plug your phone in before doing software updates. A very valuable lesson indeed that everyone but me seemed to already know about.
Stupidy is as stupidy does
My coworker, an IT sort, displayed his new desktop picture proudly. “I am going to have a new Einstein quote every time you come in here,” he declared.
I read the quote and smiled.
He nodded his head in approval and pulled up the application for us to begin working.
Cliche
You know those writing exercises we do to hopefully strengthen our skills? I found this one hidden in a deep, dark file. It was never meant to see the light of day. But what the heck? Here is some bad reading if you want to try and sift through it. Good luck, though, It’s not an easy read.
Stop Feeding My Intense Irrational Fear #2, People
This is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels. Don’t get me started. All I’ll say is, what were you thinking?!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/bear-eats-chips-from-car-passengers-hand/vi-AA6UvKx
It reminded me of this clip:
Between the two videos, I’m sure I’ll have some unpleasant dreams. Hopefully, I can chase some vampires or zombies to ease the intensity.
Relax, it’s just a holiday
Love it or hate it – because there is rarely an in-between – Halloween is this Friday.
I suppose the push of terror and all things evil has something to do with the loathing. Plus, there’s all that candy that’s dished out to young souls who already get in trouble for not sitting still.
To that I say, relax. It’s just a holiday. Using my holiday schedule at work as a judge, it’s a pseudo-holiday at best. After all, I get Columbus Day off. Col-um-bus Day. But I’ll be working all day Halloween. We do have to give it some props though because any day that can get adults to dress up as silly cartoon characters can’t be all bad.
Personally, I’ve always liked the day. Not the scary-movie, horrifying-costumes, spine-tingling hijinks that accompanies it but rather the dressing up. My first career ambition was to be a famous actress so I’ve always appreciated a day when pretending to be someone else is perfectly acceptable. Nowadays, this curmudgeon likes to stay at home and give out candy to the trick-or-treaters. It’s fun to see how many different characters come to my door in a two hour span.
So, to all those who detest the holiday – don’t worry. That bigger holiday just under two months away is ever encroaching on All Hallows’ Eve’s turf. Come November 1 the focus will be on the holiday of all holidays.
I wanted to find out more about Halloween so I went to History.com. Because I should be able to trust the historical facts when history is in the name, right?
Here’s some videos if you’re curious, too.
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-Halloween
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/jack-olantern-historyhttp://
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-witches
Insanity
From a recent Facebook post of mine:
I just reheard this definition from Albert Einstein:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Hmm, perhaps, for example, and I’m just throwing this out there, like inserting a DVD in the player and getting an error message so ejecting it.
The dentist
A couple of months ago I went to the dentist. Not a big deal, right? No, not for most people but for me it was a little different. I hadn’t been to the dentist for over ten years. Before you tsk-tsk me I have to proudly tout the fact 0 cavities. None. Zilch. But I did have a filling separating from the tooth that “should probably be replaced.”
So I went this week to have it replaced.
I told my co-worker I was leaving early to go to the dentist. She said, “It reminds me of that old Christmas movie of the elf that wanted to be a dentist. Which one is that?”
“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” I replied without hesitation.
“What?” another coworker chimed in.
“It’s Herbie the Elf,” I decided to go into detail. “He sings the song, ‘why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit.”
“Yeah,” my first coworker said. “He was a misfit.”
“I guess I have never watched that,” our coworker said.
How in the world can you be a true American and never have watched Rudolph at Christmas time? It’s not possible. Maybe my coworker is a spy?
“Silver and Gold,” I continued to sing and my first coworker joined me, “silver and gold…”
“Huh,” our coworker watched us slowly.
“I also use Herbie as my hair guide. When I get a little flip in front like he has (that I call my ‘Herbie-do’) I know it’s time to get it cut.”
This brought silence and a polite smile from my first coworker.
“You need to watch Rudolph this year,” I finished.
“Apparently I do,” my deprived coworker agreed.
To be honest though, when I think of the dentist I never thought of poor lil’ Herbie. I think of Bill.
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