Random updates, observations and meanderings…

• Sara Lepp and I have decided that we will be trendsetters in the movement of cell phone free driving (disregard the fact that Oprah already has a major national campaign – we are only seeking to carry the banner locally…unless of course someone wants to give us a television show on a major network…if so, have your people call our people).  We want you to keep us honest, so if you see us fall off the cell phone free wagon please honk or gesture at us (use your own discretion in the gesturing arena).
• I am wondering how many folks’ vehicle alignments are off based on city street potholes.  Not sure if I simply was not paying enough attention in past years, but this year driving down city streets was like driving an obstacle course (which may explain my driving peculiarities this past month or so – I wasn’t drunk – just dodging the darn potholes).  When you have a matchbox car like I do it doesn’t take much pothole depth to take you out.
• I may have inadvertantly failed to mention this in my blog about Daryl Ritchison yesterday, but the Looking Good Ladies are lovely senior citizens (at least the ones that were at the recent DOVS event).  This was my first exposure to the Looking Good Ladies and I wish I could give you more info on them, but I know nothing more about them than this: they are lovely and Daryl has a MAJOR crush on them.  I can say this though…I hope to be just like them when I grow up. 🙂
• Even though it is ultra-gloomy out today, does any one else have the urge to go out and dance in the light rain?  If I am alone in my psychosis just let the folks with the white jacket that it has been a long winter for me.  Also, tell them that white is not thinning – can I have a black jacket instead?  And make sure the buckles are off to the side for maximum visual slimming.
• Why did Hershey’s call their smallest chocolates “kisses”?  Those darn things seem so small and innocent but they add up and they accumulate in one place…which by the way is the place I think the brainchild of kisses should kiss.
• Have you ever heard the saying about women and tea bags from Eleanor Roosevelt?  It goes like this: “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”   I think that is true – not just for women, but for all folks.  Strength comes with the presentation of challenges.  Then there is Nietzsche’s saying, “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”  So, as long as trials and tribulations don’t kill me I’ll consider they actually increase my strength.  I wish there was a quotation that told me what challenges have the potential to take me out so that I could avoid them.
• Did you know that pantyhose have a panty compression scale measurement?  The ones I wear are medium compression and they do quite a bit of “compressing”.  It makes me wonder if there was ever an instance wherein some poor woman wore pantyhose with maximum compression, passed out and had to have the darn things cut off her to resume the circulation of blood.  I wonder how long it would take for the party responding to the unconscious woman to think to check the level of pantyhose compression as a potential source for her unconsciousness…is that on first responders’ radar even?
• Do you ever wonder where all your random thoughts and musings come from or end up at?  More and more, mine end up here, but I am still not sure where they all come from.  It is nice to leave them here though as something about the collective wisdom of this place is healing…and a lot cheaper than a therapist.  Plus, while I am leaving them here on the page I cannot unwrap those !@#$%! kisses and eat them.  I could use a few hundred more random thoughts to occupy my time.

Day two hundred and sixty-five of the new forty – obla di obla da

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