- I don't think I could handle living in Seattle. This gray day is making me weepy! I'm thankful for sunny Texas.
- I need to make an appetizer, and soon.
- My dog smells like overdead fish.
- I have one million things to do in the garden, including moving renegade strawberry plants.
- My ankle feels weird.
- My Dwight Shrute bobble head makes me smile.
- The sign on my desk hanging over a cross says "Joy." It's a good reminder.
- My stomach is funny.
- I can't wait to sit down and write another novel. The characters are talking to me.
- I feel guilty for not exercising today.
- I shouldn't have snapped at hubby on the phone. (He called just as I was about to eat, after my stomach got really grumbly. All I wanted was food, not conversation!)
- I hope I can stay up past ten tonight.
- Shallow: I like my new cell phone.
- Fuzzy socks pretty much make any day happy.
- Daughter Julia is beautiful, inside and out.
- Our cat has a microchip in her neck (spy kitty) and an EU passport with her picture.
- I'm wearing a fake wedding ring (bought it on Amazon). Mine needs fixin'.
- Daughter Sophie makes me laugh.
- Things are different when you're in your forties.
- I like wood floors.
- I love that Aidan earned money this break, and with that money, he's saving it to go to Ghana next summer.
- I love gift cards.
- Scary movies with demon-y things disturb me.
- I remember dialing on the phone. And 8 tracks. And so many other ancient things like that.
- Jesus makes me stable.
25 Neurotic random thoughts on a gray day
Thursday
Here are 25 thoughts in no particular order (though realize they all reside in my head at the same time!)
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Whenever I think of rotary phones I think what it must have been like to dial 911,
Nine.......................
one...
one...
And the fact that even fewer people would call me now because of all the zeroes in my phone number....
This makes me think of all those things we had to use that our children will never even know existed. Typewriters and White Out. How many wasted pages or ill aligned lines due to having to correct a mistake? Carbon Paper. Actual pieces of detached finger blackening paper just to get a copy. Pay phones. Photomats. Getting up to turn the channel...everytime. Writing a check and knowing you have at least 3 days to get the money in the account. OMG - an actual belt used to keep a maxi pad in place!
So many of our neurotic thoughts are exactly the same. My niece Sophie makes me laugh. I feel tremendous guilt for not exercising today. My stories are talking to me. Things are different when you are 39.5. I love that my son earned money on his break. All of my sons are beautiful inside and out. I hope I can stay up past 9:00 tonight. I could never, ever live in Seattle, maybe couldn't even visit there. I like my new photo fax scanner. I wish my wedding ring fit. I've got to start my diet tomorrow. Pumkin Dump cake has a gross name but is divine. Jesus has brought me so much peace this year and I know there is a lot more to come!
Random things on my mind: Just an hour and a bit until 2010; wish whatever is wrong with my eyes would go away (red, water, itchy, stinging); I should get something to eat since I only snacked a little tonight instead of having supper; Wondering what 2010 will hold; Hoping to get a permanent teaching job in 2010, and more supply work until then; Missin my dad.
There's more, but I don't want to bore you, lol.
Shelley @ Ink Scrawls
P.S. I've added a link to your blog on my sidebar.
First of all I'm thinking that we could really be friends because I related to way more than half of your list. I could never in a million years live in Seattle--even though I live in Chicago which is probably not that much different during February and March. My husband tends to call at just the wrong moment most days, but I'm glad he calls. "Things are different in your forties"--yeah, but I can't put my finger on what exactly. And I really, really hate movies that have deamon-y characters in them. I just can't deal with that--such a waste of time.
I've learned a lot from you this year, Mary. Thanks for pouring so much of yourself into your blogs.
I've spent the day thinking about the huge things that have happened in my life in the past decade.
- I married the love of my life
- My infant niece died
- I got my first (hopefully not last) book published
- I became an aunt to four beautiful children
- My mother-in-law died
- My cousin died (he told me about Jesus when I was 12)
There's so much more - that's just a sample. What an eventful 10 years!
LOVE this. At first when i read the title to your blog post I thought, oh no depressing. But then I laughed out loud and thought, ha I'm not alone!
here's some random neuroses from my head to join in the party;
- today is my mum's birthday but she's no longer here to celebrate it with us
-I've given my sister and all her kids a stomach bug (not on purpose mind you) so her new year's/mum's birthday and my nephew's 5th birthday party have been cancelled
-I have no idea when I'm going to earn any money this year or how
-My new year's intention was to do some yoga practise every day... hmmm i'm off to a bad start.
-I'm wondering how early I can get away with going to bed tonight... so tired
-I'd love a holiday somewhere sunny
-Did I mention we've no money?
-I really want to be part of a local congregation but I've so many quirks I don't know if I will ever find a true faith home.
-I have a dream to provide a prayer room in the city for artists
-I LOVE my little girl
-I haven't written anything in months
-I really hope my husband's script is successful
ooh i feel better for getting that off my chance. thanks Mary
happy new year... may God bless you and fill you with joy and laughter!
xxx
Melanie
Melanie, may the Lord provide a place to worship and income in surprising ways.
I'm glad to know from all of you that perhaps I'm not so random after all!
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