This week is a sort of 'pick your own topic' or 'make up a missed entry' week. We had tossed around some suggestions incase we had trouble coming up with a topic on our own. Some of the ladies will be grabbing the bull by the horns and taking on some of the recent controversies in current events. I very much recommend you visiting their blogs and reading what they think about some of these 'hot potato' topics! I am going to be very honest, originally, I had planned (and actually started writing this week's ToT last night on one of the recent news controversies - the Chick-fil-A debate), however, today was quite rough and after seeing a friend/co-worker and family go through one of the most difficult situations I could possibly imagine, I just don't have it in me to take on a heavy topic tonight. So, I am going switch gears and do a make-up from one of the weeks I missed. I DO plan to finish my opinion piece on the Chick-Fil-A thing, maybe later this week...but not today.
My Topic (the topic I missed from last week): Brain Download! Spew out 50 random thoughts currently streaming though your head. A little peek into the craziness rattling around up there!
- Mark seems to have transitioned from vacation back to real life much faster than me. Not surprised about that, it is pretty typical for us. I AM surprised that I feel a little self-conscious about it this time...but why??
- I really don't care for the Summer Olympics...I'm sorry! I just can't find anything to be excited about with the Summer Olympics. I wish I did like it, I have tried, I just don't.
- Are people going to hate on me for not loving the Summer Olympics?
- I LOVE the Winter Olympics!
- Would it be weird to take a day or two off work during the next Winter Olympics, just to sit at home with the dogs and watch??
- After reading Danielle's blog from last week, I am slightly embarassed to admit that I am jealous...not of Danielle or Chris, but of their 4 year old Jayna. She has a GloWorm. I had a GloWorm. It was my FAVORITE. For quite some time now, I have wished that I still had it just as keepsake memorabilia from my childhood (I am clueless as to what happened to it).
- Note to self: ask mom what happened to my GloWorm.
- How funny is it that Jayna named her GloWorm Charles Barkley??
- Frank Caliendo does a hilarious impression of Charles Barkley. Maybe one day Jayna will find his Barkley bit as funny as I do.
- Speaking of the Wieland family...do Chris and Danielle eat sushi? I have known them for a while now, and I have no idea whether or not they eat sushi - we have never discussed this. I now feel that I need to know this.
- Today's sushi lunch was GREAT!
- Did Mark ever read my last blog which was a letter to him?
- Should I give him a pop quiz to find out?
- I have a gazillion vacation photos to load onto the computer from the cameras.
- Crap...my laptop is a POS, the memory is full, and it won't take anymore photos. Crap.
- Is the photo thing a financially irresponsible reason to justify buying a new laptop when we have another (albeit unreliable) computer at home, and between the two we make due pretty well?
- Probably so.
- Why are so many of my random thoughts in question form? Including this one. Dammit.
- Is anyone still reading this?
- Did my husband seriously just wire up the kitchen counter tops with invisible dog fence, as a desperate resort to teach Austin to stay OFF the kitchen counters and OUT of the kitchen garbage can?
- Yes. Yes, he did.
- He's not just an evil genious, he's an evil tech genious!
- I, on the other hand, am just plain old evil.
- I went TWO WHOLE WEEKS without having to see a car with those stick people families on the back window.
- I don't like those stick people family car window stickers. I don't care how many people belong to the family that owns that car...or that car...or that van...or that SUV...or that other SUV...or....you get the idea.
- I hope no one is brutally offended that I don't like the stick people family car window sticker things.
- A little offended is okay I suppose, but I would feel bad if anyone was brutally offended.
- I think I spend too much time alone in the car churning over my own thoughts about things...things like stick people window stickers.
- Tired and sleepy.
- Note came in the mail today, informing me that I may be part of a class action settlement from a case against the parent company of Urban Active Gym.
- Sure I won't get any money out of it, but knowing they are paying someone compensation for their horrible business practice makes me smile.
- Insert happy dance...they really made me crazy when I tried, tried, and tried again to end my membership at their gym.
- I actually gained weight while I had a membership at that gym.
- Is there a class action settlement for that??
- Adele and I enjoyed singing together in the car today.
- Sometimes I think she just lipsynchs to MY singing voice, LOL!
- I wonder how long it took the other ladies to have 50 random thoughts for their blogs last week?
- Wow...it is only 6:22pm in Alaska...Elizabeth Ryan still has many more hours to her day!
- Yes, I recently discovered the 'World Clock' function on my phone.
- Do I have ten more thoughts left in me today, or do I need to pick this back up tomorrow?
- Hmm...
- Think I'll just push on and get this published tonight.
- What if the dogs got sprayed by a skunk when we let them out during the night (or day for that matter, but I think skunks typically only come out at night)?
- I would die...I would just die if that happened! That would be horrible!
- Could I board them until the stink wore off? Would that be wrong?
- I bet no one is still reading this!
- If they are, I'm sure they are convinced by now that I am crazy!
- Everything on the kitchen counter is now just slightly out of place from where Mark ran the wire along the counter top.
- I'll deal with putting it all back in place tomorrow.
- Goodnight, y'all!!
