Insane Random Ramblings

First let me saw that whenever I see a license plate that I can tell spells out a message it instantly gets my attention. Anyway, I had to go out on Saturday and run a few errands and ended up on the other side of town. Traffic is always horrible over there so I kept switching lanes. I pulled up behind a suv and noticed the car in front of me. The plate read XL XLIII. The letters kind of ran together like a slide show or something. I have to admit that Roman Numbers were never my strong suit.

It actually took me a minute to figure out what it meant. It says “40″ and “43″, the Super Bowl’s that the Steelers won! It was a great message and a really neat idea. I wanted to take a picture of the plate but I don’t have the best camera phone and I was driving. It’s not easy trying to drive and snap a picture at the same time.

I was never that creative with my license plate, I just got the first thing available. But I do love reading the plate that others have on their cars and seeing their creative side. I hope I run into that person again in a parking lot because I will definitely take a picture of that plate.

I haven’t been able to solve half of the puzzles that are in the paper this week. It’s really strange in that I usually breeze through the first 3 and the last 2 are difficult to down right impossible. But this week I’ve had trouble with most of them. I don’t know if I’m not concentrating or what but I just can’t seem to solve these puzzles.

I am stressed out this week so I’m sure that has something to do with it. Maybe I’ll have better luck next week after I take the weekend to clear my mind and relax.  At least I hope so because this is very frustrating.

Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, “We only have one rule here in heaven: don’t step on the ducks! “So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.

Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St. Peter chains them together and says, “Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!” The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck and along comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman.The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps.

She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on… very tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin.

St. Peter chains them together without saying a word. The happy woman says, “I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?” The guy says, “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck!”

And it’s not working at all. I really want to go on vacation for my birthday. None of my “friends” want to go. Either they have kids and can’t go or they’ve already gone. Most of them go to places I don’t want to see or they only stay 3 or 4 days which is not really worth it in my opinion. So I’m trying to plan a solo trip but it is super expensive.

I just don’t have that kind of cash. I don’t know what I’m going to do yet because I really want to go away. I still have at least 2 weeks before I have to make a firm decision. I’ll use that time to try and pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Unfortunately it won’t be this year. I plan on going next spring/summer. The 2011 schedule will be out in September so I can start making plans. My first thought is to hit Detroit and Chicago on a little weekend trip. I can see the Tigers, Cubs and White Sox if I play my cards right.

I would totally love to go this year but I just can’t afford it. I won’t even take a regular vacation this year so a baseball trip would be a total splurge. I can’t even afford to get the best weight loss pills that I saw. So unless some money just falls out of the sky, I won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

I don’t even know what I’m hoping for more, money for a road trip or a regular vacation. At this point I would just like to get my hands on some extra money and have that problem to solve.

I had several ideas for pretty decent posts over the weekend. I figured I would wait until today and write them up really fast. Only problem is that I totally forgot what I wanted to write about. I don’t have the faintest idea as to what the subjects were. It’s also Monday and I’m totally brain dead so this will be short and sweet.

I hope to have my mojo back tomorrow cause today it’s totally gone.

Some Advantages to Turning 65:

* People no longer consider you a hypochondriac.

* Your assorted joints can forecast weather changes.

* No one expects you to run into a burning building.

* There’s nothing left to learn the hard way.

* Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t
remember them.

* In a hostage situation you’re likely to be released first.

* You enjoy hearing about other people’s operations.

* Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning
to pay off.

* You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who
walks in the room.

* Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

* Your eyes won’t get much worse.

* You can sing along with elevator music.

Part of it is because I keep gaining weight but that’s not the only reason. Too much grease clogs my pores and reeks havoc on my face. I look like I need a adult acne treatment to control all of the zits that I have. Some days depending on what I eat I can take a napkin and dab off the excess grease that comes back out of my skin. It’s pretty gross actually.

I need to add more fruits and veggies and less snacks. It’s gonna be hard though because I love my junk food.

Not real trouble but the trouble we’re gonna cause when we go to the game in a few weeks. My coworkers from my old department invited me to come to their Pirates tailgate party. They’re real partiers. They already have kegs, food and games planned. I have to email them to ask what I can bring. I don’t think anybody is taking a eczema treatment but I still may take a umbrella to protect us from the late day sun. I know personally I burn extremely easy and I don’t want that to happen and ruin my day.

The whole day is gonna be a blast and I can’t wait.

Ughhh I hate washing clothes. It’s one of my least favorite chores. Plus I live on the third floor and the laundry room is in the basement. So I have to trudge up and down three flights of steps with a heavy basket of clothes. Don’t even get me started on what happens when a neighbor is doing laundry at the same time.

We only have 2 washers and dryers so sometimes there’s a wait which really stinks. I wouldn’t call it a inconvienence because you just never know when someone else will want to do laundry. If I go downstairs and someone is in there, I try to guestimate how much longer their clothes will take, tack on 5-10 minutes minimum and go back down then. It is irritating when people let their clothes sit for more than 30 minutes though. And those people usually end up being people that live on the 1st floor.

I try to do laundry twice a month and do at least 3 loads at a time. I want to get as much done as possible in the shortest amount of time. That’s one of the reasons I love summer. Much smaller clothes which leads to smaller loads and less time in the laundry room.

And that makes me very happy.