Insane Random Ramblings

I know it sounds crazy but I’m way too superstitious to write in my new calendar. The new year starts tomorrow but I don’t want to write anything down yet. The reasoning behind that is that I’ve been told that it’s bad luck to hang up the new calendar before the current year has actually ended.

I took that and ran with the concept of writing in a new calendar as well. I have a doctors’ appointment on the 5th of next month that I won’t write in. I also need to put down buying a horse tack and a new printer. There are also some errands that I have to take care of for my Mom and I’m afraid to write them all down. A coworker says that it should be okay to write in a daily calendar but not a hanging one.

I’m going to err on the side of caution and just wait until tomorrow. I already have enough bad luck and I don’t want to jinx myself.

My wife and I take turns walking our five-year-old daughter to the bus stop for school every morning. Today was my turn, and as me and all the other moms in the neighborhood waited one of them asked me to say hello to my wife.

“I will,” I said. “it’ll make her feel better. She has pneumonia…”

“Oh, poor girl,” they all said in unison.

One of them crooked her eyebrow at me and said, “I hope you’re helping her with the kids, the cooking and cleaning.”

“I can’t,” I said pointing to the band aid on my index finger.

“Hangnail.”

First let me say that I fall a lot. Most of the time it’s just because I stumble over something but often it’s because I’m just not watching where I’m going. I haven’t fallen in at least a year so in a way I’m “due”.

Yesterday after work I was walking to my bus stop when I saw a puddle of water on the sidewalk. It’s freezing cold outside and that was the only puddle in sight. In hindsight it should have sent up a red flat, but it didn’t. I went to step into a deep part of the puddle when my foot starting sliding on the ice. The whole puddle was actually a ice patch. So much so that if I had been wearing any lacy corsets or garter belts, I would have been showing all of my goods to any passerbys on the street.

Anyway I grabbed the wall to steady myself and manuevered out of the puddle. From now on I’ll be on the lookout for those deceiving puddles on the ground because the next time I may not be as lucky.

I can’t believe this. To add insult to injury, it’s the exact same brand of pants that I ripped before. I can’t blame it on the clothes or inseam this time though. This time I was in the ladies room and I stepped too close to the sink. The bottom of the sink grabbed ahold of my pants and ripped a small circular hole right in the upper thigh region. I was lucky that it only got the pants and not my actual leg.

It just stinks because I just got these pants and I’ve only worn them twice.

Finally. I’ve been away for quite a while but it hasn’t been fun and games. It’s a very personal matter that I’ve been dealing with and it’s been hard. I am so not ready to be back at work yet either. I have to say it’s pretty nice that half of my coworkers are off today so I don’t have to answer too many questions.

Hopefully this week will go pretty quickly because I need to rest and relax.

I have to go out this weekend because I have a doctors appointment. I know it’s weird but yeah I have a appointment on Saturday. I take full advantage of the fact that the office is right next to a shopping mall to get some shopping in. I bought my niece a phone for Christmas and now I’m mainly looking for gifts for myself.

First and foremost I need a case for my new phone. I did buy one but the phone doesn’t fit properly. I figure while I’m in the store buying a case, that I can look at waterproof cameras for the trip that I may be going on next year. We’re going to the beach, which beach is undecided, and I want to get some snorkeling in. I may as well check out the camera in the store since I’ll already be there. But I’m definitely coming home and buying the camera online. It’s always better prices online and you can usually score free shipping.

I wish I could do everything online. I’m really not looking forward to being out during the holiday season. While I can buy my case and camera online, I can’t visit my doctor online. Oh well, just one more reason to hang out and window shop.

Cock-a-doodle-doo…

A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says, ‘OK old boy, time for you to retire.’

The old rooster replies, ‘Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me. Can’t you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?’

The young rooster says, ‘Beat it: You are washed up and I am taking over.’

The old rooster says,’I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop.’ The young rooster laughs. ‘You know you don’t stand a chance, old man. So, just to be fair, I will give you a head start.’

The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him. They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap.

He is only about 5 feet behind the old rooster and gaining fast. The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by.

The Old Rooster is squalking and running as hard as he can. The Farmer grabs his shotgun and …

… he blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, ‘Dang it!

…That’s the third gay rooster I bought this month!’

I’m been looking around Facebook and trying to get the hang of it. So far I’m doing okay but I know there’s a lot more stuff around that I still haven’t seen.

One thing that I’m still amazed at is friends lists. One of my friends has over 600 friends and another person has over 2000 friends!! Really?!?! Do you even know half of those people? I know that FB and social media can be powerful networking tools but some of these people aren’t in the position to help anyone get a job if you catch my drift.

So what is it? Is it just a popularity contest or are people just that nosy that they want to see what other people have to say? Personally I don’t get it. I have several people that I have to confirm right now that I don’t know at all, they’re just mutual friends. Then there are the people that I haven’t talked to in years. Why would they want to be my friends? We don’t talk in real life and I can’t see us catching up through Facebook.

I like the site and I’m having fun using it but I will not “friend” a bunch of random people just because it seems to be the thing to do. I’ll do fine with my small handful of real friends thankyouverymuch.

Ughhh the weather really took a turn for the worse. I do know that it’s December so it’s time for Winter but what a difference a week makes. Last week this time it was in the 40’s and sunny. For the past few days it’s been in the low 20’s with a windchill in the teens. It’s also been very windy and snowing.

I had to go in my closet for my cold weather gear. I had to put away the t-shirts and short-sleeved shirts and grab my sweaters and heavy shirts. I also had to find my Hats, gloves and scarf sets. This is also the time of year that I realize that I don’t own a good pair of winter boots. I do have boots but they’re girlie with 2 or 3″ heels. They’re definitely not made for snow.

I’m already dreaming about Spring and Summer.

Last week I got so many compliments on my hair when I wore it out and curly. I usually wear some kind of ponytail for a normal hair style. Some days it’s curly and sometimes my hair is straight but it’s almost always in a ponytail or pinned up. It looks really formal like I should be wearing one of  my old bridesmaid dresses or something. So when I wore it out last week, it was a different look than most people are used to. It looked really cute, fun and flirty all at the same time. I think it really took a lot of people by surprise to see it like that.

I’m already getting asked when I’ll wear it out again. Too funny!