#1: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These guys reached the zenith of thier popularity when I was in junior high, or so I thought. FOX network has apparently brought the cartoon back. New and improved I'm sure. My question is where did they go? Did they actually go away, or were they underneath the surface waiting for a time after all the other trends had peaked to come back. I find it strange to go into a grocery store and see cookies advertising them.
#2: The space bar on my keyboard is giving me fits. It's really starting to piss me off. (Nothing profound here).
#3: My phone is a coke can. Don't laugh it's true. I'm looking at it and is says Coca-cola. It's oversized (about 16oz.) and plastic (it is a phone). I got it in the third grade for saling candy or something. Other kids got stuff that was cool. I got a Coke can phone. It's so old that it's not even touch tone. But hell, I thought it was cool then, I still think it's cool. My real phone needs a new battery (for the second time in a year), so for right now my phone is a coke can, and no I'm not high.
#4: I'm a slob. I don't know when it happened. I don't know how it happened. But I am a slob. My mother recognized it in my at a very early age. My father was slightly slobbish. I think it has to do with my apathetic reaction to my surroundings. I dress like a slob when I can get away with it, when i can't I don't of course. I dress like a slob because it's comfortable, other wise it's apathy. I'm trying to do better. I've been keeping my apartment clean. If I really focus once a week on it, I've only got about an hours worth of work. Otherwise.... let's not talk about it.
#5: Once in a while I'll see something that blows me away. It could be anything from a sunset to a movie to an old couple holding hands. (I loath young couples doing it, but there's something lovely about an old couple doing it.) When I remember, I look for something each day that makes life wonderful. It happens at least once a day for each of us, but we don't recognize it most of the time. One of my favorite days in past history happened about three years ago: I was finishing up rehearsal for the first play I'd ever been cast in, and I was on my way out to my vehicle to head into work. My car was parked on the southeast parking lot that is on top of this bluff overlooking the Logan river and an area called the Island. The sun was setting and off a ways was a young woman with a set of bagpipes. She was playing a lovely slow song. I stopped and listened. Watching the red of the sunset on the mountains to the east. The fiery clouds of the sunset to the west. I took it all in. It was perfect. I couldn't ask for a more perfect moment that day. The song ended. I got in my car and left for work.
That's an example. I often forget to find those moments that occur each day. I hope all of you reading this can find that moment today.
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 6:25 AM
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