April Fool - keeps going and going even through May

Summer has started and stopped since April Fool's Da

y was one of the earliest 100F days in decades. We expected that was enough to summon summer and make her a constant for the next four or five months.

Not true.  Not at all.

Following desert temperatures this spring has been kind of like following the bouncing ball.  Up and then down.  As soon as you have determined the pattern, it changed.

The change has been disparaging for the blond.   He has patterns in his life and likes them to be honored by everyone.  Dinner, dog treats, walks, and fast-food hamburgers need to be provided on a regularly scheduled basis.

The change in temperature has brought a change in disposition.  And despondency. 

 

 Ultimately, the weather has decided to get and stay hot ... as per usual.  The dog accepted the inevitable change.  The walking schedule has been altered to better serve him (see, good pet parent here).  New toys have been procured to get rid of the dog day blues.

a new career as a library book or grocery store item

The other day I had the joy of seeing the doctor and getting scanned.  It wasn't a full body scan.  It wasn't a scan that required a lot of time, energy, patience, or even fancy equipment.  It was a bladder scan. 

Seconds after I lowered my britches, the technician engaged the trigger and it was OVER.

I just want to know when do I go on sale and will there be coupons available for a trial size?

the rewriting of fairy tales

Recently in the movies, there have been remakes of several fairy tales ... Beauty and the Beast and Snow White (I don't count the re-re-releases of the Disney Classics as retellings).

Fairy Tale Magazine has actually solicited re-tellings of several stories, most recently Snow White ... Their next is going to be Cinderella.

What makes this unique?  Easy.  They want a different point of view for their pieces.

I wrote, and scrapped, the story of Rumpelstiltskin from the point of view of a field mouse in the hay.  The lower the hay bale, the colder I felt about the piece.  When it came to Snow White, I kept wanting to write about a layoff in the land of far away and having to reduce the number of dwarves to four or five (to be done by combining names of some and altering personalities of others).  My idea was not well received ... never are truly great ideas appreciated until after the death of the visionary. 

Their next story up for grabs is Cinderella.  I'm thinking what about a very harried fairy godmother who has been known to show up a day late and a dollar short, or cross her wires with someone and go to the wrong job ... then again, this might not work for them at all.

I repeat, the truly unique perspectives aren't appreciated at first presentation.  *sigh*  (Insert inspiration for fairy godmothers here)

http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/

Truth in Advertising

I spent a lot of time working in various sales offices and I am proud to say that we only offered products and services that had value and integrity both.  When things were flawed, our customers told us and we would right the wrong, always.

Lately there have been a lot of car commercials on television offering rock bottom prices.  There have been even more about mortgages.  If you watch enough daytime TV, there are advertisements for technical colleges (some good, some just expensive).  These ads always make me think about what the catch is and when it would boomerang on the consumer.


When I was at the beach a while back, I saw something that at first appalled me and then appealed to me because it truly is/was truth in advertising (even if I wasn't so sure about the message).

the science experiement in my refrigerator

I'm not proud of the science experiment I grew in my refrigerator, mostly because I didn't know that was what I was doing at the time. 

Before you go all 'ick' and 'yuck' on me, I need to start with a confession:  I don't eat onions if I can avoid it.  I was raised in a mostly onion free home and have remained such to this day.  Sure I know the rest of the world likes them and eats them, but I have never learned to embrace the bulb.

So when I cook an onion and don't need it all, it goes into a baggie and sits where the butter would be in the fridge.


I had no idea just how long the onion had been in the fridge or quite what would happen to the bulb if left alone.

Who knew that the onion could sprout and grow - and grow well - in my refrigerator (other than my husband the reformed science geek)?

The only thing we've planted this spring that has really done well and taken true root has been that onion.

In metaphysics, there is so much talk about 'peeling the onion' to get to the core of a problem or issue.  Maybe it should be more about cutting the onion and seeing if it will grow?

Just rambling ...