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[same_sky]

I have a home decorating bug. I want to organize things and build furniture and and paint things and have one of those houses that look decorated rather than thrown together. The new year always seems to motivate me to Do Projects of some sort and this year, I guess I am thinking about the house. Could be worse. :) It is, however, difficult to do all of those things when you have a severe case of the lazy. Or the need to spend the day playing Barbies and planting pretend gardens using wooden blocks, a red bucket and an old t-shirt.

(Between you and me, the Barbies were more fun. Except, there was a strange moment because her lone Ken doll asked a Barbie to dance, and they were dancing in my right hand when she grabbed another and wanted it to dance with the other Barbie bopping around in my left hand. And so I held them together too and they were all dancing to the pretend music. After a moment I noticed that the Barbies were not dancing as closely as the Ken and Barbie were. I mean, I only have the two hands so I had to pretty much hold them together to make it work, but the girls were sort of at an angle away from each other while the boy-girl pair was snuggled up chest-to-chest. It made me wonder if I was subconsciously influencing the scene because I didn't want to encourage her in that direction. Please don't take that wrong because if you know me at all, you know that the possibility of my subconscious DOING that is what bothered me. So I am sitting there worrying about my subconscious mind pulling a Ouija board trick in order to convince my two-year-old that heterosexuality is the way to go. Then it occurs to me that umm, Barbies have breasts that knock at each other, and knees that bend in such a way as to make them lean apart from each other naturally, and also, Ken+Barbie is just easier to grasp together than Barbie+Barbie for all of those reasons, and probably this does not mean that I am a bad liberal since I DID NOT DESIGN BARBIE (much to my financial chagrin.) So, yes. That's the kind of stuff that I sometimes worry about briefly before reality sets in.)

I should probably erase that whole paragraph because I'm not sure it made sense at all. But, I won't.

Once upon a time, I had a sorta boring, sort of depressing day at work that led me to an impromptu little motivational project during my afternoon break. I printed out four certain quotations and did a quickie laminating job with clear tape and stuck them up in each corner of my monitor. Later, when I quit that job, I brought them home and put them up on my current monitor, along with one of M's passport-style photos from before we got married. hehe. Such a sweet young thing! ;)

For your interest:

Be who you are and say what you feel because the people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind. -Dr. Seuss

The First Law of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging!

And reality has a well-known liberal bias. -Stephen Colbert

It will all be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

I didn't do any research to determine if these are properly credited. I don't even know where I got them from. Don't take my word for it, that's all I'm saying. (And yes, lizardek inspired me to write about this.)

Comments

[ladysunrunner.livejournal.com]

I have the decorating bug too! But I also have a case of the no money, rented apartment and school starts tomorrow, so that is going nowhere fast :P

It will all be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

I like this one!

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

I love that last one! Do you know who said it?

[grain-damaged.livejournal.com]

Excellent post. As the mother of a 4yo I totally lol'ed at the Barbie paragraph. Thank you for not deleting it! I worry about silly things like that too but really, I think with that sort of thing they're going to grow up to be whatever it is they're gonna be, ya'know?

Also, excellent quotes. Dr. Seuss rocks. (and so do you)