Nablopomo.... aaakk! Maybe next year...

Ok.. the last few days have been nuts.. so.... even though I was close, I didn't quite make it my 30 days. :( sad.. I know..

So.. onto the M&M deal....
I had a great prolonged conversation after I told someone how I felt about the pumpkin patch (as mentioned in my previous post) and she couldn't stop laughing at me. (grr!) So I went on to explain "it's like M&M's" to which she said ... "HUH?!?!?"

Me: "Yea.. you know... you open the bag of M&M's and sort out their colors. I always feel bad if there is only one of one color in a bag. He had NO friends! So I put him with another odd colored M&M group. Then I eat out of the pile with the most of one color until all the piles are even. But when it comes time to eat the lonely M&M.. I will eat him with a bunch of different colors so he doesn't feel alone when he dies. Everyone else gets eaten in pairs and 3's if there is an odd number at the end."

Her:

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Yea.. she wouldn't.stop.laughing.

*sigh*

Poor Little Pumpkins...

Just down the street from my house there is a large pumpkin patch. A real honest-to-goodness pumpkin patch. It is on about an acre of land and when it is in full swing there is a little booth towards the front of the land parcel that handles money transactions, sell things like bags of onions and other in season fruits and veggies. Just behind the tables there are wagons lined up for mom and dad to take their children through the pumpkin patch to pick out their "perfect" pumpkin. Close to Halloween you would seen tons of people walking through and buying their pumpkins. Little children, and those that are big kids at heart were wondering though all day long.

I drove by the patch today and I got really depressed. The booth is gone, Halloween is over, we have seen snow and all these poor little homeless pumpkins are still ALL OVER the field. I felt horrible. All of these pumpkins wanted to be someone's pumpkin and to celebrate the holidays with a family and here they all are.. rotting in the field. Like kittens left in a shelter.

Logically, I know it isn't a big deal. Logically I know that the seeds will end up growing again next year for another pumpkin patch. Logically, I know that they are just pumpkins and they don't have feelings.

But I couldn't help the feeling that I wanted to somehow scoop them all up and bring them home and stack them in my yard, my porch, my living room, my kitchen, so they all felt loved and to take away the less-than-perfect not-good-enough feeling those poor little pumpkins have. I am still a bit sad even thinking about it now.

Yea.. I am a strange one... I know.... but I can't stop thinking about those poor, cold, lonely pumpkins.

A Couple of Random Subjects

I don't really have one specific thing to blog about, so I shall just ramble a bit today.

Today was the first official snow of the season.. and MAN! It already feels like Christmas! I can't complain because business has been so slow and this will help things right along. However the hour and 1/2 long commute (that normally takes about 20 minutes) was a bit much for me this morning. Especially after I had sucked down four cups a green tea before I walked out the door and two more when I was in the car. All those people on I-15 who was curious as to what I was doing in the car?? yea... that was the Miracle-inthecar-pottydance! Hope you enjoyed! Luckily, I hear it is supposed to be in the 50's by the end of the week. I am A-OK with that.

However all this snow really did remind me of Christmas and I am no closer to having my Christmas shopping done than I was the day after Christmas of 2007. Can anyone recommend some good, inexpensive, and nifty online stores so that I don't have to deal with all the "fun" people out in the stores of whom I would like to run over with a cart, repeatedly that are just as stressed as I am with lack of funds and too many people in an enclosed area? If I can't figure something clever out, everyone may end up with ITunes giftcards :)

And in other news.. it is time to get my bum to a yoga class... my body is screaming for it!

Star Light, Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight

Friday night I made a jaunt to Idaho (I am still here and returning later today) and most of my drive was completed in the dark. I saw quite a few falling stars in the sky and made a wish on all of them.
Do you know what I wished for?

I wished to save my wish. I have done that for as long as I remember. I have saved up so many wishes that I think subconsciously I am hoping that once I know of something I desperately want in life, that if I make it clear to the world and God, that I can use all my saved up wishes and get it!

I don't even know how and where I came up with this idea at such a young age. But I hope it works. Maybe over my lifetime I will acquire enough to wish for world peace on my death bed! Or maybe I should just cash in now and wish for something more attainable... how about a pedicure? hehe...

What do you wish for on falling stars?