Have I cursed myself? Have I created some inadvertent cloud of absurdity all around me? I know to be careful what I wish for, but maybe I wasn't all THAT careful.
It was a bit of a strange week. A week of me being the bad cop, of being the Enforcer, of being really present and aware, at times being hyper-vigilant, and a lot of time being downright silly. It was also a week of saying goodbye to Maggie the Dog, the Best Girl's dog who I lived with for months and who took care of a bunch.
But I'm done being sad and I'm done being bad cop, and I want to focus on the silly because not only is this the Winter of Absurdity, it is the Winter of Aburdity, HA! (WOAH!) and the Winter of No Dumbness! (WOND!)
On to the absurd (cue circus music):
I did say to someone at work this week who I startled "you didn't see me come back through because I'm a ninja". Because sometimes I AM a ninja.
I had a day of treats on Saturday. Good coffee and pastry at the KittyMama's coffeeshop choice followed by time spent with her at an Aveda salon with a mega-sale where we sipped cucumber water, munched on more pastry treats, spritzed and dabbed layers and layers of essential oils and perfumes on ourselves until we smelled like flowers and hippies. We then spent a long, long time in a used bookstore where I didn't buy the following book:
"Chicken Poop for the Soul" but I really, really came close to getting that one.
I did buy a bunch of other books:
-a book of short stories by Barbara Kingsolver
-a book on Pottery since I've signed up to take an intermediate/advanced wheel-throwing class starting in January, and I've never ever taken pottery before and I need to learn Pottery vocabulary more than I need to learn Klingon (priorities, right)
-"Crosbie's Book of Punned Haiku" (yes, puns within haiku!)
-"How to Be A Villain: Evil laughs, secret lairs, Master Plans and More!" Because any book who has chapter titles such as "Getting Started with the Forces of Darkness" and "Making an Evil Plan" is just plain absurd!
-"The Government Manual for New Wizards" because, well, I just couldn't help myself.
Other treats I bought for myself this weekend: wiggle eyes, a package of 100 pipe cleaners in assorted colors, and a small box of crayons. Why these? Well, the KittyMama and I have a plan to make Wish Fish. We'll make fish on paper and write wishes on them and hang them like ornaments. I might hang them in doorways because, well, why not. I love the idea of making holiday wish fish. I need to come up with good wishes.
And I think I'm going to carry the package of wiggle eyes around with me. There's quite an assortment of sizes in the package, and I might just need to randomly stick wiggle eyes on things. I'm awfully close to making a whole wiggle eye lampshade. I think a wiggle eye lampshade would be SO silly that it might cross the line into creepy. Never know until you cross the line, I suppose. I might need to stick wiggle eyes on toilet seats or on maybe on my office door. Maybe. I'm taking wiggle eye suggestions, so please, send them my way! Maybe the winner with the best suggestion will get wiggle eyes in the mail. Or maybe a photo of me with the wiggle eye winning project.
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hey jennie, I have a few suggestions for the wiggly eyes and probably some more to come. Such an important project deserves some good thought...
The first thing I thought of was that you should find a way to put the wiggly eyes on the back of your head. maybe stick them to your neck before school. this way you can always tell the students and the staff that you have eyes on the back of your head... followed by evil laughter (muhahahah) of course.
Id also stick them on random pages of your books because what better surprise is there to get wiggly eyes when your getting into book 3 of twilight or reading some random haiku puns. (i like that one by the way).
one other suggestion i have for now would be to stick them on things that are otherwise dull activities like your laundry detergent . maybe a windex bottle or the vacuum cleaner.
oh... one more how about find a group photo that you have framed and stick wiggly eyes on all the people in the photo. hmmm maybe thats getting creepy now.
well i hope these suggestions help:)
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