Random Thoughts

My microwave has two settings for two different sizes of pop corn bags. Both settings burn the pop corn. (sigh) Last night I finally figured out that taking it out with 20 seconds left on the clock has the pop corn in perfect condition. Burned pop corn is not one of my favorite things.

I have decided once again that I love Ireland and would like to go there. Now, how can I do that without either flying across or sailing over the ocean blue? Listened to an interview on NPR with some Irish novelist and was so enchanted with his accent. This is why I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Do you know that Bend It Like Beckham is the only movie that I ever bought without watching it first?

I'm hearing more NPR now because the radio in Baby J's room won't pick up Moody in the summer. Or BBN ever. So I hear snippets of NPR throughout the day when I am nursing the baby. Wish I remembered to turn it on every day at noon to hear Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

If I am ever in a coma,
please play recordings of Garrison Keillor's voice
for me. Or someone with an Irish accent
--or have Jonathan Rhys Meyers come visit me.
(That would probably bring me out of the coma.)

How old is Dolly Parton? I like Dolly Parton as much at the next person (as long as the next person is not some huge fan of hers), but what's wrong with admitting that the woman is old? It's not an insult. It's a fact. I saw her yesterday (on TV, not here at the homestead) and it was the eyes that gave it away. You can cover a lot with wigs and make up and plastic surgery and distractingly large anatomy, but you can't hide those old watery eyes.

Yes, it was me who put a Celine Dion
song on the juke box. No one had a gun
to my head. I just couldn't find
John Lennon singing it and it
didn't sound as good
to have Richard Dreyfuss signing it for us.

Amendment to previous random thought:
Now that I have had time to think about it.....I have bought one other movie without having seen it first. (But Bend It Like Beckham was the first.) The other one was one of those kids movies....like the one where Chris Rock does the voice of some animal and they end up on an island. I think Ross from Friends does a voice too. Anyway, if it makes you feel any better, we watched it one time and promptly put it in the "movies to get rid of" pile. We don't like a lot of the humor presented to children today. Inappropriate.

When you want to get rid of a movie
because you don't think it's inappropriate
for your children, what do you do with it?
Do you give it to someone else who doesn't
find it offensive? Do you throw
it away? Do you give it to Goodwill?
What do you do?

We have such a pile of yard sale stuff in the hall from
cleaning out the boys' bedroom. Makes me tired just to
look at it. Makes me really tired to think of
actually having the yard sale.

Everything has been so lovely lately.
The weather. The family. Everything.
Or maybe I am seeing with new eyes.
Whatever the difference....I am enjoying it.
I have so much to be thankful for.