Lately

Lately things have been so peaceful. I had a great vacation to nowhere -- Just stayed home, cooked some new things, cleaned up a bit, played with the kids, watched movies... it was absolute bliss.

Favorite rainy day movie(s): Back to the Future I, II and III.
Favorite guilty pleasure movie: Xanadu

One day my daughter and I had an adventure -- we went tubing on a lazy river.. She, I and my brother... It was so relaxing just floating in the sun, drifting over little waves and watching the clouds go by... I really really miss going camping and having summers to do just nothing at all.

I think the perfect job would be where you could take off at least once every 2 months or so for about a week to a week and a half... I bet when you came back to work you would be totally productive and happy since you knew in just 5 or 6 weeks you'd be off again having some relaxing adventures with your family.

stuck on you

I've been noticing a bumper crop of ridiculous bumper stickers lately. What is it with wanting to post your political, religious, moral, and otherwise stupid personal business on the tail of your vehicle? Like, C'mon folks, this is bordering on lunacy.

Do I even have to mention those white ovals with a black oval border that have maybe 1 or 2 or 3 letters in black on them -- that are supposed to be taken from the European stickers....I ask you, Do we need to make ourselves look even dumber in the eyes of Europeans? And while some are for towns, or vacation resorts, (HH = Hilton Head, OBX = Outer Banks), others are now for peoples work place -- I saw one that said SD and then under it in tiny little letters it said Scuba Divers, some dumb town, NJ.

I saw one the other day that stumped me. It said SPOONS in really big letters, and then in small print it said "are for stirring coffee." Is this pro-caffeine? Anti-tea? Anti-black coffee? Anti-soup? Anti-icecream, or cereal? What gives? Then -- I asked my husband about this when I got home, and he says, like he knows, "its anti-drug." Whhhaaatt? Like some crack addict will be driving around, just about to light up his little piece of rock or whatever, that he's just so carefully placed on a spoon, in his car, while driving, and then look up --- He sees this bumper sticker -- and Poof! He lays down the crack spoon and enters into a rehab program. Right.

Another I saw that just filled me with such rage (and no, this isnt the one on my arch-nemesis' car, the one that has "abortion" morph into "adoption".... but I hate that one too!) No - this one was a collage -- a myriad, if you will, of about 5 stickers, all having to do with circus animals, and PETA, and how we all hurt poor innocent creatures like f-ing cows, and arent we all so damn horrible for mistreating and eating animals. These were carefully displayed on the back of a very expensive German engineered car, (SUV, actually -- like, shouldn't this person be into the environment?), completely upholstered in Italian leather, manufactured by the same company that not just a few decades ago also manufactured the gas chambers of the Holocaust.

Some days I swear I'm gonna run someone off the road.