Ho Hum Tuesday

The best ideas seem to come to me when I am driving or walking somewhere. At a time when I don't have anything to write them down on. I'll think about something, and then think that was witty or funny and belongs in a blog. Sometimes it happens at work when I'm giving 95 year old women calcium pills. I think to myself about all the great things I'd rather be doing, or deep thoughts that go above "when was the last time you washed your dentures."

I'd like to be one of those people who perpetually carry a nifty journal around.  But I'm not, and I don't, so I'll try to compensate now.  Maybe I'll start tomorrow with the journal carrying though.  I do have journals. Lots of journals. Lots of incomplete journals.  The reasoning behind this is, its fun to start a journal: crisp pages of possibility. Its boring to keep it up. Especially when you date it, because there's always a 3 month span of empty pages, where you wonder if nothing happened, or you were just incredibly lazy.

I have kept up with one particular journal for the past 3-4 years. Its different in that I don't date most entries, and I write sporadically in it.  I guess its more of a mood journal, and a collection of funny quotes, inspirational pictures, whatever.  I do think that its a poor representation at times because I always have in the back of my mind that my children may read it someday.  So I don't drop f-bombs (or f-word bombs, like I read the otherday on facebook), or write about my thoughts on sex and how rotten so and so is.

My favorite thing about this journal is my list of things to do before I die. This was written before it was fashionable to do so.  I was ahead of my times. 3 years ago.....

Anyway, I've got over 100 things, probably 10 accomplished, which isn't bad.  I tried to make them attainable and realistic.  Its kind of a testament of who I was more than who I am. For instance, #1 is see Italy. Yeah, I don't really care if I don't do that. I'd rather see more of the US before other countries.  #52 learn how to play the guitar. Yes, I very much want to do that.  #61 Vacation in a log cabin. Waiting...

Some of the things I have done:
16. Have a relationship with my father......Yeah, that's pretty good now. Not that it was bad.
26. Make my own candles.....Disaster.
53. Dig for clams.....the only way to have clams. 
91. Visit Montana.....we did this on my move from Seattle to Harrisburg.  I'll talk about that someday. 
104. Learn to crack an egg with one hand.
117. Adopt a black labrador puppy.....crap, I just read this and I did that in February. I haven't read this in awhile.