This evening, in the car in front of me, there was a little white poodle. I could just see his head, and he was clearly very VERY happy to be riding in the car. He kept running to the window and peering out, then dancing around on the seat.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be as happy as that, with as little provocation?
Kind of like a rousing game of kick ball.
Christine said when she lived in LA, she tried to get people to play games, like hide and seek. She says that 90% of the people she talked to couldn’t imagine playing games like that. How sad it that? And please, somebody tell me why baseball and basketball and football are so different than those fun games. Except that the games I talked about are fun for everybody, and you don’t have to be at all good at anything athletic to play them. And you don’t have to spend any money on any equipment or clothing or anything, you just play.
Playing is good.
By the way, ABE FM, 93.9, plays ANYTHING, they say. Although today I noticed that they were playing a song I’d heard them play recently. What about the 10,000 songs in a row, commercial-free? I guess they didn’t mean ten thousand different songs. The announcer today said that Abe Lincoln spent four score and seven years collecting CDs, so ABE FM could play anything. Do you think somebody got paid actual money to think that up? I’m afraid they probably did. Earlier, he said that Abe spent 200 years collecting records so they could play them all. Very lame, but I do like the music.
Today I was riding my bike near UIS, and a guy was walking down the side of the road, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, talking on his cell phone. It was quite chilly today, plus very very windy, but the guy seemed oblivious, just walking and talking and hopefully not getting hit by a car. I wore a bright yellow jacket in order to not get hit.
And I didn’t.
OK, here’s one bad thing that happened to me today – I lost another sports watch. A nice new Timex that I’ve only had a couple of months. I looked everywhere for it, but it got sucked up like all my hands-free cell phone things. I went to Wal-Mart to buy another one, and decided to buy the six dollar watch instead of another genuine Timex, which is about thirty bucks.
It looks just like the Timex. It seems to be a good watch. One slight problem – I can’t set the time. I tried and tried, for over half an hour, but finally couldn’t stand it anymore. There aren’t that many buttons to push, not that many options for watch-setting, but I couldn’t make it happen. I decided against taking it out in the driveway and running over it, but that was a tempting idea.
I gave it to my dad, who claims he has good luck with setting the time on all kinds of watches, even cheap ones, even FREE ones. So maybe he’ll be able to figure it out, and peace and calm will once again pervade my being.
Whew.
Also, my other deep trauma today was buying a new bathing suit. I haven’t bought a new one in several years, and decided I need one that’s quick-drying, because it’s going to be cold on the morning of the triathlon, and when I put a t-shirt on over my wet suit on Monday, the suit was very very wet. Not a bad thing on a hot day, but torturous on a chilly morning.
Let me just say I can’t think of many things worse than trying on bathing suits. Agony, having to look in the mirror and actually choose one. Some of them were SO TIGHT, a couple were baggy, and most looked fairly wretched and hideous both. I know there’s always a joke about women and the agony of trying on suits, but it’s ALL TRUE, IT’S HORRIBLE. I found a basic black Speedo that didn’t look too awful, and was relieved that I don’t have to go around looking at myself in a bathing suit anymore.
The blood bank called me today. The thing that bothers me about the blood bank is they always act like ALL THE BLOOD IS GONE and the only way to save millions of lives is if I go in RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE and give blood. They weren’t quite that urgent this time, but they did seem somewhat frantic. I understand their need for franticness in order to get people to donate, but I didn’t have time today. And because I’m going to be in the mini triathlon this weekend, I’m concerned about giving blood and then going out and exercising a lot. I thought maybe I’d wait till I take a break before the triathlon, but then worried this loss of a pint of blood might make me more tired for the race. I’m going to wait till next week, and I’m hoping I’m not going to cause any serious loss of blood issues for anybody who might need it. When I go there I can grill them about how long it takes to replenish the vitality from the blood loss. Not that I’m going to be in ANY MORE TRIATHLONS, so it won’t be an issue, but there might be some other sort of physical activity that I’ll want to be at my peak for.
A stirring game of Duck Duck Goose, for example.
All right then, I hope you’re making it through your week. I’ve been managing to make it through mine somehow, and look, only two more work days.
Ok then,
Grace awash in randomness and in the mood for games.