Thoughts on Life

Do you think our moms ever took multiple pictures of crafts they did? I really doubt it. I doubt they took even one picture. Because if they thought about it, they probably would have then rationalized, "Well, I'm going to display it in the house. Why would I need a picture? I'm not wasting my film on that. Maybe I'll get a perm today." Without a blog, there is definitely zero reason to take pictures of crafts. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I totally do it, even though I never end up blogging them. Along these same lines, do you think our moms ever took before and after pictures of spaces in their homes that they spruced up? I think the answer to this is also no.

Why in movies, every time someone says the line, "Ok, I'm a patient man [or woman, but it seems like a manly line to me], but . . ." they're always being super mean and impatient? Like, no you're not a patient man, actually, because you're being really terrible right now.

What is about British accents? They are magic. At work we get a lot of sales calls, and when I get those, I never put them through to the person they're asking for, I always just tell them they're not available and put them in voicemail. But today I got a call from a company that I always do that with, I recognized the name on the Caller ID before I even picked up, but then the guy on the other end was tricky. He had a British accent. And for some reason it made me think, "Oh, this is probably a legitimate call that Rick will want to take." What is that all about? Luckily I had my wits about me enough to pull it together and tell the charming Brit that he was welcome to leave a voicemail, but the advisor was not available to talk. But he almsot got me, I tell you what.

I think the Biebs and Rebecca Black are secretly in cahoots. Because every time I hear "Friday," I always eventually end up singing "Baby," because the chorus has that similar cadence. Cadence? Is that the word? I don't know. Maybe it's the melody that sounds similar. Whatever it is, I think they are both musical geniuses. And I still haven't seen Never Say Never. Who wants to go with me when it comes to the dollar theater?

Some day I would like to meet the person resonsible for inventing Reese's peanut butter cups in their miniature form and shake their hand. And tell them how much their creation means to me and my family, and tell them they are a genius.

At work what I mostly do is type numbers into Quattro Pro and create reports for our clients. Sometimes I am inputting negative numbers, sometimes positive ones, depending on if things were bought or sold. And today I had a deep thought while doing this--the program defaults to making everything positive. If you want a number to be negative, you have to do so intentionally. Shouldn't our lives be like that too? To automatically make everything positive, and make it so that you have to do a little bit of extra work for things to be negative? I like that. I do.

Remember how crazy Alanis Morrisette looks when she sings? She does this crazy arm dangling thing and it is so weird. The other day Chris and I watched some good old music videos. Like Torn, As Long as You Love Me, Foolish Games, Ironic--awesome stuff like that. Which led me to remember how creeperish Alanis looks when she's live. I'm not a fan. It makes me feel weird. Also, she is not a beautiful woman. She sort of looks like Steve Tyler to me. But not in a Liv Tyler sort of way. In a Steve Tyler sort of way. And if you're going to look like Steve Tyler, I'd say going the Liv route is the desirable way to do it, and not the Steve one.

Speaking of which, are music videos still a thing? We watched little snippets of like 10 of them the other day, all from the late 90s, and both of us were very familiar with every single one. I couldn't tell you what the video is like for ANY current song. Not a single one. Is this just because we're 25 and 28 and not 12 and 15, or is it because it's 2011 and not 1997? Your thoughts, please.