The stream will never run dry.

I really like stream of consciousness writing. Here's my latest stream. Someone else gave me the topic. It's one of my fav's.

The future.
I like thinking about the future. I really like planning and thinking on the future. Is “thinking on” a real phrase. I’m thinking of the time I saw some author speak and she said that she needed to stop “meditating on” her enemies. She meant that she needed to stop thinking so much about her enemies and thinking they they are negative. Oh well. Ok. Back to the future. I just watched back to the future 3 the other day. Not al of it. My father had it on while we were waiting for another movie to cue up. Is that the right way to spell cue for this meaning. Or is it que? Not sure about that one. So, the future. I really hope to do many things in the future. In the near future I would like to finish Newvember strong and consider it a successful month. I can already consider it a success depending on how I rate myself. If I rate myself like I was in school, I would only need 65% completed to pass. I definitely have that done already. But I want to hold myself to a higher standard. In a way, anything but 100% will be considered a failure, but that’s unfair. I think as long as I can finish some of my incomplete challenges by the end of the month then I’ll call that a success. Next month I’m going to make it simpler. I really only have two main challenges for next month: continue to learn and love sign language and work out regularly. I’m feeling lazy and weak and crappy. Last year we did the push-up bonanza, maybe I need to do one of those again?! No, I don’t want to do that. I want to go to the gym and work out. Since my breathing is not very efficient right now I’ll put cold weather running on hold an stick to bike riding (which I’m actually enjoying a lot lately). What I would like to do after this session of consciousness is map out a route from my house to school that will have me avoid hills and add some miles on my morning commute. A half-hour commute would be ideal. That would give me some exercise in the morning and afternoon. To really maximize my health I hope to go to the gym before riding my bike to work. I know it’s possible; I’ve done it before. I just need to take it one month, or week, at a time. Ok. Now I’m kinda freezing on topics. Someone else has disappeared and all I hear is the churning of the dishwasher. Ok. Now she’s back. She seems to be eating something. She said “wow, that was quick” when she saw the amount I have already typed. She then said “I do need the computer when you’re done.” That’s good, that will give me a reason to get off quickly and let my fingers/hands rest. I like this type of typing because I get to type really fast but it does hurt my fingers and hands pretty quickly. I wonder if those split keyboards are good enough to invest in. ok, I can see the word count at the bottom of the screen. I’m over 500 words. I’m drifting off. Someone else needs the computer. It’s time for me to go. This is the last stream of consciousness for Newvember. I will definitely do this again someday. It’s always fun and fun.

Tomorrow I have to learn all I can about Spanish, the subject I disliked the most in high school. I guess I'll do that while my better half is out and about. I'm not really looking forward to this. I didn't like spanish then and nothing has changed to make me rethink my opinion.

Oh, and here's a fun thing. This is a link to a google spread sheet. It has all the words I can currently sign (there might be a few missing) in alphabetical order. Feel free to use these words to create a sentence, paragraph, or conversation for me to practice. You can email it to me if you know that info, or you can just post it in the comments.
Thanks in advance for such a ridiculous request!

Painting....ugh...

Tonight's challenge was to paint a picture with someone else. I hate painting. I hate painting like I hate yoga and fishing and reading and meditating and other slow moving patience needing activities. I didn't want to do it before I started, I didn't like doing it while I was doing it, and now I don't like writing about it. Ugh.

Yesterday's challenge was to eat nothing but pizza all day! It was awesome. I wish I had been exercising and running these past few weeks so pizza day was more thrilling, but it was still great.

Tomorrow I will write an actual letter to someone. This should be fun. I'm going to write it to a friend I have in Long Island. Maybe then he'll finally reply to one of my communication attempts!

Probably not though....

Krave....a ridiculous thing.

Krave.
Krave is a new cereal product from Kelloggs. It is ridiculous. It has a regular cereal outer layer with milk chocolate on the inside. I guess they created it to make it easier to sell cereal to children. The thing is though, cereal is already delicious and amazing, there's no need to make it more desirable. What do they think will happen here, do they think people will stop buying dessert products in order to buy this cereal? This is a sick thought. This will disrupt the whole natural order of food and desserts. Kelloggs is crazy and I think a little evil. Imagine giving this cereal to kids. They will think this is what cereal is. They will base their idea on food in general on this sick, twisted version of what was traditionally one of the most basic of food staples. It would be like replacing wheat with sugar...

Cartography...it never hurts to double check.

I'm not a genies, but I used to think I had a pretty good understanding of things here on this rock we call earth.  

Not any more.

I give you, a map where the blue...is land. 

Ok, you're confused. Here is the story: 

 As I was searching for an answer to the anonymous question "who was the first to discover milk from cows," I stumbled upon this article. 

The contents of the article are interesting and allowed me to answer the question to a satisfactory degree. The map, however, troubled me. At first I couldn't recognize what it was. Then I noticed Italy. It was blue. The blue on the map is land! What world is this?

It made me think of this:

In the first episode of Arrested Development Buster is charged with navigating the Bluth's yacht away the pursuing authorities. Using his cartography skills (and trying to avoid a panic attack) he points to a map and proclaims, "obviously this blue part here is the land." Needless to say, they don't get away. Later Michael Bluth, frustrated by his families lack of foresight, mocks his mother's decision to put Buster in charge of their fragile company by saying "Buster, the guy who thought that the blue on the map was land?!"

As an audience member I of course laughed at the absurdity of somebody thinking that any map containing land and water would have the land colored blue.

This picture has rocked my sense of what makes sense on this rock.

Maybe we should all be a little more like Buster.

Oh, here's another kind of Arrested Development. Gooooo 90's!

Spoon!

Remember The Tick? Not the live action one, the cartoon. Ok, you probably don't remember the live action one too. Well The Tick was one of those shows that not many people remember but I end up thinking it about a couple times a week. In fact, every time someone says "spoon" I think of this cult-classic. Take a gander at this short clip:

After I start thinking about The Tick, I inevitably start thinking about The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight. He is one of the greatest villains of all time...even if he never actually did much villainy and was disposed of in one night. Here's the whole glorious episode. Watch it and love it.

Why am I posting about The Tick only one post after I talked about my new baby boy Xavier? Well, because it's my blog and I can talk about whatever I want!
As I was putting the dishes away today I said to myself (as I say quite often) "...hmm...we use a lot of spoons." After thinking about spoons you can guess where my mind went next [to The Tick of course]. Luckily, today is a blog day and I am in the rare occasion were I actually get to blog about a though/idea/event that is still in my mind. Yay for me!

Here's another thing that happened today. I discovered a new ridiculous thing! It came while buying a well deserved spoil for someone else.

Have you been in the cookie isle at the grocery store lately? Have you been around the constantly increasing "oreo" section? Well, they have a new ridiculous thing: The triple-double!

No longer will kids think of basketball prowess when some utters triple-double. Nope, the sugar-food industry has hijacked that term and forever changed the future.

There are a couple reasons why this is ridiculous. The most obvious reason is the increase in sugar/fat that comes with this cookie.  But to that I say so what, it's not like the cookie was dancing the line between healthy snack and unhealthy indulgence, it's always been what it is. But what's really ridiculous about this cookie is that.....it's......nearly perfect! Every kid in this country has, at one point, disassembled a standard oreo and reassembled it to fit his/her needs. Nabisco has tapped into this desire and given us all sorts of goodies: double stuff, chocolate, fudge covered, golden, mint (yuck), etc. This new creation is just the natural evolution of that practice. Cudos nabisco, you may be producing delicious, slow acting poison, but at least your listening to our wants while you're doing it.

Have you tried this cookies yet? Did you watch the full episode of The Tick? Do you want more pictures of cute Xavier? I know the answer to one of those so here you go.

He weighs over 9 lbs now!

So tired & so cute.

Keep an eye our for a future post on music. I'm in the process of creating a play-list for a friend who is moving away. I'm going to fill it with songs that remind me of transition times in my life. Do you have any songs that come from a transition time in your life? Tell me about it.

Ridiculous things

I love youtube. Here is why.

Dead Cat is Turned into Flying Helicopter.
So this video has actually been around for a week or something. I recently saw it on the Colbert Report. I think it's pretty funny. Can't you just picture this cat chasing some terrified little kid around a yard! Don't get me wrong, this IS ridiculous. But something can be ridiculous and awesome at the same time, right?
What do you think?