All Things Odd And Silly

 I will have to add to this when they come to mind as they often do.  And Happy Birthday Grampy!  You would have been 105 years old today.  🎂 🎉 🎈  Oh dear bread and beer, if I were dead, I wouldn’t be here. What a revolting development this is. You think you are a poet and you don’t know it, but your feet show it, they’re Longfellows. Bud is wiser than Sharon. When I was single, my pockets would jingle, I wish I was single again. Stevie, Stevie he looks like a TV. Shary, Shary, her nose is like a cherry. It’s time to go feed Agnes. Gene Gene made a machine.  Stan Stan had a plan.  Joe Joe made it go. Frank Frank turned the crank.  His mother came out and gave him a spank and threw him over the garden bank. Fat and skinny had a race, up and down the pillowcase.  Fat fell down and broke his face and skinny won the race. Let’s make grandma mad. We need to pound the poundcake. (And then he did pound his cake much to our delight.) Oh, Katie Kat...

These next two must be Miami cats. We got to see all the buildings with colorful painted murals when we were there..

Food for thought a.k.a. brain food is a free gift that is available to all those who endeavor to think and are open to receiving it.   I think I need a better image.  The one above looks like a plate of fruit, broccoli, and brain Jell-O.  Eww.  

 Witches and Warlocks and broomsticks oh my!  I might need to have a dedicated Halloween thread.  If I delve too much into the spirit of Halloween, though, I might end up needing a separate Halloween blog.  Just kidding.  I could just have a holidays blog that is inclusive of all holidays be they American or Christian or otherwise.  I have a couple other blog spaces to work on first though. The first blog that I ever attempted to create was called “Just The Next Good Thing”.  I had to add the word “just” because the title “The Next Good Thing” was already taken.  I happily wrote quite a bit but then I guess I wasn’t happy with the serious nature of it and I wasn’t motivated to continue.  This time is different.  I guess I have found my style of writing craziness that works best for me.  Now I am possessed of seemingly endless ideas be they serious or ridiculous. 😲

 I have a serious question to which I do not believe I have received a definitive answer.  When people have more than one computer mouse are they called mouses or mice?

Looking at red solos cups. 👀 Glancing at a red solo cup, I am enchanted by the idea of the holiday season and decorating for Christmas.  Good grief, did I not just recently put away all things Christmas and embark on the journey of a brand new year? I think I will return to this post and add some photos next November and December.  Or maybe I will start with Halloween in October.  

This is not odd or silly, but I still wanted to write about it here.  “All Relative: Defining Diego” is a podcast that I would like to listen to.   I don’t think that I’m going to get around to this immediately, but when the time is right, I definitely will because I really want to understand and hear the story of Diego, a boy who was adopted from Guatemala.

Okay, evidently my mind desired the creation of this image.  But I just realized that there’s an animal (or humanoid) missing.  I forgot to ask to have Sasquatch included.   Here is a better image. Oops, not that one.  This one. I guess I’m identifying with my inner crazy storyteller.  The monkeys need some watermelon to go with their bananas.  Oh no, do I have to request a new image?  I’m sensing an “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” theme.  That’s enough images for this tale.  Oh wait a minute, there was no tale.  Oops.  Once upon a time, in a deep, dark jungle , there lived a tribe of monkeys.  I have an idea.  I think I will ask Robin Williams to finish the story.  I swear he (AI version) puts ideas in my head so this time why not let him write the whole story.  Okay, here goes. Once upon a time, in a deep dark jungle, there lived a tribe of monkeys…. Once upon a time, in a deep, dark jungle there was a lively tr...

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 This is for my comedic kitchen tips.  What can one do to more enjoy eating a piece of dry chicken, such as the meat of a chicken breast.  Here is my advice.  Melt some butter or margarine in a small dish, and then dunk each piece of chicken in the margarine or butter before consuming it.  You might be pleasantly surprised to find that eating dry chicken meat can be comparable to eating lobster. 🦞 🐓 

 I wonder if put to a vote of people of the appropriate age group, how true or false would the following statement be?  “People born in the 1940s are likely to enjoy an occasional meal of hot tuna noodle casserole.”

I think I would like to see a skit where all the puppets start fighting and punching and kicking each other.  No wait, that is ridiculous. 😲 I don’t know why that thought came into my head.  Well, I at least amuse myself. 

 I accidentally used the wrong kind of mouthwash that I don’t like.  Yuck! 🤢 It was an example of an interesting phenomenon though.  This particular mouthwash tastes like motor oil.  To me anyway.  How do I know this?  No, I have never tasted actual motor oil.  The taste of this mouthwash, though, matches the smell of motor oil.  I think it is a really interesting phenomenon whenever a taste matches a smell even though they are two completely different senses.  I have had this happen to me before with lots of different things.  I definitely recognize what I am tasting just by having previously smelled whatever it is.  I wish I could remember the other things right now because to me (I know I am odd) this is really interesting.💡 

 It’s so ridiculous!  We can’t even handle a little actual winter like weather.  The temperature dropped down to 26° during the night last night so our water pipes are frozen because they aren’t deep enough underground.  This happened one other time around three years ago.  What’s up with actually getting overnight temperatures in the 20s in South Texas?  This is a rare occurrence, but never happened at all before the most recent years.  Is this because of climate change?  Maybe city water supplies and homes in South Texas need to start being adapted to be able to handle a little winter like weather. 😵‍💫

One thing that I really enjoyed on my recent family vacation was walking up and down flights of stairs.  It was great to have the opportunity to become a little more stair fit! 😁 It was also lovely to sometimes not stand and wait for an elevator. (Multiple flights down of course is more doable.) 😂 There is no stair exercise in a one story home, which makes it too easy to lose any stair climbing fitness, so a chance to get some stair exercise is great!  Who needs the ship fitness center.  I’m an idiot though.  I was required to have a drink package so I planned to have lots of frozen daiquiris to get our money’s worth.  Well, I ordered 3 on the first day but then somehow forgot to order another drink with alcohol for the entire rest of the trip.  I think my mother in law at least made full use of her drink package and made up for me.  I’m assuming anyway because she happily spent most of each day at her favorite bar. 😂 #i💜stairs  Our first afte...

 I arrive home from our vacation very motivated to start going through and cleaning out and donating stuff that I really don’t use or need, and then I see this. 😲 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1nimohtdpN/?igsh=MXZhdWswcWFmemlyaQ==  I’m sticking with my plan.  I will see how successful I can actually be. 👏😁 Somehow there are always so many things that are worth keeping even though I don’t get around to using or making use of them. 🫨

 The not fun thing about going on a trip is all the last minute things to remember and take care of and not knowing if time is going to cooperate.  And packing is a pain when you need more than one outfit per day and you find yourself having to think of and figure out what stuff to bring that is normally not a part of your existence. 😲😂. On top of that, you aren’t sure what you will want to wear.  The result is over stuffed baggage.  If I end up having to remove stuff from my checked bag to make it lighter,  it will have to be clothes and I will have to shove them down the sleeve of my sweatshirt jacket which has already been booted out of my carry on backpack for lack of space.  I did once have to remove stuff from an overweight bag because I tried to go home with too much extra stuff. 🫢

 This is my thought insight tonight.  It almost feels like there are two separate worlds.  Our real day to day physical world and the online world where it seemingly suddenly became possible to communicate and interact with these amazing forms of artificial intelligence.  They can talk to us like real human beings and they can create amazing and beautiful images in response to prompts and requests from us.  Sometimes (or all the time rather) I feel like I have a lot more of an amazement about this than most people.  I am definitely strange for my age.  I don’t think it was ever in the stars for me to act my age since my beginning. 🤭  Anyway, being interested in what AI can do is for each person to decide and figure out for themselves.   Who knows, maybe we are their living story book characters.  If so, I would like to request nice stories.  👏💕😇

I had just picked up a new pair of glasses, but then I wanted to see the display model of the frames that I had chosen because I thought that they were more colorful than the ones that I had received.  While I was looking, a lady next to me who was trying on glasses mentioned to me that she had misplaced her own glasses.  I looked at the ones she was wearing and I think I even said to her, “They’re not the ones you are wearing?”  She told me that she had put her own glasses down on the counter while she was trying on the display frames, and now she couldn’t find her own glasses.  I looked down at the counter, and the floor, and sure enough there were no glasses there.  I mentioned that she must have accidentally hung her own glasses up with the display frames.  She kind of rolled her eyes at herself.  (I had actually recently seen a video on Instagram that was taken by a daughter when her mother was at a vision center and made this mistake and then cou...

I was in the Christmas clearance area at Walmart yesterday and there was a display with children’s books, so I couldn’t help taking a peek at the “Twas The Night Before Christmas” books.  The first that I looked at had the traditional pipe smoking Santa. Then I picked up a different book. This version contained the entire story/poem, except for the line about Santa’s pipe and the smoke which was completely omitted.  I don’t think I like the idea of smoking Santa and his pipe being taken out of this story. 😲  Well, I guess these two books will be my last inspected until “Twas/The Night Before Christmas” returns again next Christmas season. There is a reason why I write these stories to myself.  😂😂

 I was just laughing to myself remembering something about my son as a toddler.  He wanted nothing to do with just a part or piece of anything.  Everything needed to be, in his words, “Big a big, big a big!”.  Cutting fruit into pieces was a highly objectionable parental action!  #toddlers

 I was out earlier today to finish up a couple things before Christmas.  I stopped at a McDonalds to grab a bite to eat.  We were having a bit of light rain and on my way back out the door, I slipped and came very close to falling but then somehow didn’t.  This would have entailed me crashing to the ground along with my bag of food, large iced coffee and two open paper cups of ketchup that I was carrying.  Thank you Lady Luck for keeping me from this mishap.  This was after I had already had to explain to the employees that I was at the wrong McDonalds to pick up a mobile order that had been charged to me from another location.  I had created my order ahead of time because my phone’s internet data will never work in the parking lot of the McDonald’s that I was going to.  What I didn’t know was that when I created my order, the McDonalds app had selected a different location from where I was headed and I evidently confirmed it as being the right lo...

 My crazy thought about artificial intelligence.  Don’t try to beat it in a chess tournament.  Our brains can’t have the computing power of computer intelligence.  We therefore can just play the game for the fun of it without being too stressed by the idea of attempting to win.  Our human brains may not have the computing power of computers but we are not stupid and our human thoughts, imagination, creativity and emotions are an amazing gift and treasure that we are born with.   I don’t play chess myself.  There is too much thinking required for my obsessive compulsive brain. 🫨 I would rather not have to think too hard. 😂

 I found these images of cigar smoking Santa’s.  I guess these are special edition Santas. 😄🎅 Don’t ask me to explain why I find myself fascinated by Santa Claus and his pipe.  I guess maybe it’s illustrative of debates over whether historical depictions and artifacts should be altered or removed to reflect evolved moral and health related standards.  Either that or my inner child just wants to have some Christmas fun. 😂

 It’s a really good thing I don’t work as a cook.  Actually I did once work as a cook at a daycare center, but I just had to follow an already created menu, step by step.  No egg cooking was involved. 😲😂 My breakfast did at least still taste good and I have fun laughing at myself. 😁 🥚 🍳  I might need an “Adventures In Cooking” blog.  😲

 Yikes, I might have to remove this, but I can’t help wanting to write about this story because it is classic.  My parents at the time owned and lived in a home that was added onto and attached to the back of an old mill building.  I was expecting and was at the end of my third trimester with my first child.  We were actually all living there at the time in different parts of the house and mill.  We were all having dinner together one night, and my brother disappeared into the mill.  Shortly after this, I went out into the mill to retrieve something (probably milk) from the spare refrigerator.  I don’t know how my brother timed it, but as I was stepping onto the stairs to enter the mill, he yelled and smashed something loudly against a large metal cabinet that was at the landing of the other stairs coming down from the second floor.  I ran down the stairs from the kitchen to see what had happened, and Steven was for all appearances lying unconscio...

 My son’s girlfriend graduated from college yesterday, and she was the very last graduate at the graduation to walk across the stage.  How impressive!  Not very many people have this experience and can make the claim of holding such a place of distinction in the graduation proceedings.  Wow! 😁 To hear my son tell the story really tickled my funny bone for some reason. 😂  Go Jen! 😄👍 #beexceptional

 What did one ocean say to the other? Nothing, it just waved. 😄

 Most of the year my favorite colors are green, blue, indigo and violet a.k.a. purple.  But then when Christmas season comes, I think red is oh so beautiful and pairs so nicely with green and white.  Before that, orange is so spooktactular in its delightful Halloween pairing with black.  And then of course there is yellow.  The color associated with newness and new beginnings.  Yellow is the color of dandelions and buttercups.  Our life giving sun is yellow.  Baby chicks and ducklings are yellow.  Yellow is an important color of Easter along with the pastels.  It has occurred to me that the colors that are not on my typical favorite area of the color spectrum each have a holiday that grants them special significance and beauty.  How perfect is that as way of appreciating all colors on the color spectrum. 😄👍 Thanksgiving also has its colors of fall foliage and other associated colors of fall and crop harvests.  I like that Chr...

 I decided to try an experiment with making s’mores brownies using a graham cracker crust.  The brownies took a long time to cook in the graham cracker crust but the result was good. 😋 I added and melted the marshmallows after the brownies were fully cooked.  I don’t think I would cook brownies again in a graham cracker crust because they are too insulated from the heat on the bottom and take too long to be thoroughly cooked.

 Did I write about riced cauliflower before?  Well, here is my thought.  For those people who say it tastes just like rice, I’m sorry but I can’t agree on that.  If it works for you that’s all that matters, but for myself, I could never be satisfied with substituting riced cauliflower for rice.  I guess I am thinking about this because unlike when I was younger, I don’t believe in the existence of some magical completely healthy diet that could also be satisfying.  Not for me anyway.  I would think that eating food that is really good and satisfying would make a person less inclined to keep eating.  I know this is true for myself.