what I heard and what I saw.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as bristles, close, dark hair, direction, downstairs, face, funny thing, invisalign, jest, kind, skin, Somebody, stink bug, stinkbug, timeshare, today, toothbrush, upstairs
“You look totally different with dark hair.I mean, your face, like, looks exactly the same. But your hair just looks really different.”
Somebody said that to me in church today. I smiled and nodded and said, yes, that makes a lot of sense. Because it does. That is what happens when you color your hair, I suppose. And, really, I much prefer those kinds of statements than something like,”Wow. You’re incredibly tall.” Or “How much do you weigh? I bet I could pick you up.” Or, my personal favorite (and this sometimes occurs when somebody realizes for the first time that my skin is on the dryer side of things): “Have you ever considered using lotion?”
I think the next time I hear that I will just ask “What’s lotion?”
And then I will proceed to ask them if they wouldn’t mind pointing out to me which direction the sky is from here.
Oh, I jest. And I realize that people are simply being kind. Most of the time, anyway.
In other news, something absolutely horrific occurred today. See, I presently keep a toothbrush upstairs and a toothbrush downstairs. I am not even sure exactly how many times I brush my teeth a day lately, but let me tell you that because of my invisalign, it’s a whole heck of a lot. And so I like to keep a toothbrush close by. But today I found something really quite terrible perched upon the bristles of my upstairs toothbrush. Seriously, this thing was positively comfortable. Like he had bought a timeshare and it was his week or something. What was it, you ask?
Do you really want to know?
Okay, fine. I FOUND A STINK BUG PERCHED ON THE BRISTLES OF MY UPSTAIRS TOOTHBRUSH!!!!!!
The funny thing is, though, that neither of us made a scene upon the discovery. I simply flicked him off and he scampered away and for all I know, he might be blogging about how things looked from his perspective at this moment. And for your information, no, I have not used that toothbrush since. I am not sure I can. I mean, a stinkbug isn’t a spider, but still. It’s pretty darn gross.
thoughts that I pretend to organize by way of bullets.
in Funny Stuff, Thoughts and Feelings
as Amish, amish man, bagel, buggy, double whammy, horse, horse and buggy, invisalign, jenna, night, Ollie, private conversation
I am going to write down some random things here, so bear with me.
- Today my sister and I saw a cute young Amish man. I write this down because this has never happened before. I am sure they exist–and I am now positive that they exist–but I had just never before actually witnessed it. We were leaving Giant and he was just walking in and Jenna and I were both like, Oh. And then we saw his horse and buggy tied at the sign that indicates if you have a horse and buggy, tie it up here! but it says it with a picture because, in this case at least, I guess a picture is worth a thousand words about horse and buggies. And I joked with Jenna about leaving my phone number on the seat of his buggy. This is funny because he has no phone, you know. Well unless it is in his barn for business purposes but a). calling me, one of the English (as the Amish call any of us who are not Amish), could hardly be considered a business venture. Now I don’t know why I put in an “a).” there because I just realized that I have no “b).” Oh well.
- I have started writing. Started writing? you might all be thinking. But yes, I am writing something of a project and right now it is going all over the place and I am not quite sure what it will be eventually, but it’s this nice little secret that keeps me smiling when otherwise, I’d just be standing in line, about to order a bagel or something. Though the anticipation of a bagel would probably make me smile too. But now I have all these words saved and it’s a work in progress and I can order a bagel, so double whammy reason to smile. This, despite my invisalign, because sometimes that makes me not want to smile.
- My date with Ollie, which I talked about last night, was quite a delight. We had a great conversation throughout the night, some of which was on a more personal level. Which is why when Jase asked Ollie what we talked about last night, he simply answered, “Actually, Daddy–it was a private conversation.”Oh hahaha. Love that kid. Loyal to the max.
- This morning I had a few bites of some of my favorite cereal, only to look down and see a dead moth floating around in the milk. That was quite a bummer; no way around it. I dumped the whole bowl and had to start from scratch again. But you better believe that I thoroughly checked every spoonful before it went down the hatch.
- I need to get some sort of job before too long now. There are a lot of things I do, and some that even bring in some revenue, but I think I need to werrrrq, as some of my dear tour friends would say. So I am wondering what that shall be. I am actually not worried about it right now. Just sort of anticipating an open door and thinking huh. I hope I like it.
- And last but not least, never least!, have you noticed the moon lately? It’s hanging quite low. I think it must be lonely, cause it seems to want to be a part of things down here on earth. And I don’t mind at all. The moon has always been a friend and a comfort in my life. I’d love to have a party that the moon attends; but perhaps that sort of happens every night anyway.
