The random thread

Post all your random thoughts, ideas and encounters that don't fit in the Main forum here.


Okay, I just finished filling in a questionnaire for Amsterdam, which focused on the question whether there is enough green in the city (parks, fields etc.) When you could chose from a long list of things you did in a park (eg: walking, sitting in the sun, reading, playing soccer and about another thirty things) they also included the option making love/cruising. And I found that one so utterly amusing.

Great idea, Elin.

LOL at the questionnaire. I wish Luke and Noah would make love in a park. Or, you know, anywhere.

Yesterday I was doing some volunteer cleanup for the city, and saw mushrooms growing in the shade of the trees along the roadside. One of them was pretty big and I immediately thought of the mushroom hunt. It was a fun "Nuke" moment for me. :lol:

Great thread idea Elin!

Heather, I don't think anyone will look at a mushroom the same way again. I know I don't.

My Nuke moment for the week day!

I was in the grocery store yesterday waiting for the deli counter and my son walked up to me and handed me a stick of salami, telling me to buy it. I asked why and he said "that's what Bubbie fed me and Ari. I want it!" So I said, "oh that's what Bubbie feeds you?" as I'm holding a salami in my hand and of course I couldn't stop laughing as I heard the words come out of my mouth.

It's kind of scary how the boys can creep into our every day life, isn't. :D Oh, and to be more clear, this thread can get as random as you want it doesn't even have to do with the boys, random observations are great as well. Although I still wish the boys were smart enough "to make love" in a park (or on Noah's bench, or in his truck, or in the stables, or near the pond...)

Ah, I love random things! So thanks for this thread, Elin.

My random things for this week...It rained. A lot. I got soaked every time I went out the door. And it still rains. But I also got a big fat A on my speech about Eisenhower. I found out my roommates boyfriend is actually nice instead of 'kinda weird' after a party at our house last week.

I just got back from the grocery store. The clerk would not let me buy my six pack of beer because I didn't have my ID (I took it out of my wallet last night and forgot to put it back). Then, to add insult to injury, after ringing me up he asked "Ma'am, do you need help carrying your groceries to your car". So, grocery store checkout boy, I ask you this: Do I look like someone young enough that you need to card for beer? Or someone old enough to be called ma'am/need assistance with a grocery cart? Because personally, I don't think I am either AND I am pretty sure it isn't possible to be both!

I have heard the song Sweet Escape twice this weekend (in only 90 minutes in the car). Both times I have found myself developing strong feelings of anger. Why did Noah and Maddie get to have fun at a waterpark and Luke and Noah never leave the kitchen?

Our grocery store has a 100% carding policy. But then beer in the grocery store is a new thing in my area so they're being extra cautious.

My random thing:

Barney Frank really ought to put his teeth in when addressing the press.

I bought a new version of the game Clue yesterday. I haven't played it, but it has rumor cards and various other things in it. I'm ridiculously excited. Also, at the house in whately, i made vegetables and potatoes in cheese sauce.

Cheese sauce is one of the first things i made by myself, when i decided to make my own macaroni and cheese, to serve to the family. It's a strange memory, but it's damn tasty.

I have not had marconi and cheese since I was 13. Not that I was a huge fan of it before that but I use to babysit these kids every summer for a few years all day. 7-4 while their folks worked. I made good money though. Anyways, the mom was ridiculously healthy, no soda, candy, everything was wheat - even the flour. But she let the kids have that. But when I would make it for them the little girl insisted on putting more liquid and then would DRINK the cheese sauce.

I haven't been able to eat it since.

Ha!

I bought a huge bottle of whiskey at a liquor store on Saturday. I didn't even get carded. Considering people used to tell me quite recently I looked like 15 years old, it just must be getting very obvious now that my hair is thinning. C)

As for Macaroni & Cheese, my cousin used to babysit us when I was 5 or 6. And when she made it, instead of adding milk and butter, she'd just double the butter. Because she didn't like milk. I.....haven't eaten it much since either. Eww.

how sad to see bad macaroni and cheese experiences, but reading them made my stomach turn. my friend jamie told me about being little and having her dad make it with chocolate milk. ick. my cheese sauce is good on anything, so you can absolve yourself of macaroni trauma. plus, i don't eat pasta much anymore.

in other news, my stepmother contacted me. My father is leaving her for another woman. ironic, as my stepmother is technically the other woman that my father left my mother for 30 years prior.

Ick. I'm sorry Monday - that's crappy.

I don't know if this will amuse you as it did me this morning but worth a shot.

I call my 94 year old Great-Aunt every Sunday. Woman is a trip. This morning I was told that I need to change the voice on my answering machine (it's the automated guy that comes with the device, I just never got around to doing anything about it) because I should not have some "strange man" on there. If I want/need a man on my machine (yeah, I don't know where that came from either) I should have my brother do it. But it's not proper for me to have a man's voice on there that I don't know.

Ha.

The woman is liberal on 90% of things in life but the idea that I have some strange guy on my answer machine she deems inappropriate. :D

I think that's hilarious. My grandma, bless her, thought that there was actually a woman answering my parents' phone when she got their voicemail. Like a secretary or something. No matter how often they explained that it was a recorded message she kept referring to "that woman answering your phone".

My brother's best friend in high school was killed in a tobogganing accident; sadly, he died instantly when a sled hit him as he was walking up the hill. The last time I saw him, I made him macaroni and cheese for dinner, and no matter how many years go by, that's the one thing I'll never forget. :(

Sadly, I am 32 years old and STILL look as if I need to be carded. Most times I can take that as a compliment, but it gets a little sad when people don't think I'm the wife my husband is referring to. Not only do I look a lot younger than him (although I am actually a couple of months older), but I'm short. Also, he's white and I'm black. So when people first see us together, they will sometimes ask my husband about the "cute little black girl" they saw him with last time. It's been a couple of years since I was "little" so they probably don't say that anymore. But I wonder how many times people see us out together and think bad things about my husband just because of the way I look.

Of course, the worst was when I was younger and desperately wanted to look older. I remember when my mother-in-law wanted us to move to Vegas after college with the rest of the family. We weren't even engaged then but she was paying for a trip to Vegas "to check it out" so how could I say no? Anyway, I was 21 and looking forward to the Vegas experience. Of course, we were told how strict casinos were when it came to age and stuff. So imagine my horror when on the flight there, I am sitting near an emergency exit and one of the flight attendants tells me that I have to be at least 16 to occupy that particular seat. 16!!! Which meant she thought I was younger than 16. C)


ETA: I just read your comment Qua and I feel your pain! H)

I am not sure when I felt "older"...the first time I did NOT get carded or the first time I was with my then boyfriend (now husband) and was asked if he was my son! :rofl I was all like :andy ! :su:

That has not happened in several years...maybe being with me has aged him! A)


G) :eee: :H :wub: ;)
When i get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If i'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.
G) :eee: :H :wub: ;)

"There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music, or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me wants to punch those motherfuckers in the teeth."-Susan [title of show]

I like pie.

I'm thinking about taking a trip with my boyfriend at the end of the month. Somewhere warm. 25th-30th. Any suggestions?