The past few months have been difficult. But as an optimist, I try to focus on some positives, some progress, and yes, some humor, to look toward tomorrow. As I tell my mother, sometimes you need to change the channel from the news to The Golden Girls.
Like Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts, letting your mind focus on less weighty, but all important (to no one but you) thoughts can help. Here are some of my own Not-So-Deep Thoughts.
I don’t understand dryer lint. After three loads of laundry I have the equivalent to make a sweater. Why aren’t our clothes slowly disappearing?
Classes I had to take at school that are no longer a thing: Shorthand. Balancing your Checkbook (yes I took a class in it). Cursive Handwriting. Home Economics. Intro to Typewriters. Learning the Dewey Decimal System. What’s next?
During the COVID-19 crisis, emails from Cruise Critic, Princess Cruises, and Holland America never slowed down. Of all the places to avoid during a pandemic, isn’t a confined floating hotel with thousands of people from all over the world eating from the same buffet an obvious one?
Are my husband and I the only people who have very specific but odd roles in our house? Official milk sniffer. Regular bath towel changer. Lint trap emptier (see above).
There may be no crying in baseball, but sometimes there’s crying in project management.
Exactly how many scarves does Dr. Deborah Birx own?
iPhone face recognition works when I put my glasses on, even sunglasses. But I’ve recently learned that it doesn’t when wearing a face mask/covering. How lazy am I that I’m put out when wearing one that I have to type in six digits?
I find it amazing that a species called “murder hornets” is the least of our worries in 2020.
Are recycled products from the same source? For example, is recycled toilet paper from toilet paper? Or could my recycled takeout food carton be from… toilet paper?
How am I going to start wearing regular pants again after the pandemic?
If you serve food on a paper plate, should you only use a plastic fork? Seems wrong to use a metal fork with a paper plate. It throws the whole place setting Feng Shui off.
I think I have too much to do. I have a To Do calendar task to remind myself to “Review To Do List”. Redundant? And I move it every day to the next day, since I never get to it.
Feel free to share some of your own not-so-deep thoughts. It’s weirdly rejuvenating.
Love it.
I don’t have any not-so-deep thoughts at the moment but I loved this. Very fun:)
Do murder hornets know that they are murder hornets? Maybe that’s just who they are. Maybe they just fly around thinking “hey man don’t judge, that’s just what we do”
thoughts about your thoughts:
Are those classes you had during elementary/high school, or college? I feel like now pretty much all of my classes before college were pretty timeless – things like biology, physics, world history, us history, etc. Obviously the content of those will change but the classes themselves dont seem too based on current state. Seems like you had a lot more classes that were focused on a current trend?
I don’t think you should be put out or feel lazy that the facial recognition doesnt work in some cases. I feel like for me what is upsetting is the principle that i payed more money for a certain experience and then it doesn’t go as was promised. Blame apple, not yourself.
I agree about the oddness of a metal fork on a paper plate, but i feel like having a paper plate doesn’t really impact my meal at all since a plate just sits on a hard surface, but having a plastic fork can – they’re much flimsier and can break, usually are smaller, etc. So i’ll often go metal fork if available.
@David – Maybe but I saw a guy voluntarily get stung and his scream made me judge it as utter pain.
@Dimitri – Cursive writing was all through grade school until jr high. Home Ec was jr high. The rest were high school although I definitely had to use the Dewey Decimal System at the BU Library!!
With the masks, now I miss the finger scan. Maybe they’ll come out with eye scans.
These are great! I’m with you on the pants thing for sure! 😉
Thanks for the random thoughts and laughs! I don’t want to think about recycled goods and food containers though!:)
This is wonderful Deb. Thanks for the laughs.
this is priceless and exactly what I needed to read today. Thanks Deb!!
My random thought……
Amazon asks us to recycle, yet they ship for example: my husbands oatmeal which is a 10oz container in a box that could fit about 5 more oatmeal containers AND then they place bubble wrap in the package for a container that is made out of cardboard! 😉
OMG @Kerri my husband comments on the same thing! Sometimes it’s outright comical. Good one!
Button pants, milk sniffing and recycling toilet paper… I think you covered everything, @debcote! Loved it, thanks!