sunday morning

it seems we've gotten a break in the rain at last. it's been nothing but cold and wet the last few weeks, with just enough hints of sunlight to make us want more. Today looks good though. Sunshine is bright coming through the window drapes. Not sure yet if it's warm or not but hopefully so. This early in the year, even if it's sunny, it's rarely warm when i leave for work around 9 am. Summer is on the way though.
The gamut of birthdays is right around the corner too. somehow all of us kids were born within about a month and a half of each other, my older brothers birthday is 5 days after mine,my youngest brother is right between us. My other brothers ended up kinda the odd one out. his is earliest in the year, about a month before mine. As kids we always ended up celebrating his when the rest of us had our birthday party because otherwise he felt left out. It wass way cool though. Mom would make 3 or 4 cakes and we'd get to have anyone from the neighborhood or school come over for a party.
Mothers day and Fathers day coming up too. Gotta start planning now. Presents can be so difficult sometimes. most of my family are avid readers so i can always fall back on gift cards to Barnes and Nobles, but i'd like to try for something more original than that. Ah well plenty of time yet.
Well off to work with me. Have a great sunday morning everybody.

pondering fashion

it's amazing sometimes, what i let myself get talked into. yesterday a friend of mine was going to get some acrylic nails put on. She wanted to know if i wanted to come along. I thought sure. I'll just get a simple manicure and some nail polish. An hour later i walk out with the longest fingernail tips i've ever had. It's really weird and i realize i need to practice saying no some more. I just got french tips so it's not like i'm wearing 3 inch hot pink nails or anything, but they are certainly akward. The guy who did my nails was totally rough with my fingers and so all of yesterday not only could i not figure out how to grab anything with my newly extended digits, It hurt if i actually managed to. Gotta say, not worth 20 bucks . The experience was fun, hanging out with a chick friend of mine and doing something girly. It occurs to me now and then that a lot ofmy friends in grade school were guys. I high school i had a few chic friends but none of us were terribly into clothes or makeup. Certainly at the time there were better things to think about. I wonder if i've missed some vital thing to femininity though. Ladies at work will ask about this or that design or piece of clothing and i am at a loss, sometimes can't even figure out exactly what they're discussing. I couldn't put eyeshadow on to save my life. Guess it doesn't really matter though, cerntainly there are still more important things to think about. Besides, not being a totally girly girl seems to save one a lot of time, money and pain. Hmm i wonder how i'm gonna get these off.

teething

I don't know why, but i really like biting things. Sometimes i'll sneak up on people from behind and bite their shoulders. My husband has to put up with a lot of this. Mostly he doesn't mind i'm sure, after all, it's not like i'm going for blood. One day at work when i was extremely bored i started gnawing on the cord that connected my headset to my phone. I must've made a noise cause one of my co-workers laughed and asked if it was time to go home. Absolutely. Again it probably makes no sense, i just really like biting down on stuff. Mostly when i'm bored, sometimes just when the mood strikes. Half the chewable things at my desk have teeth imprints; paper, pencils, pens and obviously, the cord connecting my headset to my phone. I used to chew on the tips of my hair but a couple of months ago i cut my hair really short, and then i was reading the darwin awards book and i learned that chewing on your hair can actually kill you. isn't that amazing? I felt that that really shouldn't qualify as a darwin award. Common sense does not say that chewing on your hair could kill you, kill your chances at a normal social life maybe, but not you. Now, chewing on the cord that connects you to your phone and getting electrocuted..... that could deserve a darwin award. I'm getting better about not doing that though. I've met others that are like me, good to know i'm not alone in this. Although some get a sexual pleasure out of biting, for me , and a few people i know, it's just good to dig your teeth into something and not let go. possibly we were dobermans in another life. Maybe we just never fully got out of that teething stage we passed through when small children. Possibly it fills in for a phantom hunger, giving the illusion of eating something. Don't know but sure is fun.