Useless Stuff

Have you ever paid attention to how many things you think about in a day? I mean just the random stuff. Useless stuff or rather irrelevant stuff.

One of my morning habits or rituals is to go to the USA Today website and play the online games: sudoku, quotations, crosswords, word search and sometimes a couple others. It's like my brain warm up time. I can get everything but the crossword done in the time it takes Steven to shower and dress in the morning. (Ok, sometimes sudoku will take me longer at the end of the week. They slowly get harder.) Today when I went to the website it was celebrating Bloom County the comic strip. So I got to thinking about how much I enjoyed it. Then it mentioned that many newspapers banned the strip after a controversial publication. Bloom County then was mainly carried in college papers. That's probably where I started reading it.

From that stream of nonsense I got to thinking about college. And how long ago it was. Sigh! Sometimes I look in the mirror and think what is my mom doing in my mirror. It startles me. Sigh! Then I get to thinking how after 40 it's all starting to fall apart. The hair has thinned a little. (Glad I had a thick head of hair to begin with!) The waist has thickened some. Not to mention that now it takes 10x as much exercise to whittle it back down. I know better than to look too close and see the gray roots or the new wrinkles that show up around the eyes. Sigh!

Some how from college I get to thinking about quiet. I love quiet. Our home has never been a loud chaotic place. Quiet gives me time to do things like think and write this blog. Which leads on to the realization that I really enjoy writing. It gives me a creative outlet that sometimes I am afraid to explore. In church on Sunday, Tony talked about using your gifts. Right off he mentioned that we sometimes don't use them because we are afraid. I said a mental Amen to that. So from here I'm going to contemplate, "What would I do if I knew I could not fail?" Join me.