The hopeful cynic

For a person who believes strongly in the power of change, I find myself doubting people’s ability to do so.  Maybe deep inside I’m really a skeptic.  Maybe I’ve just seen too many people fail. 

I know that people can change if they really want to… but what I doubt is their desire to do it.  Is it that they’re too complacent?  Do they not have the know how to do it?  Or do they think that they have when in reality, they did  for a minute but have returned to their former selves? 

Obviously, people are unique and different and it’s unfair to lump them all together in one failing bunch.  I try to keep believing that people can change their ways, give them the benefit of the doubt.  But I suppose that somewhere in my brain I’m thinking they probably won’t.  I hope they will, I hope I’m wrong but so many times, I’m not.

I wonder if it makes me a cynic or a realist?  I do honestly believe that every one of us has the power to change ourselves… I don’t know why they don’t.

Whatever Martha!

Last night I was lying on the couch, flicking through the channels and not finding anything.  When there’s absolutely nothing on, I often find myself watching bizarre, obscure things.  It’s times like these when I end up watching the documentary channel or something else equally random.  This time, I stumbled across a show called Whatever Martha! on the Fine Living Network.  I pressed the Info button and read that it was about Domino Topping.  Hmmm… sounds completely inane.  I had to check it out. 

I flipped over and there were 2 women sitting at a table, watching Martha Stewart on a laptop.  Martha was showing how to glue seashells onto a picture frame and as the women watched and tried to copy, their commentary was funny.  They were ripping on Martha and the stupidity of this craft.  It was hilarious and I often found myself giggling out loud.  I watched for about a 1/2 hr before I had to go to bed but I resolved to find out more about this show in the morning. 

A little known fact about me would be my complete disdain for Martha Stewart.  It started

Yummy in my tummy

Holy cow!  Dan and I were watching tv and a commercial came on for this pancake puff maker.  Now, normally I am not the type to want things I see on these type of commercials.  But you watch it and tell me it doesn’t look freakin’ delicious.

I’m fiending for some donut holes right about now.  Dang

The Olympics

Am I the only person out there not watching the Olympics?  I feel like a jerk.  Here it is, a wondrous event that only comes every 4 years and I can’t get myself to watch it.  Is it because it’s sports?  I dunno.  I’ve always marveled in the past and sat glued to the tv watching such craziness as synchronized swimming just because it was the Olympics.  Now, I can’t even turn on the TV.  I don’t know what’s going on.  Maybe it’s because it’s in China and that seems to have robbed it of it’s Olympic spirit.  It does seem like an oxymoron to me that it’s being held there.  Maybe it’s something else.

When I mentally think about watching gymnastics, wrestling, swimming, diving or even the running this year, I like the idea of watching it but it seems like too much effort to find it on the schedule.  To actually move over to the couch and turn on the TV seems like a lot of work.  Especially when there seems to be too much to do in real life.

Maybe that’s it.  Perhaps the writer’s strike cured me of my TV addiction.  We went so long with nothing on the boob tube that I forgot how to watch it.  Maybe I actually have gone out and gotten a life or something resembling it.  Maybe network executives did us all a favor by holding on tightly to their greed and refusing to pay royalties to writer’s.  In doing so, they seem to have liberated me.  It just sucks that I can’t enjoy the Olympics.  I’ll try to get into it.  It feels like it’s my civic duty to care.  So I’ll try.

7 Wierd things about me and 7 truths I know

I was tagged by Alverna for a 7 Wierd things about me and 7 Truths Meme so I’ll be interrupting the week of Emma to add this quickly.

7 Weird Things About Me

1.  I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my mouth.  Unfortunately, none of my talents is useful in any job but it makes for fun at parties

2.  I hate for people to hear me sing.  In fact, Dan and I had been married for about 5 years before he heard me sing anything.

More Random Ramblings

Time for more stuff that just doesn’t fit into any other post… enjoy

Roger what?

Which brain are you?

As you know, I love me some quizzes.  I took the which brain are you quiz and I tend to agree with the results.  The only one I have trouble believing is that I’m creative.  I don’t see that in me but you never know.  I suppose I’m emotional and non-verbal although I am known to be a bit verbal  ;)

Go ahead and take the quiz and let me know what you are.  How many left brainers do I know?

Maybe my Kirby isn’t so bad afterall

I just discovered that I can vaccuum my walls and ceiling!  Not just with the hose but with the hardwood attachment!  It’s great.  Be gone spider webs and fur that sticks to the walls.  I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before.  Have I crossed the line?  Does anyone else do this?  I just recently started vaccuuming my coffee table for crumbs and fur but it didn’t dawn on me to do the walls.  Hmmm… what else can I vaccuum?