Wild Wordless Wednesday

Sketch by Alexis Kelsch

Rainy Days

Do you like hearing the raindrops striking against your window?  To me it is a calming sound when it is raining so lightly. The melody of the rain is soothing and can put you in a mellow mood or even back to sleep.

Why does the rain make us docile where we do not feel like doing anything not even getting out of bed?  I often think it would be a great day to blow off and do nothing.

My kids say that rainy days make them feel bored and tired. Of course, they would be the first ones outside dancing in the rain doing a happy dance in a downpour. 

When it is raining, I feel like curling up with a good book or a movie preferably a romance.  Why is that? 

I know people who love the rain and love thunderstorms. Rain sometimes makes people blue and no pun intended under the weather.

Why does the rain affect our moods where we feel like slugs?  I usually feel lazy and my mood is more somber than usual. When I see it raining, I think of big tears coming down from the sky.

Not only does rain play with us psychology, but also physically as well where we wake up with a headache or achiness all over and we just feel like doing nothing.

I love when it rains a light drizzles and the sun is still shining.  Those are my favorite rain showers.

I know we need the rain to make things green and grow and I do love how it smells when it rains. I love the next day after it rains everything seems so clean and not to sound cliché but a new beginning. 

I just wish we did not have to have any rainy days….

Kismet

When you think of Kismet, you think of words like fate, luck, fortune, and destiny.  When I think of this word, I think of a friend of mine who is named Susie. She is such a witty, fun loving easygoing kind of gal and I am proud to be her friend.

She and I have met several years ago at a writing convention and we just hit it off immediately.  It is like one of those friendships that just click.  We were on the same agenda in trying to get an agent to love our book.  Needless, to say that dream has kept our friendship alive.

Susie is a writer and she has written a book.  However, she says her book is still mocking her from her shelf.  She has a blog and I am sure you have heard of it and it is called Motherhoot.com.  Her tagline is Moaning, Groaning and Laughing about Family Life. She writes funny and she reminds me a bit of Janet Evanovich whom we both adore. 

Susie keeps telling me that she wants to be like the Blogress, which is one of her favorite blogs. She says this woman is funny and makes her cry.  I want to tell Susie that she already is the Blogress.  After you read Susie’s blog, you will know what I mean.  Susie writes funny and is witty.  She has such a natural and pleasant way about her.

She has already won an award for her Motherhoot blog and very close to being number one best blog very soon.  She has a segment on her blog about writing and she has even reviewed books on her blog.  She is now doing recipes on her blog and I hate to say it but she is putting Rachael Ray to shame.  No wonder she has so many followers on her blog and so many friends.  She is on twitter and on facebook too.

I feel it was kismet that brought us together and serendipity that made us friends.

 

Chain Letters

Are you tired of getting those emails that tell you if you do not send this email on to 12 people that you will die or not have any good fortunate?

I dislike getting those emails immensely, because I don’t want to read them for one and secondly if I read them I feel compelled to send them on because if I don’t, who knows I might have doom and gloom in my life forever. I laugh at the ones that proclaim that if you answer in 12 minutes 12 good things will happen to you.  I get a kick out of the ones that if you send it to one person this will happen and if you send it on to five this will happen.  How ridiculous!  I just want to meet the genius who began this nonsense.

These emails are like the old fashion chain letters that I detested back when.  I remember getting a chain letter back in grammar school and I had a friend who insisted I write the letter ten times and send it on to ten friends.  Even back then, I disliked these kinds of letters and my friend who was very superstitious sent it for me because I was going to be doomed.  Of course, what was funny we kept sending the letter to the same ten friends.

So, why is this new kick in emails today?  Is it because we are truly superstitious or is it that we want to believe in something so badly? Do we want to take the chance to feel lucky and that maybe we will have good fortune? Have we become this gullible that it would be this easy for something good to happen to us?  

I want to know especially since email began why we are led like sheep to feel the need to send these kinds of emails on. Why do we do this so mindlessly as if we are obligated to send these kinds of email to everyone we know?

I would love someone to send me an email to say, Hi, I was thinking about you today and you are wonderful!  Send that on to 12 people you want to make smile today! Wouldn’t that be a nice email to receive and if you chose to you may send it on?

I know if you are superstitious, this is nothing to laugh at. I am not a superstitious person nor have I ever been. I just think these kinds of emails are silly and a waste of my time.

I would love to know how many of you get these emails and send them on or do you do what I do and spam them immediately?

Doctor's Visit

When you go to the doctors, don’t you think they should get us well immediately?

I have been under the notion when I go to the doctor they will make me well.  I have been not feeling that well for about a week.  It began with a headache and then congestion and then a dry cough.  I know it sounds like a cold but it isn’t. I don’t have any other symptoms at all.  I do not usually get sick as a rule.  I cannot tell you the last time I have had the flu probably when I was in grammar school.

I finally bit the bullet and went to my doctor.

My doctor is a giant compared to my petite stature.  He does not wear the familiar white coat to separate him from the patients.  He told me his reasoning was not to scare the patients.  He stands about 6’7 and that is scary in itself.

I must admit he does have a great bedside manner.  He begins with looking on the computer for all the notes the nurse has taken.  This just makes me crazy that he doesn’t ask me what is going on and I can tell him and save him the time of looking up what I just told the nurse.  He talks a few minutes about non-consequential stuff.  Then he gets right to the matter of my visit.  He does check my throat, my ears, and listens to my back. 

He asks all those silly questions doctors ask, like is this productive cough?  I want to answer that my cough thinks it is productive because it not going anywhere and it is very aggressive and it is annoying. The next silly questions he asks, if I have any aches and pains. I want to just give him a look because don’t you think I would have mentioned that to the nurse and then to him. I felt like I was being interrogated and this was the good cop.

Then he sits down and looks at the computer and starts thrumming on his keyboard, which I am sure he is playing Pac-Man because it is not as if I have a serious disease.  If I could get on his computer and with the Web doctors, I could write my own script and diagnosis myself.

He gave me a prescription of three pills that I was hoping were magical.  Well, I took the number one pill and today, took the number two pill and should have just thrown them out the window as Jack’s mother did and would have been better off with a beanstalk.  They are not magical at all.

I don’t know how I could feel worse since taking the medicine but I do.  I know there are side effects to medicine but do I have to experience all of them.

Why do we treat these doctors, as they are Gods instead of the witch doctors they really are?

Feeling Ferocious Today ~ Wordless Wednesday

sketch by Alexis Kelsch

Summertime

We all remember Alice Cooper singing if you want to call it that, “Schools out for summer” I feel like screaming too when I think of school ending.   

I cannot believe school is ending.  This year flew by and isn’t it amazing that the years are flying by quicker. It is somewhat bittersweet though when you think of school ending because you a had a year of making new friends, new teachers that you have pretty much gotten to know. It has been a year of growing up for your child and watching them become more responsible.  It is fun to see your child make new friendships too.

What do they say be careful what you wish for? 

Let’s face it though when you think of summer, it is really not a vacation for us parents, is it?  I mean let’s be serious it is more of a hassle to have our children home 24 hours a day instead of say a couple hours after school and then the evenings. Now we have a new job this summer and that is to entertain our kids.  You know what I mean the whining begins with "take me here" and "take me there."  Then the ranting starts about two weeks in to the summer that they are bored. I love how kids tell you they do not have to go to bed because it is summer vacation as if they have to remind us of that.  With my kids, they think because it is summer that no rules apply and that there are new summer rules.  I am not sure what those rules are but I am sure I will be informed of those soon.

It is a lot different when we were kids or at least I was a kid we left at 8am in the morning and did not show our faces until dinnertime.  We did not have to call in because there were no cells and we did not get to go into anybody else’s house and play video games. Play dates, what were they? We played outside, played baseball, rode bikes, hung out all day in front of somebody’s stoop or even hung out at the park but it was fun.  Sometimes we went swimming at the beach…yes we could take a bus by ourselves and go to the beach in Chicago.

Do you really think I trust my children to do any of those things alone?  My job in the summer is to be warden. I do make the meals and let the children run around the pen for a while.  I do have them do some activity for awhile but I watch them very closely.  When one of my kids starts with whining or fighting they do get a time out, which is solitary confinement and that, is for at least 10 to 20 minutes.  However, when my kids are really acting up I am pleading for solitary confinement.  

I have a top – security complex where I check the doors and all phones and if need be I confiscate contraband like cell phones, play station, psp, computers games, television because you have to admit some of the television they are watching is eating away at their brain cells.

I have to admit I love seeing my stress free children with no homework, no projects and no worries about school for several months.  They turn into calm fun loving kids not those zombies that walk and talk about school stuff.

We do not have any plans except relax, relax and maybe relax some more so it should be a happy summer!

Happy summer to all of you!