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Monday, December 05, 2005
blocked
I've nothing to write about. I don't even feel a great and eager interest in reading. I don't feel much like taking pictures or watching movies. I'm the closest I've been in my entire adult life to being bored -- because heaven forbid I should take my own advice to the kids and find something useful to do, right? or maybe I think sitting at the computer for long spells (reading comic strips and other people's blogs and voting at dpchallenge) is useful, there's always that. Anyway, this all results, as I said in the first sentence, in having nothing to write about. And really, you may not know it, but I think you're glad. Because my boredom is contagious, and the primary method of contamination is through the reading of something I've written, trust me on this.
You know what I think, back in the recesses of my mind, where I keep the things I don't really actually want to think about? I think because I said I would read and write about the Psalms, that's kind of what I (thanks to my subconscious mind, or God, or whatever) am waiting to do, and until I actually follow through on that idea, I'll be in this sorry state. Of course that doesn't make much logical sense, but the ideas in that particular recess of my mind never do. Oddly enough, they also frequently turn out to be right.
(I even tried a meme. A book meme, and even that didn't flow. Sorry state, indeed.)
P.S. I had a family portrait all planned for us, and then today I was at Costco and saw from the cover of a book about the Beatles that the Beatles had already done my idea. (four people lying with their heads together on the floor). Even to the black turtlenecks. Now we can never do that pose, because God forbid anyone should ever walk into our house and say to my husband, "Hey, I like that portrait! It's like the Beatles one!" No... not a pretty scene, that.
Comments
LOLOL! I saw that book at Costco too!!
Posted by: debi at December 5, 2005 08:26 PM
Why would that bother you? You are an odd one, indeed.
Posted by: jenn at December 5, 2005 10:56 PM
Jenn, T is like the Anti-Beatle. If he were, intentionally or otherwise, duped into posing for a picture that could even be mistaken for something inspired by something remotely Beatles-ish -- it would be an unhappy day when he found out.
Actually, we'd probably all get a really good laugh out of it, especially if the portrait didn't cost us money, but it would also promptly have to come down from the wall, I'm thinking.
Posted by: Rachel at December 6, 2005 08:48 AM
What if you told him before you did it?
Posted by: debi at December 6, 2005 08:50 AM
You could probably tell him that you had the idea before you saw the book. Would that work?
Posted by: debi at December 6, 2005 08:54 AM
Or how about if you all get beatles wigs??? =)
Posted by: debi at December 6, 2005 08:57 AM
But the thing is -- picture (T's best friend since fifth grade) Charley walking into our house with basically a mock-up of a Beatles album cover on the wall. Think for a moment of the lifetime of Beatles-oriented practical jokes that would ensue. That alone would be motivation for him to never allow it to happen.
Now I need to figure out a different portrait pose -- in time to get the pictures back before Christmas. I Do Not Want another boring kids-on-laps Sears-style portrait.
Posted by: Rachel at December 6, 2005 09:03 AM
Oh, yeah, Deb, beatles wigs would be a fantastic idea. If I wanted to knock my husband unconscious first.
Posted by: Rachel at December 6, 2005 09:04 AM
LOLOL!!! What if you all got around the Christmas tree?
Posted by: debi at December 6, 2005 09:39 AM
What about that Queen picture with just the heads all floating round Freddie Mercury? You know - I can't even remember what track that was? How bad is that, for a Queen fan?
Posted by: Carol at December 6, 2005 12:30 PM
You? Not wanting to do a book meme? What is the world coming to? (I want to do the book meme!)
Posted by: Kat at December 6, 2005 01:07 PM
Not wanting a picture that looks like the Beatles needs NO explanation in my book! :)
Posted by: Kristen at December 7, 2005 05:58 AM
I can see where the Beatles thing would not go over well. Too bad, too, because it's a great idea.
There has to be SOMETHING that is more interesting than Sears but I am drawing a blank. I think you should pose with your backyard tank.
Posted by: mary at December 7, 2005 08:38 AM
Mary, that's a brilliant idea. Can't you just see it, in all the Christmas cards we send to my mom's leftist sisters? You know, even if we don't use it as The Annual Family Portrait -- that picture is going to happen, and it will hang on our wall. I can picture the pose already. I think we have fatigues for everybody, even. If we get some snow -- highly unlikely really -- we could do a little Red Dawn theme. Bummer that it has to wait till the weekend (dark when T gets home from work these days); tomorrow is T's birthday and that'd be fitting, no? Thank you for the fantastic idea.
(I told T about the Beatles thing last night and he now avers that he never gave consent to such a pose in the first place anyway. Which means that he likely wasn't fully listening when I explained it to him, oh, say, five times in the past week and a half. I always thought it was maybe a little too whimsical to suit his personality, but the aesthetics of it would have made up for that, I think.)
Posted by: Rachel at December 7, 2005 08:49 AM
I like the tank idea! You all stand around the tank. C can wear a camo dress holding some sort of M16... LT could wear his camo. Maybe you can wear a matching camo dress like C's! hee hee
Posted by: debi at December 7, 2005 01:12 PM
