The universe just shifted everything into alignment, or maybe it's the wine: Random Tuesday Thoughts
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 4:35AM 
Oh, it's Tuesday (yeah!), it's Tuesday (yeah yeah!), it's Tuesday baybeeeeeee!
(Trust me, it's AWESOME if you can hear the music)
Anyway, it IS Tuesday and you know what that means...time for Random Tuesday Thoughts! So grab the button, puke all your random brain bits into a post, and link up!
Notice how I bolded link up? That's because a couple of you (cough cough) haven't been, and then I don't know that you've done an RTT post until I get around to going through my reader like, FIVE DAYS LATER, and then I feel like an asshole for not stopping by earlier. You don't want me to feel like an asshole, do you?
You do?
Jerks. Well, just link up anyway. I'm going to continue to put it in bold until you remember. Link up, dammit.
Ahem.
I just went out to turn the sprinkler off and noticed that the neighbours have oh-so-subtly placed a large bucket of pinecones right next to our door. That makes no sense whatsoever, until you know that a) there is about an 8-foot gap between the houses, which is covered in rocks and is home to several pine trees, b) technically I'm responsible for said tract of land, because the property line is basically right smack up against the side of their house, c) obviously picking up pine cones is fairly far down on my list of priorities and d) they're in their 80s and their list looks a little different.So, being that technically the local bylaws require structures to be at least 3 feet away from a property line, and that technically they're not in compliance, would it be awfully passive-aggressive of me to get hold of that information and leave a photocopy in their mailbox? With a pinecone? Sort of a not-very-subtle "I'll pick up my pine cones when you move your fucking house over 3 feet"?
Yeah, I thought so.
I can't find my glasses due to the Toddler Relocation Program, so I'm wearing my old ones. Which is saying something, since the ones I normally wear are 10 years old themselves. So I'm thinking, as I sit here contemplatively, with the wire from a missing nose pad stabbing me in the face,
For chrissakes, woman, go get some new fucking glasses already!
Why are there no men pimping their nudie webcams on Twitter? Is there an assumption at large that women don't like the pr0n?
I mean, not that I would follow them. Ahem.
Someone forwarded me an email with a recipe for a "five-minute chocolate cake" that you make in the microwave. How dangerous is that? Chocolate cake at your fingertips in five minutes flat? And they, personally, tried it and said it was amazing.
I now have an overwhelming urge to go buy a microwave.
That's right, I don't own a microwave. Our last one put on a spectacular light show before it died, but seeing as I didn't use it for much more than that, I didn't replace it. Real estate on the countertop is valuable in my house, people!
Our new bed arrived on schedule, in all it's memory foam goodness. Hubby texted me when it arrived. "Yay!" I replied, "Is it set up?" To which he texted, "Yes. If we fall out of it, we will die."
It's um, rather a lot taller than our old one. On the upside, nobody's fallen out of it yet.
FoN headed off today to spend two weeks at the cabin that she exploited her family to rent. I guess she gets cel service there, because she's sent a few texts. Mostly of the "It's beeeyoooootiful here, the lake is GORGEOUS, there are NO BUGS, did I mention it's beeeeyoooootiful?" variety.Except the last one, which was "There's mice! Mice!!! Oh my god mice!".
Heh.
And on THAT fun note, time to join in the fun! Do your thing, people, make me (and Mr. Linky) proud!
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Reader Comments (65)
I totally heard the music.
I want a bed so high that if I fall out I will die, but I will have to wait until I get back to the states for all of that fun. Apparently the Brits have something against large furniture.
As always your random rocks. I think you should defintiely do a Meet and Greet with the neighbors. After all, wouldn't want to be told you're not social. Mehhahaa (or however it goes)
Mmm, a big comfy bed. My damn kids are up before six thirty. Bed sounds nice about now.
I'm playing this week. I haven't played in so long. Well, other than in my head, and that's no place to store thoughts. They get all muddled in there. Tossed around, abused like a hooker in Thailand.
It's not pretty.
LOVE my memory foam bed! LOVE...
I totally need new glasses too. I opted for contacts last time I went, but I never put them in. Pain in the ass. I should just go get glasses because I am lazy.
Hey, weird, I posted something about glasses too!
Having "pick up pinecones" on my to-do list actually sounds kind of nice. So leisurely! But I guess when you're 80, it's between "try to poop without laxatives" and "clean dentures." So bah, not really.
When we bought our bed I had to climb up onto it too. Over a year it's settled down some. Either that or I am used to it.
Take the pinecones and line them up in your yard in a flip off hand gesture design pointing right toward their house.
You could always make a pine cone representation of them in statue form and present it to them at Christmas time, with a copy of the bylaws in the card. ;)
Are you sleeping without nose bleeds?
Maybe, you don't want that engraved invite after all. No Bugs, WTF? That is just not fair.
After all this time I've been participating in RTT you've never been to my nudie cam twitter show? Geeze, what am I doing here then. j/k, I wouldn't do that to anyone. :)
Once your neighbors left a bucket of pine cones next to our door, it became a free-for-all. Do what you must. I like our tall bed, but the slightly overweight cat has trouble getting onto it (not to mention the smaller child).
I don't use my microwave very often either, but the idea of living without one makes me nervous. I can't imagine it.
I could sure use the real estate on my counter where the microwave sits. Not to mention the extra work involved to clean it when hubby uses it. He hasn't gotten the concept that when he blows something up in it, he really should wipe it out immediately.
Wonder if I got a memory foam bed it would improve my memory?
I love blueviolet's suggestion about the pine cones...
Happy RTT! :)
I'm jealous of your new bed!!
My sister blew up an egg in her microwave a couple of days ago. I think you should take hers away from her. And also, cake recipe pleeeease?
I thought I had "Link'd up" more than a couple of times. Nice RTT!
"The Toddler Relocation Program" totally cracked me up!! Have a great Tuesday and thanks for hosting this fun carnival.
My bed is pretty high! Its like 21 in thick! Im 6' tall and it goes up to my stomach! it was hard to adjust at first!
It must be nice to be 80 and have nothing else to worry about besides freakin' pine cones. I would wait until dark then throw the pine cones back where they were so the neighbors could pick them back up again.
Toddler relocation program totally made me LOL!
We can't have a bed so high someone would die falling out of it because my husband has fallen out of bed. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard.
The "The Toddler Relocation Program" made me laugh out loud, then I HAD to share it with coworkers. The funny thing, I don't even HAVE a toddler.
Once again, awesome randomness.
We are starting to experience "The Toddler Relocation Program" - not a lot of benefits to that. I am gonna start giving her crap that I don't want so she can put it in places that I can't find.
Our bed is around 4.5 feet off the floor. I love it.
Careful with those memory foam mattresses. They DO retain memory of your horizontal horse hockey and may hold it against you in the future... :-)
Love the phrase Toddler Relocation Program. Our now 20 year old daughter once, at age 2, put my husband's keys in a tupperware, then back in the tupperware cupboard.
The 80 year old neighbors? I say, do it.
Hey, never done a Random Tuesday before but I sure did use Mr. Linky lol.
I love the whole thing about the neighbors. Go meet them. Not sure I would take the zoning thing with you but hey ya never know. lol
Super tall beds are awesomely fun. There's my two cents on the deal!
The pinecones have me thinking "hmmmmmm, what is with THAT?!" Some people are just plain odd...........
Mice?! Maybe she's looking for some killer mouse advice from you?
Have a great Tuesday!
Ahhh, the Toddler Relocation Program. We have an employee in our house, too. He decided that Tupperware belongs in the toilet. At which point the cat decided the empty cupboard was a great place to hide... You can not store your left overs in a cat. I'm just saying.
Five minute chocolate cake? And that recipe will go up here when???
mice? Poor FoN.
and i'm loving the toddler relocation program. i think i'm going to steal that one.