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- Why does school start early in junior high, just when kids are switching over from being early risers to having a hard time waking up?
- Why do women's magazines always feature a beautiful dessert on the cover and a headline about how to walk off 20 pounds?
- Why does toddler behavior so closely mimic teenage behavior? (They don't have hormonal fluctuations, do they?)
- Why do my shirts always shrink in length, but never get smaller in any other aspect?
- Why does every flat surface act as a magnet for papers and miscellaneous piles?
- How does one clean the vacuum filter? (I so want to vacuum the dust off!)
- How long will I be compelled to keep clothes that are too small? And if I ever do fit into them again, will I even still like them?
- What is it that the deer are enjoying in my snowy front yard that keeps them coming back for more?
- Why is Eva obsessed with saying "wood louse" (otherwise known as a potato bug or a pill bug)?
- Why do people persist in thinking that children like clowns, all evidence to the contrary?
25 comments:
interesting to read, especially since i came downstairs from cleaning my closet.
i am determined to get rid of everything too small, too big, too long, ugly, etc.
and i totally agree on kids and their dislike for clowns (i am inluded in the "don't like" group)
as well as the teens and middle school starting earlier.
and my question is this, why am i (or is it all mothers?) the only one who knows how to flush the toilet or change the paper roll?
things that make you go, hmmmm?
Great post. My favorites are the magazine and clothing...I finally just dumped tons of clothes. I went through and said, "Even if this did fit, should I ever wear it in public?" Unfortunately, the answer most often was no. And then I feel bad donating them because I think, "Even people who can't afford clothes should not have to wear these things."
So you're in a pensive mood eh? Ha.
I always think that's funny/ridiculous that women's magazines have desserts on the cover while touting ways to lose weight. I guess they know what appeals to us eh?
I can't stand it that my shirts shrink in length!! ^%$#@
The vacuum filter question is a true problem.
Eva is the only toddler in America who knows what a wood louse is and uses the term daily!
Eva is obsessed with saying 'wood louse'? Go figure.
That first question has really bugged me for some time. School is even earlier on H.S. I've heard some states are switching to the opposite because studies show....
An administrator told me it was because older kids have work & activities after school that take time too. He's the same idiot who told me that I should be grateful we are not pioneers--when I mentioned that even prisoners have air conditioning -after 4 kids left school suffering from heat exhaustion!!
Sorry I'm just venting- but that REALLY MADE ME MAD. :)
Eva- she's so cute
What is in your front yard, really? Do you salt your driveway in the winter and the salt runs off into the yard? Do you like the deer, or do you consider them to be pests?
My shirts not only get too short, they seem to also get too wide...HOw?i do vacuum my filters...just with a different vacuum, since I have about 7 different ones, it seems to work out.
I have often wondered why women's magazine covers feature desserts and diets side by side.
Here are some more unanswerable questions:
How can there be self-help GROUPS?
Why do we PARK on a DRIVEway?
I'm totally with you on 2 and 4.
Seriously - the t shirt length thing drives me crazy! I have a long torso as it is, so when I find long enough shirts, it's a celebration...that is, until 2 or 3 times through the wash. Blast.
Clowns really creep me out.
I hate, hate, hate shrinking shirts...I'm always doing that "tug" thing over my pant waist and I am only 5.1! Ridiculous!
The wood louse comment had me giggling.
You crack me up! I just got rid of all the too small jeans but one pair, deciding that when the weight is gone, my reward will be new jeans.
Clowns totally freak me out. totally!
I find the clown question the most pressing. Clowns=creepy. There's no getting around it.
Oh the shirts! I know I still have baby weight but seriously, my shirts feel at least 6 inches shorter! I am hating every morning trying to find the best of the worst.
Eva is a doll. I wish I could hear her talk. Her vocab is hilarious.
I wondering the same thing about me this morning when I was looking to my wardrobe : "How long will I be compelled to keep clothes that are too small? " Well, perhaps one day I will be able to fit it again... but I really don't think so :-( So why do I keep it ? I do have any answer to this question.
why DO my shirts shrink in length?!? please don't tell me i have to start hang-drying everything. please, oh please...
Michelle! I love your musings today. So many contradictions - and a wood louse, of course. What would the world be like if we could write the "rules?"
very interesting and thought-provoking questions.
I think I'd take the "wood louse" phrase any day over the certain choice phrase that my 2 year old is using over and over again and in public!!! I won't repeat it, but his older siblings are in BIG trouble!
Hmmm, good questions. I think all school hours and early release schedules are usually controlled by the bus schedules. Esp. if it's a large district.
Some vacuum filters can be rinsed out with water and air dried.
Shirt length shrinkage is definitely problem. Hate that.
I think I will try to incorporate wood louse into my casual conversation in support of Eva. :)
The shirt thing drives me bonkers! I just purged a ton of too-small clothes and it eventually made me happy. I kept 2 pairs of "goal" pants that I fully intend to fit into soon.
Wood louse is so funny! My grandpa taught Mya that term last summer and it was a favorite for a long time.
Flat surfaces here attract all sorts of crap- you are not alone!
I am SO with you on the shirt thing! And I have yet to walk off any of the weight I gained from making those fabulous desserts.
And I love that your title suggests there will never be answers- it really is just how it is, isn't it?!
I just gave a shirt away to my mom that was fairly new, but had shrunk in length. Nowhere else! Really annoying.
I'm with you on the clowns. eeek. My grandma forced my brother to have a ceramic clown collection when he was little. It was beyond creepy!
This post and all the associated comments are hilarious.
WHY is Eva saying 'woodlouse'?? That's funny. Erin went through a phase of saying 'woodpegger' when she meant 'woodpecker'. Is she mispronouncing something, maybe?
Vac filters. Bleugh. I'm supposed to hand rinse mine. AS IF!! Out of sight out of mind where that's concerned, I think.
Love the list of questions!!
How do you think of all of these things and then so aptly describe them?
You're some writer--make some money with this talent!
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