Bored....

That's right, I'm bored.  As many times as I have scolded my children this summer not for saying they were bored but for acting like it.....I'm ashamed to admit it, but I am not simply bored in the sense that I've got nothing going on, I'm still working and all the usual stuff is still going on but I am in full on ennui (I do love that word!).  

It's like nothing excites me right now.  Which flat out sucks.  And I know that my blog is supposed to be entertaining you, but dammit I need someone to entertain me!  Maybe its just the summer thing and I've grown weary of having the children underfoot and on each other's nerves all the time.  

Things that I do when I'm bored: roll around naked in the grass in the back yard, read other blogs and wish that I had some witty retort or comment to add, stare at Darling Husband because I want him to do something to entertain me, troll youtube for amusing videos to break the monotony.  

I think drugs might help make things more amusing..... here is a video of how different drugs affect spiders and their web making for your enjoyment.   

Yes, I know this isn't anything new but I'm lacking inspiration.  So enjoy and please someone come to entertain me!!!!  Or send drugs.  Or send me a guest post.  Or nearly anything!   

Pioneer Days

Pioneer Days

I was going to tell you the rest of my internet story but I'm feeling distracted right now so I may or may not get around to it.

Yesterday was Pioneer Day here in my little town.  For those who don't know, Pioneer Day is a LDS thing where they celebrate Brigham Young arriving in the Salt Lake valley and proclaiming 'This is the Place'.  Its sort of like a founders day celebration but different.

There was a parade which we got to see.  They threw candy which of course my children (including Darling Husband) could not leave on the ground uncollected.  Mostly it was salt water taffy (from the Great Salt Lake maybe?), Bit o'Honey's (didn't know they still made those but much to my delight they do) lollypops and tootsie rolls. There were vintage cars and wagons like the one above.  There were horses and even motorcycles (that goes together right - motorcycles are iron horses - well go with it).  Of course no parade would be complete without floats.  I loved the floats there were some floats that had pretty girls in prom-like dresses.  I asked Darling Husband if they were like last year's homecoming court and he said, 'no honey, Pioneer Court'.  Really?  One of those lovely girls was going to be Pioneer Queen?  Holy wow.  And just when I thought I could bear no more a float came by with several LDS missionaries and one was shouting to the crowd from the Book of Mormon. Something about a pillar of fire bright as the sun.  *shrug*

After we got back into the van and tried to get home, which proved more of a challenge than we thought because of all the roped off side streets, I told my husband that I didn't understand why all those young mormon missionary fellas looked like copy repair men.  He laughed at me then. But for those who don't know, let me explain. They were all wearing white shirts and black neck ties.  Black pants and black shoes.  In my previous life I worked in an office and I swear I thought that was the copy guy's uniform.  Or maybe all my copy repair people were mormons and I just didn't know.  Hmmm....will have to ponder on that a bit more.

In honor of Lost's astute observation and because I can't post pics in comments here is an edit so you can see what I'm talking about.  

Geek Squad 

Mormon Missionaries

Do ya see the resemblance? Heeheehee

Divine Secrets

"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow.
It's what sunflowers do."
by Helen Keller

Yeah, okay, this post isn't about Sunflowers.  Well not exactly anyway.  

I find myself astounded when I think about how far electronic communication has come.  Not so very long ago, well, maybe more like nearly 10 years ago, I found myself a member of an online community.  A bulletin board.  The sunflower is a clue, I wonder if anyone can guess the board that I was on?  This was before Facebook and MySpace was just taking off to give you a point of reference in time.  I haven't been involved in one since. In fact, I don't know of any that are in existence.  Of course I haven't looked because I definitely don't need something else to obsess about. But like I always do I'm getting ahead of myself.    

And as I do everything, I was fully immersed in this board and the other people on it.  This wasn't a pass time where I checked in every week or even every other day I was on obsessively.  Several times a day.  And there were different boards within the main board. One page was for light and fluffy topics, on page was for political topics, one was for good thoughts and prayer requests, and one was for recipes.  You get the idea.  

What was truly amazing in hindsight was the cliques that formed within the online community.  There were those who aligned themselves with like minded people politically, and those who aligned themselves with others who shared similiar hobbies and likes.  Naturally it didn't take long for the board to develop its bullies as well and there were some serious snark fests  about everything from homeschooling, breastfeeding, to asparagus and peas.  Go figure.  

I was pretty much insulated from that because I fell in with a group who liked to drink more than the others, party more than the others, and have sex more than the others.  So we created our own little corner of the board.  Our very own ongoing thread that detailed our various exploits.  In time we started setting up 3 way calls and planning trips to meet each other.  

You know how all the 'experts' advise not to go meet people in person that you think you 'know' online?  There's a reason for that.  We were quite the motley crew.  The Voodoo Krewe is what we called ourselves.  We were all lushes for that weekend.  We drank to much, we ate to much.  We talked to loudly and laughed more than should be allowed.  It wasn't until we all returned to our 'real lives' that the bottom fell out.  But that's enough for now.  Maybe tomorrow you'll get....The rest of the story.