It's been a few weeks since I played along with Jennifer F.'s Quick Takes. So here goes:
1. I have a thing for vintage typewriters. I like to touch them. I really like to smell them. I love the sound they make. My daily list-writing would feel so much more literary if I could just bang it out on this 1927 Underwood!! Although Matt might rightly inquire why I need a $450 typewriter when I've got Microsoft Word? There's no good answer for this other than: I'm weird.
2. I am punctiliously punctual. (Ooo. That's fun to say.) This is not a good thing. Matt says I am pre-punctual, meaning I show up for everything like 10 minutes before anyone else does. The worst part about this is my tendency to view people who are chronically late as having a serious character flaw. I think one of the reasons God gave me 5 children was to force me to let go. Now I just arrive on-time instead of pre-on-time. One of my goals in life is to be tardy like everyone else.
3. Jewel has this beta-fish that totally freaks me out. It's in a fish-bowl on her bathroom counter. She feeds it carefully every day and changes the water frequently. But every time I walk in there, I think poor Bubbles is dead because he likes to float motionlessly near the surface of the water. I have yelled so many times: JEWEL, YOUR FISH IS DEAD! that now she just yells back: NO HE'S NOT! HE'S JUST PLAYING DEAD! So then I tap on the bowl and jiggle the water until Bubbles darts around. I wish he'd just die already so I could quit worrying about him. Alas, Jewel is doing a good job keeping him alive.
4. Some days I speak in foreign accents all day long. There are days when a thick, Irish brogue comes in handy. Like when discussing the merits of building a peat moss fire, for instance.
5. I am terrible about thank-you notes. This is so lame. How is it that I am pre-punctual and then I'm tardy about thank-you notes? Writing thank you notes is such a source of anxiety for me that I put it off and then feel even worse about it. I'm convinced I know the solution to this: that 1927 Underwood typewriter!!! Writing thank-you notes would be so FUN if I could just type them on a vintage typewriter! Because the sure-fire way to cure character flaws is to buy more stuff. Right? Right? <crickets chirping>
6. I like making up stories to tell my children. Their current favorite is The Adventures of Cooper and Captain Rigatoni. It's all about a young boy who meets a Golden Eagle who flies him to Capt. Rigatoni's pirate ship where he……well, the rest is a secret!
7. I also compose songs/raps about the mundane little chores of life. We've got raps about buckling into their carseats, ditties about their nick names, random nonsense poems that we occasionally shout out while washing dishes or sweeping the floor. It's an entire, ever-evolving private language. Will I share these with you? Absolutely not. Family silliness is a highly-guarded secret.
