No reason it's Random Ruby Tuesday other than I like that song and I like rubies because it's my birthstone and I have a few of them. By the way, my birthday is less than a month away, so get your shopping done. Rubies are always the right color.
Bastille Day is one month from today. I know that for no reason.
Today I tried to spell "gem" on Words with Friends with a J like "Jem and the Holograms." Never said I was a spelling bee champ.
Meg and I went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast last week and a server hit her in the head with a tray. I proceeded to laugh uncontrollably because I'm a good friend like that.
I did not have a vanilla Coke from Sonic today. Things just weren't the same.
Last week at church was Vacation Bible School. I did not volunteer this year. I had an odd experience almost every afternoon when picking up the kids in that people said "hi Kerry!" and I had no idea who they were. Now, I don't mean I couldn't remember their names — I flat out did not know who they were. I have been a member of this church for six years, in several Bible studies, member of MOPS steering team, had kids in the Mother's Day Out program — so it's strange that so many people said hi to me that I did not know. This is nothing compared to the anxiety I had when walking into church to get the kids because there are 1000 kids in our VBS. That is not an exaggeration. I promise.
On another note, the most fun game ever to play is "dodge the cars driving aimlessly through the church parking lot."
For some reason I agreed to be a Nielson TV household for a week next month. They said my results will be used to determine broadcasting. Hope y'all like Pawn Stars and Absolutely Fabulous reruns. Really, I read that they're going to make a few new episodes of AbFab next year and I can't wait. How can you not love a show in which a character says about being sober, "worst 8 hours of my life"?
I say that and I'm not a big drinker, despite what graphics may appear on this blog and on CNN.
I wear waterproof mascara because I tend to have allergy-watery eyes. Anyway, I use this waterproof mascara remover and it doesn't list the ingredients, but I'm pretty sure it's Crisco, because this is the greasiest stuff on Earth and I can't see after I use it and I tripped over a pair of shoes by my closet after leaving my bathroom.
Can I write a run-on sentence or what? You'd never believe I was an English Ed major. You'd probably believe that I dropped out of college after 3 and a half years. I did. It was a good decision, made a lot of people proud. Made myself happy.
You know what the impressive thing I learned from my college advisor was? That "awkward" is the most satisfying word to type or spell out loud. Shout out to Fran! I may have told you this before, but at the award ceremony (or whatever it was) for my major, I won tennis lessons with Fran. I didn't cash that prize in.
I learned how to make an em dash on my Mac (—). You'd probably just call that a dash, but no, it's an em dash. In case you're wondering, it's called the "em dash" because the character is the same width as an M. It's a unit of measure in the world of typography. Of course I would know that.
Recently I read an essay condemning the use of em dashes. It pissed me off (as things tend to do). The author said using it leads to less efficient writing. I've never met a writer who questioned if their work was efficient. Good, relevant, smart — yes. Besides, if the punctuation was good enough for Billy Shakespeare and Em-dash Dickinson, it's good enough for me.
I do not want to go to the ballpark tonight. Or tomorrow night. Or any other night this week.
Confession: I watch the Food Network when nothing else is on, thus I watch it a lot. I don't really like Rachael Ray very much because I find her a little annoying in the way that she giggles to herself -- but I love watching her gather all of the ingredients and things she's going to use at the beginning of the show because I'm waiting for her to drop something. She piles up things like crazy and carries 20 things at once. She is bound to drop something on one episode. This is the same reason I watch ice skating. I like the falls. Yes, I am a horrible person.
