I realize that Sunday (May 13th) is Mutha'a Day, so I have added buying a card for my mummy to my list of things to do tonight. Mom, if I forget to mail the above mentioned card, "Happy Mother's Day," and I thank you in advance for not pummeling us with pelts from animal carcasses, or tying us to guardrails on the interstate because you needed some peace and quiet, forcing us to spar with one another for your amusement, etc.
Thanks to an article I found on FindLaw.com today, I have a post that will make you want to send your mom flowers every day of the year (unless of course, you happen to be one of the children of these featured mom o' the years). So everyone out there, go hug your mom if she didn't save money by performing your appendectomy herself!
This evening I went to Food Lion to pick up a few things. In the check-out lane, the man ahead of me was being such an obvious ass to the woman who was checking him out. He was a miserable ass hat. She never lost her composure. I was staring daggers through him at one point and he said to me, "What are you looking at?" My response: "A miserable pathetic asshole." I said it with a huge smile. He had no response and promptly left with his groceries. I hope he had a car accident on the way home. Oops, was that bad of me to say? Oh well, let Buddha sort it out.
Last weekend I discovered the National Geographic Channel's Doomsday Preppers. I'll be honest, I tuned in because I thought the title read Doomsday PEPPERS and I was curious because Poseidon is a pepper connoisseur, so I thought I should have heard of this strange pepper plant, but I had not. Curiosity.
No garden veggies on this show (fresh food of any kind would not be a viable item to pack in your emergency bag). Never seen this show? I will include the synopsis that NGO uses because I wouldn't be able to adequately describe it without a snark or two showing up:
"Doomsday Preppers explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Unique in their beliefs, motivations, and strategies, preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life’s uncertainties. And with our expert’s assessment, they will find out their chances of survival if their worst fears become a reality."
As I'm watching Doomsday Preppers, I'm thinking to myself, "Why am I not doing this? Why am I not prepping?" I am one of the most hypervigilant people I know (and my ink blot test results can confirm this), so why am I not spending a majority of my waking hours preparing for a national or global disaster?
I stayed tuned and was temporarily caught up in the show, mostly because these folks have a belief in something that is strong, and whether "outsiders" consider their mission misguided, cautious, heroic, mongoose shit crazy, etc., they do put their energy and focus (and money) into surviving. I can't judge them for that. It makes them like any other species: instinctually driven to survive.
Back to the question I had duringDoomsday Preppers: Why am I not doing this?Assuming something so catastrophic can happen at any moment, why is it that I have no emergency bag, no food or fuel storage, or solid plans to "evacuate" somewhere? 1. I don't have the right shoes and I'm not in the mood for shoe shopping. 2. Our cats told me we don't have to worry about it.
I think I now have Poseidon's cold, so this will probably be my last countdown to Christmas post (boo, I already miss Christmastime, and Christmas isn't even here yet).
Apparently, you can decorate anything you want for the holidays. Christmas...it's not just for trees anymore.
Decorate an entire house, trees, and yard (photo from mentalfloss.com):
