Month: February 2006

I just wrote a really intense and scholarly sentence to start this paragraph but I erased it because I am about to talk about Gilligan’s Island and I don’t think you can use intense and scholarly sentences to talk about Gilligan’s Island. It forms a black hole that sucks all matter into itself and then you can’t talk about Gilligan’s Island any more. And I don’t want to be in that kind of world.

So I’m sitting here, eating leftover snack foods from our trip to the movies yesterday (more on that later) and pondering the meaning of life. That happened after I wandered through the back yard with a shovel picking up dog crap. Dog crap makes you ponder the meaning of life. It also makes you ponder why you didn’t pick it up while there was still snow on the ground because, dayam, it would have been MUCH easier to do on the snow.

So anyway, what I was thinking about it my favorite moments from Gilligan’s Island. The scenes that I consider the best. In no particular order, I give you:

• When they were sitting there dialing the phone trying to call someone for help. I’m not sure why they were dialing random numbers, but I guess all that time on the island had given them all phone number amnesia.
• When Gilligan is flying around with the jet pack. That’s cool. Jet packs are cool.
• When they were all bad guys/spies and the makeup compact and the soup ladle were communications devices, and Gilligan had the special lip protectors so the poison lipstick couldn’t hurt him. That episode rocked.
• Radioactive veggie seeds. So many different reasons this one rocks, there isn’t enough room to list them all.
• The episode where they make the silent movie. The image that sticks in my head is when the tripod holding the camera sinks lower and lower and they all just crouch down to stay on camera.

And your favorites?

I’m a bad dump truck driver. I have been scarce this week, busy trying to figure out if I spelled scarce properly. I think I did. It looked funny to me, but everything does.

Why do I feel like I haven’t had a moment to myself? I really have had a few, I just haven’t been using the computer in the evening, and I barely have time to pee at work. (Okay, I have time to pee, but you know what I mean.) So what fills my time? Sick boy, Sudoku and Animal Crossing. This is my whole life. I know you won’t believe me, but I am even backed up on reading my People Magazines. So you know it’s serious because that just doesn’t happen.

I am a Sudoku addict. I had let it go for a while, but picked it back up again, and now I am working on doing Fiendish level puzzles. I’m not great at them, but I have finished a couple without cheating. No, really! My current level, if I had to pick one, is “Difficult”. Mild is too easy, I need to at least be slightly challenged. I guess when I finish the current book of them, there isn’t a book 4 so I’ll probably slow down or stop with the Sudoku for a while. But I know I won’t be able to give it up entirely.

As for Animal Crossing: Wild World – now Mr. Dump is hooked on it too. The only sound you hear in my house at night is the whistling sound of someone catching a fish. I’m still waiting for someone out there reading this to let me know that they are playing so we can visit each other using WiFi…I can show you how I decorated one room of my house all in the Snowman furniture. I actually think I might have almost completed the set. I may be missing a piece or two, but I’ve got almost everything, including the floor and the wall. I’m also looking for the Lovely Phone, so if you play and you have the Lovely Phone, you will be my best friend forever.

Junior is feeling better, not 100%. He missed 2.5 days of school (he went home early yesterday) so cross your fingers that he makes it all the way through today. He really can’t afford to lose any more time!