Have you ever had any supernatural experiences? In Morocco, I had three in the space of two weeks:
1) My husband opened the oven door and pulled out the wire rack, which had a lasagna sitting on it. He did not move the lasagna; it was still sitting squarely on the rack. He then turned away to grab another oven mitt, and the lasagna fell off the wire rack and shattered at his feet.
2) A glass, which had been sitting about 6 inches from the edge of the counter, spontaneously fell on the floor and shattered.
3) As I walked by the interphone, someone buzzed and the thing leapt off the wall and swung out to its full extension right in front of my face. If my husband hadn’t been sitting right there, he would never have believed that it happened.
What about you?
Whatever
Which came first?
At long last, the answer to a question that has boggled humankind: Chicken and egg debate unscrambled (CNN)
Can anyone else think of, oh, about ten million better uses for the time (and probably money) spent on this research?
Collecting
Just about everyone I know collects something. I collect silver jewelry with people motifs and pretty much anything purple. I also have a thing for multi-colored pens and Fiestaware stick-handled cups. What about you?
Distraction
The other night my husband was in the kitchen cutting a lime for a gin and tonic, and as I was a bit stuck on the Spanish lesson I was writing (on the perfect infinitive), I decided to take a little break from work and pick his brain at the same time (his Spanish is much better than mine).
While pouring my tonic, I asked him for some examples of the Spanish perfect infinitive. He thought a moment and then started rattling off sentences as he picked up his glass and went to sit down. Meanwhile, my brain frantically tried to keep up with the Spanish as well as to find the rest of the lime, which seemed to have disappeared. A few seconds later I laughed as it was right in front of me but I’d been too distracted to see it. But my husband went one better: he returned to the kitchen to add both gin and tonic to his drink – he’d been so distracted by the Spanish question that he’d done nothing more than squeeze a wedge of lime over the ice in his glass! I couldn’t stop laughing for more than 10 minutes, and I’m laughing again as I write this.
Welcome!
Hi everyone, thanks for visiting my blog. Since I work almost entirely online, I can feel a bit isolated, so I thought I might give this a try. I’ll be posting select features from my various websites here, along with cool stuff I find on the internet and general chitchat about life.