Lesson Learned

So I learned an important lesson yesterday, to keep yourself and your belongings in order and in check. We helped Mom and Dad clean out their basement and garage yesterday and while they are no where near those that are on the show, "Hoarders", there was a lesson learned for keeping an ever watchful eye on what you accumulate and how much. One lesson was not to hide things away, out of sight, out of mind. Never has that rung so true as when we started on the garage, emptying cabinets here and there. I think we unearthed about 12 or 14 bottles of window washer fluid! Dad didn't see it but Kathy and I kept running them out to our cars to clean them outta there. Besides, their car was smooshed in a hit and run accident so I don't think he's gonna need all that right away! In any event, Bruce and I came home and I started on the basement. We have the Cerebral Palsy Society coming next week to pick up donations and I have gathered about 10 garbage bags of old clothes and shoes. And I started going through old household items that we were storing in the basement...like I said earlier, out of sight, out of mind. Gotta keep on top of all this stuff or it's gonna take over one day. Even though I finished school some time ago now, I'm always learning.

Round Head

On my way to pick up coffees yesterday I noticed a bunny running down the street. There was lots of traffic passing him by. He stopped to assess where he was at and I noticed he had round head. Round head - it's not just for dogs anymore. But he wasn't getting in trouble for anything so I'm not quite sure why that bunny would have round head. I got to thinking - I bet little kids look like they have round head when they get in trouble too. Not that they can put their ears down but they kinda bow their head and have huge saucer eyes, which I'm sure is an attempt to make themselves look irrestibly adorable in hopes that you'll forget you're made at them. Then I started wondering, "What about cats?"

Black Balloon

I was waiting for the light to turn green just outside of the parkade at work. There were no cars going either way under the tunnel but there was something travelling through, taking it's own sweet time. It was a black balloon. That's it. Just a black balloon on a string meandering through the tunnel. It was heading west. It'd get really high, to the point that I thought it would lodge itself between the beams but just before it did, it'd make it's way down again. Slowly but surely it would get lower and lower, so low in fact had there been a car around (which is highly unusual after work for there not to be any) that it would have popped it as it run it over. If you get stuck at the red light just as it turns red, you have about 3.5 minutes to wait for a green light. It was almost a full 3 minutes before any cars appeared...just that black balloon. Wonder what it meant...