Hello folks!

It’s 10:35 on a Tuesday night.  The little cat is furiously attacking the cat toy which looks like tiny cardboard logs attached to a curve of  springy wire.  Buffy was out on the porch watching over the back yard  critters until I closed the door on the chilly air, shooing her inside. The hubster is watching Dexter, appreciating the order of things. I was playing a hidden object game called Murder On The Nile, for which I already know whodunit.

It seems to me that Buffy is the only one with her feet planted firmly in reality!

And speaking of reality, last night I got firmly snapped by a fish! Surprised the heck out of me, I’ll tell you what!  Here I was, calmly brushing my teeth when, WHAP! A shiny orange fish attached to an elastic cord which had been tied to the bathroom door handle snapped me in the head.   When I looked down, Katya looked as surprised as I was, even though she was the one who launched the fish by pulling back on it and then letting go.  I suspect that her look was one of planned innocence and that I was part of a physics experiment on her part, something dealing with angle and velocity.

It reminded me of another surreal experience at the old Red Lobster.  As servers we were told to gently remind anyone who ordered the red snapper that, ” It’s a fishy tasting fish.”  Evidently there had been enough  customers who had ordered the red snapper, decided it was fishier tasting than they were comfortable with and sent it back. Hence the vocal warning label, ” You’d like to order the red snapper?  You know it  tastes really fishy.”

When I told customers that they all said, ‘ Yes, I know and I’d still like to order it.”  No one ever said, “Really?  Oh, well, in that case, I’ll order a fish that doesn’t taste so fishy.”

If they had asked for a recommendation, I would have suggested the lobster tail.  You can’t go wrong with lobster tail.  Hmmm? Yes, it is our most expensive entree. Why do you ask?

Just kidding, we were actually told which fish to suggest.

Just think, though, how that thought process would happen in, say, school.

“Okay kids, today we’re going to do some math.  I do have to warn you before we begin that today’s math is a really mathy math.”

And for the older kids, ” Today, just so you know ahead of time,  we’ll be doing some really algebraic algebra.”

Which reminds me of a joke I posted on FB: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?    A fish.     Ahahahaha!  Dali would be proud!

And, the other joke from FB:    Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium, Sodium BATMAN!!!!!!

Speaking of ears, I have to sadly report that the Pooh earmuffs were lost while on a walk at Elm Creek last weekend.  I had them on my jacket sleeve and when I took off my jacket to tie it around my waist, at some point, they fell off the sleeve.  Oh well. Some raccoon has a nice comfy nest now. Either that, or Bambi is strutting around wearing  gold Winnie the Pooh ear muffs.

Well, my wine is finished, my unsalted chips are gone, and my eyes are tired.  Must be time for bed.

Have a Wonderous Wednesday, My Friends!

Love,

Janet