Plaid, Mister Rogers, and Forward Thinking...

 

Earlier this week as I was looking over my blog page, I came upon the realization that I really haven't blogged a whole lot lately. I have done a few graphics of the birthday magazine spoofs, but other than that there hasn't been a whole lot of substance in my blogging. I haven't really had much exciting going on lately to blog about but my life has never been all that exciting and earth shattering,... but I did use to blog more. So this week I thought, I need to write a blog about something. I read blogs posted by others in hopes of getting some kind of inspiration and I did have a few ideas that lead me to do some googling, but I never actually got around to taking one of those ideas and running with it.

Over at Zzee's blog page, I came across one of the pics she had posted of her wearing a pair of plaid pants as a child. I left a comment about we should bring back plaid, which got me to thinking and googling for plaid. Let's face it, plaid has fallen out of style, well unless you are Scottish and wear kilts, you really don't see a whole lot of plaid gracing the runways of Milan. I still googled in hopes of doing a graphic of me in a kewl set of plaid pedal pushers or some other kind of retro plaid concoction but I soon gave up all plans of plaid. I just couldn't top that cute pic of Zzee in her high plaid pants.

I left a comment on Sueshoovrs guest book, singing the theme song from Mister Roger's. Asking her wouldn't she please be my neighbor. I kind of garbled the theme song as I couldn't quite remember the lyrics, which sent me back to googling for the theme song. One thing lead to another and I was soon downloading pics of Mister Roger's and his nifty cardigan, thinking I would do a spoof on Mister Roger's neighborhood over here on the blog pages. That sounded like an awful lot of work and I grew tired of that thought quickly. But while googling one of the puppets from that show, Lady Elaine Fairchild, I thought what a remarkable resemblance she had towards Bret Somers (from the Match Game TV Show). Staring at that puppet it made me wonder just what or who was the basis for that puppet. Let's face it, that puppet is just down right creepy, and with it's garish red cheeks and nose, it looks more like a derelict wino found in a back lit alley way. It's just such a huge contrast to the quiet mild mannered Mister Rogers in his tennis shoes and sensible cardigan, that I wondered if it wasn't some kind of subliminal message being sent over the airwaves.

That got me to thinking about conspiracy theories. I thought about posting a blog of outlandish theories of conspiracy that I could ask each blogger to come up with and post. Whether politically inspired or otherwise, I thought it could be fun to see just how outrageous each of you could be and still have the theory have a glimmer of a possibility. I even had an idea for my own conspiracy theory of how McCain threw the presidential election with his choice of bad running mates on purpose and the reasoning behind it. But I bypassed that blog choice as well.

I read a blog posted by Strongwilledwoman on paying it forward. The premise was you were suppose to make five things for the first five people that responded to your blog and agreed to post the blog on their page so that it created a domino affect. My first thought was I have to actually make something? What in the world could I make that people would want? A picture, a card, a bookmark perhaps? (I will forget about the baking part as the last person I sent something homemade to, thought I had plans to slowly poison them to death. As far as I know they did survive but they have been awfully quiet lately....hmmm, making a note to check up on them encase it was a very, very slow poisonous reaction). But I still thought on the blog and if I posted it, who would respond and what if I didn't know them? Should or could I still send them something? Or what if they were some wierdo? Which then made me think I was losing all perspective of the original premise of paying it forward. I am still thinking on it and who knows the mood might strike me to post it and pay it forward later. But then I feel guilty that if I have to actually sit and think about it, does it lessen the whole experience? I think it might...

Which got me to thinking.... that I do a lot of thinking. I blame it on my early childhood and sitting in the classroom and being bored, I daydreamed a lot. Something I still do. You would think that with all of that thinking I would be smarter than I am. But perhaps it's the thinking I do that isn't the right kind of thinking that is the real culprit. My mind is always thinking, so much so, that I am usually lost in thought with my head down as I travel from spot to spot that I tend to miss a lot that is going on around me while I am thinking. So I think I need to do less thinking or at least more thinking of the right kind of thinking...I think.

I still don't have much of an idea for a blog today, but just a blog of randomness of my thoughts this week, and what almost was a blog or could have been a blog or perhaps might be a blog in some near future.

I'll keep thinking til I think of something...