Brain (and everything else) Freeze

...and not in the good Slurpee way, either. I want to contribute to this blasted blog, but nothing is coming to me. Is my life that boring? (QUIET, peanut gallery!)

I think a lot of it is the time of year. Limbo, is how I see February and March. Technically still winter, but not quite winter anymore, in my eyes. Not quite spring, either. Trees are still barren and the air is still cold...but the robins have arrived (and are talkative), the bulbs are sprouting...and there is daylight for almost the entirety of my work commute (I cannot WAIT for Daylight "Save-Me" Time). If you close your eyes and ignore the chill, you can almost pretend you can smell the grass peeking through the hard earth.

Winter is so desolate, so dead, so colorless. Almost without hope, if I didn't know better.

Is it BECAUSE of the change of seasons that I so long for the spring? Would I truly appreciate it as I do if I lived in a climate that had year-round life and warmth? I honestly think I would still love it as I do now. I may not notice it quite as much, but I still think I could live my entire life without seeing another snowflake or leafless tree. I could definitely deal with stringing lights on a palm tree around 12/25 each year.

Barefooting

I was all set to write a post about driving barefoot and wanted a cool title for the entry...so I googled "bare feet" to see what came up. I didn't find an interesting title, but did you know there's a whole organization for living barefoot?

http://www.barefooters.org/

As a person who hates shoes and drives only barefoot, I found these facts from this site VERY interesting.

Barefoot Facts

• It is healthy for your feet to go barefoot.
• It is not against the law to go barefoot into any kind of establishment including restaurants.
• It is also not against any health department regulation.
• It is not against the law to drive barefoot.

Hey, how about that? I've been wearing shoes all these years for nothing! Who knew?

What I'd Like To Invent

(That is, if I actually had the knowledge, intelligence and ability to invent things.)

a "Soda Can Silencer"

Ever try to be subtle when opening one of those things? I'm sitting here in an almost completely vacant office today (Monday is a holiday...I guess a lot of folks took the day off). The girl a few desks down just opened a can of soda and it sounded like a grenade launcher! Not that it bothered me to hear it, but there have been times (don't ask me why, because I can't remember) that I have tried to open a can on the down low, and, brother...it just ain't happening.

Can you tell I'm still stretching for blogging topics?