Life's Not Fair...

"Life's Not Fair Zazu"
That's the quote that started this bit of pondering. I've been thinking and occasionally saying that line from the Lion King since last week. And that got me thinking ... a lot of the phrases I use rather often have come from movies, plays, tv shows or sometimes books. For instance, I often tell my husband that he is:
"A good man, Charlie Brown"

My sister often tells me that she is "Woooried about Percival" (a line from the play "Play On") whenever she thinks someone is a bit crazy.

I often say goodnight by saying "Goodnight, Wesley, Most likely kill you in the morning" (Princess Bride)

Often while cooking I will do Swedish Chef impressions - "Nuw we poot de chicki into da pot"

and there are quite a few other things. It happens on an almost daily basis that I quote a movie, play, tv or book during my everyday speech. I'm challenging myself to keep track of it this week. I challeng you to do the same. How often to we quote literature in all forms without even meaning to?


WWHLT: It is illegal to kill snakes in the state of Tennessee - I learned this after finding a snake in our yard and looking it up to find out what kind it was. It was a Rat Snake... a harmless constrictor (well not so harmless to rats I guess) and we let it live. I knew it wasn't venomous from it's head... but I didn't know what kind it was until I looked it up this morning. It was on the website that I found the snake that I found mention of the law. I wonder if you are suppose to report yourself if you accidently run over a snake with a lawnmower or something?

Weee! Look what I got in the mail! Thank you Phenn! I think this is much better than a sweetgum blow fish.. but if you think it's a fair exchange I'm not going to argue :D I have just the use for this special little album :D
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Wow. I hate it when I go and make a recipe that I've made for years and somehow, someway it turns out terribly wrong. I don't know which step I missed, or what I did wrong but somehow I ruined banana nut bread. It probably would have helped to not have been making it at 9pm. It also probably would have helped to not have to had to leave the half-done batter in the fridge overnight because one of the ingredients (the milk) had gone bad and I had to get more before finishing the batter. And did I mention I didn't have any nuts to put in it either.

As my niece once said after reading the Disney book version of Robin Hood
"Prince John should have thought that through a little better"

Oh well. At least my dessert for tomorrow turned out nicely.

A little better

Doing better today. Trying to think of good things and focus on projects. Thanks to all who commented on my last post. I was in the depths of depression at the moment it was written and your kind words really helped.

WIHLT : I have learned that work helps. I don't like my job a lot of times, because it can be quite repetitive and stressful. But it helps to get back into a routine when dreams seem shattered, it helps to get back to normalcy. It helps to have something to occupy my mind so that I'm not fighting with it. When left on its own it tends to head toward feeling sorry for myself, or looking for answers that just don't exist. It's much better for it to have something to occupy it. I think there is lots of validity to "Idol hands are the devil's workshop".

Lauren you wonder gardner you.... I need help. Or anyone elses help for that matter.
This is the top back corner of our backyard.


We plan to get rid of the brush, and the "sunken" doghouse*, and I'd like to get rid of the iris garden because it is overgrown past help. It was there when we moved in and I can't even figure out what are weeds and what are flowers well enough to know what to dig up. I know which ones are irises and I think I'd replant them elsewhere. But since none of them seem to be blooming anymore, I think I'm going to dig it all up and start over this fall. But I need a plan. I'd like to do something up there. Something pretty. Something the dog won't get lost in or behind. But something low maintenance. It's mostly shady up there with all that honeysuckle. And I'm scared to tear out the honeysuckle because I think it may be holdingup parts of our fence. Any suggestions?

* About the "sunken" doghouse. It isn't really sunken. It is actually just a doghouse roof. But the doghouse rotted and was being eaten by bugs so we got rid of it and kept the roof as a jump for Sasha. But she has lost interest in it. But anytime anyone has asked us "what happened to your doghouse" we tell them that it just sunk right into the ground one day.. because that's what looks like happened.

WWHLTW (What We Have Learned This Week) a less than happy post

-I've learned that sometimes even when things seem perfectly aligned they aren't necessarily meant to be.

- I've learned that I have some incredibly wonderful friends, family, and an awesome church home and an astoundingly good husband.

-I've learned that I won't have anything to share with you in several weeks like I had thought I would. Many of you were right in your guesses earlier. But unfortunately things didn't work out in our favor and yesterday we had to say goodbye to those possibilities for a while.

*sigh* I know I'm being kind of cryptic again. But as I've said before, this is an open forum and I just like to know whose eyes are reading when I speak about personal stuff. I don't have a problem with any of my regular readers knowing, (and some of you I probably should have emailed about it but I was foolishly waiting) but I wouldn't want work or others with good intentions but bad timing finding out what is going on, if that makes sense. So everything is explained and has been explained in my friends only journal on LJ. I'll happily email you an invite to be my friend over there if you want to make it easier to figure out the "friending" thing. I consider all my regular readers and those whose blogs I read my friends as well and would have no problem at all friending you. I just like to know who is reading and this isn't my place for that. I promise I'm not trying to lure you away from Blogger or get you to use that platform instead. It's just where I do my journaling and have been for the past 3 years and some things I just don't want to write twice. But if you want to know about how I'm doing personally, that's the place to go. I know you all must get tired of these little pleas occasionally. But I'm just trying to explain that I'm not trying to leave anyone out or anything, and I just suck at email anymore... but there is a place I write personal stuff and there is a place that I just write impersonal ideas and realizations. I hope you all understand.
All the best.
Z

TILTW

(Things I've Learned This Week)

A sinus infection can cause you to dehydrate quicker than normal

Sometimes I have a tendency to return to my introvert nature.

I really stink at writing letters - whereas I use to be really good at it.