explainy, anyone?
what is my fascination with the deadliest catch?
oh, you want context? ahem.
so, j & i tried to have a mini getaway hagerman, id (population ~700 souls, thank you very much) 2 or 3 weekends ago, to tromp around the hagerman fossil beds national monument for the afternoon, & then enjoy a special romantical evening--private pool, candlelight, music, massage oil, moonlight, stars & pine trees--at the miracle hot springs nearby. however, due to j's just getting over a bad summer flu (102+ degree fever, stuck in bed for 3 days, horrible aches & coughing), we didn't spend hours out in the hot, dusty 97-degrees-in-the-shade-which-by-the-way-there-isn't-any-anyway-so-forget-what-comfort-it-could-offer fossil beds, but instead, post-poned our drive out there by a few hours, got in around dinner time, and after having dinner out & walking around a bit, had some time to kill in our hotel room before heading over to the hot springs. during that time, we happened to be flipping through the cable stations & came upon 'the deadliest catch' & not having found anything better, and liking to learn stuff, watched a few minutes, then a few minutes more, and then a few more, until an hour had passed before i knew it. and now, i don't know why, as it isn't really typically my kind of show, but for the past few weeks, if i see it on the schedule while i'm dinking around dial, i can't turn it off. i'm not even their target audience, so i don't get it at all. it sure is making me more closely consider my love of crab--i don't know that i'll stop eating it (on the few occasions a year it happens, that is) but i won't be quite so annoyed at the price anymore.
meanwhile, in other news, i'm having a super hero/super villain party in 2 weeks (july 26th) so if anyone has an inner super-being & feels like traveling to boise, i'd love to see you. i'll be a villain myself; i'm just trying to decide which of my alter-egos i want to go with... anyone want to weigh in with ideas for truly-rebecca quirks or traits or talents that i could make into a super-power? i was going to go with 'the snark' or something similar, and make nasty, cutting comments about people all evening long, but i scrapped that b/c, while it might be all in good fun for the night, i don't want to wake up the next day thinking that all of my friends hate my guts. even a teasing insult is still an insult, after all, right? and there are more than a few of my friends i would be hard-pressed to find something about which to snark. snarking it seems, is best aimed at one's non-friends. and so i moved on from that. currently i am thinking about some kind of vicious baker who lures people in with the promise of sweets & then catches them up in a giant carnivorous cookie dough ball or something, but wouldn't you know it, i'm rather sick myself these days, and my head is doing that extremely annoying constant ear-popping/re-pressurizing thing, and so, seems to be cutting off access to my creative cells, thereby stopping me from going anywhere else, or further developing this idea... so i'm open to YOUR thoughts & creative ideas. maybe my own brain will wake up less stuffy tomorrow... one can only hope...
oh, you want context? ahem.
so, j & i tried to have a mini getaway hagerman, id (population ~700 souls, thank you very much) 2 or 3 weekends ago, to tromp around the hagerman fossil beds national monument for the afternoon, & then enjoy a special romantical evening--private pool, candlelight, music, massage oil, moonlight, stars & pine trees--at the miracle hot springs nearby. however, due to j's just getting over a bad summer flu (102+ degree fever, stuck in bed for 3 days, horrible aches & coughing), we didn't spend hours out in the hot, dusty 97-degrees-in-the-shade-which-by-the-way-there-isn't-any-anyway-so-forget-what-comfort-it-could-offer fossil beds, but instead, post-poned our drive out there by a few hours, got in around dinner time, and after having dinner out & walking around a bit, had some time to kill in our hotel room before heading over to the hot springs. during that time, we happened to be flipping through the cable stations & came upon 'the deadliest catch' & not having found anything better, and liking to learn stuff, watched a few minutes, then a few minutes more, and then a few more, until an hour had passed before i knew it. and now, i don't know why, as it isn't really typically my kind of show, but for the past few weeks, if i see it on the schedule while i'm dinking around dial, i can't turn it off. i'm not even their target audience, so i don't get it at all. it sure is making me more closely consider my love of crab--i don't know that i'll stop eating it (on the few occasions a year it happens, that is) but i won't be quite so annoyed at the price anymore.
meanwhile, in other news, i'm having a super hero/super villain party in 2 weeks (july 26th) so if anyone has an inner super-being & feels like traveling to boise, i'd love to see you. i'll be a villain myself; i'm just trying to decide which of my alter-egos i want to go with... anyone want to weigh in with ideas for truly-rebecca quirks or traits or talents that i could make into a super-power? i was going to go with 'the snark' or something similar, and make nasty, cutting comments about people all evening long, but i scrapped that b/c, while it might be all in good fun for the night, i don't want to wake up the next day thinking that all of my friends hate my guts. even a teasing insult is still an insult, after all, right? and there are more than a few of my friends i would be hard-pressed to find something about which to snark. snarking it seems, is best aimed at one's non-friends. and so i moved on from that. currently i am thinking about some kind of vicious baker who lures people in with the promise of sweets & then catches them up in a giant carnivorous cookie dough ball or something, but wouldn't you know it, i'm rather sick myself these days, and my head is doing that extremely annoying constant ear-popping/re-pressurizing thing, and so, seems to be cutting off access to my creative cells, thereby stopping me from going anywhere else, or further developing this idea... so i'm open to YOUR thoughts & creative ideas. maybe my own brain will wake up less stuffy tomorrow... one can only hope...