A few random observations

1) I rather like to watch medical shows when they're on. Particularly those that are figuring out why and how someone died. But in watching these shows I have found out there are names for things that I didn't even know needed specific names. And I have learned that there are a lot of people that could have lived or wouldn't have been as sick as long if certain specific tests were done or if the common person knew what things to ask to be tested for. And I think that's rather sad. I think more people need to be able to discuss things with their doctors so that things don't get missed.
2) Microwaves are silly things. Burning hot on the outside but freezing in the middle. And how long you need to microwave something isn't always the same even in the same microwave. Getting the right time to get things cooked just the way you like it seems to be like sorcery. Hard to explain exactly how it's done, but it's obvious when it's done wrong.
3) 80's films have a tendency to filled with terrible awesomeness. I feel slightly deprived that I am only now getting to some of these terribly wonderful films.

Relationships

Within the past year I have noticed more and more how it seems relationships aren't really allowed to stay just between the people who are in it. Why is that? I mean it's one thing if you're concerned for someone's safety, but other than that I don't think it's okay. How do you know that the way the two people have the relationship isn't working for them or that they aren't happy? Just because you wouldn't be happy in that same situation doesn't mean those two people aren't. Why do so many people think they need to run interference between two people either to fix their problems or get them back together? If you're asked to do so, that's different. What I'm talking about is those people who do so uninvited. Who don't really know the entire situation, just what is being presented to them.
I think it needs to stop. Sometimes people, who may think they have the best intentions or perhaps they do, in their interfering can cause the relationship to become much worse than it ever was. Is it really that hard to let other people be happy? Just because you may not approve of what is going on doesn't mean you have the right to dictate to others what makes them happy. Unless you're inviting others to do so to you in your relationships, don't do it to them. Just think about that the next time you feel the need to "fix" someone's relationship, would you like it if you were perfectly happy and someone decided that you were doing it wrong and they needed to help you see what is right? If the answer is no, than don't do it.

Just to be clear I am not condoning people not stepping in when there is clearly abuse. That is a horse of a different color. I mean when both people are happy in the relationship and someone decides that it needs "fixed".

Small Talk

I've never quite fully understood the need for small talk or at least those little phrases and questions that most people use to start a conversation. For example, most conversations start: "Hi, how are you?" "Good, and yourself?" "Not bad." and unless you've had something important happen that you can start talking about conversation can have a tendency to stop right there. What do you really learn about a person in just those few sentences? Those basic silly conversation starters really don't always start a conversation or they often have one of those awkward pauses where you go "So...Um.. *insert random conversation sparking question here*". Why can't conversations just start with those conversation starting questions? Skip all those silly phrases that don't mean anything and just actually get into conversation. If you need to ask how someone is then sure do so at some point, but if you start that way and everything is fine and neither of you has anything big to talk about, where do you go from there? And why do so many people really feel the need to start conversation there? Is it just because that's how, as children, we are taught to be polite and how we see adults talking to each other? Shouldn't we try to get to know something about someone in the first few minutes of talking? It seems to me that doing that is much more meaningful than, "Hey, how ya doin?" unless of course that was after "A dragon captures you and takes you back to its lair. How do you escape?".

I think I may start using that as my conversation starter, so if i happen to speak to you on regular basis, my dear reader, be prepared with your answer. And they better be good.

Mini Rant

I do a lot of genealogy stuff so I end up looking through old records and stuff on some websites. So one of these sites is ancestry.com and only the free access stuff, but they have those little leaf things which are hints. Well when you look through these hints they have the record all indexed so you know the basic information that is on them without having to actually look for the information on the record itself. But ancestry.com has a tendency to be annoying in one little thing that irks me more than it should. More often than not they will give you a hint to someone but it's actually that person's spouse... Ancestry.com John Smith is NOT his wife Abigail Jones Smith, he is John Smith. HOW DO YOU CONFUSE THE TWO?!? It's really not that hard to make sure that this little thing doesn't happen. Whatever programming device you have that automagically finds these hints and is sensitive enough to realize that the right name and dates are on these records should be able to attach those records to the RIGHT spouse not just be like "Well, it's at least the right couple." Just because someone is married to someone else doesn't mean they lose their own identity. That's just silly.
Another thing that I get annoyed by in genealogy is how many people will have written down Mrs. John Smith as John Smith's wife rather than giving her her own name or unknown if they don't know it. That kind of shoddy record-keeping is part of why family history stuff is so tedious and dead-end filled for so many people. I can understand that it's a pain in the butt when doing a census to make sure you get the woman's maiden name. I can accept that. But really, you can't really go far with Mrs. His Name.
The way I see it: Every last single person has the right to the name they were given/chose to use, their children, and recognition as being a distinct individual rather than identified solely by the role they play in their family.
/end rant

Pun Pain

Whilst I'm on facebook there are quite a few pages that I like that post funny images. Well there are some images that are so filled with pun that I don't know what to do with them. I don't know if I should just continue grimacing at them or burst out laughing. Seriously, who sits around on the internet browsing images and thinking to themselves, "How can I make someone wince today by my clever wordsmithing?" I really think there must be someone who does so. Some of these quite clearly spawned from the same brain. Or at least people with similar wit(or lack thereof depending on how painful the pun).
I will admit however, that I'd rather have humor like that as opposed to what most comedy movies have become today. I think there needs to be much more appreciation for clever humor rather than humor that you can almost literally feel your brain cells leaking out of your ears. See, humor like that is why we can't have nice things.

The Great Thing About a Blog Is...

You can pretty much talk about whatever you want and it doesn't HAVE to be about any one specific thing OR it can be about one specific thing. The freedom this gives the author is absolutely wonderful I think. I can sit here and rant about Magic: The Gathering and how I know more about it then most people who don't play it due to my friends and husband and how I kinda don't care about it at all. Or I can have discussions at length about the books I'm currently reading and how much I like them or don't or what I wish the author would do and get done now. Or I can continue to have rambly nonsensical things like this. Guess which I'm going to do :D
Yessiree, you are correct. I'm going to keep on rambling. That's the point of this adventure. To put thoughts into words and see what happens. Sorta makes me feel like a scientist. "Oooh, what happens if I toss this thing in here?" I know possible outcomes but not quite sure if it will end up the way I predict it will. Even though in this case, I have no predictions at all. Other than hoping hilarity ensues. Or at least magical word things. So far I am pleased. We shall see how this progresses.
No idea how often I will ramble on here but you, the reader, I wish you well in your adventures within this blog wonderland(or wasteland. Depending.) and we shall see you again.

Words Everywhere

 Sometimes I get all these words in my head that just want to come out. I don't know what to do with them. So they just kinda sit there, staring each other down like this big showdown of ideas. “You think you're the best baddest idea there ever was, huh? Well that's where you're wrong! I'm so much more idea-filled than you will ever be!” Spewing all these nonsensical threats that go nowhere but are mildly entertaining to listen to in my head. And then what am I supposed to DO with these ideas and words and snippets of conversations? Am I supposed to transpose them into some awesome novelly-like thing or just think them and be relatively smug in my brain's attempt at awesomeness? I really don't know. So that's why I'm here. Fingers just flying over the keyboard writing the words down as they trickle out of my brain into incoherent thoughts. Not sure what I’m doing or why I’m doing it, but I am. I'm just doing it and doing it with pizazz.

Sometimes the words and things I come up with when my brain is going a hundred miles an hour are so cleverly wonderful that it makes me want to just say them out loud and share it with the world. But I don't really know how. Like a lot of people would go and be stand-up comedians or something with all these wordy gems, but I don't think I could do that nor would I really want to. I don't even know if I want to be a writer. All of my best work has been stuff that just sorta happened. Things that I literally just sat down and wrote them as the thoughts came to me. The problem is that I don't ever have any ideas where to go after that. I get stuck in this rut where I don't know how to continue or even how to form these snippets of fun into anything remotely resembling prose of any kind. Heck, half the time I try to say things like this but they don't sound the same out loud as they do in my head or on a sheet of paper. And what is up with that? Why are some things so much better in thoughts or on paper than if you spoke them aloud? Isn't language supposed to be fluid enough to make them both equally viable options?

And this is why I am starting a blog. For no other purpose than to have a place to put said word explosions and have them go out and be free to roam about as they please. Enjoy!