This Reminds Me

Archive for April 19th, 2009

I’ve purchased a package of 10 plastic hangers every Saturday for the last six weeks.  That’s 60 hangers.  Today I yelled from the utility room, “I need hangers.  Lots of hangers.”   Silence.  Then a few sputtering, “I don’t have any.”  “No extras in my closet.” 

I wonder where they go.  I added 60 hangers to the (undoubtedly) hundreds already in the house.

I cooked six lbs. of hamburger after lunch today (which was – surprisingly – burgers) to freeze in two-lb bags.  Most of our favorite recipes begin, “Brown two lbs. of lean ground beef” – and in the evening, there’s time only to assemble, so I cook the meat ahead.  And what do I find but an empty snack box.

I wonder who puts an empty snack box in the freezer?  I’m suspecting it’s the same person who puts empty Pringles cans back in the pantry.  And leaves 1/2 of one pretzel in the jar on the counter.

Rachel and Lois have gotten me hooked on Fail Blog, which I now peruse about once a week.  Every day for two weeks, I’ve stared at this page from a child’s workbook, wondering what a whale, piano, penguin, train and boot have in common.  At first I thought “five letter words” – whale, piano, train, oops, “penguin” and “boot” blow it.  Then I thought maybe it was some first vowel pattern, like train, penguin,  piano, boot….oops, “whale” blows it.    Then I thought color pattern – black and white piano keys, black and white penguin, black and white whale…oops, the train and boot blow it.  Then I thought “track,” like maybe it’s a player piano with music on a track, the boot and the penguin leave tracks, the train runs on a track..but what about the whale?  I even googled the words, and found others have posted their frustrations with deciphering the pattern.

So what’s the pattern for the bottom right box?  I am not getting it.  And it’s bugging the heck out of me.  And I wonder why it bugs me so much, too.

Wishing you a wonder-ful week….and please let me know if you figure out the pattern.  Then I can go back to fretting about hangers and snack boxes.