My fairy godmother is broken

Well, she’s just not working properly any more, and I don’t know where to get her fixed. Time to trade her in for a new one, I guess.

“My fairy godmother is broken” is available on t-shirts and other stuff at my shop at CafePress.

I also have more fairy godmother designs in the Riffs section of my shop.

Question of the day 2

Have you ever wished you had a different name? Do you think your name fits you? Have you ever heard someone else’s name and really thought you would like to have that name? Do you think you would be a different person if you had been given a different name? If this were an ideal world and it would be easy to change your name (no hassles with credit cards, driver’s license, etc.), would you do it?

Okay, that’s a bunch of questions, not just one. But have at it anyway!

Upgraded version

I’m always trying to improve myself, and hopefully the me that I am now is a better version than I used to be. For those of you who also think of yourselves as “upgraded”, I have put this on t-shirts and other stuff at my shop at CafePress.

Wacky optimism

Now I am all for optimism — in fact, I often go a bit overboard with it, often to the exasperation of the people I hang around with. But sometimes mis-placed, wacky optimism is just downright silly.

For example: Optimism is pushing the elevator button and expecting the elevator to come. But how often have you seen someone push the button, wait a couple of minutes, and then push it several more times? Do they really think that will make the elevator come faster? Do they think the elevator will skip all the other floors and come to them, or that it will somehow move faster, just because they pushed the button again? That is wacky optimism. (At least in my opinion. But then again, maybe they are right and it does come faster. But I really don’t think so.)

Here’s another one: Person A is trying to say something to Person B who doesn’t understand Person A’s language. Person B shrugs, indicating they don’t understand. Person A repeats themself, saying it louder and louder. Do they think that Person B will suddenly understand a language that they didn’t understand a minute ago, just because Person A said it louder? Wacky optimism again.

Didn’t someone once say that doing something the same way you’ve been doing something and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity? I just think it’s wacky optimism. But, hey, I do a lot of that myself, so I’d rather think it isn’t insanity!

(And by the way, creating this blog and thinking people will come and read it and comment on it and come back again might be considered wacky optimism. But I’d rather think of it as just plain optimism.)

So what wacky optimistic things do you do, or have you seen other people doing?

Even the greatest creations start from small seeds

I love this reminder that any thought or deed, no matter how small, can be the beginning of something grand and important in our lives.

I have put this on t-shirts and other items in my shop at CafePress.

Question of the day 1

In hopes that I will someday have readers coming here to play with me, I am starting a “question of the day” feature. Please join me by adding your answers to the questions via the comments section.

So, to start with, today’s question is…

Big joys are great, but it’s nice to ponder the little pleasures that are the grace notes in life. Taking a moment to savor them when they appear, rather than letting them be swept aside in the busyness of the day, is a pleasure in itself.

What are the little things that please you?

Help stimulate the economy – buy me a present!

With all this talk of recession and the economy and getting things moving in the right direction again, it seems obvious to me what the solution is. Buy presents.

On behalf of the health of the economy, I will accept any and all presents. I gladly perform this sacrifice to help the nation and everyone in it get back into a healthy, strong, prosperous state. And if you are willing to make the sacrifice as well, let people know by wearing this message on a t-shirt from my shop at CafePress.

Aim your arrow at the sun…

“Aim your arrow at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if you aim at an object on a level with yourself.”

This is my all-time favorite saying. I ran across it when I was in high school, and have been carrying it around in my mind ever since. I find it deeply profound, and something to live by.

Floral medallion cross stitch chart

Another free cross stitch chart for you. This one is taken from the center medallion of a Savonnerie classic rug design.

I have posted a larger version at a website I set up for this purpose. You can find the larger color chart, as well as a symbols chart, at Just One More Thought.

Teleportation

It has seemed more and more lately like traveling, whether it is driving to the store or flying across the country, is just wrong. We should be able to teleport directly to where we want to go.

Is it just me? Have I watched too many science fiction movies? Is it just wishful thinking? I do enjoy driving at times, just for the sake of driving. But just to go from one place to another, especially if there is a lot of traffic or it is a long distance that will take so much time, it just seems like driving or flying should be unnecessary. It would be so nice to be able to *blip* to the store, get what I need, and then *blip* I am back home. Or think how much easier vacations would be — how much time we spend getting there and back which could be better spent being there. No more time wasted sitting in airports, sitting smooshed up in the airplane, sitting in a car traveling to and from the airport…

So who do we need to talk to to make this happen?