Ellemental


Random, Reasonless, and Bulleted
September 27, 2005, 5:59 am
Filed under: General
  • On stormy days, my grandmother will look up at the sky and say “If you can see blue the size of a man’s britches, it’s going to clear up.” I’m 37 years old and I have NO IDEA what the hell she’s talking about. I know what blue is, and understand what man’s britches are, but putting it all together just confounds me. Where is the man standing while I’m measuring his britches? Is he close? Far away? Isn’t this something one needs to know?

    I hate that saying. It’s like my own personal koan that’s been bothering me for 30+ years.

  • The elevator dreams are back.
  • For the next 12 weeks, my life will revolve around the professional certification test I’m taking in December. I have a giant textbook, some notebooks, pens and highlighters that go EVERYWHERE with me. Just for nostalgia’s sake I put them all in a bookbag and I carry it with one strap over one shoulder, just like the good old days.
  • I still check in on a blog that hasn’t been updated since July, 2003. It’s one of the very first blogs I ever encountered, and it’s the one that inspired me to start my own. Even though I feel like an idiot checking back, I can’t help myself.
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Good luck on the test! I still check a blog that hasn’t been updated since early 2004, hoping she will add something. My husband’s grandmom used to say “Mary come naked, thrush of the woods”. We have NO idea what she meant.

Elle, if you get cauliflower ear often, get one of those Mooshie pillows. I got mine at Target. They really are wonderful.

Comment by kenju September 27, 2005 @ 7:41 am

Probably some kind of translation from another language. Those never make sense.

Comment by Bill September 27, 2005 @ 12:24 pm

Do you keep in touch with that blog’s author via e-mail or anything? How sad to have the person just vanish that way…

Good luck with your test prep!

Comment by Marie September 27, 2005 @ 3:30 pm

Judy – “Mary come naked, thrush of the woods” makes the man’s britches saying almost normal. Where do these sayings come from???

Bill – my grandmother used to eat headcheese and cracklins. Just wanted you to know. :)

Marie – I don’t keep in touch with the author. We did email a few times while the blog was still active, and she blogged that she was taking a hiatus. I just didn’t think it would be TWO YEARS!

Thanks for the test/study well wishes. College was a L O N G time ago.

Comment by Elle September 28, 2005 @ 6:12 am

What the hell are cracklins? And is that what Neil Diamond is singing about?

Comment by Bill September 29, 2005 @ 12:08 am

Cracklins are (so I’ve heard) fried pig skin and fat. For some reason, the idea of that grosses me out more than both Neil Diamond AND scapple.

Comment by Elle September 29, 2005 @ 5:45 am

Oh god. I don’t get here often enough. I have a good chuckle EVERY time. Thank you for that. Chuckles from this post (and its subsequent comments) include – where is the man standing? I would SO be wondering that for 30+ years myself. That is the CRUXT of the matter isn’t it? Kenju’s grandmom’s bizzare saying… wow. LOL at that one. and finally? Your last response to Bill. I nearly fell off my chair. So thank you. :)

Comment by Keri October 3, 2005 @ 11:46 pm


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