too windy to think

and the fluorescent light in the kitchen is making me batty.
I did  not know that we had a fluorescent light in the kitchen until I spent about half an hour trying to establish if I am not as sane as I claim to be.  I called my sister and asked if her power was flickering.  I yelled through the bathroom door and asked my husband (mid shower) if the power was flashing in the bathroom.  I turned off everything in the house (except for the kitchen light) and then started asking if anyone else heard a strange high-pitch flickering.  I got nervous as my husband turned on the iron and then he asked me if I had any recollection of the fact that three years ago we had replaced the weird round tube in that light… yes.  Fluorescent and failing.  Oh yeah.  Okay.  At least I know I am not nuts.  Fluorescent light?  Really?  Hmm.  That would explain why I look so dreadful in all of the pictures taken in the kitchen.  I don’t think that fluorescent lighting and freckles are a good match.

Was that worthy of recording here?  What is?  I forget 1)that I have this blog (lately) and 2) what I used to do with it.

I just replaced the flickering lighting with Christmas lights.  It doesn’t quite seem to set an appropriate mood for 9 a.m. on a Tuesday and all of the things that should be done at that time (cleaning, cutting a child’s hair), but my son has just confirmed “that is soooo much better than the flickery one that it was”.  True.  True.  Not good light for cutting hair, though.

News to share?  Hm.  I could really only talk about what my husband and I have been making of this banking crises and all of the surrounding economic issues including all of the news sites, blogs, and podcasts we get our information on or how Joe was watching Geithner on C-Span around 2 a.m.  Maybe I could talk about how I am contemplating MENDING underwear that I have owned for three years rather than taking the risk of investing in new underwear in this crap economy?  I don’t think all of that is so very interesting.

So, this is a cop-out entry as they all have been.  I am not really so in my own head these days that I can make anything witty of my days.  I can just try to remember how to share those little stupid things that I do every day that may be interesting only to me and post YouTube videos that I watched because that is what I do between trying to understand what is happening with our economy.

and what the hell is up with the wind?  I think we will stay in today.