Random thoughts

Why do I love puppets? I love realistic baby seal puppets, dragon puppets are cool. Finger puppets are cute and fun, yet puppets of people creep me out... weird.

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Kristen got a list of questions from the neurological doctor to fill out. One list of questions was labeled "Have you ever experienced..." among the items listed was indecision..... she drew and checked a new box next to it that she labeled "I'm not sure"

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I didn't finish my salad. When my Dad was in the navy, overseas near Vietnam, but before the Vietnam War, they had natives contracted to help in the mess hall of the ship...OK, I'm sure since bathrooms are heads and kitchens are galleys on a ship the mess hall has some nifty different name. Anyway, included in their contract was that the local workers got to keep all of the leftovers. So the local kitchen workers would stand at the exits of the naval mess hall with garbage bags and the servicemen would scrape whatever they didn't eat into those bags being held out to them before they left. My Dad said it was horrible. You never knew if you should clean your plate to prove you were thankful for what you had, or if you should barely eat, and then scrape most of the food into the globby bags so they had more to take home. How depressing, but not a depressing enough thought to entice me to finish my spinach salad. As the scruffy worker with the big plugs in his ear lobes came around our area with a push broom I wondered if I should push some crumbs onto the floor to ensure his job security. I figured that's not how he would interpret the gesture and left the crumbs on the table.

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It's not considered strange to pre-purchase diapers in every size we'll need for the first year of the baby's life. It would be considered odd to purchase and store hundreds of pairs of underwear for Kristen or myself. We know they are eventually going to wear out. We could store them in the food storage room as well, they come sealed and packaged. hmm interesting.