Fickle Appliances

Here are some examples to find out if your appliances hate you too:

- Our temperamental oven beeps every so often yelling at us "F3, F3!" We think it might be the change in air pressure or we have ghosts.

- The satanic DVD player refuses to play any sort of LDS movies.

- We've gone through 3 TVs in the past 6 months. The first we had since the dinosaur age when my dad was a teenager (circa 2 million B.C.). Its faux-wood paneling and weighing as much as my car was a lovely sight in our family room. It literally had to wind itself up before we could see anything. Eventually it would freak out and the screen would just pulsate.
Another one that we had would humm constantly so we needed to have the TV full blast just to hear the movie and then the screen's light went out so we would need to sit in complete darkness to see what was on TV.

- If you're keeping track, those are only a few examples of rotten appliances. For the time being we are also without vacuum, washing machine and Mom's blow dryer.

We are so sharp-witted, brilliant, bright, knowledgeable, all-knowing and any other word meaning smart.

My family never gets into the game of Scrabble or Wheel of Fortune or any game that involves any use of the brain. I guess we just don't want to feel too stupid, so we stick to games like Uno, Candyland, or Tic Tac Toe. Those are great games! No thinking WHAT.SO.EVER. That's why it's funny that my family and I have been totally addicted to puzzle games in the newspaper.
Everyday my mom pulls out the paper and heads directly to the comic section where the crossword puzzle is. We have accomplished two full puzzles in about two weeks because we finally resorted to using the internet thesaurus and good ol' google. A good thing has come out of our addiction (or fixation, enslavement, obsession)to crossword puzzles. We have learned a lot of random things things that we never would know. For example, I am currently searching to see who the heck a "Musician Stan" is.....

Beautiful Hands

I believe that hands are the most expressive parts of the human body as well as the most interesting. You can tell so much about a person just by looking at the hands. Are the fingernails dirty? Or long? Are they worn? Are they old and wrinkled with age? Hands can be used in language as well as in creating artwork.

Hands tell a story of our lives. Hands intrigue me with their beauty and strength. Hands illustrate each individual's life and what they have done with it. Hands show emotion and character, good or bad. Hands show intimacies such as holding the hand of a loved one. Hands can portray what occupation a person is involved in. The hands may show frustration when a fist of anger. Hands show age, experiences and habits. From an artists' perspective, they also show color, texture, form, and the elements of design. Hands are versatile and amazing.