{"id":888,"date":"2006-01-19T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:52:01","slug":"but-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"But I still haven&#8217;t found what I&#8217;m looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/60681396\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Robert and his son...\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/24\/60681396_bfd21e309b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If at any point you thought for a moment that I was organized or &#8216;had it all together&#8217;, this post should pretty much clear it up for you.<\/p>\n<p>Between two computers, I have scattered phone numbers and addresses.  In order for me to locate someone, I have to stop for a moment and try to remember what part of my life they existed in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay, did I talk to them pre-computer-in-bedroom days or not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between these two computers I have about 17,000 folders of pictures.  Again, in order to locate on of them I have to check THREE different places. Computer in bedroom, computer in kitchen or the back up drive.    Don&#8217;t think the &#8216;back up drive&#8217; is me being responsible, It&#8217;s only there because I&#8217;ve crashed more computers than Evil Knievel crashed motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmy sent me a letter inviting me to participate in the dish towel exchange.  I had no idea such an exchange existed and was honestly surprised she invited me.  She&#8217;s friends with Shelli and it took Shelli about 8 months to get the toe socks I promised her.  I&#8217;m really bad at things like this.  I came to the conclusion that Sissy must be crazy to invite me to play so I will send her dish towels with crazy women on them.<br \/>\nI was in Target yesterday looking for new ways to organize myself and I saw a whole row of dish towels.<br \/>\n&#8220;Wow&#8230;look at all those dish towels.&#8221;  I could feel a spark in the back of my brain. &#8220;Dish Towels.&#8221; I felt like the announcer for Sesame Street trying to teach a 3 year old how to pronounce certain letters and sounds. &#8220;Dish. Towels.&#8221;  Nope, nothing. Moving right along to the shiny pots and pans.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home I was dragging in my 50 gallon plastic bin, when I noticed the letter on my catch all.<br \/>\n&#8220;DAMN IT! DISH TOWELS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have anything together. I am thee most unorganized person that ever lived.   I try though. I put things RIGHT in my path so I don&#8217;t forget them.<br \/>\nOn the way to the bedroom I found 3 things I swore I was going to blog about.<br \/>\n1. The Hope doll.<br \/>\n2. My John Deere hat with a wedding veil<br \/>\nand&#8230;I forgot what the third one was.<br \/>\nOh wait, yes&#8230;I remember.<br \/>\n3. My wedding planners.  That&#8217;s you, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next Wednesday, i&#8217;m going to give you things to decide on for the wedding. I can&#8217;t do all this alone and I know you all want to help me out.<br \/>\nI finally went and bought one of those Brides magazines.  *shaking head* I can buy a Playgirl without being as embarrassed as I was buying that Bride book.<br \/>\nDid you know there is about 36 Kazbatrillon ways to write out an invitation?<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that it&#8217;s Thursday and instead of waiting until 11 pm tonight to remember that I need to take pictures of the stuff for SPF, I decided that today will be the day that I take the pictures, write out the post and put it in my &#8216;drafts&#8217; part of Blogger.<\/p>\n<p>While in there I found 4 posts I forgot to post.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to change my mantra from &#8220;hope&#8221; to &#8220;remember&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If at any point you thought for a moment that I was organized or &#8216;had it all together&#8217;, this post should pretty much clear it up for you. Between two computers, I have scattered phone numbers and addresses. In order for me to locate someone, I have to stop for a moment and try to remember what part of my life they existed in. &#8220;Okay, did I talk to them pre-computer-in-bedroom days or not?&#8221; Between these two computers I have about 17,000 folders of pictures. Again, in order to locate on of them I have to check THREE different places. Computer in bedroom, computer in kitchen or the back up drive. Don&#8217;t think the &#8216;back up drive&#8217; is me being responsible, It&#8217;s only there because I&#8217;ve crashed more computers than Evil Knievel crashed motorcycles. Kimmy sent me a letter inviting me to participate in the dish towel exchange. I had no idea such an exchange existed and was honestly surprised she invited me. She&#8217;s friends with Shelli and it took Shelli about 8 months to get the toe socks I promised her. I&#8217;m really bad at things like this. I came to the conclusion that Sissy must be crazy to invite me to play so I will send her dish towels with crazy women on them. I was in Target yesterday looking for new ways to organize myself and I saw a whole row of dish towels. &#8220;Wow&#8230;look at all those dish towels.&#8221; I could feel a spark in the back of my brain. &#8220;Dish Towels.&#8221; I felt like the announcer for Sesame Street trying to teach a 3 year old how to pronounce certain letters and sounds. &#8220;Dish. Towels.&#8221; Nope, nothing. Moving right along to the shiny pots and pans. When I got home I was dragging in my 50 gallon plastic bin, when I noticed the letter on my catch all. &#8220;DAMN IT! DISH TOWELS!&#8221; I don&#8217;t have anything together. I am thee most unorganized person that ever lived. I try though. I put things RIGHT in my path so I don&#8217;t forget them. On the way to the bedroom I found 3 things I swore I was going to blog about. 1. The Hope doll. 2. My John Deere hat with a wedding veil and&#8230;I forgot what the third one was. Oh wait, yes&#8230;I remember. 3. My wedding planners. That&#8217;s you, by the way. Starting next Wednesday, i&#8217;m going to give you things to decide on for the wedding. I can&#8217;t do all this alone and I know you all want to help me out. I finally went and bought one of those Brides magazines. *shaking head* I can buy a Playgirl without being as embarrassed as I was buying that Bride book. Did you know there is about 36 Kazbatrillon ways to write out an invitation? Realizing that it&#8217;s Thursday and instead of waiting until 11 pm tonight to remember that I need to take pictures of the stuff for SPF, I decided that today will be the day that I take the pictures, write out the post and put it in my &#8216;drafts&#8217; part of Blogger. While in there I found 4 posts I forgot to post. I think I need to change my mantra from &#8220;hope&#8221; to &#8220;remember&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}