We customize our cars, our houses, our water bottles, our online profiles, our offices... everything around us gets that special touch to identify it as ours. So why not our bodies? I mean, we start young with developing our own clothing style. Then it's hairstyle and jewelry. Maybe hair color, hair cut, body piercings.
Let me tell you about the birthday present I got this year that almost-but-didn't-quite make me cry. When I was tiny, I got a large stuffed bear from my grandparents. I've held onto him for something like 46 years now. Here's baby me with my Grandpa Bear. Given the pictures near this one where I found it in a scrapbook, I was very close to my second birthday. In fact, that might have been a birthday present. There's a cake with two candles in the next picture.
In one of my online discussion spots, there is someone asking advice about job hunting - about cover letters and interviews and convincing someone to hire them. So here we are, and I'm going to sum up some of my part of the advice with something I wish I'd been taught.
You don't have to sell yourself as a Star.
You can just be Good Enough.
See, I was a Gifted Kid(TM). I was always told that I could be a star at whatever I wanted to do. I was put on the path of greatness and told I had to go as far as I could go. I was gonna be better! I was going to change the world! My future included being the CEO or President of something, a name everyone knew, someone everyone looked up to.
I got thirsty this morning, and ended up ordering toilet paper. Because this is how my mind works. I'll take you on this journey with me, where I dig myself down into a hole and back out of it again.
While working, I realized I was thirsty. I went to take a drink of my Coke, but it was empty. So I crushed the can and dropped it in the bin, then grabbed a glass to pour some water. That left the pitcher low, but I couldn't refill the pitcher because there was a dirty bowl soaking in the sink and blocking where the pitcher would need to sit. So I needed to do dishes. I emptied the dishwasher and started rinsing dirty dishes to refill it, but then realized with all the bending over and running water that I needed to go to the bathroom.
So I got a big fat pumpkin and some peanut butter. I found this article about having a naturally-carved pumpkin:
https://flannelandflame.com/2020/10/19/train-squirrels-to-carve-your-pumpkin
Using a drill to make holes in the pumpkin is something I've done before. I like it as a lazy carving technique.
I thought you guys might like to follow along the progress, so I'll take some pictures and we'll see what happens.
It sounds like it could take as few as a couple of days for the squirrels to do their work, and then it'll go bad like a week later. Which means this might be a trial run before Halloween, and we do another later.
