Like I Have Time For This?

RegularSis commented that it was funny, not only that I dressed up the GIANT FROG HEAD for Halloween, but that I’d even THOUGHT of doing it in the first place. And I started thinking about it, like why did I think of it? How’d that happen. And here’s how it all went down:

 A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the old pillowcase I used on my 4-year-old’s pillow had gotten ripped, and a few days after noticing it, I finally took it off my 4yo’s pillow and washed it because that’s what you do with pillowcases when you take them off pillows. You wash them. After that, I didn’t really know what to do with it next. It was all ripped, but it was CLEAN, so I didn’t really have the heart to throw it out. So I left it on the back of a chair or something and eventually the kids grabbed it for some reason and then after they were done playing with it, the pillowcase ended up just laying around on the floor for a few days. I kept seeing it on the floor, and I’d think to myself: gee, I should pick up that old torn pillowcase and throw it out BEFORE it gets any dirtier just laying on the floor. I mean, I know it’s all ripped up, but it’s clean. I just washed it. I should pick it up. And just throw it out. It’s ripped, for God’s sake. Why did I even wash it in the first place?

All of this circled around in my brain for a few days, and the pillowcase remained on the floor, all bunched up behind the bathroom door now, getting grungier by the moment. And as Halloween drew closer and closer, I also began to think: gee, what could I do to make people smile or laugh on the blog for Halloween? What could I say? Or do? I searched the Internet for a funny YouTube link or something like that, but none of it was funny enough. And then one day as we were coming in from the car, I walked by the GIANT FROG HEAD and looking at it, I thought idly: I should dress up the GIANT FROG HEAD for Halloween and put it on my blog.

And then I wracked my brain for a good costume for the FROG, and got a bit discouraged because I just didn’t have the time, fabric, or inclination to sew up a prince costume for the FROG, and I wasn’t in the mood to spend any money on a witch hat for the FROG either. I mean, it’s just a FROG and a BLOG for God’s sake. Right? I considered a ghost costume, but then I’d have to cut up a whole perfectly good sheet to make it short enough, which seemed really wasteful, you know? And then I thought: This is so stupid! I am the worst blogger in the world. It’s Halloween, and this is the best I can do? I should shut that blog down and just move on to something else, like basket weaving down at the local clinic where if I act strange enough they’ll give me some happy pills and a hot glue gun, and I won’t have to think about BLOGS or GIANT FROG HEADS anymore. But then, my few faithful readers would be sad, so that’s not the answer, and….

And so, I wracked my brain and got more and more discouraged until I got out of the shower on Halloween morning and saw the not-so-clean-anymore ripped old pillowcase that I couldn’t seem to throw out no matter how many times I thought about it still sitting all clumped up near the bathroom door….

And the FROG costume was born.

It’s that kind of serendipity that renews my spiritual convictions, ya know?

And that pretty much sums up how I come up with blog entries. Aren’t you glad you know that about me?