Clean Up In Green Aisle

For those of you who have known me in my previous life, this blog might sound like a repeat of a past "Howerton & Co." or "K & J Show". Those were the names of the morning shows I hosted during my days in small market Christian radio. Those were the days of early mornings, long days, little pay, and freebies you really didn’t want, but snagged anyway. (Spam logo’d T-shirt which I still wear!) I had said when I started this blog, I would not always be deep or profound, or Biblical. I’ve had enough of the heavy emotional stuff for a while. I will get back to that - I’m sure. It seems that stuff is never too far from me these days.

I proposed on the radio show what I thought were great ideas in response to certain shall I say "peculiarities" that occur in the male brain. Those ideas have recently been expanded now that I, singularly, have to do household chores.

First, my clothes dryer drives me crazy. There’s a setting called Automatic Dry-Miser. Apparently it is a "Push START and let it figure out when to stop" setting. Why then does it have variable settings like "More Dry" and "Less Dry"? Isn’t "Dry" good enough? Isn’t the definition of dry the absence of wetness? How in the world can you then have dry but with wetness? I guess with a name like "dryer" the next question should be "dryer than what?" Here’s an idea. One setting: "Make Clothes Dry".

One of my long-standing ideas, which Cindy thought was totally ridiculous but made some sense, was to have grocery stores and Wal-Mart arrange their merchandise by the color of the product. A White section - Light bulbs, TP, Milk, White-Out, copy paper, cottage cheese, tennis shoe strings, etc. A Yellow section with Post-It’s, Bananas, hazzard tape, Dummy’s Books, manilla folders, etc. A Black section with tires, tv components, some picture frames. You get the idea. Then, the floor could be painted with colored stripes that could lead you to the area where you need to shop. I know it’s not practical, but you sure could find stuff faster!

There are a couple more things that have been bugging me lately - maybe I am just over-sensitive to things right now. Maybe being alone and having lots of free time to think about stuff has made me more keen to annoyances. Maybe I just think of stupid ideas way too much.

One of the things I loved about Cindy was how she would listen intently to my most stupid of ideas and then say, "You’re an idiot." And, then we’d laugh because I knew she was right. That was why she loved me - my "peculiarities".

(On the sickness front, I am feeling much better now - thanks for all of the concern and prayers.)