Today is my second full day home! I got home a day later than anticipated due to Delta’s cutbacks in flights to SFO. So I ended up spending Saturday night in Atlanta and getting home Sunday. No biggie, except now I haven’t been to church in four weeks. Its official! I’m inactive! Two weeks I was working and two on vacation. Crazy! Send out the Elder’s quorum!! (please :) )
I have a really short attention span, and I’m REALLY easily distracted. I realized Sunday just how bad its getting:
…When I got home Sunday afternoon, I should have gone straight to sleep, but just couldn’t seem to get there, as tired as I was. I set my bags down in the Kitchen, not wanting to unpack yet, but not wanting them cluttering the kitchen, so I shoved them under the kitchen table. It was hot in my house, so I opened the back door next to the washer/dryer. When I saw the washer/dryer I remembered all of the laundry that needed to be done, so I went back and pulled out my luggage and then seeing other stuff in the suitcase that I could put away, I took some stuff to my room and it was hot in there so I turned on the AC. On the way out, I saw my computer so I had to turn it on, but the power strips were unplugged from the wall so I had to re-plug them, but when I did that, I saw a spider. So I had to go into the kitchen for a paper towel to smoosh it with. Once in the kitchen, I realized how thirsty I was so I went to the fridge to get a bottle of water. Got the water. Saw my copy of “New Moon” on the table (I was almost done reading it… wanted to finish it) so I grabbed that and headed to the couch. Sat down with my water and my book and decided to stretch out so I laid down on my stomach. Head to throw-pillow, fast asleep in under 30 seconds. Woke up two hours later with the imprint of the book in my cheek, wondering why I was so thirsty. Bottle of water still unopened. Thought to myself: There are ping-pong balls flying around in my head. I’m a complete spaz… speaking of ping-pong balls, have you ever heard of the Swedish War Ship Vasa?
It sank in 1628 in the bay surrounding Stockholm's 14-island archipelago (legend says because when the King saw the completed ship he said it was too small and ordered the ship builders to just slap another deck on top -which the ship builders did, even though they knew it was a really bad idea because it would mess up the ship’s balance – and when it was being sailed out of the bay, a big wind came along and blew it over. It sank.) Someone found it in 1956. The Swedish government asked for ideas on how to raise it from the sea-bottom and one guy submitted that it should be filled with Ping-Pong balls and floated on up…
Yup, Ping-Pong balls.
The Swedish Ship Vasa in the VasaMuseum, Stockholm.
I have a really short attention span, and I’m REALLY easily distracted. I realized Sunday just how bad its getting:
…When I got home Sunday afternoon, I should have gone straight to sleep, but just couldn’t seem to get there, as tired as I was. I set my bags down in the Kitchen, not wanting to unpack yet, but not wanting them cluttering the kitchen, so I shoved them under the kitchen table. It was hot in my house, so I opened the back door next to the washer/dryer. When I saw the washer/dryer I remembered all of the laundry that needed to be done, so I went back and pulled out my luggage and then seeing other stuff in the suitcase that I could put away, I took some stuff to my room and it was hot in there so I turned on the AC. On the way out, I saw my computer so I had to turn it on, but the power strips were unplugged from the wall so I had to re-plug them, but when I did that, I saw a spider. So I had to go into the kitchen for a paper towel to smoosh it with. Once in the kitchen, I realized how thirsty I was so I went to the fridge to get a bottle of water. Got the water. Saw my copy of “New Moon” on the table (I was almost done reading it… wanted to finish it) so I grabbed that and headed to the couch. Sat down with my water and my book and decided to stretch out so I laid down on my stomach. Head to throw-pillow, fast asleep in under 30 seconds. Woke up two hours later with the imprint of the book in my cheek, wondering why I was so thirsty. Bottle of water still unopened. Thought to myself: There are ping-pong balls flying around in my head. I’m a complete spaz… speaking of ping-pong balls, have you ever heard of the Swedish War Ship Vasa?
It sank in 1628 in the bay surrounding Stockholm's 14-island archipelago (legend says because when the King saw the completed ship he said it was too small and ordered the ship builders to just slap another deck on top -which the ship builders did, even though they knew it was a really bad idea because it would mess up the ship’s balance – and when it was being sailed out of the bay, a big wind came along and blew it over. It sank.) Someone found it in 1956. The Swedish government asked for ideas on how to raise it from the sea-bottom and one guy submitted that it should be filled with Ping-Pong balls and floated on up…
Yup, Ping-Pong balls.
The Swedish Ship Vasa in the VasaMuseum, Stockholm.
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