it's like psychic restless leg syndrome
i'm feeling the overwhelming urge to get rid of crap, to stay in motion until the detritus is gone. on a pretty large scale. part of me gets VERY anxious about getting rid of a lot of stuff. the packrat side. the not-quite-ocd-but-keeps-everything section of the brain. i still won't get rid of the old stuff. but the inbetween stuff i can live without. i think. but some of it, well, it's really baggage in every sense of the word. things from people i am no longer in contact with, big things, boxes of things, shelves of things. i need the crap to go. seriously. i don't move very much, so things accumulate. and sometimes that's fine, and sometimes it's just more *stuff*. i want to be able to find and enjoy the things that i have that i truly love. they are buried in crap. disclaimer: it doesn't help that my office moved rather unceremoniously into piles in a room in the basement. the mess is just a burden.
also, i love the new dove ad, but part of me feels a little... dirty (pardon the bad punniness). they aren't making those ads out of a sense of moral responsibility or altruistic loyalty to women. they are doing it because it works, it's marketing. it's good marketing, but the parent company also owns axe. and if you have seen those ads, they also have marketing perfectly pitched to the target demographic. i almost feel worse that people see it as a company doing good. i want to say "don't drink the koolaid". ehh, what am i saying. i totally worked for the software MotherShip for a very long time. life is full of grey areas. probably better to worry about something else.
like jenny mccarthy (yes that jenny mccarthy) writing a sensationalistic book about her son's autism and pimping it on oprah. although it did get me riled up listening to her - we're at the vaccination age and hooooboy there's a lot more too that than i ever realized. i do completely feel for her. don't get me wrong. it's the playboy playmate/mtv vj getting serious that is a bit startling.
anyway.
Happy Birthday Dad. Thank you for everything.