Don't bother reading this

Once again, it's been awhile since I've posted anything, but lately I feel I've got nothing to say that's worth my time to write or, more importantly, your time to read. Sure I've had a couple of thoughts. Like the other day I was dressing TheGirl in one of TheBoy's old green and blue onesies, and I thought, Wow, she looks like a little boy. Then I put a pink sleeper on over the onesie and thought, Oh, now she's a girl again. I find it fascinating and maybe a little bit disturbing that perception can be so easily manipulated with color, especially given the fact that the whole pink and blue thing is a fickle social construct. Once upon a time you'd dress your boy in pink and save the blues and greens for girls, because pink and red - fiery energetic colors - were considered masculine, while blue and green - cool and calm colors, were considered feminine.

But, whatever. I don't really feel like going on and on about it.

And then just yesterday, after looking with great satisfaction out the bedroom window into our neatly trimmed back yard, I realized that you can buy happiness, because the day before had I looked out the same window and felt like weeping at the sight of our neglected garden. But that was before I paid the nice Asian man to come out with his truck, his hedge clippers and a couple of Mexicans to wack away at the overgrown mess, thereby lifting a weight from my psyche that had been growing more wearying with each passing weekend that I didn't get around to the yard work. I felt the same satisfactory sigh of relief I feel when I come home from work on Fridays to a clean house - a sweet-smelling house swept and scrubbed, not by me, but by the nice Italian lady I pay every week to do it. I don't mind house cleaning, and I like yard work, but it turns out I like paying someone to do it for me even more.

So, where am I going with this? Nowhere really. Today I started a conversation at work and got so bored with what I was saying I just had to stop talking and stare into space. I don't think anybody noticed. I'm going to try it again right now.