I'm sick of hearing "that's impossible"...
How is it that there is anyone that still thinks that there are impossibilities in the world? Like when I say "it's not unreasonable to think that the laws of physics will one be proven to be incorrect", people get all "It's a law! It's been proven! It's impossible that anything will change that.". Um, right, because as humans we obviously have figured out all there is to know about everything and there is no way that anything new will ever come to light or that we could be wrong. (And responding with "Your face is impossible!" doesn't get people to take you seriously, FYI). Good thing you weren't around when sailors decided to chance sailing off the edge of the earth when they thought it was flat or else we'd all still be thinking in 2 dimensions...
The thing is that, in my mind, anything is possible, even if it does not seem to be so at the time of the discussion. Not having the knowledge about something doesn't mean it can't ever be done. The thing that spurred this was a discussion about aliens. I believe that there are other being out in the universe and that it's not unreasonable to believe that they could have the ability to do things and travel much further than we earth folk currently can. I'm not saying that all the stories of alien abduction and such are entirely believable, but I also don't think it's entirely impossible. Of course, I got the "it's impossible to travel those distances". Since earth folk haven't figured it out, that must mean that no other beings in all the uncharted universe could possibly have figured that out. I apologize to the entire human race and mean no disrespect, but I don't actually believe that we know everything there is to know about everything ever. I'm basing that on the fact that as soon as I get the newest, most high tech cell phone in a couple of months (Motorola Bionic!!!), five minutes later it will become outdated technology. So unless there is some evil cell phone conspiracy, one in which all cell phone technology that will ever exist has already been discovered and they are just doling it out in small bits to keep me buying new phones, I'm thinking that people are constantly learning new things. But I digress...
Ok, so, Aliens. One argument that I got to that was, if they are able to travel around the universe, how come they haven't tried to colonize the Earth? My first reaction to that is, why is it everyone's first thought that everything needs to be taken over? Seriously, maybe that's why we haven't figured it out yet. We aren't evolved enough. Until we stop thinking like territorial animals, maybe we just can't access the other parts of our brain. Perhaps the aliens that have figured out interstellar travel have also figured out that running around taking over everyone's worlds is a sucky thing to do and so they don't do it. I mean, if you are smart enough to figure out how to travel the galaxy, there's a good chance you are all smart enough not to bother taking over a planet that is already being overused. Why not just find another one that's fresh? Duh. My second reaction is how do we know that colonization hasn't already occurred? Of course, that's when people roll their eyes. I'm not saying that it has or hasn't happened. I'm saying that it's possible. Assimilation not domination could be the alien slogan. I'm not saying I believe either way. My mind doesn't really work that way. Nothing can be proven 100%. NOTHING. It can be mostly proven. I can lean towards believing one side of an argument is more possibly true that the other side. But I never believe 100% in anything as true. Except what I see with my own eyes. And even that is subject to my own perception of reality. What I see with my very own eyes could be perceived completely differently than how another person sees the same exact thing with their own eyes. Anyway, my point is not really about aliens. My point is that to think that there is anything that is impossible and will always be impossible seems silly to me.
What I really care about is...
Note: I don't mean to sound like a commercial below, but since I'm now domesticated, these are the things I think about. And I have a HUGE appreciation for the items below.
As you may or may not know, my house is filled with the following:
4 cats (Morpheus, Trixie, Lucy, Neo)
1 70lb black lab (Dakota)
1 Adult Male (Boyfriend)
3 Tweenage boys (G, E, M)
As you can perhaps imagine, the floors are in a constant state of "ew, what is that?!" So, though I never thought I would say something like this, my carpet cleaning devices are my favorite household items on earth. EVER. I love them so much, I occasionally consider leaving Boyfriend to run off with them to a tropical island.
This is my vacuum cleaner. His name is Larry. Larry is one of my very best friends. When my cream color carpet starts to look black from all the friggin Dakota hair (I swear that dog explodes her entire coat of fur on a weekly basis), Larry sucks it all right up. Larry is the best vacuum cleaner that I have ever owned. EVER. I have to be careful with Larry though, because he's so powerful that I almost accidentally sucked one of the kids into his belly. That would have been not good. It's amazing how much crud gets onto the floors and carpets within a few days. With so many pets, we have to vacuum, at minimum, once a week. That's if we are being lazy. 2-3 times a week would be better. Larry is my hero.
This is Larry's BFF, Henry. Occasionally, I cheat on Larry with Henry. I mostly bought Henry because he's "all terrain" which cracked me up. Like I'm cleaning the hills and streams of my home. Apparently, "all terrain" just means "can be used on carpets, hardwood, tile, etc." I'm ok with that. Henry is a little heavy for me to be pushing around in the wilderness. I hate mopping the floors, but I love to Henry them. Sometimes, I use the attachment to clean the walls. That might sound odd, but any of you who have children in the house have probably had the experience where you are walking around the house and will randomly see something unidentifiable splattered on the wall. And in weird places on the wall that you think "how the heck did they get chocolate sauce all the way over/up there?!". Anyway, Henry is awesome. Like when the Great Chocolate Milk Disaster of 2011 happens (where you go to take the brand new gallon of chocolate milk out of the fridge and then drop it onto the kitchen floor where it EXPLODES, at which point every child and animal in the house decides to run directly through the lake of chocolate milk.), I just take Henry and suck it right up. And then three weeks later when I'm discovering chocolate milk paw prints and chocolate milk splatters on the wall in unusual places throughout the house, Henry helped me out. The latest thing was cat pee. One of the friggin' cats was feeling like an a-hole and decided that everyday was a fine day to pee on the carpet in the hall in front of the front door. And washing the whole rug every day was becoming tedious and didn't seem to be getting the pee smell out. I put some of that special cat urine cleaning stuff into Henry and cleaned the carpet. That finally got the smell out.
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| It IS a miracle!!! |
On a side note: I was also having the problem that one of the cats was always pooping next to the litter box instead of inside it. I tried different litters, cleaning them daily, adding more boxes...nothing was working. It's been driving me crazy for months. Finally, I'm at the pet store, just staring blankly at things, and notice this litter attractant stuff:
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| I heart you! |
OMG IT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME!! So far...It's only been 4 pooh and pee free days. I won't get crazy thinking that there has been a miracle but I will gladly continue to buy that stuff if it means that all four cats will go potty where they are freaking supposed to.
I guess my point is that I never thought that there would be room in my heart of things like carpet cleaners and vacuums. And now I'm in love with the ones that I own. I'm not sure how many more of these drastic life changes I can take!
Jenn - I should have my own infomercial...
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. And she sang them AWESOME. Plus, she fell on her arse (something I don't think I've ever seen actually happen on Idol) and didn't miss a beat. Meanwhile, though they both can certainly sing well, Scotty and Lauren sang...oh, right, 3 country songs each. Shocking. And Lauren got distracted by a cute boy and forgot to sing a note. But, I guess country music rules the world now or something, because those two are in the final. I'm not going to lie, I probably won't even watch. I think it's time to admit to myself that Idol is dead to me. I just don't care. I haven't bought a single song from this season. I have all of 
's performances. I have all of 
's performances. I even have most of Lee's performances. I have 0 from this season. ZERO. That tells me that I really just don't care. I'm holding onto a dead relationship with Idol and it's time to let go. I have to move on to something different. Something I can feel the way I felt about Idol a few years back when I started watching it. I'm hoping that something is X Factor. I'm hoping that it's just Simon that's missing from my life. And Paula. I don't care what anyone says, Paula is pure genius. She may not intend to be. She may be barely lucid at most times. But she's too much unintentional comedy to sit on the sidelines. I'm glad her and Simon are secretly in love and that he has brought her back into the world of judging. I will, however, really miss Ryan Seacrest. That man is not only a machine, but also my hero. I actually think he's a robot. I can't prove it. He's too good to let that happen. But, mark my words, one day it will come to light that he is a robot and I want everyone reading this to remember that I said it. 
is a robot. Tell your friends.
to watch!!! Does anyone remember how awful that was? It was, take my word for it. So, I had to find other entertainments. Looking back on the blogs from that time, I am cracking up. From that era come such fine blogs as:
. It's been the complete obsession of my household. One of the kids has actually memorized all the words to all the songs. Boyfriend keeps watching it. And like any good 
addled brain, my mind jumped like this...
3 door hatchback, so I'm not sure how all that universe stuff fit inside, but it did. I miss that car...again, I digress. Now that I don't drive 3 hours a day, I find that all my good thinking is done in the shower. I was thinking the stuffing out of life and the world in the shower this morning. I had something super awesome and deep to blog about and I was going to sound smart and better then just normal Jenn. Of course, the moment I stepped out of the shower, I totally forgot. It could have been when I was blow drying my hair. Or straightening it (34 years and I've finally almost got the hang of a straightening iron! I'm so close!!!) I don't know. I can't remember when the thoughts fell out of my head. Which just reminded me of how badly I need to start recording notes to myself because I can't remember anything I ever want to say. Curses. Stupid brain foiled me again!!!
, who may be the hottest thing since the sun. OMG. I couldn't tell you if this movie sucked because I was too busy figuring out how to break up with my boyfriend, find Chris, convince him that I'm really the one for him and that he should divorce his wife, and then get him to run off to a deserted island so no one can steal him from me. Holy crud, that man is perfect. I'm pretty sure I don't care about his personality at all. But I digress...
being in this movie. She had WAY more chemistry (ok, who wouldn't...he's friggin beautiful) with Chris Hemsworth than she did with 
in Star Wars. My favorite in the movie, though, was 
as Darcy. She was hysteridonkulous. And I was surprised to see Rene Russo as Thor's mom. Well, surprised in the sense that I didn't know she was going to be in the movie. 
that Boyfriend build for me. Soon, I will fill it with the dirt and the veggies to grow. If it ever stops raining. 
I had at lunch today. And now I'm falling into a deep and restful custard coma. 
. Only a lot more obvious than a
since 
are stealthy and the sun is not so much with the stealthiness, being so bright and shiny and all. So now it's like this beautiful day outside and I'm trapped in a cubicle far far away from any windows. I need to go for a walk.
for the 20k that I am to embark upon tomorrow morning, I am excited to do it. I have to drive downtown to pick up my race packet, which does not excite me. 
that Boyfriend built in the backyard. This is the view from the Deck. Those logs are from one of the trees that had to be cut down. We are going to lacquer them so that they don't rot and they are the perfect height for seats. We may end up doing something more fancy with that area at some point in the future but for now, we thinks it's neat.
as this week's assistant "mentor". And I thought that it was only in Indiana that the 1990s were making a come back.
. Unfortunately, I really like the song and I think that he was really pitchy. So, yeah, he's entertaining, but he really missed a bunch of notes and kept dropping the sound. Maybe it's my TV. Or maybe I'm sick of the judges licking his balls with praise when his singing really wasn't his best. Plus, he copied Jared Leto's hair style and even did the same fist pump at the end that Jared does in the video. Lame.
. OMG, really? And he's from Compton? Hahahahahahahaha. I'm totally vomiting right now. I could only watch like 10 seconds before hitting the fast forward button. Since I'm only watching the judges, I find it hilarious when Steven Tyler is coherent. They just spent way too much time on the soon-to-be irrelevant Jacob.
? 
I've never heard of it. I guess she really decided to leave her comfort zone behind, but Carrie Underwood is nearly impossible. And she really didn't do it. Of course the judges are drooling all over themselves. Ew and Steven is still giving her "the i can't wait until you are legal" eyes. Gross. 
. Shocking. I'm already bored. And Sheryl Crow just said "I don't think we've seen him do this before." I guess she doesn't watch this show because Scotty does this country shatner, um, EVERY WEEK. And he's sort of running around all weird and making his funny faces and I'm feeling sort of uncomfortable about the whole thing. I'm hoping Haley will show me something I want to see. Holy Crud, I think JLo is going to jump out of her seat and cougar claw his clothes off. And Steven is talking about the devil and waving to the crowd like he's senile. And if Randy says "In it to win it"...oh, he just did. I could practically script this show.
. Some unreleased song called You & I. I thought about that for her but I just wasn't sure. I guess we'll see. Great, she's got the producers picking songs for her. Isn't that like cheating? Of course Haley's was the best performance (at least the one I like the best) and the judges are crapping all over it. This show just pisses me off.
(which 
and CRUSHED IT) I'm going to actually start puking. And WhyTF did he pick this song? Why is he wasting my time? Now he's just screeching. Darn it, James, you totally sucked today and I hate you for it. I almost look forward to your performances but now you are crying all cheesy like and I can't live with this show anymore. Come on, dude, 
came on two years ago and sang a song he wrote about his cancer ridden dying brother (who actually died right before the performance) and managed to hold it together with like one tear sliding down his face. James was practically weeping because he misses his family. I'm not trying to be mean (well, maybe a little) but dude's got to hold it together!
. In what could possibly be the most boring and high pitched performance ever. I think he just broke a window in my house. I need a drink.
. It's like they don't have an original thought in their heads. Well, great dress. I love her dress. Like a lot. Okay, I'll hand this one to her. It was pretty good. Oh, and Steven Tyler just upped the creepy meter a few notches.
. I'm sure it will be the same as always and will not be on my mind at all when it's over. Good, but the same as always. So, I'm bored. Sometimes I feel like he may be 20 years too late. Moving right along...
...hmmm...Haley just became my favorite. She actually has a really awesome voice and doesn't sound like every other person on the radio. Not that I would know what people sound like on the radio because, as I discovered yesterday, I don't know a single one of the Billboard Top 100 Songs from this week, so I obviously never listen to the radio. Yeah, in my mind she just crushed it. And for the first time ever, I agree with the judges cause they just gave her a standing ovation. And she pretty much shoved the judges previous criticism up their butts. 
for work the last few days. He'll be back on Friday evening. I miss him. I do however have all this time to do whatever I want. Though, I'm not very imaginative about it. 
as I want in a row without being mocked.
all day without being mocked.
. "Jenn, what did you do while I was gone on business?". "Oh, just a little