I can’t wait until I get to buy a new car. All the cars I’ve bought so far have been used. The first was the cheapest I could find – it didn’t even have A/C. The second I bought off my folks who gave me a good deal because they didn’t like the idea of me driving the first car since it didn’t stear (it did last 2 years though). Of course after the second car was stolen, I had no get another one so along came car #3. We got that one because we thought our stroller would fit in the back of a station wagon. it didn’t. Car #4 was bought because you can’t fit 3 car seats in the back of a 5 passenger vehicle. Or was it because the station wagon broke down? Now I’m stuck with this gas guzzling mini van and I’m hoping they (whoever THEY are) make a car that fits 6 people (3 in car seats and 4 who cannot sit in the front without risking death by airbag) that runs on water or dirty diapers so I can free my self of my $9/day habit of foreign oil.

There’s a lack of good museums in Arizona.  It’s one of my dreams to go to a museum with artwork that I like and want to understand instead of all these modern art museums with stuff I can barely stand to look at let alone begin to even try to understand.  One museum downtown once had a lot of art that was on tour that I loved but that has long since gone and I’ll have to travel east or overseas to see anything like it again.  How come drawing like a 4 year old is the way portraits are done nowadays?  Everything is lacking in depth.  What happened to the Realists?  Their art was full of depth and unending detail and I liked it.

Ah, the dulcet tones of a baby crying? What did I just say? That didn’t make any sense. Unless of course you’re hovering over your baby’s bed 12 times a night, paranoid that the blanket they cuddle up with is going to attack and kill them while they sleep, so you wake them up just to make sure they are alive. Did you know you’re supposed to read the tag on your Boppie each time you use it (it says so on the tag)? It says to never let anyone fall asleep on it. Not even me? Surely they don’t mean adults. But then at what age is it OK for someone to use it. The danger to a baby is obvious (suffocation) but I can’t see how that applies to me. Or perhaps the danger of my suffocating on a pillow is greater than I ever imagined…

So maybe it’s just me being nostalgic recently, but can we please go back to the days when daytime TV was not filled with one attorney after another selling their services on TV. Remember the good old days when lawyers limited their advertising to full-page ads in or on the cover of the phone book and giant billboards. I seriously will not be surprised when I finally see the commercial that begs for every unfortunate soul that’s home on a Tuesday at 11 A.M. to sue somebody.

“It doesn’t even matter who! Just sue somebody, and let me help!”

For the lawyers out there in the world: keep up the good work. Fight for the little guy and may justice prevail. But if you advertise on TV, you’re not fighting for the weak and oppressed, you’re exploiting them. Admit it and move on.

After the lawyers, we’ll move on to take pharmaceutical and political ads off the air. I’m not looking forward to next fall when it will be non-stop, “Sue Your Boss!”, “Vote for Me!”, “Cure that tingly feeling that you sometimes get in your legs if you sit on the toilet too long!”, “Sue the guys that made the drug that they advertised for just before this ad!”

But of course, what used to be guidelines are now infringements on freedom and liberty. What a great future we have to look forward to, and all in HD.