Whacky's Corner

 You know, I can go for days, weeks, months, even years, without even noticing my shadow. Then a light comes on and all of a sudden, there it is! Then for a while I see it everywhere. It's like it is following me. At least during the day. Then at night my shadow disappears, or it is hard to see. That is until I turn on a light. If the light is behind me, my shadow is long and tall and right in front of me! I wish I were really that tall. Then if the light is above and in front of me like the... Sign in to see full entry.

Glue works on a lot of things. It sticks together things you don't want stuck together, like your fingers. Yet whatever you want to stick together falls apart if you just look at it. Sometimes part of it ends up stuck to your hand! Ugh! Don't ever get me started about what happens if you scratch your nose while trying to glue something together. Ok--I'll just tell you---It was the shield on my string trimmer. I was trimming the little patch of grass in the yard and must have hit a rock, or a... Sign in to see full entry.

 Now I'm even more confused. It came with three sets of instructions. One in English. One in Spanish, and one in French. I read through the one in English. Then when there was something I know was covered in the instructions, but couldn't quite remember. I went back to re-read. That's when I discovered that I had misplaced the English instructions. I looked all over for them. I looked high and I looked low. But they were no where to be found. All I could find were the French and Spanish... Sign in to see full entry.

 I have caller ID on my phone. Too bad most of the calls I get are either "out of area" "toll free-out of area" or "unknown caller." I don't usually answer any of these calls. I just let them go to the machine. They rarely leave a message. Now recently I have noticed many of these "unknowns" are recordings of people telling me who to vote for. One time when I answered it there was a recording. No matter what I said the voice just continued on her description of how awful one of the candidates... Sign in to see full entry.

When you buy a new lamp it usually comes with its own lampshade. Sometimes the lampshade is the best part of the lamp. You know, it gives the lamp color and style. Without it most lamps are just bare bulbs in ugly vases. Now my biggest problem is where can you find a new lampshade for an old lamp? Am I the only one who has lampshades with holes in them or little stains on them? I really don't know how the stains got there. But I do know how some of the holes did. At least one of the holes is the... Sign in to see full entry.

There was a report about breakfast cereal on the news this morning. It said that many of the sugary cereals kids eat have more sugar than a donut. In that case, I'll just take the donut. It went on to name the top three sugary cereals. I remember eating at least two of them. The first was my favorite. "Frosted Flakes" and yes I used to think that they're grrreat! Then they named "Honey Smacks." I remember when they were called "Sugar Smacks." I guess that was before 'sugar' became a dirty word.... Sign in to see full entry.

 If I see one more political ad...I think I will just scream! I'm Whacky and I am about to scream! I don't approve anything! Arrggghhh! They have me doing it now. The strangest thing is, it is getting hard to tell who some of the ads are for or against. They'll spend half of it telling you all the things someone has done. So you think well heck that's good, at least he had done something. Then you find out at the end that the ad was approved by the guy who is running against him. Does that mean... Sign in to see full entry.

 What is "the Zone?" Well, for one thing around here, it is an offbeat shop that sells all sorts of odd things. At least I think they look odd. Many are things I never knew existed. Others turned out to be things I wish I never knew existed. Like some gag gifts that really made me gag. Is "the Zone" anything else but a tacky store? Well, there is a diet called "the Zone diet" and if I understand it you eat certain things and exercise at certain times and that puts you in the "Zone" for losing... Sign in to see full entry.

I haven't or hadn't tied my shoes for, well years! No,I haven't been walking around with untied shoes tripping over my own shoe laces. I can trip over my own big feet with no help from floppy laces. thank you... No the reason I haven't tied my shoes in years is because I have been wearing either slip on loafers, pumps or those sneakers with velcro fasteners. You gotta admit that velcro fasteners are a lot faster or at least easier than lace up tie shoes. So I finally decided to buy some new... Sign in to see full entry.

That's what they say. "It's A Jungle Out There." Where? Unless they are talking about the grass and weeds in my yard. Or that empty lot that seems to sprout waist high weeds after every good rain.. There's no Jungle anywhere near me. So where is the jungle? Is it the Wal-Mart jungle where people grab for bargains that aren't really bargains. Although during their back to school sale I did see 150 page spiral note books for five cents. I managed to grab two. I'll use them to keep records of... Sign in to see full entry.