Conversations with Self: Debra Janin - August 7, 2008
Woke up today with ad slogans and jingles running through my head. When I think about it, this happens all too often. What does this mean? Am I singing my way through life, or are we all subliminally being programmed? Am I simply nuts? Or – should I being trying to write an unforgettable slogan for my business? Hmm. Can you hear me now? Or have I really fallen and can’t get up? Oh, those are already taken. HELP!
Typical start to my day:
1) Wake up and run to the bathroom.
2) Try not to break any bones or harm any body parts along the way.
3) Say ‘excuse me’ to wall or chair as I go bouncing into them.
4) Get back into bed for a good stretch.
5) Jump up out of bed, go boot computer and make coffee. All the while little person in head screaming, OMG, I’m late.
6) Late for what, you work at home, other person in head answers
7) Oh yeah, I say.
8) While coffee is brewing, another voice says gleefully, oh boy, I wonder what’s going to happen today?
9) Big smile.
And so it goes. Now, with computer humming (is it supposed to do that?????) and coffee ready, I settle myself into my quasi lotus position on chair. Full lotus would cause chair to fall over, and require visit to emergency room. Not a good thing. Or would I have to be surgically removed from chair?
Check email. Check through bulk folder to find out how many idiots there are today who have nothing better to do than send messages that are meaningless to people they don’t know. Luckily, am not too annoyed about it today. Tomorrow, who knows. Depends what song I wake up singing…
Read every possible horoscope to make sure I’m either
1) going to have a good day
2) have a light bulb glaring ‘aha’ moment
3) get through the day with minimal grief
4) finally discover the true meaning of life
5) go to the beach or work my butt off today
All in all, life is good. All little persons in head agree. Whew.
Little person in head agrees, nodding enthusiastically. Like bobble head on dashboard in car – you know? Haven’t seen those lately, but when I was a kid people used to put them on the back shelf of their cars. Sometimes a hula doll, sometimes some funny head.
Don’t know where that came from. Maybe it was last week’s road trip. Flashbacks of how things used to be. Like kids in the backseat waving at other cars.
Little people inside head nod enthusiastically again. Heaven help me, now there’s more than one again…..
Find Debra at Flying Needle Gallery or her blog, You’ll Poke Your Eye Out.
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