Here are my random observations and other random thoughts that were comprised from my list of what I have learned and observed over the past week and over the years.  As a writer, when I get a random thought, I usually jot it down in my notebook wherever I am, and whenever the mood strikes me. A lot of times, I’ll read these one-liners later and wonder; what was I thinking?  Where did that come from? So don’t ask. They made sense at the time! Enjoy and let me hear your thoughts about your summer so far!

• Is it just me, or did the World Cup go on forever? 
• Now that Spain has won, can we go back to forgetting that soccer exists?   ew 
• Arm your vuvuzelas, my house is too quiet while my kids are away at camp.  Yes, I’m complaining. Surprise. Surprise. 
• AND the Vuvuzelas are not meant to be blown in the dogs ears. 
• OK, no more on the skinny horns, I just like saying the word, “Vuvuzela”.  I’m just saying.  
• So on this whole spy thing; if these are the Russian A-team how we’d catch these James Bond wannabes with their sloppy spycraft?
• Despicable me, cute.  Mel Gibson, Despicable him.  Lindsay Lohan , Despicable her. 
• “I’m Bored, Mom.”  Summer is in full swing.
• ‎Yes, summer is in full swing.  It’s a skinfest at the pool, at the beach and even shopping.  I am starting to sound like my mom; “Where’s the rest of your outfit?”
• Summer-where according to my hubby, it’s too hot outside for picnics, but when he is given the choice between obtaining his food from an adorable wicker basket or from a flaming grill, he will always pick the grill. 
• Summer - when the  flies steal meals from the hard working ants.
• Did you know some meat flies can smell meat from a mile away?  
• Summer – when the meat files stay around for dessert. 
• Summer- where you wake up every morning excited to spend a full day with your children, but go to bed every night praying for school to start.
• I learned that Silly Bandz DO clog a pool filter. 
• I’m happy it’s July, where other people have my kids for a week!  (JK, kids… Really.)
• I learned that this week was humid and a good week for hair products. 
• On my airplane this week there was a baby in front of me that insisted on standing on his mom’s lap the entire flight.  Good thing we weren’t going to China, she would have needed thighs of steel.
• I offered to help get the baby to settle down and to calm the other passengers, but they didn’t want my sedatives.
• Not what you’re thinking! The sedatives were for all the adults around the baby, not the baby.  (Well, all the adults, except the pilots.) 
• The baby finally sat down because the mom threatened to take him to see Santa Claus when we landed.  (All kids are born with an instinctive terror of Santa.) 
• While driving through the farmlands of Indiana, I saw a sign which read, “Used Cows for Sale”. What? Really?  
• With teens when traveling we get two rooms now.  I don’t miss the kind of family togetherness that was only achieved by cramming five people into one small hotel room. 
• With older kids, I don’t miss buying tacky souvenirs. 
• There are dozens of different ways to wear my convertible, reversible, easily packable dress that I brought on my vacation and I can only figure out one -hanging in the closet.   
• Gypset dresses, huh?  A cross between a gypsy, jet-set, bohemian, mini, maxi dress…but it packs well. 
• Summer hockey is odd; sitting in an ice rink watching hockey when it’s 102 degrees outside.
• Hockey dad, when in doubt, do NOT – I repeat- do NOT punch your son’s hockey coach. 
• R.I.P George Steinbrenner. Best Seinfeld episode; George and George. 
• George Steinbrenner hours after getting into Heaven, fired God and told Jesus to lose the beard.  Jay Leno
• Bad Apple. Hey Steve, duct tape costs a few cents versus a $30 bumper iFix. 
• Mel Gibson uses the new F phone.  
• Golf, I watch it to see what John Daly is wearing.
• The blond bomber ball buster sets the style for the golf course with his purple paisley pants. 
• The British Open is not all flat; some bunkers are so huge you can lose children in them.
• Who cares about the golf scores, the scenery is great. 
• So how does Author, James Patterson publish two or three books a year?  My writing goal is to write as many words this year as James Patterson wrote last week. 
• My most satisfying task today was crumbling my sign, “No Chocolate-Ever!”

How’s your summer going?  Are you traveling?  Where’s your favorite city to visit?  What are your favorite things to do while visiting a new place?

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