Bleak Wednesday

First I'd like to start by throwing out some words and phrases that have been swimming around my head and need to come out before I explode. They are quite random and seemingly unconnected but they need to be spoken out loud (or in this case typed out loud).
           
          IGNORING                                                             RESPONSIBILITY
MATURITY                         USELESS                                                                    DISGUSTING
        RELIANT                           PRESSURE                          INCOMPETENT
 IGNORING SOMETHING DOESN'T MAKE IT GO AWAY.                                                                   DISCRIMINATION
                    DUTIES                                LAZY                                      LACK OF RESPECT
PAINS IN MY ASS                                                    PISSED OFF NOW

Okay, now I think we'll leave it at that - I could go on - you don't want to listen to me ranting random words all evening.

And so it was a bleak Wednesday, for many many reasons. But on a day when I have been slapped, spat at and repeatedly scratched.............. I think you get the picture.

I was actually just tracing the line of one of my scratches along my arm. Battle scars.

But as always things can happen that reaffirm your faith in man kind and my day did also have a few of those, it's just that the bleak moments heavily outweighed the life affirming ones.

The kids have really enjoyed their topic on the Orchestra and today one of my little boys (aged 4) drew a picture of a double bass, a trumpet and a french horn and then copied the letters to spell their names. He even drew me some musical notes and wrote my name just by sounding out the letters. Wicked (Life affirming)

Another of my little boys (again aged 4) drew me a picture of an orchestra with four players. One was playing the bongos, one playing the cymbals, one playing the guitar and one playing the "normal drum". It was amazing. (Again life affirming).

But as I said, most of the rest of the day sort of took the shine off it. Still you've got to cling on to those little rays of sunlight because they really are the only things that get you through the day.

I've planned an awesome activity for tomorrow. You're all gonna wanna try it yourselves. I guarantee.
So we're going to make edible music. Edible music? I hear you say. Well yes. We are going to use sheets of baking paper with lines on as though manuscript paper and then I have bought digestive biscuits and we are going to decorate them with either chocolate or icing (white or black notes) and then place them on the manuscript. Then I am going to play whatever tune they have them created. And of course they can take the biscuits home and eat them afterwards. Now, is that the future or what? Edible scores! Sounds genius to me. And it would definitely get more people into music. Though it also might make slightly more obese people. Ha ha. Anyhoo, can't wait to do that. The kids'll love it!

Chocca tube ride today. I was penned in so much that I couldn't even lift an arm up to hold on to anything. So I was thinking that the people around me had better be prepared to catch me if we jerk. Luckily it was a fairly smooth ride and I managed to alter my position enough times to balance.

Where do we sit in terms of over the shoulder reading? I personally hate it, but on the tube sometimes it's impossible not to. There's often no where to look but straight ahead and there's fifteen kindles in your face. I've tried looking down but then you get bored. I've tried looking up but then you always end up making eye contact with someone. Or people think you're staring at them. It's annoying

Though today I was enjoying some sly people watching and I was mesmerised by the different lines of peoples faces. One particular woman had such a beautiful shaped face and the angles of her cheek bones were just perfect and it was just really weird looking around the carriage. Everyone is so different (obvious I know)  and even in that one little carriage we spanned the spectrum of hair colour, face shape, eye colour, you name it.  

I realise there was little to no point to that last paragraph but sometimes I just need to blurt it all out, irrelevant of it's coherence or lack there of.

Well, things are looking up for the bleak Wednesday evening. A came back from work with a present for me, a book called: The Positively Productive Writer by Simon Whaley which looks awesome. And he is also currently making me chilli con carne. And we plan on watching a Numbers (we love it!) and possibly a film on the couch, in ultimate vege mode. Whoop. Shame there's no brownies left, could do with a calorie fest.

And whilst I began with a random set of words, I feel I should end on an equally random set of words, though these are words I like.

                  PARALLELOGRAM                                                              ACUTE                                                          CEREAL
                PIG                                          BASIC                                                                    GNARLED                                                                    WEIRD
      CONSCIENTIOUS                     OBSERVING                                  TWISTED                                                KNITTED
                                  BUM                                                   RECEIPT                                       PANCETTA

And I think that's enough of that as I may be carted off at any moment, by the guys in white coats.
As always thanks for being recipients of my rants. Without you I would actually implode and create a black whole worthy of sucking in the entire universe. So really you read to save the world. Think of it like that. Ha ha.

Okay, I'm gonna say lack of food is making me loopy. Bring on that chilli con carne.

Night. Have a good one.

May your Wednesdays never be as bleak as mine.