Thoughts on random things

Just as the title, really.

Why do people have to regulate every minute of their children’s time?

Some children have it bad. Not only do they have school, but when school ends they get carted off to swimming lessons, piano lessons, all those sorts of things. And they see friends on top.

Lest anyone should ever doubt this, children do not wilt and die when left to themselves for a while. Their every waking moment does not need to be filled in with activity after activity after activity. That’s what’s called living so fast that there’s never any time to stop and think.

The best thing you can do to amuse and socialize your child, in my non expert opinion, is to have another child, and another, and another, and another, and another...

She hugged them both!

There was a girl saying goodbye to a pair of boys outside MacDonalds.

And who would have guessed it! She hugged the pair of them!

Now admittedly I’m not known in my family for being soppy. I’m not known for hugging people, and I’m not known for kissing them either. However, hugging two boys, one after the other, is just madness. Unless, of course, they’re one’s sons. Or brothers (and, for the record, I do not hug my brother. He wouldn’t want me to hug him, and I wouldn’t want to hug him, so it works out quite well really).

Hug one. Hug the other. But whatever you do, don’t hug both! In fact...what’s she doing giving frontal hugs to creatures she’s not married (or at least engaged) to? What did they do to deserve it? What did they do to make her drop her presumably (yes, I know. I shouldn’t presume things) high standards to hug not just one of them, but both?

And, of course, I will never know the answer to that question.

Skirts

How short is too short?

Actually, you don't need to answer that question. I already know the answer to that question, and it seems to be the length of three of my staple skirts. Yes, I know. I know! Talk about being picky! But in my opinion, they’re just a couple of inches too short. Of course, I bought the last a year and a half ago, and the first three years ago, during my wild teenage years. I'm still a teenager, but I think I've mellowed.

Well, I’ve mellowed enough to start wondering if these particular skirts shouldn’t be just a tiny bit longer. Which is pretty annoying, actually. Now what do I do with them?

Do I put them over trousers? My sister assures me that just makes me look embarrassing. And, talking of trousers, I have more pairs than necessary. There’s absolutely no excuse for owning both two pairs of full length trousers and one pair of tight fitting cropped sporty things... I rarely wear them! I don’t intend to start wearing them more often, either. And so one pair should go!

Do I take them to the charity shop? That would certainly get rid of them, but they’re nice skirts.

Alternatively, I could add a band of fabric around the bottom. That’s feasible with at least one skirt...

Or I could put them over another skirt—looks pretty dreadful, they’re not really skirts which take kindly to being layered—or I could just leave them as they are, and do nothing. However, they really do border on acceptable. And therefore something should be done about them!

In closing

In closing, two totally non related statements...there’s a big hairy spider in our bathroom, and postmen really shouldn’t leave packets on front door steps. Also, I lied about being a wild teenager when I was younger. And it now looks like I can't count. Yes, I said two...and there are four statements. Oh well.