Google and Gumby

Today, Google's homepage features Gumby and his cast of friends.  I have a funny story about Gumby, actually.  When I was a kid, I was unsure if Gumby was an actual thing or something I had imagined or dreamed about.  I had seen a couple episodes at my cousins house when I was really little - two or three - and afterwards did not see anything referencing Gumby for many years.  I figured it had been a character from a dream I had, but then I finally saw or heard something about Gumby, and I knew I hadn't dreamed it.  Same thing for the Brave Little Toaster.

I Am Perpetually Six Years Old

Yesterday all I wanted to do was:

Climb a tree

Play in the Mud

Fly a Kite.

Instead, I ate goldfish crackers.

RIP Redwall

A small piece of my childhood died on Saturday. I can remember listening to the audiobook of Redwall with Jesse and my mom, breathless with excitement as Matthias fought the evil snake in the quarry. As I grew older, I actually read the books, and continued to check out audiobooks to listen to while making bracelets. I've listened to some of those audiobooks so many times that now when I read the books, I can hear Brian Jacques' voice in my head, reading to me. And while the plot lines followed the same pattern, I still enjoyed reading the new Redwall novels every couple of years. Brian Jacques, you will be sorely missed.

I fail, and am regressing back to childhood

I fail at blogging. I mean, I created my list of "new year's resolutions" and I haven't successfully blogged since. Yup. I have a whole list of excuses I could use, but I won't bother you with them. I don't really have much else to say. Or rather I do, just no time or inclination to say them. Oh, whatever. Here's a few of them:

I feel like I'm being a little kid again, even amidst my packing for college. I bought a Litebright the other day, and spent an hour earlier playing with it. Yesterday, I bought some coloring books and spent an hour coloring. And I'm currently listening to an audiobook of a book I read and listened to scores of times when I was a kid. I'm not kidding. I can hear the audio when I'm reading the book, I've listened to it so many times. It's actually kind of ridiculous.