Current mood:	happy
Entry tags:	old blog, rainbows

Come Together...Right Now...
Originally posted July 19, 2000 on my blogger.com account. That's right...I'm oldskool

It's just past dinnertime, and I'm just sittin' here, watchin t.v.(well not NOW, now I'm typing, silly) and I heard a familiar sound. A sound everyone knows, and everyone at one time or another in their lives has been associated with, be it from the inside or the outside. Coming down the street toward my apartment building I heard, as if on the breeze, a cheery little tinkling tune. And almost immediately after it, the sound of several neighborhood children screeching at the top of their lungs, "ICE CREAM!!! ICE CREAM!! ICE CREAM!!!" over and over again like some sort of idealic tribal chant. And it got me thinking (as so many things do nowadays). When the hell did my life go from that...to this? And where the hell was I? When did the point in my life disappear where just that one, tiny, insignificant sound made everything right in the world? For the one minute or so before I got my ice cream (usually a nutty buddy bar, or one of those multicolored rocket shaped pops) to the 10 minutes or so later when I finished it, life, the world, and everything in it made complete and total sense. If Santa Claus himself had shown up at that exact moment to offer me the one thing I asked for every year, but never received, I would have told him to hold on until I had eaten the last little bit of chocolate at the bottom of the cone, or licked the stick completely clean (whichever it happened to be that day). Maybe if we all ran out the next time the ice cream man drove down our streets, waited in line, and got that wonderful frozen treat...maybe..just maybe, the world would be a happier place...

Just a thought...

I was reading through my husband's blog (www.arcofdescent.org/warped it's not an actually link because, just as in 2000, I'm an HTMLtard. It is definately worth the read though so I suggest you bust out your mad typin' skillz and diddle on over there.) the other day and he posted all his archives to all his old blogs, back to 2000. I was annoyed because I didn't think I still had mine but low and behold, blogger still had me registered and I actually remembered my username and password. Someday I'll figure out how to bring all this shit together. In the meantime, if you're interested (or just want to stab yourself in the head for the pain but don't have a knife handy), the link is http://www.arcofdescent.org/kathysblog/

I'll warn you now before you jump in and smack your head on the bottom of my empty gene pool that I was seriously in need of a good smack upside the head back in the old days. I was a heavy user of virtual places chat and the blog posts from earlier on reflect that in spades. I had to stop reading myself after a dozen or so because it just hurt my head too bad to continue. The archive links work, but I never archived the last little bits of posts, so not all of them show up there. It also has a black background with light blue text which (so I'm told) is a bit hard on the eyes. But gimme a break...this shit is almost 6 years old. Holy fuck.

Anyway, the reason I posted the entry above is because I love moments like that. I had one tonight. Those moments that are triggered by a seemingly insignificant event, sight, sound, smell or whatever and it does all sorts of weird and happy stuff to your brain. On the way home from work tonight, I was sitting on the bus, The Beatles were telling me to Come Together (RIGHT NOW!) and I was staring out the window at the thunder heads off in the distance.

And then I saw a rainbow. It brought an instant smile to my face and I temporarily silenced Mr. Lennon and crew by removing my headphones and lifted my sunglasses off my face to try and get a better look.

I love rainbows. I don't know why. It might have something to do with my ALL TIME! favorite book, "The Rainbow Goblins". For those of you with children (or for those of you like me without children, but still young at heart aww) I highly recommend this book. If you can find it. It is incredible. The illustrations are absolutely wonderful and the story is really sweet. Basically, "Once Upon A Time" the rainbow touched the earth. There were the goblins who would lasso the colors of the rainbow and sort of "milk" it and drink the colors from it. One night, the flowers in this meadow overhear the goblins planning to kill the rainbow and the flowers devise a plan to save the rainbow and kill the goblins. It works and it's so cool!

Anyway, I love rainbows. They are so simple, and so pretty, and make me feel so happy whenever I see them.

I love the internet. I found pictures!! And amazon.com has the book for sale. Seriously...BUY IT!

Now I have to...ok nm...I can't copy it. Here's the link... http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0500277591/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2681701-2579024#reader-page

Wow...that's a big link.

Anyway, just wanted to share my rainbow :)