For No Reason

Do you ever do things for no reason?

Because I can't. Unless it's by omission of action. I can not do something simply by letting my mind wander long enough to keep me feeling busy and that's just as bad if not worse. But I am just curious as to how everyone else's mind works.

For example, how do your thought processes work & can you think about nothing? I used to think that Chad was keeping something from me because I'd ask him what he was thinking about & he would say, "Nothing." but I can't think about nothing, so I was afraid he was thinking of something he didn't want to tell me. And my thoughts are all connected: one thing to the next thing to the next & so on. Time alone for me goes by soo quickly. I stay so enveloped in thought that my actions aren't very effective unless they can replace my thoughts. If I am doing something that is very meticulous, it can replace my rigorous thought ritual; otherwise I am much more effective as a team player than alone because it keeps me from getting so stuck in my thoughts & my actions can continue to be effective.

Anyways...the whole reason I wanted to blog tonight was to tell you that Neena & I made Fruit Loop garland for our Christmas tree today. I love things like that because it gives me an excuse to do a craft =) I was totally into designing the "needle" to use. I like to pretend that I take after my Dad with the engineering mindset; this was the perfect opportunity. So, I took the fishing line & taped a small tip of it to the top end--not quite to the rounded off tip, which would've made the tape bunch--of a tooth pick. The rest of the tooth pick remained untaped so that if you dropped the fishing line & string of Fruit Loops, it would separate & make a "T" shaped end & keep all the Fruit Loops from falling of

I felt so accomplished. Dad, maybe somewhere down deep there is a chicken plant designer passed down, after all ;)