6-5-09 Friday (Foiled Again)

I was getting dressed this morning and Jim spotted a “strange mark” on my left shoulder.  It concerns me.  I tried thinking back to the night and can’t remember anything while I was sleeping.  Was I abducted?  I was so frightened.  Jim doesn’t remember anything either.  He says he was sleeping too.  The entire time we were sleeping is a blank!  Holy shit!  We took a picture of the “strange mark”.  What do you think?

 

Being the alarmists that we are, we looked at Jim’s back carefully and spotted something odd too.  This was on his RIGHT shoulder.  Think it means anything?

AND even stranger look at Dasher!

Once we noticed Dasher’s mark, we were a little suspicious.  Perhaps our canine friend was the culprit?  This got me really freaked out.  Well, almost mad really because I’ve asked him never to use the purple wipe erase marker.  I like the color and don’t want to waste it.  Then Jim pointed out that it couldn’t be Dasher.  That’s not Dasher’s paw-writing!  {Cue bizarre movie type music}

Strange, I know.  I think tonight we’ll be wearing our foil hats again.  We should never have let our guard down. 

Sometime or another yesterday, I lost my cell phone.  I was wearing my stretchy-big-girl-Walmart-shorts which has no belt loops, and had the phone in my pocket.   Chili’s did not have it there.  It’s not in the Jeep.  Jim called Alltel and but the phone on hold.  We think it may have fallen out while we rode the zoo’s train.  It’s the only place where we weren’t able to sit normally (scrunched up).  I know I had it at the start of the zoo yesterday and didn’t realize it was gone until late last night.  Sigh.

Blog reader, Joanie, said our aluminum foil hats reminded her of the movie Signs.  Jim and I saw that movie but I forgot about that scene.  Don’t they look silly?  More like tinmen.  I wonder what stupid store they bought their pattern from.  We got ours from Joann’s for only $24.95 each pattern.  Using our coupon we saved $5 off each.  Gosh, these people are so dumb.

I’m back!  We went on the phone hunt.  It wasn’t as nearly fun as an Easter Egg  Hunt.  We walked the train tracks and didn’t find it.  The train ride didn’t open until 1pm so we grabbed lunch and then returned later.  When we went back, Jim asked the train operator about the phone and a girl sitting in the seat that we were in yesterday overheard and gave Jim the phone.  What luck!  Maybe THEY helped me?

By the way, lunch was at Whataburger.  It was heaven as usual.  It’s Jim’s fault.  We recently bought low calorie bread and lunch meat.  Jim was a little bored with salads and wraps so we’re back to sandwiches.  Not the point.  I bitched as he unexpectedly pulled into the Whataburger parking lot BUT when he asked if I wanted to leave, I of course replied in an exhaling voice, “No, we’re already here.”  (Try the exhaling voice for yourself.  Betcha can’t do it.) Like the fact that we’re already here makes any difference.  Weak, just weak.  So you order, pay and then sit down at a table with an order number.  Some guy brings the order to your table and offers a tray of napkins and ketchup and whatever.  The ketchup reads “fancy ketchup”.  I asked if he had non-fancy, less expensive ketchup.  No, that didn’t happen BUT I’d like to know what the hell is the difference.  I Googled it.  Apparently there’s nothing special about fancy ketchup.  Why call it fancy then?  If we continue to label average stuff as above average then above average doesn’t real mean anything.  Right?  You’re pretty.  You’re handsome.  You smell great.  Means nothing… move along.

To finish off this exciting day of “strange marks” and phone hunting, we present the Bottomless Lakes State Park.  It’s $5.00 and time we’ll never get back.  Website excerpt:

The lakes are water filled sinkholes in the local gypsum terrain. Odd geology and water chemistry create homes for unusual plants and animals, like the Pecos Sunflower.

Are the Lakes Really Bottomless? 
The lakes' greenish-blue color creates the illusion that the lakes are bottomless.  Cowboys added to the lake's mystique when they failed to find the bottom of the lakes by tying their saddle ropes together.  In fact, they range in depth from 17 ft. to 90 ft.

Anyway, it’s just a lake with paddle boats and such.  We brought Dasher.  A sign read that we couldn’t bring him on the beach area.  That's why we decided to leave.  Maybe if we had packed a HEALTHY sandwich and picnicked at the lake, we would have “enjoyed” it more?

And just when you thought it couldn’t get anymore exciting – Jim napped.  Once he woke up, he went to work on the windshield to get it all sparkly clean for tomorrow’s relocation to Albuquerque.  He had a pretty tough time with it.  Streak after streak.  Must be the water?  Meanwhile, I made a batch of meatloaf.  I separated the batch into 3 smaller loaves to a) fit into our freezer and b) be enough for Jim and I without excess leftovers.  I love meatloaf sandwiches but it’s a sacrifice I’ll deal with.