Good Ideas

My girlfriend is encouraging me to join this storytelling group. She says it would be a fun way to share my experiences and stories, the perfect forum to share my whacky view of the world.

Then she proceeds to tell me the topic for next month's event is..."Things that seemed like a good idea at the time." Ha ha ha, oh baby...it still makes me belly laugh onto the floor, just the mention of it. If ever there was such a thing as a loaded cannon this was it!

Well, lord knows there was no shortage of material as I browsed the archives of my cobb-webbed brain for escapade highlights. The log of web-gem fails in my crazy life is lengthy. The only tough part would be narrowing the potential story candidates down to fit into an 8 min segment.

Where to start....oh I don't know....my divorce, that single-serving tray of brownies I whoofed down on xmas day, that perm I got in 1979, that passion red paint in my bedroom, applying for that job at Teddy Bear Pizza, San Francisco Riding Gears, karaoke with my college girlfriends in that bar full of loggers at the beach, AfterShock shots on a business trip with the boss, those 5 inch high Vegas shoes, buying a used car online, having kids (just kidding boys), 0% interest for 6 months, making my own Steak Diane (should have left it to her), match.com, job shadowing that stripper, college math, any IKEA furniture, contacting my HS boyfriend on Facebook, making my password easy to remember and the same on every web site, a garden, letting my sister use masking tape to wax my uni-brow, playing chicken with my brand new bike at 10, mowing down that "fresh" shrimp at the all-u-can-eat Chinese Buffet in Utah, that "generic" anti-bacterial ointment, agreeing to pick-up the entire football team...after practice, taking my brother to the prom, ordering the Insanity work-out series (didn't get through 5 minutes on the first DVD), asking my Mom how her trip to Mexico was (I will never get those 5 hrs. of my life back), being on the flag team, a full-body cleanse, a van with 16 cup-holders, buying the minimum text minutes for my teenagers, volunteering to host any holiday meal, setting my beer on the rail at an NHL hockey game, going without sunscreen, a thong, giving my phone # to the PTA chair (and mentioning I was a prof. meeting planner), breast-feeding, date night, being my own boss, starting a blog...

Needless to say there's some qualifying to do but I think I have plenty of evidence to build a good case for "just because you think it's a good idea at the time...it might not be!" :)