Five Things I Learned This Weekend

I accomplished nothing this weekend.  NOTHING.  No painting, no deck-fixing, nada.  But in the process of accomplishing nothing, I did learn some very interesting things that I am going to call "The Five Things I Learned This Weekend."  Sometimes my creativity amazes me.  We'll see if this becomes a routine Monday post... I'm not sure I learn five interesting things every weekend.  Here goes:

1. You only wish roller coasters would last longer than a minute until you've been stuck on one.  This weekend, five of us hit up Six Flags as part of a work event and ended up trapped on Superman for about 45 minutes... stuck in the hanging position.... fortunately over solid ground, however, and not in a loop.  We did have to be rescued individually though, and some of us really had to pee... others took the opportunity to take a little snooze.

After 10 minutes stuck while it was still kind of funny.

Sleeping or dead?  

Rescue!

Also, I can now add this to my list of things I've been rescued from.  This includes:

- Rescued by the fire department from an elevator that had been stuck between floors for an hour with 20 people in it including most of a wedding party (and the groom) the night before the wedding.

- Rescued by my mom from The Cheese Factory at Chuck E. Cheese.

2. Dogs do not like Teddy Ruxpin.  Maybe it's his shifty, blinking eyes or perhaps Olive just has a thing about ancient technology because when I put a cassette tape in that little bear, she was outta there.  However, in his "off" position, he is an acceptable pillow.

Stop looking at me, swan!

3. Pay phones still serve two purposes - photo opportunities and a reason to use hand sanitizer.

Only funny after day-drinking.

4. My self-confidence as a five-year-old bordered on narcissism.  Though, in my defense and based on my other answers, I'm not sure I understood the question.  The fifth answer, which is offscreen, was CATS... so yeah, I was pretty AND smart.

Thanks to my Mom for bringing down a box filled with every school project I ever did.

Also, apparently I liked to talk and daydream... a lot.  Yeah, that hasn't changed... and I'm pretty sure that's how I ended up here.

5. Finally, I'm pretty sure I believe that, in my lifetime, I will never hear the words: "World Champion Milwaukee Brewers" and that makes me sad.  But hey, at least I'm not a Cubs fan.