Happy Thought

The nice walk I had on my lunch break yesterday. With the warm sun and cool breeze, I was comfortable as I strolled for 40 minutes.

Six Word Wednesday

The defective prototype tried its best.

In The Cucina With Seamas

With the warmer weather approaching I like to make lunches that don't require cooking at home, and are cool to eat.

I decided to make my own chickpea/garbanzo bean salad. For the mobile users (and OCD web browsers) the ingredients are;

2  15oz cans of chickpea/garbanzo beans
1 15oz can of corn niblets
1 red pepper - chop as you like
1 yellow pepper - chop as you like
2-3 handful of cherry tomatoes - I cut mine in half

Mix all of the above into a bigger boat 
After the quinoa is cooked, you can add all of it or leave it out as I do since I like to use it in other dishes.

2 tablespoons of dressing*
1/4 cup of quinoa

*I don't put the dressing in the final mix because it tends to make everything soggy.

Happy Thought

Going to the newspaper/stationary store in Valhalla where the owner would let me come behind the counter, put me sit on a stool and look through a big box of Matchbox cars.

He'd take them out of the box for me so I could hold it and see if I liked it. Doesn't matter how many I asked to look at, he always took the time for me.

Six Word Wednesday

"Where did I put today's story?"

Life Hack

With the warmer weather approaching here's a tasty life hack for you, frozen fruit. It cools you down, just as sweet as ice cream minus the calories, and good for you. My personal favorite mix is raspberries, pineapples, and mangoes. I put the raspberries on the bottom because I'll add vanilla yogurt to get the little pieces.

Life Hack

lifehacker had a tip about putting newspaper on the bottom of a garbage bag to keep any liquids from soaking through and preventing the garbage can from smelling. I use junk mail and supermarket flyers for this.

I took it a step further by opening up a cereal box (since I can't recycle them), folding it so the cardboard inside is exposed. Hopefully the waxy outside will prevent anything soaking through.

How A LEGO Geek With OCD Spent Their Sunday Morning

I put all the wedge pieces into their own section because I never liked searching for a 1x2 brick and getting a wedge instead.

Also I have a lot of lightsaber handles despite only having 3 Star Wars sets.

One thing about the Super Satchel Bin from the Container Store I don't like is how it flexes which makes the dividers bend from being tight or squeezing the rows to make them fit. I do like that it only cost twenty dollars instead of its usual forty.

Happy Thought

I don't have to do laundry this weekend!

Six Word Wednesday

The monster hid, the child seeked.

Back To An Old Habit

Going to the Pleasantville Farmer's Market on Saturdays. That's one of the perks I miss when I lived in Pleasantville, walking from my apartment on a cool morning, buying good bread, and flavored coffee.

Since I'm out and about, I'll go to Trader Joe's afterwards. This has been a big plus because I have more time on Sunday mornings to get any errands done and have the rest of the day for myself.

Happy Thought

This one is a little fuzzy because it was from my elementary school days. Waking up on a school day, Mom in the kitchen with the radio on because it was snowing and waiting for 1010 WINS to announce our school closing.

I can still recall the jingle they played before announcing 'Give us 60 seconds, and we'll give you the world' Guess as the world got bigger, they added more time.

Six Word Wednesday

The Shift brought the cleansing fire.

The Walking Dead Season 6 Finale

The Walking Dead just did their version of Who Shot JR and now fans are angry they'll have to wait till October to find out who.

AMC and Robert Kirkman should have ended the season showing us which of Rick's group met their end at the barbed-wired end of Lucille, because after making viewers wait to meet Negan till the final moments of the episode, the death of the character will not have the same emotional impact next season.

It's similar to when we were set up to believe Glenn had been killed, and forced to wait several episodes before we knew his fate. Then to be teased when they didn't put Steven Yeun's name in the next episode's opening credit. Fans quickly responded that they didn't like waiting, and then seeing Glenn crawl to safety confirmed confirmed what people had speculated.

Now the viewers will have all summer to let their reaction to the season 6 finale simmer and it could go bad for the show, if after all that time it's the a death of a minor character. Speaking for myself, I would stop watching right then and there.

Also making us wait to reveal which major character has been killed won't get the response AMC could have gotten if they showed it last night.

What they've could have done is after Negans first hit, and the person looks up to see and hear 'You're taking it like a champ.' the camera cuts quickly to the chosen, and we see their skull half crushed, blood pouring their face. Then back to Negan and the rest of the beating as it was shot. That would have been brutal.

You don't take all season to build to a moment like that and not deliver, it's not good story telling because fans were  left angry and disappointed.

I Would Like To Be An Average Mind

At my last job there was a co-worker who talked loudly, cursed a lot, had personal conversations where the whole office heard, and tried to be the center of attention.

It’s actually been awhile since I’ve thought of them but I’m going through saved blog ideas as a way to improve my writing and finishing what I’ve started.

Back then I would think about the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt,

‘Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people’

There were plenty of times that I was an audience to coworkers talking about each other. Sometimes one of them would leave the circle and they’d become the subject of discussion.

When you think about a person in a negative way not only is it a bad thing to do, but you’re cheating yourself out of having good thoughts about how to improve your life and of those around you.