Get Out of My Dreams...AND Out of My Car

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It's been a distressingly (at least to me) long time since my last blog post. Lack of time and inspiration are the main culprits. So I've decided to seize on whatever small bit of material I can find (no matter how lame).

 This post stems from a recent ride in my friend Wanda's car (not surprising as Wanda is frequently hauling my ass around to a social outing--usually a concert  or trivia). Our friend sitting in the backseat remarked on the awesome collection of concert baseball hats Wanda had sharing the space with him. Of course I just had to share what I happened to have in my car, and will now do so for the blogverse:

 Things in my car (a Honda Fit) as of this morning:
  • a gi
  • a toy megaphone
  • a dartboard
  • a used printer toner cartridge
  • my drum set stool
  • a travel coffee mug (that isn't mine)
This list provides a rather telling snapshot of my life and glimpse into my psyche. Okay, mainly it just reavels that I'm a pretty messy person and treat my car as a place to dump things I don't want to deal with it. Still, I'm going to devote a few words to explaining how and why I'm traveling with these items.

The gi (a martial arts "outfit"—my mom used to refer to them as Chad's "special suit" when she did his laundry in college...I think she actually believed he wore them out and about. And yes, she insisted on doing his laundry) is Chad's and something we used for costumes for the play we did in the spring, "An Incovenient Squirrel." The megaphone was also a prop for this play.

The dartboard and cartridge are symptoms of my aspirational self. Instead of just throwing these two unwanted items away, I have good intentions of properly disposing of (in the case of the cartridge) or "recycling" (in the case of the dartboard—anybody want a dartboard?) them. However, my current actual self is in control so these have been living in my car since I don't remember when.

My drum set stool actually only resided in my car overnight (although it got top billing in the passenger seat). I took it to church yesterday for our church band practice and just didn't have the time or energy to bring it back in the house until this afternoon (when I returned home from another church endeavor). I just want to make sure that my fellow bandmates (from "Painted Birds" and "Bandy McBandface" which are almost the same band but not quite) know that I needed by drum stool in the house because I really was and will be practicing!

Is this song stuck in your head?
You're welcome
And finally, the coffee mug? I claimed that at a work a meeting this spring...it was "lost" from the previous quarterly meeting and I thought it looked like mine but then I got home and found out I still had my mug. Oh well, I'm pretty sure the meeting organizers were relieved to get it off their hands (and perhaps out of their car). 

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