20120302: top 11 randomly awesome things this week.

How can my cup runneth over with so much random awesomeness?  Way too much time on my hands.
But seriously, you are probably surrounded by awesomeness all the time also.  You just don't have the time to notice it, geek out, take a picture, and write it down.  You should do that sometime.  Meanwhile, there's more than enough random awesomeness to go around:

11. Sammy the three-legged rescue cat at Forest Glen Animal Hospital.  Coy fellow, you can't see his beautiful face.

10. The pointless-but-fun rainbow foam jets they squirt on you (on your car, I mean) at the car wash out by my mom's house.  It doesn't need to be rainbow - just allows them to charge you nine bux for the deluxe.



9. My very first no-chip manicure.  I'm about as likely to pamper myself or my nails as I am to get up one morning and take up jogging.  Nevertheless, there you are.  To me, they look both pretty and slightly plastic/strange, which I enjoy.

8. One more reason to hate Jewel a little less:  the dollar wall!  Right by the girls-on-cars magazines.

7. These pencils look better than they sharpen, but you have to appreciate the marketing goofiness of mangling the beloved Ticonderoga brand into "Tri-Conderoga" to emphasize the triangular cross-section.  Somebody talked somebody else into something, I think.

6. This sweet pair of slippers, which I made out of an accidentally densed Gap lambswool scarf found at the Village Discount Outlet.  I densed it again and voila: cold feet problem solved.


5. Being named Crafter of the Week at the Economy Shop.  I've been avoiding blogging about it because I'm greedy, but the Economy Shop is a legendary century-old thrift store,  open just a couple days a month.  Three full floors of a huge old house are filled with well-organized rooms, great merchandise at reasonable prices, and friendly volunteers.  The craft room is to die for:  as my friend Jim puts it, "a Brigadoon of crafts."  Yarn, fabric, notions you've never even heard of.

4. The drama of lunchmaking.

3. Butter Boy.  He butters corn!  Fast!  You could go to some pretty awkward places here, but I'm just going to put him down and walk away.

2. New profile pic.  Trying to look all professional and shit.  The wooden bathroom door really classes it up.

1. OK, drum roll...here it is...can you stand it?  A unicorn candle, that set me back $1 at the Irish American Heritage Center's first annual rummage sale last week.  The kids made me swear never to burn it, so it stands sentry on our kitchen windowsill as I write these lines, radiating its legendary powers over us as we eat dinner.

But wait, there's more awesomeness that didn't even make the list.  How about these Paleolithic NOMA Christmas lights with mismatched bulbs that look like they'll burn the entire building down if you breathe on them funny?

or just this really cool key?  Why don't companies just design all keys to look cool?  Doesn't cost any more.

**PS:  Listen, you may or may not know, but I started this blog partly to kick a Facebook addiction.  Blogs are fun, and they're even more fun if a bunch of people read them.  And even though I'm a junkie, I'm not averse at all to publicizing the blog on FB.  So, if you like something you read here sometime, it'd be great if you want to post a link to it on FB.  Just saying.  Thank you so much.  Hope you have a lovely weekend - during which you take a moment to notice something randomly awesome! (post it here as a comment for extra credit :)