{"id":247,"date":"2008-09-02T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:04:00","slug":"positively-obsessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/positively-obsessed.html","title":{"rendered":"Positively Obsessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very obsessive mind&#8230;as I have now come to acknowledge. I&#8217;m not obsessive-compulsive, but my mind easily gets stuck on one issue. For as long as I can remember, this has always been one of the things about me that even I cannot fathom. Now, here are a few of favorite things. And yes, I am currently very obsessed with thinking about them. I just cannot figure them out, and that drives me insane&#8230;.!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/642948\/2\/istockphoto_642948_hand_shake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/642948\/2\/istockphoto_642948_hand_shake.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On Saturday, I attended a cookout. Twas nice&#8230;.lotsa people, most of whom I did not know. A young girl\/lady who appeared to be in her late twenties or early thirties approached me, shook my hand, and said, &#8220;Nice to finally meet you. Don&#8217;t worry about where I know you from, but it&#8217;s nice to finally meet you.&#8221; So of course, I have a new thought to be obsessed with. Who was she? Was she a blogger? (Honestly, for a minute, I wondered if she was SolomonSydelle coz SolomonSydelle is the only Maryland blogger Icould think of). Was she a reader? WHO. WAS. SHE? The fact that I&#8217;m blogging about it today tells you that I still don&#8217;t know. I cannot stop thinking about it. I probably will not stop thinking about it &#8211; until I find out, that is. So dear, anonymous hand shaker, please reveal thy self. Biko. I beg of thee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3Osk_0mtI\/AAAAAAAAAQY\/pObIYBysa-s\/s1600-h\/DSC_1126.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241572806570056402\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3Osk_0mtI\/AAAAAAAAAQY\/pObIYBysa-s\/s320\/DSC_1126.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Take a look @ this pencil. Now, someone tell me why this pencil has two mouths. Every time I see my mom using it, I just feel like snatching it out of her hands and breaking one mouth off. Whose idea was it to sharpen two mouths onto this poor pencil? Why will one pencil be entitled to two mouths? It&#8217;s not like you can write with both of them at once. Besides, what happens when I make a mistake and need to erase it? What kind of pencil comes without an eraser? Am I the only one who doesn&#8217;t find this to be mind-boggling? And then again, the pencil has the words &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; inscribed on it. Whose birthday?? Alright, enough of the two-mouthed pencil b4 I snap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3OtemnnlI\/AAAAAAAAAQo\/Z0-T_jgRWuM\/s1600-h\/DSC_1131.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241572822033604178\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3OtemnnlI\/AAAAAAAAAQo\/Z0-T_jgRWuM\/s320\/DSC_1131.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sometime in April or maybe May, I went to Shoppers&#8217; grocery store, and I was passing by the aisle where they have baked goods. They had doughnuts, muffins, croissants etc. Then I saw this sign: <strong><u>Shoppers&#8217; World Famous Colossol Doughnuts<\/u><\/strong>. Errrrr. <em>World famous???<\/em> Since when? Until I saw that sign, I don&#8217;t think I even knew that Shoppers made douughnuts. And now they had the nerves to call their doughnuts world famous?? Oh, please! So I went back there today, just to take a picture of the sign, but sadly, it was gone and now replaced with that a new one. Now, their doughnuts eat other doughnuts for breakfast. Well, whatever. I&#8217;m glad that I got a chance to finally blog about this. I have been thinking about it since April or May.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3Os2H1nCI\/AAAAAAAAAQg\/khvFePLjVtA\/s1600-h\/DSC_1130.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241572811167079458\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JGw_f7aCtEE\/SL3Os2H1nCI\/AAAAAAAAAQg\/khvFePLjVtA\/s320\/DSC_1130.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I passed this stop sign about two weeks ago. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the weed growing behind it. I actually went back to that street today with my camera to go take a picture of the sign. And no, the road wasn&#8217;t even on my way. I actually drove there today just to take this picture. I parked the car and came out, just to take a picture of this sign. Why? I&#8217;m very puzzled by why and how the weed started growing behind the sign. The sign is metal\/iron. It&#8217;s silly, I know, but I have not been able to stop thinking about it ever since I spotted it. What if the weed grows long enough to completely cover the stop sign? Will a person still be given a ticket for running the sign? Hmmmm. I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very obsessive mind&#8230;as I have now come to acknowledge. I&#8217;m not obsessive-compulsive, but my mind easily gets stuck on one issue. For as long as I can remember, this has always been one of the things about me that even I cannot fathom. Now, here are a few of favorite things. 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