inside my head

i've recently finished a book that i thoroughly enjoyed. it really is what is says it is. there were so many funny thoughts, quips, and musings that really resonated with me and i laughed out loud throughout the book....often in public...which garnered many strange looks.
one of my favorite things she wrote was this:

"i think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated...
i like to write things down - moments, memories, lists, quotes, thoughts.
compulsively sometimes.
i need to gather all the thoughts that are locked in my head and put them on paper."

i completely agree that people really don't know most of what we are about. it's kept safely in our heads. a lot of the time this is a great place for it to stay, but i also think we could truly know, appreciate, and understand someone better if some of these little tidbits were exposed.

this is why i'm starting a new little feature called 'inside my head'. it'll show up any time i feel i have something...or several things about me that i'd like to document. of course, blogging in general can be a lot like this and i've done it once here, but for me i've focused more on using the blog like a scrapbook or journal. 'inside my head' will be very random...and hopefully fun.

so, here is my first list of tidbits inside my head.

• why do i mostly write in all caps and type in all lowercase?
• i think it's funny that my brother in law, who is an attorney, is married to a girl named sue.
• i seem to want to buy every new piece of clothing in gray. not sure why because i see my personality more of a yellow, or green, or maybe blue....
  
• what's the difference between gray-grey anyway?
• i really like the look of flap pocket jeans but it drives me crazy that i can't just stick my phone in the back pocket on the run.
• i am always the last to leave book club.
  
• i feel bad when i realize how easy it is to make my parent's day, and that i don't do it more often.
• i hate the lid to the pam cooking spray. it always hits the nozzle and sprays right at me!
• it is so much easier to parent one child at a time. i'm a really good mom when i'm one on one.
  
• once i sold every piece of clothing i owned (because i hated most of it) to a consignment store and took that money to buy just a small batch of things i loved. it was awesome and liberating.
• when asking nora what she wants for her birthday her answer invariably starts with, 'hot pink sparkly'. insert whatever you want after. (purse, shoes, lip gloss, nail polish, etc.)
• in most situations i take two stairs at a time. what does that say about me? i'm anxious?
• i think it's weird to write a check on your birthday. one part of me wants to tell the person i'm handing it over to that this isn't any ordinary day...but i don't...because it is.
• i'm almost always a member of the 'clean plate club'.
• i love root beer barrel candy...but never go looking for it.
  

that's enough for now. i think i'll end these posts with one of the things from this book that really struck a chord with me.

'but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impossible prose is a hallmark of intelligence."
-alain de botton, the consolations of philosophy