Yankee Doodle Dandy!

Doodling- is so much fun, and I do it all the time. All the time. In class, on the bus, in cabs, everywhere. If I could send doodles in text messages, you can bet I would. Depending on how much you bet, and the odds against my doodling, you could probably win lots of money.

What cool things do I have to tell you about today? What TV shows do I have to pitch? No TV shows today friends!!! Today we're going to talk about collections... and maybe a little TV...

Recently I have been watching a sweet show called "Clean House" which runs on the Style Network at (as far as I can tell) various points throughout the day. It's about different families that have gross cluttered houses that get them totally made over by professionals once they sell a bunch of their old clutter. It is a pretty sweet trade. Thing is: a lot of these people claim that a lot of their clutter is part of a "collection."

Collection? Really? That looks like... suck...

This is probably the first time I was introduced to the concept of a "collection" and I thought it was LAME. I mean, come on Bert, for real? Bottle caps?! No wonder Ernie makes you crazy, he has more pressing things to do (like play the sax and hold a duck at the same time!! or at least try to...) than collect household items!! I mean, it was household items... bottle caps and paper clips! What an imagination. It's no surprise that this turned me off of collecting things for a long time. Until lately....

I have now started a grand collection of dinosaurs. I love dinosaurs. I think they are awesome, and they are pretty simple to collect (the miniature ones, that is.) I don't really understand my sudden fascination with them. They used to scare the crap out of me as a child, probably because I grew up in St. Louis where they have a great Science/Natural History museum where you walk in and a two story tall giant T-Rex looks at you and growls. But I haven't been to that museum in years... 16 or 17 years, and my fear has waned and now... dinosaurs, they are pretty sweet.

My first dino!!

I am just concerned that this new found love of the ancient lizards will somehow take over my house. I mean, I only have 5 or 6 now, but as far as I can tell its a pretty short jump from that to "Holy crap lady, why is there all this dinosaur themed junk lyin' around your house? You crazy or somethin'!?" And I will sobbingly refuse to let them go claiming that I LUUUURVE dinosaurs and no one understand and wah wah.... and this makes me nervous. If the collection gets out of hand it will have to go. I will collect sparingly. I don't want to want to be on "Clean House."