User blog:Soosieloo/Sittin on my front porch with a grumble and a growl...

Slowly rocking to and fro on my porch swing, listening to the rusty squeak as I slip and slide in and out of the warm sunlight filtering down thru the wintery trees, my mind sleepily contemplating life, cookies and chores.

Cookies go without saying, hot melty bits of chocolate surrounded by crispy yumminess are always in my mind, most especially now that I am battling my Christmas bulge that Santa left for me.

Chores are of course all around me. I look up and see the dusty christmas lights, draping erractically here and there as they slowly lose their grasp of the hooks holding them up, once gaily, on my eaves. On the lawn are tipped over plastic snowmen, garish fake presents and faux wooden raindeer parade motionless over melting snow and mud. Faded leaves are piled around their legs, looking like fallen squirrel nests or worse.

I sigh and rock. 'squeak... squeak...squeak'...................

Which brings me to the last bit of mental conundrums.. Life.

I want to live it, lazily and slowly, my mantra Put Off Today All That You Can Until Tomorrow, Then Repeat,  so then I can go have more Cookies. natch!

I mean really... would it kill anyone if I left my Christmas ornaments up till July? Perhaps if I tied holiday flags to them, first Valentines.. then er.. whatever is next... maybe then I will be forgiven for my sloth.

hmmmm... the porch squeals some more and I lazily tack back and forth.....back and forth.... back and forth....a bird lands on a tilting raindeer and looks at me. pffft.

lol, what the real reason behind this fanciful tale is that I do not want to put up my TV holiday gear. A few times I have started, then looked at my hundreds of white floor tiles, snowy junk and white castles and sighed. The sheer number of new items and only a handful of open slot left in storage to begin with. My dilemma is what to destroy and that annoys me, having to choose.

If they are going to sell floor tiles, of which one needs to buy a hundred or so to make any kind of statement, they should increase bloody storage or at least offer them permanently in the store so one could buy and sell as the mood takes them.

Then the thought of working my way thru 1500 items .. one by one... in order to find, place a decoration,  then repeat for each and every new cosmetic item is enough to send a gal back to the front porch swing.

Playing with decorations is why I enjoy TV, that and seeing what new dino is hatching. However, each time I redo a theme it wears me down, how cumbersome and annoying the inventory system is, how that lag pause adds up as you wait for the system to catch up for each item you place or remove, how it really wants you to put that one item wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over in the corner each and every time you pull something out, so you have to go and grab it and drag it back to where you were, sometimes losing it and watching it ping back to far corner for the 3rd or 6th time. How when you finally have scrolled to item 1356 and just are nearing the zone where you think that one decoration is the system lags and makes you pick up something you dont want, thereby sending you back to the beginning of the inventory list.



''I mean c'mon TV...................You are driving me nuttier than a bug in a rug. Get with the 20th century already and add some sorting capability to storage, a search function,  increase capacity, have quick slot and unslot, even perhaps a  preview and temp storage while we arrange possible combinations or mass unslot capability and generally enable us to enjoy placing all those gem items you lure us with every week. No wonder most folks just live with the same layout month after month after month. I will be joining them soon. Christmas in July? No problem.. how bout in September... October... ''

lolololol   rant over. ........................................................................................sort of.

Anyway,  I will continue to sit here and slowly swing and dream of sunny beach themes, or perhaps a jungle one or maybe revisit my old Toyland theme while the months tick by and my plastic Santa gets bleached out by the sun and the neighbors 'tsk tsk' me to death.



Anyone want a cookie?

'squeak squeak...squeak'