What's your poo telling you?

I have resisted starting a new blog after obliterating my last one. But, here we are, starting over and taking a fresh, new look at the world around us.

I laugh often at the use of common phrases like, "normal guy" or "mainstream media" to describe people and things that, let's face it, aren't normal or mainstream. In fact, let me step out on a ledge to say that we all are unique. It's the extent to which we try to hide it that puts us on that perceived scale or normalcy.

Seriously, now -- the majority of us wouldn't think of telling anyone that we look at our poo before flushing, but you know you do. Yet, somehow the people who feel comfortable enough to discuss their poo among friends get labeled as weird. Go figure.

Anywho, I started this new blog after many people asked for some of my prose about my life observations. So here we are... observing. My last blog was deleted because I placed a post about my Christmas dinner experience with my sister-in-law and her family the holiday after my father died. She meant well, but between stomaching the unnecessary comments about 9-11, and the slightly-too-awkward absence of my father, I felt grossly out-of-place. I left the dinner politely and visited friends for a quiet drink before spending the evening alone. I wrote that information in my blog, and she read it. She was so offended by it, it seems she told others in the family about how offended she was, but somehow neglected to tell me. Later, I was investigating some other odd things happening, and through Q&A with several family members, found out. Nice tact - next time, tell me directly, and we'll work it out. So, I told my brother if she was still offended, to please contact me instead of spreading our dirt around the whole family - but I wasn't apologizing. I haven't heard from her since.

I'm sure you could care less about that story and would rather hear about my own thoughts about those diversions from normalcy that I observe every day. So, let's get to it. And, by the way, I evacuated rabbit poo this morning -- must have been the salad last night (?).