is it just me?

this little blog is now getting 18 readers a day! woohoo! I don't know who you are, but a very warm welcome to wiscolizard. also, I am now getting comments from people I don't know. This is very exciting. As a little thank you to my airline commenting friends, I encourage you to read this article from Ask the Pilot on salon.com.

the gloved one(s)
Yesterday as I was leaving work I crossed paths with a woman who I could tell, even from a distance, was a bit unusual. While her outfit was what I like to refer to as 'office unfortunate', and consisted of a khaki vest and some patterned capris, along with white socks and sneakers D.C. style, this what not what I noticed. Well, not really. 1) she had crazy over-dyed hair and for a minute I thought it might be this crazy woman that used to work with us. 2) she was wearing ridiculous sunglasses, and 3) this is the big one: she was wearing elbow high white gloves. What on earth? The funniest part was that she was clutching her bag up to her chest so you could enjoy the gloves in all their glory. I thought and thought about it, and tried to come up with a reason why she would be wearing them, but I got nowhere. For a while I wore white gloves to sleep as a child. This was so I would not scratch my palms off due to eczema. And the white gloves were cooler than either winter gloves or socks, so there you have it. So I gave her the benefit of the doubt and figured that maybe, just maybe, there was a medical explanation? But then I think I would just wear long sleeves or something. It was super odd.

And then. And THEN, not five minutes later, just after crossing the street, I see ANOTHER woman wearing gloves. She is wearing a long sleeved black shirt, black dress gloves, a floppy black hat, giant sunglasses, and some other stuff. What the heck is going on? Now, I know you all think it is cold in Wisconsin, but it's summer now, and yesterday when leaving work it was a lovely 75 degrees. Not glove weather at all. So to see both of these people within five minutes? I was starting to wonder what planet I was on. Not Fashion Planet, that's for sure.

sincere apologies
if we have another thunderstorm here there are going to be no trees left and we are all going to start commuting in arks. So I would just like to take this opportunity to tell Mother Nature (again) I am very, very sorry for all the mean things I have done and I hope she will forgive me soon. Because I am not sure how much more I can take.