SUBSCRIBE VIA RSSFor the first time since I started blogging I have absolutely no shortage of blog topics that I want to tackle. I’m hard at work on fantabulous posts and I honestly can’t decide which one I want to finish first.
Unfortunately, I can’t find the USB cable to download the complementing photos from my Droid and the Chiclet-sized memory card it uses won’t fit in my “All-in-One” card reader. So, you’re stuck with this post until tomorrow, at which time a relentless daily barrage will commence.
Fair warning. This post is arguably the most pointless addition to the Internet since Kitty Cat Dance.
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Have you ever noticed a goofy pattern, design, or oddity in a carpet, painting, or piece of furniture and then, ever since, habitually lock eyes with that goofy pattern, design, or oddity every time you look in its direction?
That’s the phenomenon I’m experiencing with our living room carpet right now.
My wife and I were having an uber-serious conversation on the couch and when she turned to ask me what I thought, I paused, looked into her eyes, and said, “Did you know we have the Grinch Who Stole Christmas in our rug?”
Probably NOT the most appropriate response for the moment and certainly not the reply she was looking for, but I was captivated. I don’t ever remember thinking, “man, she’s gonna be fascinated by this,” but a power mightier than me had taken control of my mouth.
Just as the Grinch had taken gifts away from all the Who’s in Whoville, he had now taken my attention away from my wife. He really IS a mean one. A crooked jerky jockey overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable.
So, am I crazy? Look at the following photo and tell me, do you see the Grinch?
I’ll give you hint Dr. Suess style:
Look in our rugoozle to the right of the bazoozle.
Beneath the green whahoozle but above the square gafoozle.
I think my clue may have made this TOO easy.
For the unimaginative, I’ve added a close-up and a Grinch photo for reference below.
If you did spot the Grinch, can you not see why I was so distracted?
Every time I walk across this rug, I see nothing but Grinch. It’s like my eyes are sucked in by tractor beam. You’re probably rolling your eyes at my neurosis over this rug, but I can promise you this. If you ever visit our home, you know it’ll be the first thing you see.
Worse yet, they made me a rug out of the mad Grinch, not the happy change-in-heart Grinch.
As I said, there’s no real point to this post. I just thought I’d provide a little glimpse into the kind of nonsense that makes me tick. And the kind of nonsense that drives my wife insane.
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I know where you’re coming from, man. I get stuck on the tile pattern in the bathroom and I haven’t even figured out exactly what it is. As a kid it was the patterns in the ceiling. I’m sure it’s a sign of genius.
Oh, and since you’ve got a mess of posts to spare, can I have a couple?
Cheers!
Eric@I’ve Become My Parents´s last post…Stupid things I tried so now you don’t have to 1
I saw it right away. Awesome.
I totally see it now after picking the square above it and thinking I’d like to be a fly on the wall with you looking at those Ink Blot tests. I know that doesn’t equal the image of Mary on a potato chip but that might be worth something on eBay.
Melinda´s last post…Good Moms Have Sticky Floors
My mind does the same thing. Especially with the blobs of knock-down texture on walls or the “smudge” patterns on tiles. One day I might take a pencil and trace the shapes and draw in details. My kids do the same thing, too, actually. My dd shows me her creations, “Mom, come look at the puppy face on our wall!” And now I will always see the puppy face every time I look at that wall.
Yesss! I saw it right away and imagine it right away too.. hahah. Hey I always find your blog funny and most of the time weird!
Albertina´s last post…best espresso machines
LOL! I do that too! I saw it right away in the rug photo. I’m always making visual associations like that – like seeing faces on cars (lights as eyes, bumber as a mouth, etc.). It’s one way to lighten up the mood in heavy traffic. :>
It’s nice to know I’m not alone.
When I can’t find the cord to my phone, I email myself the picture.
Amanda´s last post…Civilian Disconnect
OMG, I do that too LOL
Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting´s last post…Closing and Opening
I’m going to say it a again…”Dork”.
MrsTellingDad´s last post…Being Diagnosed as Old
I saw the Grinch as soon as I scrolled down. I’d like to say that great minds think alike, but I’m not sure I want to publicize or revel in this.
Shan @ Last Shreds Of Sanity´s last post…My Favorite Quotes
When I had Man-Surgery a couple of years back I spent a lot of time staring at the carpet pattern. Not that it hurt me too much, I just had too much TV for a while…
You could email yourself the pictures from your phone. I can never find the USB cord or the card-in-a-card thing.
RobMonroe´s last post…Photo Tales – A Girl and Her Baloons
I found it! I found it! Even without the clue….will prizes be awarded? Ever since my 1st grade teacher told me that there was a bunny head in the moon, I have always picked out images on things….go ahead, I’ll wait while you go and look at the moon. It’s there. Trust me.
Haha. da da da grinch….
Totally see. FTR.
oneclutteredbrain´s last post…Ive done a stupid stupid thing
I had the good fortune to work with someone who lived on the same bizarre wavelength I did… we were waitresses and would squeal with delight when the check numbers cleared a new increment, i.e. the person who got check #200,000 ( neither of us got the actual check, so …yes…we did a little investigation to track down the waitress who got it so we we could see it! ) You will always see the grinch, and that song will always be in your head in the living room…I feel your pain
Karajeanne
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I see it, but have you noticed that it sort of looks like the Grinch is on fire?
Serves him right for haunting me.
SO great! I saw it too! And I do the same thing, I have a sweater that if you look just so at the flowers I swear it looks like a Purple Polar Bear. And in one of the bathrooms at my school there is a dog in the tiles.
Lesley´s last post…Fairy Tales- Getting my Summer TV shows on!
During my pre-teen years (circa 1988), I rocked a zebra pattern in my bedroom–curtains, blanket, sheets, rug, the whole lot. Besides the fact I completely blame my vertigo on living in that room, I used to SWEAR ON EVERYTHING THAT IS BAD AND UNHOLY that there was a penguin in the pattern on my curtains. It got so bad, I started to develop an irrational fear of penguins. I wouldn’t even go in my room after a while.
Oh, and those Bud Ice Penguin commercials? Night terrors. Therapy. Straight jackets.
May I just say that is the ugliest carpet I’ve ever seen? Just sayin’. And seriously, there is a lion head on the bathroom tile exactly eye level when you sit down in the bathroom at my work. I’d take a picture for you, but it might be considered odd for me to take my camera into the bathroom.
karen´s last post…Another Happy Birthday
At my old house we had wood paneling on the walls (that in and of itself was scary) and in one spot about the size of a quarter it looked like there was a skull in the wood just grinning at you. I hated to sit in the chair by that wall because it always caught my eye and freaked me out. lol
Kelly W´s last post…Heavy Heart
Mr. Grinch must be frowning because he doesn’t like all those happy flowers.
cbeck´s last post…Critters- Creepy Sticks
I always see faces and shapes in things and then I always see them whenever I look at it or I will notice something for the first time and then always focus on that. I didn’t see the Grinch right away. I tried to find his outline and I am a rebel and didn’t follow the directions lol
Sheila´s last post…Fathers Day Ideas from Plastic Jungle
Thanks A LOT! Now I am looking for patterns in my linolium, and I think I just found Jesus…how am I ever going to mop again!
Nicole´s last post…Working in a Gender Bending RoleThe Negatives
Me too! I have a smiling fox in my shower, a bear above my bed, and a man part (that I can now stop pretending I didn’t notice because someone else pointed it out) in the light above my desk.
I saw it after about a minute-but if you were my wife and it was a serious question I was asking you…..I would be more scared of me then the grinch! Haha
It’s like the Grinch with a Wilford Brimley mustache.
Lynne´s last post…Say No to Crack
My sister was thrilled when I showed her that a painting she and her husband have shows a giant bear attacking a city, King-Kong-style. Supposedly it’s not a bear, it’s something much more artistic. Trust me though, it’s a giant bear.