Day 7
I think my best thoughts while in the shower. I don’t know if it’s the aromatherapy from the shampoo, body wash and soap or if my body consists of more water than is normal (which is roughly 60% for the human body) … or if I’m part mermaid or tadpole (yeah, it’s probably because I’m part tadpole!) … but for whatever reason I think best when in water (and more usually while in the shower)!
If someone could come up with a computer I could use while in the shower – now that would be great! (Without getting electrocuted, please! Yeah – not as easy as it sounded originally, huh?!)
Well, anyway, I was in the shower and was thinking, as I am usually doing while in the shower about random things – things that just pop into my head … long lost images from childhood vacations, favorite passages from books, how the sky looked the day the winds made huge waves in my friend’s above-ground pool (with us still in it!), ideas for books, memories of Tim … they all flood back to me as the water rains down on and over me.
Our family is big on using phrases from movies in our everyday language. These otherwise common or nonsensical phrases have no real meaning to anyone else – unless that person is a fan of whatever movie the quotes came from and recognize their origin.
My daughter uses, “Looking good, Billy Ray.” with her co-workers at the greenhouse. The co-workers who “get it” respond back, “Feeling good, Lewis.” They crack-up over this banter … others are merely confused because no one in that conversation is named Lewis or Billy Ray. (Those phrases are from the movie Trading Places.)
Over the course of years these phrases have been woven into our private conversations and add a bit of giggle to our days. So, while I’m in the shower thinking of all these odd and obscure tidbits that come to mind, I’m also having a private chuckle because those three words are one of our family’s commonly used phrases from the movie Legally Blonde. In the movie, Reese Witherspoon is questioning a witness and she says (about 12 times) that the witness was IN THE SHOWER. So, if I get a phone call from my mom and I said I missed her earlier call because I was in the shower … my mom responds back, “You mean, you were in the shower?” “Yes … I was. I was in the shower.” And so it goes. We giggle and carry on. NO ONE else is going to think that funny – but we do and these things have been incorporated into our conversations and lives.
So, there I was in the shower thinking about all these things that so usually flood over me with the water and I got to thinking about something – other than goofy phrases from movies that add to our connectedness – which I will share with you at a later date.
And all due to my being … in the shower.