OMG! Martin Van Buren makes me LOL!

The entire drive back from my vacation, I was sweating this blog. Knowing that I had only recently resumed the great "grow a pair and write every day" experiment meant I had better have plenty of topics on the line upon my return. So I took to texting myself ideas and quotes. What this didn't yield was any idea on which I could write more than one sentence. What it did yield was a moment of great pleasure when really weird phrases popped up on the screen of my Treo. Not to mention the even greater pleasure when I forgot I'd texted myself and stumbled across those messages later.

Anyway, since I think you're supposed to wait a week after returning from vacation and an hour after eating before blogging, I thought I'd better ease back in by, simply, sharing my most recent self-texts. I thought I'd build in some reader participation, too: see if you can identify which phrases were uttered by my husband and which were uttered by 80's glam rock outfit Faster Pussycat.

"So, Martin Van Buren...well HE had a very troubled presidency."

"There's no one home in my house of pain..."

"This Miller Chill reminds me of the story of Akbar the Great."