But I am bored and in retrospect they make me laugh….
1. Sunrises are for Chinese people…
Up until about a year ago I had never bothered to see a sunrise, and coincidentally, never noticed one. The reason I didn’t bother isn’t because I didn’t want to, it was because I thought you couldn’t see a sunrise in the United States. This is because when I was a kid I saw the movie Shanghai Noon with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. Well Jackie was obviously from China, and Owen Wilson was a western cowboy. At one point in the movie they are arguing and Owen Wilson says “The sun may rise in the east but it sets in the west!” I took this to mean that if you wanted to see a sunrise, you had to live in China. Then I figured that was why their flag looks like a sun, I realize it doesn’t. For some reason for years I thought the flag of China was the pre WWII Japanese flag. I have NO idea how I was under so many misconceptions at the same time, but until my twenties, it all made perfect sense.
2. The I am going to die any day incident.
Going into the shower once I looked down, and from my ribcage to my hips it was blotchy blue and looked bruised. Quickly I checked off in my head that no, I hadn’t been hit by any cars recently, nor had I awkwardly lunged into anything… again… I came to the conclusion that I must have leukemia, and I sat down to panic. It was a good ten minutes worth of panicking, thinking about the tests that would be done at the hospital, cursing the injustice of how young I am, and it meaning at 12 or 13 I was middle aged… etc. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw my brand new navy blue tanktop on the floor, and realized I was blotchy blue in the shape of that very same tank top. I then showered cursing the third world sweatshop that dyed the fabric (probably that damn sunrise country), and went to watch Frasier.







I have noticed that when you have small children around, it means sentences you never thought would ever be spoken in the duration of human kind come out of your mouth throughout the day. Here are some examples:














