Too much information?

Power shopping got a long list

of things to get

took me three weeks to get here

so its three weeks long

with a thousand things in my head

I am at the fabric table

all smiles over my find...

multi colored animal prints!!!!!

Really? Yes!

I recognize another 'odd something'

has happened to me

of late,

I am hooked on Project Runway,

and want to make my own clothes???

In my dreams there is

a sewing machine

that shows up nightly

teasing me,

taunting me with its bobbing needley parts

and magic making capabilities,

but for some reason

my friend, Alicia always sells it

before I can claim it...

(??? who knows)

This is only funny because

I am the last person

in the world that should sew

and never even liked it

(failed that part of Home Ec,

remember when they called it that?

I called it Home Ick..ha)

A sewing machine shouldn't

be near me or in my dreams

...but there it is!

Go figure!

Back to my fabric treasures...

to my left two women

peer curiously at my find

truly it looks like safari print

meets the Easter bunny

meets hippie gypsy!

They can't resist asking me...

"what are you making?"

I swear my head begins to spin

and I feel this sly smile

form as I launch into this monologue...

and literally can't stop.

"Well, I am making a holster

for my bubble wand..."

this is all it takes to make their faces go slack

"What?" they say in unison.

"Yes, bubble wands you can

buy them over there on aisle 15

for two dollars

they make great hostess gifts

or when a friend is having a bad day

and needs some bubble therapy

my late friend Jen gave me an Easter basket

with bubbles and now I celebrate her

and the temporary everywhere I go

I bubble wand in the snow and rain on the lake

and hopefully while hula hooping but

that's not going very well right now

anyways my friend Jodi made me a holster

for my bubble wand shes so cool she

wears a witch hat

all of October and well nevermind bout that

I really like the holster but I want to

make something simple and easy

cause I don't sew and really shouldn't

but if I did I would turn these into

some pants for my friend Sheila

cause she always

wears the strangest fabric

anyway back to the holsters

sometimes I think

the extra fabric makes

it looks like something

that belongs in the privacy

of your bedroom

cause the liquid part doesn't show and

no one knows what it really is

and they wonder and it's embarrassing at first

cause they don't know how to ask me...and..."

I notice they back away a little here...

but the fabric cutter lady starts grinning

catching the spirit of this oration

and says "You should sell them!"

"Oh, I am, its going to be in a kit called

Celebrate your Wild for turning 50 and 60

and stuff like that I have these

Wild Woman designs

little stick figures without faces

and there are

poems to go with them

and its going to have pinwheels,

candy necklaces in it and

Wild Wear Bobble Bands too."

They look completely bewildered now

like I am talking another language

...but they ARE still standing there

while my fabric lady cuts

my swatches so I continue on...

helplessly.

"Oh and I am having an Art show

at Studio Seven

where I learned to dance with the owner of it

whose a great instructor

especially cause I had

no business performing

or dancing kind of like sewing I suppose

but I did cause she wouldn't let me quit

and it changed my life and

now I am having a workshop there also

and maybe hoop dancing someday...

hmmm well... I think thats it here's my card

thanks for listening

gotta go buy more bubbles- Bye"

Off and running

I couldn't even look back

fearful of the expressions left in my wake

yikes...

I don't even think I took a breath

but hey, they asked...right?

....was this business networking

at its finest or

too much information...

maybe they will call

and just maybe

they will duck down

the nearest aisle

the next time they see me coming...

hmmm?

Pam Piper Rain