"Not today Monster! Not today!"

Does anyone catch themselves letting their imagination run away on them? I'm glad that I still have my imagination, but it has been running rampant lately.

I swear that half the time I pick a toy gun, I think I am a crime-fightin' cop until I realize I have told everyone in the toy section at Target to "Get on the ground and spread 'em!"

Or sometimes I am walking up stairs and I swear that there is a monster that is going to grab my ankles if I don't run fast enough up them; so most of the time I get to the top of the Dart Rail Station stairs and I know people are wondering why this big guy is panting, sweating, and just SPRINTED up the stairs screaming "Not today monster! Not today!"

I started thinking about this because I got to ride some horses on Friday. And, you guessed it, I zoned out for about 10 minutes thinking about what I would do if Indians came over the horizon or how fast I would ride to save a pretty lil thang in danger.

I don't know, folks. Might need some of that professional help! I was on my own a lot as a kid I guess and had to foster my imagination much of the time.I was baby-sat by the tv a lot when I was a kid, which was fine with me and my parents for some reason thought I was big enough to stay on my own. My brother wasn't going to baby sit me and he eventually went off to school. There I was: solo. Which was okay with me cause I could do what I wanted. I watched tv in my underwear, ate food wherever the hell I wanted, and if i wanted to crank up the stereo and get out my stringless guitar and have a concert....that is exactly what I did. I think the only difference today is that my guitar has strings, haha!

As I was thinking about all of this, I started wondering, what's the lesson? Is there one? Does there HAVE to be one? I don't know. There is the obvious one of knowing which things grow with you and which things you grow out of. Or maybe I was just feeling nostalgic. We sometimes need to look at our past (not live in, mind you) and see how we got to today.

Maybe more later, but now I have to go stop crime while on horseback and save a pretty girl from the stair monster.