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Of Ladybug Showers, Shredder Mysteries, and Ghostly Critters: A Quirky Day Unveiled



Today’s adventure in the land of Mimi quirkiness kicked off with a rain shower. Not your typical rain, mind you, but a cascade of ladybugs, descending upon me like nature’s confetti. Now, common sense says, “Shoo them away!” but no, not in my quirky world. Killing a ladybug supposedly summons bad luck, so I’ve become a ladybug liberator, setting them free with the hopes of good fortune sprinkling down on me like confetti at a parade.

But the quirkiness doesn’t end there. Enter the case of the missing shredder—cue the dramatic Agatha Christie music. How does a shredder vanish into thin air? It’s like a mystery novel unfolding in my very home. I’m half-expecting Poirot or Miss Marple to stroll in and start deducing the whereabouts of my elusive document obliterator.

As I embark on my own investigation, I glance at the dogs. Are they onto something? They’ve been barking incessantly at seemingly nothing, turning my home into a canine version of Ghostbusters. Are there spectral critters floating around, eliciting canine hysteria? Or perhaps, my dogs have developed a flair for avant-garde theater, putting on a grand show for an invisible audience.

In this whimsical journey of quirkiness, I find myself caught between ladybugs and a shredder mystery, with ghostly critters providing the soundtrack. I’m like the protagonist in a peculiar novel, navigating a plotline that even Agatha Christie might find a tad eccentric.

As the day unfolds, I’ll continue my mission—rescuing ladybugs, solving the shredder enigma, and deciphering the canine ghost alert system. Who knew that a simple rain shower of ladybugs could set off such a cascade of eccentricity? In the realm of quirkiness, every moment is a chapter waiting to be written, and today’s tale unfolds with a sprinkle of charm, a dash of mystery, and just the right touch of canine theatrics. After all, in the world of quirks, why settle for an ordinary day when you can have an extraordinary one filled with ladybugs, mysteries, and ghostly barks?

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  1. SMiLes Dear Miriam Lady Bug’s Are Such

    Ornamental Looking Creatures When They

    Light Upon my SKin in the Forest (my Back

    Yard Eden) They Do Tickle Yet Still it Feels Like

    Pure Magic of Nature

    As the Lady Bug Flys
    Away One Became Attached
    to Our Car at the Mall Riding There
    With Us and my Wife Took Great Care

    in Setting the Lady Bug Free on A Tree

    And That Reminds me of Yes The Sock

    That Comes Missing From Its Pair Hehe

    Some Weeks Ago my Class Ring From

    College Came Missing From my

    Desk And i Like Wearing

    A
    Ring on
    Each Hand

    Hehe the One
    on the Right Hand
    my Uncle Mistook for
    A Wedding Ring Yet It’s
    Just A Cheap Silver Metal
    Ring Engraved with a Heart
    And Peace Sign Along with

    The Pen Name Katie Mia
    Frederick my Gold Wedding
    Band Passed Down From my Stepmother
    That Once Belonged to my Father Hehe It

    No Longer Fits Nor Did the College Class Ring
    With my Birthstone on my Right Hand Yet It Did Okay
    on the Left my Uncle So Worried as He Said Those ‘Gay
    Folks’ Wear Wedding Rings on Their Right Hand Hehe to

    The Point of Being Afraid to Being Seen With me i Said

    Hmm i Know Who i am Do You Know Who You Are HAha

    Later He Gave Some of our Mutual Relatives and Their

    Partners A Hard Time About Their Humanity

    As Lived and Chosen and True He Did

    it To Their Face and Let’s Just

    Dance And Sing i FREELY Gave

    Him A Gift of ‘Holy Hell’ Anyway
    High School to the Rescue i Like
    The Feel of Rings on my Fingers as
    it Provides Feedback for The Balance
    my Fingers Bring While Public Dancing

    And It’s Interesting How We Purchase These
    Wonderful Jumbo Gold Class Rings in High School
    Wear Them For a Year and They Sit in a Jewelry Box
    Or Drawer Perhaps for the Rest of Our Lives in College
    in the Peanut Butter Janitor Book Store Clerk Archaeology
    Associate Yep Working 3 Part Time Jobs Through A Full Class
    Load Earning 3 College Degrees at Once Days all i Could Afford is

    An ‘Ultrium
    Ring’ Hehe

    Yet Hey at Least
    After Graduating
    Passing Out Rental
    Shoes Getting my Foot in
    A Government Job at a Military
    Bowling Center it Provided Proof
    to the Customers i Was A College
    Graduate Doing That Job So True

    Perhaps that Made me a Fool as my
    Uncle Perceived me too Yet True i Knew
    Who i Was then Just a Dude Smiling Who
    Made Other Folks Smile for Free Getting Paid

    For it to Spray Down Stinky Shoes Among Other
    Collateral Duties for the Government for a Quarter
    of a Century Somehow Retiring at the Equivalent Civilian

    Pay Grade of a Marine Major Yet i am Not Major Fred

    Not Even Fred Really

    People Call me the
    Dancing Guy and

    Not the Bowling
    Alley Guy Compared
    to ‘Ted Danson’ Who Just
    Listened to Everyone’s Life
    Stories on the Other Side of
    the Stinky Shoe Counter Hehe

    i Didn’t Particularly Like the Way my
    Purple June Birthstone Went With the
    Gold of that Jumbo Class Ring in High
    School So i Went With the Gold of November

    And Now it Really Glitters on my Left Hand
    When i Dance Like a Lady Bug on my Finger
    Indeed it Floats With Wu Wei Ease Effortless as

    Planets

    That Orbit Stars
    And Stars That

    Orbit Black Holes
    That Perhaps Birth

    New UNiVeRSES into
    Existence From a Balance
    of Torsion and Spin as Stars
    Go to Their Death in Black Holes

    Yet Perhaps Resurrecting Entire New (As Theories Spiced
    With Quantum Mechanics Suggest) UniVerses as Indeed
    We aRe All Star Flowers
    And Seeds too

    Just Like

    Lady

    Bugs Indeed
    With SMiLes

    No Matter Who They
    are as They Surely Don’t
    Worry About What They May Be Named…

    Interesting Where Free Association on A Whim
    May Take Us Through The Corridors of Life Experience
    Creating New Pathways to Relate As Well As Your Eclectic

    Writings Provide
    A Myriad of

    Prompts in

    One Post For A
    Field Trip to Perhaps
    Even A New UNiVeRSE of Creativity…

    In Other Words Hehe As Usual Thanks..:)

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