Jumbled

I've been wanting to write since my last post, and it's not that I haven't had anything on my mind. The problem is that I've had too much on my mind, and that combined with a pregnant brain means that my thoughts are just jumbled. I start to think about one thing and before I know it I'm off miles away on a different subject and can't even find the train of thought that connected them.

Usually I can find the connections, no matter how strange to others. You know, thinking about wanting to go on vacation somehow leading to memories of the last one and how I liked the rental car leading to thoughts about my current car and the problems it is having which leads to thoughts of money, or lack thereof, which leads me to thoughts of Christmas (how much money will I spend) which brings me to planning out the delivery of this baby that is coming in January (since that's right after Christmas). So a thought that started out about vacations can lead to thinking about giving birth. Now that's normal for me, at least I would be able to look back and see how I got from one to another. 

Lately though its me thinking about a bill I need to pay, then how I need to spend more time playing outside with the kids while its still summer, and then how to help my mom, who is caring for my father with terminal cancer, and then what should we have for dinner, and then maybe "Hey I need to get Sam in for his 2 year shots still". Nope no pattern, just my mind not able to settle on a single thought or connect anything. My brain is turning to ooze. I guess it's number 6 that really does you in. My brain just gave up, no way to keep up now lets just give in. I guess that's how I will be able to survive, just go with the flow, which is my brain sloshing around in my head or out my ears. 

Which somehow leads me to another thought. My oldest daughter and I (she's almost 15) were driving yesterday. There is a McDonald's billboard on the freeway with perhaps the worst advertisement I've ever seen. "Egg mcmuffins, now hatching at midnight" 

That does not conjure up pleasant images for me. That brings to mind many people's worst fear with eggs, that you will crack one open and find a baby chick or feather or something (as people have claimed at times) So good job McDonald's, I now never want to eat another egg again thanks to your imagery. No one wants to think of the eggs they are going to eat "hatching". Not that I often have a desire to eat mcd's anyhow, but they keep pushing me further away with bad advertising. Do they not run it by regular joes first? "Hey does this sound appealing? Does it make you want to run out and grab breakfast from this place" 

"Why no it doesn't, it makes me want to run to the bathroom or the nearest trash can. You might want to keep trying" 

Ah well, at least it rained yesterday. (Those are connected thoughts, right??)