First Post

Hello World, Hello Self, Hello,

This is something new for me to pour myself into and run the ferris wheel, sometimes more like the hamster wheel, of my thoughts through. I find it fascinating what I discover whenever I drop everything and type out a few lines. A lot of the time things will surface that had been bobbing around unnoticed for quite sometime. Like the title of my blog Cartwheels On The Ceiling, I hadn't thought of that phrase for quite a while, years- quite possibly even a decade, when I decided it would be perfect for my Blog.

Cartwheels On The Ceiling is a phrase that I had made up to communicate how happy and elated and truly over the top I felt about a subject, event, person etc... "Yes I want to go to the concert I will be doing cartwheels on the ceiling for a month waiting!" Eventually it evolved in usefullness becoming a perfect phrase to use sarcastically (ahh sarcasm, anyone out there share my love of sarcasm?) as in "Yeah, that'll be fun I'll just go do cartwheels on the ceiling it sounds so fun".

I dont think the phrase ever mainstreamed but if you have ever heard it or used it most likely one of the following occured, the currents and tidal flows of society brought it to you, you know me, or possibly it was one of the phreakish things where by two or more completly separate entities create identical or near identical ideas at the same time (more power to ya how ever you came accross it).

In this instance, however, as far as the usage of the phrase, I have realized that after years of disuse instead of being rusty and hard to connect with the words from my youth, misspeant or not, have richer meaning. Now when I chose this for a title I found that my perspective was largly that Cartwheels On the Ceiling describes how I feel about my life. It is impossible, unweildy, silly, speckled with seemingly useless plodding through or pushing of events (much like I imagine learning how to do cartwheels might be, were it a task), unique, and really truely beautiful in a Cirque Du Soliel kind of way.

My question to the readers out there is simple: Do you have favorite phrase or idea that you have kicked about that is unique to you and has evolved to mean more or less through the years?

I invite you to share it and any other thoughts or comments.

Thank You for reading,

Clovershade