Warm brain fuzzies

Yesterday I was adding a comment on mamamia about the little pot of wonder that is Burt’s Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme, when I found that I could not spell the word ‘genius’.  It’s not at all difficult now, but yesterday I had brain fuzzies due to a week of battling a virus that has travelled the length and breadth of this household.  The best attempt I made was ‘genious’ which I knew was not right, but I couldn’t decide what was not right with it.  I ended up deleting my miserable attempt and rewriting the sentence.

Later on I had a lightbulb moment and felt silly for not knowing how to spell.  Then I wondered how many people would actually have noticed.  I know that I would have noticed in the absence of brain fuzzies, and I assume that within a minute of my entering ‘genious’ somebody with a pedantic streak would have taken great delight in pointing out my lack thereof.  But without the anonymous pedant, who else would have noticed?  Not everyone notices the same things.  By why do we notice what we do?  What is the eye drawn to?

I have no idea how to answer that.

“If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.”

The same goes when choosing fabric.  I have a pile of new acquisitions sitting on the table next to me.  I don’t think there is a predominant theme.  The majority are floral but I think that just fits in with most fabric being floral (Is this true?  Maybe just in my head?).  All of them were chosen by me out of dozens, hundreds, of other fabrics.  When I am drawn to just one fabric out of a range all with a common colour scheme and theme – why is that?

(Updated pic - don't know what went wrong the first time.)

You know what?  I don’t even need to know the answer.  I’m looking at the pile and getting a warm and fuzzy feeling.  Much better than brain fuzzies!

* The mamamia article was about trimming cuticles (or, rather, not trimming your cuticles).  If that is up your alley go here.

* Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme has been the saviour of my nails and cuticles.  I think it truly is genius.