The First and Only Crab Blog Ever!
Are you one that wants to have a minimalist approach and avoid clutter or do you savor collections and thrive on the thrill of the hunt for an addition to your growing stash of treasured mementos? In my 20's I collected rabbits and angels - stuffed ones, ceramic ones and pictures of the like. When my husband and I moved into our new home and got married my box of bunnies and cherubs magically disapeared shortly after his box of bunnies and winged ones (pictures and cards from old flames) mysteriously went missing. Although, I missed my bunnie doll in her calico dress and my hare dressed as an angel, etc...ad-nauseum, I decided it was time to grow up and move on from collecting dust bunnies and pursue collecting cut glass crystal, after all it glimmers just so when the sun hits the ridges, and it can be pulled from the shelf for utilitarian purposes as well. Who doesn't appreciate a crystal vase filled with fresias or a banana shaped relish tray brimming with summer cherries. Then along came the Crab! Hold up, you say, how did we move from glistening hand cut crystal to the salty sweet smelling crab? Well it all has to do with the Grand Fourteen Yacht Clubs of Puget Sound and going through the chairs of the bridge. A journey through the chairs means that the members of each club elects a member to become rear commodore, third in charge of the club. The following year, the rear will become vice commodore and the third year Commodore. The fourteen clubs join in August at an Officer's Cruise-in at Bremerton Yacht Club and the incoming Rear commodores meet the night before at BYC and select a mascot that will unify their "class" The perks of doing so, are of course the internally meaningful ones camraderie, team spirit and pride. There are also externally meaningful rewards as well: Ladies and gentlemen: think jewelry, tee-shirts, kitschy chotchkies, napkins, wine glasses and well anything you can possibly think of with your mascot-logo on it. It's really a treat to collect as a group and compare your finds and even mass order them for each other! At first I thought the crab, was just not asthetically pleasing. I mean, afterall, who associates a crab with something beautiful or even endearing? I have since changed my mind. I now love that at first the humble crab seems like a hard shelled pinching, odorous sea creature and that crabs are not commonly collectible, because finding a crab among sweet friendly dolphins or obiquitous sea stars is at once pleasing, but also still for the most part not mainstream. I don't have a large collection of stuff covered in crustacean decor, but I do have a few that make me smile! Actually, who am I kidding, I have crab stuff tucked away in almost every room of my home by now, going into the third and final year of being a commodorable - wife of a commodore! Mind you, I didn't coin the phrase, for any of you wishing to get sick right now. (I think it's cute, though!) Drum roll please! I have crab table cloth holders clipped to my living room valance, a glass crab ornament perched on my dining room window, a crab wine bottle holder, crab coasters, a crab laundry bag and more, much more. You see, each time we meet for a dance, our custom is to give one another a gift, and most of the gifts consist of something crabby. Obviously there are jokes about our mascot selection: the daring dungeness, and a lot of the banter has been quipped by ourselves. There's the one about us being crabby and pretty much the jest deteriorates from there, if you get my drift. It's all great fun, though, and I am so glad I joined the crabs. I will close for now, with our motto: CRAB ON!
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Mid Life Crisis?
If 30 is the new 20 and 40 is the new 30, and 50 is the new 40 when does the mid-life crisis really occur - and what about the quarter century crisis? Does this mean we are putting off these crises until later or having these type of pseudo breakdowns sooner than ever?
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