Thinking In The Kitchen

I believe the shower is probably one of the most popular places where people have epiphanies, ideas, and deep thoughts. For me, as I’ve stated before, running is often my thinking time. However, I just realized that the kitchen is also the place where my mind wanders. Perhaps this is why I don’t mind doing the dishes. Almost every time I end up with a complete monologue in my head, a total stream of consciousness just comes out of nowhere. Sometimes I have one consistent train of thought and other times my mind jumps from one random thing to another. If I’m lucky the monologue is in a British accent and on rare occasions I find myself speaking Spanish which reassures me that studying it for eight years actually paid off a little. Just now, putting dishes away and cleaning up those that accumulated next to the sink, these are some of the things that went through my head:

• Thank goodness I can stack my glasses! What do people with unstackable glasses do?

• I’m lucky that every time I take plates out of the dishwasher there is also a dirty plate to put into the dishwasher otherwise they would never all fit in the cabinet.

• I hate my dishwasher!

• I’m lucky to at least have a dishwasher, hot water, soap.

• I wrote a short story in college about spilling milk for my creative writing class; I wonder where that is?

• Should I call this blog “Thinking in the Kitchen” or “Thoughts by the Kitchen Sink?”

• Obama is lucky he lived in Illinois so he was prepared for today’s cold weather; still should’ve been wearing a hat.

• Bummer that I don’t have super powers that could put back all the shelves in the laundry room, but at least the heater is fixed.

• Get back to the computer as soon as possible to write this blog idea.

• Don’t forget to let the dog back in!

Where do you do your best thinking?