Here'a a great business idea.

I hate it when I'm walking past a window and I glance at it to see inside the store, but it's too reflective to see inside, and instead I see an image of my body - this huge, ugly fat guy and I think, "Who's that dude?" and then realize a second later that he's me - that I am rotund and awkward and a bit freaky looking.



So my business idea is a type of reflective glass that is angled in such a way that it makes you look slim and tall. That way when you look at it, you think, "Who's that hot dude?" and realize a second later that it's you. YOU!



Then everyone would start walking past the store and looking at the glass.



Except, now I'm thinking that no one would actually go inside the store, which is the whole point of windows and window displays. To get people inside and buy the stuff.



Maybe this isn't such a great business idea.

I forgot to look at myself in the mirror yesterday.

The other day when I was picking up Jake from daycare, I realized that I hadn't looked at myself in a mirror yet.



It was roughly 4:50pm and I was talking to one of the workers. I quickly glanced down at my shirt to see if it was inside out (I've worn an inside out shirt before to daycare when dropping off Jake.) Then I worried about having some huge booger under my nose or mustard stain beside my mouth.



I was just too busy to bother looking at myself. In the morning, I was dealing with Jake and mostly watching him as we brushed our teeth in front of the mirror. My hair's short enough that I can get away with just sightlessly rubbing some gel through there. In the washroom at work I must have just looked at my hands.



When you have a kid, you often forget to do basic things like shower or fix your hair or change out of your grubby food-stained clothes. I don't have the time. Or inclination.



Plus I've seen my face a lot throughout my life and could easily go without seeing it for a day or two.



Speaking of our faces, do you know why we never look quite right in photographs? Because we see our faces non-reversed. It looks weird to our eyes. Normally we only see ourselves backwards (in mirrors), which isn't the way other people see us at all. That's a good analogy to life as well - we don't see ourselves truly as others see us.