Did you ever think that you're the star of your own life? When you wake up in the morning the film starts rolling and doesn't take a break until you fall asleep for the night.

Think of your clothes as the costume you will be wearing that day. What kind of role will you be playing today? Should you look casual or classy?

How will you style your hair and please don't forget to brush those teeth! A star must have a million dollar smile.

Keep souvenirs and autographs in a scrapbook or journal. Add all your momentos from the day to it, your comments about how the movie is going. Did you play your part well that day or could you have been a little kinder, a little more patient, just a bit bolder?

So think about being the star of your own movie as you get dressed in the morning. Plan the costume you need for the day and don't forget to bring the props you need. Also, be careful with your lines. Make sure you are heard and understood by your public, your fans.

House cleaning is usually not a lot of fun.

If I was going to make it more interesting, faster and longer lasting I would hook the whole house up to a vacuum and just suck everything out of it. All the dust, dirt, cobwebs and furniture would swoosh right out and leave just bare walls, bare floors and a completely clean house.

The problem would be keeping any furniture, appliances, clothes and such around. It could be pretty expensive to replace all of that sort of stuff each time you sucked them out of the house. So I guess we need a better idea.

I don't have a better idea right now. Do you?

If you met a Mad Scientist and became friends, what would you ask her to invent for you?

A time machine was my first thought. There would be endless great ideas you and your Mad Scientist friend could work on. How about traveling in space, or deep under the ocean? Figure out the age old quest of turning ordinary metal (lead) into gold. They call that alchemy. Or you could learn how to fly with wings made for people or some kind of jet backpack, not so different from those in cartoons.

So many great ideas. How about putting together your own specialized super computer. A computer that hooks up directly to the Internet and has a connection the speed of lightening. You could play online games with your friends, get all the information you need for your homework and projects in just minutes.

Of course, you and the Mad Scientist could just build your own robot. Give your robot human features, skin and etc. and send him or her out to do all the boring stuff like walking the dog, cleaning the yard and going to school with all your friends. Or, maybe not. Would you really want to miss your friends at school, jumping in the pile of leaves when you clean the yard or spending time running around with your dog? Some things are work and fun at the same time.

I'd still like to try that time machine. First, I'd have to decide whether I want to go backwards or forwards into time. I guess, with our own time machine I could do both, take as many trips as I wanted.

So, where to you meet a Mad Scientist these days?

This is the newsletter, you are the guinea pig.

It is so easy to slip into my mind and spill out the Home and Garden newsletter, finding the links is an adventure of sensual pleasure. I draw on my memories, my spirit and my basic likes and dislikes and the newsletter is built, it all comes together.

This one though... I lack focus, maybe I'm too close to the topic to be able to stand back, take a deep breath and just let it come to me. I want to force it. As if I have to prove myself each time.

So here we are, another week and a jumble of links culled from BackWash. The links are good, I checked most of them. Something is just not hitting the mark and you are my guinea pigs until I figure out just what mark I'm missing.

Send suggestions, comments, feedback. There are no cheap seats juts cheap shots.

Would you want to be an animal? Sometimes I would like to be a whale. I could dive into the deepest parts of the ocean where no people have been. Down there I would find sunken pirate ships and chests of treasure. I'd find their maps to secret buried treasure too. When I had all I wanted I would turn into a person again so I could spend all my loot.

Sometimes I would like to be a wolf. I'd run with the pack, howl at the moon and scout around the wilderness until I couldn't walk another step. The wolf can smell and hear things better than people too. I would enjoy experiencing that. What things would I hear that I've never heard before.

Sometimes I'd like to be a seagull. Soaring over the ocean waves, the beaches and the cities, watching everything fly by beneath me. I would perch somewhere high up, on the head of a gargoyle or steeple of a church. The wind would be blowing on my feathers. Soon I'd smell some french fries dropped in a parking lot and I'd swoop down to grab them up before all the other gulls could get them.

It would be great to be a dragon. They can do all of those things. But, a big dragon would have trouble sitting on a small branch or church steeple. True dragons like to hoard treasure but I'd like to spend some of it. I don't think a lot of stores would calmly accept a dragon coming in to buy the latest bestseller. Being a person is all right too, its who I am. But now and then I think about all the fun of being an animal and the special things I could do.