Meme – in Search of the One Word Answer

December 1, 2008 by 12 Comments
Detail of Chihuly Art Glass Sculpture

Detail of Chihuly Art Glass Sculpture

I needed something to post. This great glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly could easily have merited the entire post, but then Amuirin – that girl is always full of ideas – posted this crazy meme. It is supposed to be a one word answer meme, though I’m terrible at following rules, so I’ll give it a go, but no one-word promises.

Well, I was looking for a likely spot of procrastination. Almost anything would have qualified. My new washing machine to replace that blankity-blank one hasn’t even made its warehouse appearance yet and I’ve been without a washer for over a week and it was Thanksgiving and I had a houseful of overnight company  and there are “linens and things” to launder and I simply don’t wanna go to the laundromat.

Ah, pay attention.  Procrastination is a fine art.

Join the fun if you wish. Use these questions or make up your own like Amuirin and I did.  I am non-celebrating the first day of December in Wisconsin with snow, dark clouds, more snow, slippery streets, gray, gray, gray. So I say – who needs to drive to the laundromat in search of clean underwear?  Not me!

Here’s mine:

  1. Where is your cell phone? — upstairs
  2. Where is your significant other? —  an epic tale
  3. Who is your favorite blogger? — blogger with comment
  4. Your favorite beverage?— sipping tequila ($$$$$)
  5. Your hair color? — fine, and you?
  6. What is your favorite thing? —  camera
  7. Your dream last night? — people sleep long enough to dream?
  8. Your dream/goal? — serenity
  9. The room you’re in? — studio
  10. Your hobby? — setting goals I never reach
  11. Your fear? — caving snowbanks
  12. What do you want to be in 6 years? — sane
  13. Where were you last night? — driving in Iowa in blizzard.
  14. What are you not into? — organized groups
  15. One of your wish-list items? — the perfect photo printer
  16. Where did you grow up? — overlooking the Mighty Mississippi
  17. Last thing you fantasized about? — sunshine
  18. What are you wearing? — wool
  19. What you are not wearing? — bikini
  20. Your TV? — what TV?
  21. Your pet? — Jazz, the Velcro cat
  22. Your dinner? — pizza, delivered, hurry!
  23. Your mood? — tolerable
  24. Missing someone? — always
  25. Your car? — in the shop, again
  26. Favorite store? — Apple (computers, not fruit)
  27. Favorite Breakfast? — chocolate ($$$)
  28. Love someone? — usually
  29. Last time you laughed? — a half-hour ago
  30. Last time you cried? —  morning, much better now
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Anything for a Distraction

November 18, 2008 by 10 Comments

Don’t Quit Playing

Thanks to Amuirin at Stop and Wander for the meme nomination. I’ll play along, since I haven’t done anything for the last four days, except clean my house in preparation for the soon-to-be Thanksgiving festivities. And I’m a little desperate for any distraction.

(Here are the rules, in case you’ve been in another galaxy for the last decade and don’t know what a meme is: Players start with 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged should post these rules and then post 7 random facts. Players should tag 7 other people and notify them that they’ve been tagged.)

Hmm. Okay, I can do the random facts part.

1. I’ll start with a Thanksgiving fact. I haven’t hosted Thanksgiving for 30 years. That was the last time I was ever asked to cook the T-day bird. I was a novice in the holiday kitchen then, and left the packet of giblets in the turkey cavity to combine with the undercooked stuffing, and I made the only vegetable casserole I knew how to bake – the (in)famous green bean-mushroom soup-fried onion rings from a can combo. Pathetic.

2. This year I volunteered for the job, figuring everyone had finally forgotten about 1978. They had, and they all accepted the invitation. I know a lot more about cooking for a crowd this time around. A crowd of 16 to be exact. But that doesn’t really matter, because I’m handing chef responsibilities over to my husband.

3. When I was in high school, I marched in a Color Guard. We traveled all over the East and Midwest. When we marched in the Cherry Blossom Parade in DC, we met then President Richard Nixon. (Yeah, he was the prez!) We presented him with a gift – a baseball style cap with the patch of the color guard sewn on it. I did the sewing, and in a moment of anticipated fame, I stuck my personalized card under the patch. Obviously done in the hopes that on a future day I could visit the Presidential Library and admire the cap in person. Obviously, that day will never transpire.

4. I grew up in a four-generation home. Not only did my parents get to tell me what to do, my grandparents and my great-grandmother also got in their two shakes of advice, for whatever it was worth. I was also taught the ways of their worlds. By the time I was 13, I could garden, sew, knit, tat, embroidery, darn a sock, crochet, and pull taffy. I, however, did not learn how to make a Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately. (See # 1 if you’ve already forgotten why.)

5. When I was a student living in Chicago, I went to a Led Zeppelin concert. Our tickets were in the third row from the ceiling in Chicago Stadium. That was the night I discovered I have a moderate degree of acrophobia. That’s fear of heights in plain English.

6. I took four years of Latin in high school. I can decline Latin nouns and verbs with ease, but I cannot speak any language other than English. I have since tried taking other language courses, and my brain has thus far refused to master even basic phrases if not written in Latin or English. I deeply regret this.

7. I’m an introvert and don’t pass on tags.

So, no tagging, though if you want to play, feel free. I break chain letters and refuse to follow recipes, too. But I do make a mean green bean casserole.

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