Open Mic Wednesday 7/20/11
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
It’s Open Mic Wednesday. What’s on your mind?
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Follow the Heart*
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Sorry about no new post yesterday—I was off being pampered. Which leads me to my first discussion starter for today . . .
If you had to choose between a one-hour massage, a box of Swiss chocolate, or a fruity drink under a cabana on a beach where you can stay for one hour, which would you choose as a way to de-stress?
I have never had a massage, well ok I had a neck one at the cricket once for about 5 mins. I am completely of chocolate so I take the Beach with a Pineapple drink and a good book. Right now the beach is warm right. definitely the beach its cold here.
one hour massage. no second thought. An hour at the ocean–an hour ONLY–would be tough.
I’d take the beach. I haven’t been to the beach in so long I’d take an hour for sure.
They all sound good. Can’t I have them all?
Can I take the chocolate to the beach?
Definitely the one hour massage! I had one a couple of years ago and I’ve been dreaming about having another one ever since.
The massage!!!!! I splurged on one when I went on a cruise in 2008 and it was the best $100 I’ve ever spent. My sister is getting one Saturday as her bridesmaid gift and I’m so beyond jealous.
The massage!
Beach. Every single time. As long as no one else comes along to interrupt my thoughts, it’s all good!
What’s the song stuck in your head right now?
“All Out of Love” covered by John Barrowman on the album Another Side. This was always one of my favorite Air Supply songs, so to hear it covered by one of my favorite modern vocalists is just bliss.
Ok this is going to make me sound totally nuts but Santa claus is coming to town!
dont ask why but it just gets there and sticks but its better than Bob the Builder which was stuck for ages.
“The Bare Necessities” from the Disney movie “The Jungle Book”. My husband was singing it as he left for work this morning.
“Where, oh where has my little dog gone” (at least I think that is the name of the song). My daughter is obsessed with “Lady and the Tramp” and must watch it every day.
Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got the World on a String.”
The first concert my husband ever took me too when we were dating was Air Supply. That really brought back memories. 25 years ago!
What person in the Bible do you most closely identify with?
Mine is definitely Thomas. I’m a see-it-to-believe-it kind of person!
Barnabus. I always like to give a person a chance. But I pray a lot for sactified wisdom to know not to be fooled.
David. He gets me.
Gideon. Totally get his fear, his doubt, how God had to take him by the hand and lead him. Second? Peter. The guy’s mouth got ahead of his brain way too often.
What clubs/activities did you participate in in high school?
I was in two choirs (treble [women's] choir and the a capella choir) and German club. I had to volunteer with the student government association for a project for my government class (I was put in charge of a seat-belt safety campaign that fizzled royally when no one else on my team would follow through on anything)—and that’s when I learned SGA wasn’t for me!
Can I ask what SGA is? We didn’t really have clubs in High School here. most sport and other things were outside school not in school. We did have ISCF Inter school christian Fellowship which was every Wed Lunch and other christians would meet on Wed Lunch and do different things like studies, plays, talks and often just talk about issues play games and had a good time. I use to play hockey for one of the school teams and we practiced after school one day a week games on Saturdays. In year 9 I was in the school musical which was The MusicMan.
I was on the academic team. Kinda like Jeopardy, but with teams.
Take a quick look around you and name an object of significant sentimental value to you within sight.
Mine is the three photo albums I’m planning on taking home so I can scan the pictures from my childhood into my computer.
I would have to say a photo of Dad. When mum turned 80 I made her an album I wrote to many people and it was kept secret, I added letters of memories, photos etc. My aunt, dads sister wrote. Now we hadn’t heard from them for many years more because mum got a bee in her bonnet that they didn’t let us know when one of the other sisters died. The problem was they probably didn’t realise we didn’t know but mum was of the opinion they should write first. I wrote and my aunt was the first to reply and she sent a photo of dad taken before WW2 the oldest one we have he was around 30 at the time. My friend who never met dad (he died when I was 11) saw the photo and said thats your dad. I always thought I looked more like him and the photo is so like me in features and a great photo. The one mum likes best doesn’t look like dad to me but this one I can see dad in it an its special because we didn’t have it before. We have very few photos of dad. I am so glad I wrote as we kept in contact until my aunt died.
I have a floral arrangement, which looks like a window with flowers and birds around it. It’s from my step-grandfather’s funeral. Always reminds me of him.
A photocopy of the advance check for my book. (I’m in my office/school room. There’s not much sentimental stuff in here! :0)
A vase of artificial roses. Fifteen years ago my husband bought me a boquet of roses in a vase. He was always buying roses for sqecial occasions. When I tried to water them I realized they were artificial. He didn’t even realize that either. He died two years ago, but I still have the boquet of roses. He was a good man. I was lucky. Just dust them off occasionally.
My Dopey doll on my bed. My Papaw Stewart bought him for me the only time I ever spent a whole week at their house. It was the year Snow White was re-released in theaters, and Mimi had enjoyed it so much as a child that she took me and Elizabeth to see it. Then the next day in Wal-Mart Papaw bought Dopey for me and Doc for Elizabeth.
A teddy bear with gold-rimmed glasses and a denim backpack. He’s the bear from a children’s story I wrote, which was the first piece of completed writing I accomplished after chemotherapy, 12 years ago. He lives at my desk.
An old wooden icebox my aunt refinished shortly before she died of cancer at 46. My dad bought it for her and she stripped it, painted it, and had begun stenciling it before she died. After she died, my uncle gave it back to my dad and he immediately handed it off to me. She “mothered” me so much, and it’s a treasure that means the world to me because her own two hands worked so hard on it.
What one modern convenience in your home could you not live without?
AIR CONDITIONING!
Right now the electric blanket!
Totally agree with you regarding the a/c!
Toilets!
Amen on the a/c. Was just thinking that exact thing yesterday. Could live without internet, TV, phones, even a stove… Loving that a/c!!!
How did you spend your summers as a kid?
My sister and I spent our summers in Baton Rouge with our maternal grandparents. We swam every day (if it didn’t rain), helped in the garden, gathered eggs (until I grabbed a chicken snake instead of an egg—no more gathering eggs for me after that!), I helped with the bird dogs my grandfather raised, horseback riding in the early years when they were still there, attending the McLellan family reunion at Holmes County State Park in Mississippi, learning to draw/paint from my grandfather, playing with my aunts’ 1950s/60s era Barbie dolls, having fun with aunts, uncles, and cousins and . . . I could go on for pages!
up till around 8 we use to go to Horsham Victoria to stay with mums family for a week or so then to Harcourt Vic to spend about 2 weeks with my cousins (who were about 4 years older than me) many a time my 2 cousins and brother would disappear from me and leave me behind. They had some neighbours who had a boy my age and girl there age so we would team up. We would go swimming, a little shopping can still remember going to Bendigo and going on the escalators for the first time. we would go up and down for ages. Dad had his stroke when I was 8 so holidays stopped but we would have a day trip sometimes. and there was the swimming lessons often we had a friend come home while her mum worked so it was fun. I spent alot of time climbing trees and reading.
Ditto :0)
At the library and in a swimming pool. First other peoples’ swimming pools, then our own.
I’m hunting a chicken snake this week! He’s eating all our eggs.
What, if any, magazines do you subscribe to?
I have a subscription to The New Yorker and the Romance Writers Report (the monthly RWA magazine). I used to subscribe to The Writer, but after five or six years, I realized that the topics were repeating and most of the writers weren’t shedding any new light on any of them that I wasn’t getting from the craft books or blogs on writing that I read regularly.
Better Homes & Gardens (a gift) and Woman’s Day (a free subscription). Mostly, I leaf through them, look for coupons, and throw them out. Sometimes, an interesting article catches my eye.
I subscribe to HERBS. I have an herb garden and get lots of good ideas and recipes. My cousin gives me a subscription to some cooking magazines, TASTE OF HOME, and something else. I don’t have the heart to tell her that I quit cooking. I just pass these on to my younger friends and relatives.
National Review, on my Nook. And I’ll be getting an electronic subscription to Writer’s Digest for Christmas.
Reader’s Digest and Writer’s Digest. And I just laughed out loud. That’s kind of funny.
How could Peter Jackson do this to poor Richard Armitage???
I wouldn’t have recognized RA….He’s looking rather Klingon here. Thankfully there’s always the Vicar of Dibley, so we know he doesn’t always have to be the bad guy.
He’s not even recognizable in the photo.
He came out looking a lot better than I expected. At least I’m getting a mad warrior vibe.
I’m just glad I can still see him in there. So far I’m really liking how these Dwarves look. I think it’s cool that Gimli’s father, Gloin, actually looks like he could be Gimli’s father. And Fili and Kili are pretty, um, fetching. Don’t you think?
Please pass the word!
For one week only (July 20 through 27) Love Remains is available for $1.99 on Kindle. I’d love it if this book can crack the Top 100 paid Kindle downloads by next Wednesday!
Here’s an interesting website where one can look up words to see in what context they were used in which time periods. It’s very enlightening.
http://www.etymonline.com/
I may have to cut scenes….