Thursday Thought Provoker
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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I won the under 18’s champion cook ribbon for best exhibit of the local show twice once when I was 14 and then when I was 16 and yes there were other exhibits.
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Do you still do a lot of cooking? Have you ever considered entering another cooking contest since then?
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You know the irony is I can cook. I can cook cakes, cookies etc but when it comes to other food I am hopeless. I did enter cookies into the show as an adult and did ok with them. I dont eat alot of cake so I dont tend to cook them much.
the show has restarted here each year but most of the catagories are things I dont cook.
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Ahh . . . I see. In the US, we tend to differentiate between baking (cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, etc.) and cooking (main dishes, appetizers, savory dishes rather than sweet).
I do both, though I prefer cooking to baking because it’s a lot easier to just throw things together until it tastes the way I want it to rather than have to carefully measure out exact lists of ingredients. Plus, because of all that measuring, there are always a lot more dishes to have to clean up after baking than after cooking!
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I agree about the measuring I dont do much except around christmas time.
I am not a good cook which is why tin food works well.
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In Jr. High, I did a class demonstration on how to clean fish. You just know it was to impress a boy, right?
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With a real fish? How did you keep it from stinking up your locker? 😉
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No real fish. Alas. But real equipment and photos. I think my ploy worked- a few years later…
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When I was in high school, I was a member of my school’s academic team. Three of the four years I was in the top ten in the state in social studies.
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As someone who barely scraped by in school until I went back to college as an adult, I’m impressed at anyone who was this committed to learning/school at such a young age.
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I ran a marathon in 1982 and finished under 4 hours.
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Wow! So do you still run?
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In Indiana, I was on a team of high school students in an Interior Design class that assisted a firm in designing and furnishing the district’s new board office. What a fun project!
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Was there a design competition, or was your class simply asked to do it?
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No, we were the only class in Interior Design in the school, and it was one of those “hand-picked” classes that had prerequisites. The most fun was actually visiting the design firm in Indianapolis, second only to seeing the finished product. I really considered a major in that area – but an artist, I am not!
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I learned how to install kitchen counter tops when I was about eight years old. There are several subdivision kitchens in North Carolina whose corner joints were tightened and caulked by this child. And the smell of sawdust makes me feel like I’m a kid safely tucked in my grandmother’s house. When I first left home and lived in Michigan, I mentioned that to the handyman at our school, and if he saw me walking by his shop, he would call me in and cut a two-by-four in half so I could smell the sawdust in the air. 🙂
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What a helpful skill to have, should you move into a house that needs a kitchen remodel! And such a fun thing that the maintenance guy did for you to let you experience that sense memory of the sawdust smell!
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I was married on Bride & Groom TV Show in 1957!!! LOL
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Jackie–I’ve never heard of this show. Now you know you’re going to have to tell the whole story!
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I was a dorky girl wearing a big metal back brace during my freshman and sophomore years in high school. Yeah…think Joan Cuzack in Sixteen Candles. Pretty sad, but completely funny looking back. I’d tell people I jumped off a bridge and broke my back, and they believed me!
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Ugh—I can’t imagine having to do that. I assume it helped and that you no longer have problems? (And, as we know, high school students will believe just about anything—but the truth!)
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Yeah, I didn’t like it. Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) runs in my family. All the women from my grandmother down have it. Some have to wear the brace…some do not. My daughter didn’t, thank goodness, but one of my sisters did, as well as my niece. The brace kept my curves from getting worse (you’ve seen people with a hunch back on one side, right?) but I still have one shoulder higher and one hip higher.
I think it built character. I also have a ton of empathy for anyone with handicaps or disfigurement. I know what it’s like to receive stares and hear the whispering behind my back. You toughen up after awhile. Maybe all that tough skin will come in handy when I start receiving my rejections! 🙂
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I wore a brace in high school too, for scholiosis, but it was plastic/foam and I didn’t have to wear it to school – put it on when I got home & slept in it tho!
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Not only have I been to four Star Trek conventions, but at the last one I went to, the friend I went with bid on, and won, a fifteen-minute meet-and-greet with the featured ST actor that year, Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir). Only she got her picture taken with him, but I also got to meet him and spend that fifteen minutes with him backstage. And we also got to sit on the front row during his appearance later.
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Okay, that is way cool. Did you dress up? Wear Spock ears? 😉
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The only “dressing up” I ever did was to purchase Star Trek inspired jewelry (remember the Bajoran ear pieces—an earring with an ear cuff connected by chains with ornaments hanging from them?) and wear that to a convention. The people who dressed up scared me a little.
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Oh yes…I remember those earrings! You don’t still have them, do you??? 😉
I remember taking my daughter to the midnight opening of Twilight and being a little scared of the people dressed up. Seriously…grown women dressed up like sexy vampires….CREEPY.
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Very cool!
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*is jealous* Dr. Bashir is my favorite DS9 character.
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I always knew he was thin, but to actually see him in person—I think, had I hugged him, I probably could have broken him in half!
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So cool my friend goes to the conventions here for the sci fi shows. I would love to go to a Stargate one. We did have a couple of the stars from SG1 and also Sanctuary in Adelaide only I found out the night before the meeting and I live to far away to get there.
I do like star trek two.
Scary fact I stayed with two trekkies who lived, ate and slept star trek. They had seen star trek 4, over 12 times in less than two weeks. They went to meetings and had secret committee meetings with the fan club. I alienated myself when I wanted to see gremlins I think it was. I vowed there and then never to ever watch star trek again. It lasted a year or so then I saw the movie on the bus and I really did like next generation have actually been to the cinema to see there later films. I know not all trekkies are as extreme as these two.
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ok, that is just plan cool
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Hey Kaye,
What’s YOUR fun fact?
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We must have been posting at the same time! (See the comment right above yours.)
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I was born with twelve fingers (one extra on each sides of my pinkie fingers). The doctors tied them with piano string and they fell off when I was a baby. Some days, especially when I’m trying to make my word count, I wish I still had them 🙂
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Piano wire? Really? Wow–sounds painful! (But yes, the idea of having that extra finger on each hand does sound like it would be quite beneficial when that deadline is looming!)
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I was born with ankles that turn in. Because of that I started developing arthritis in my hips before I was even 20. I curse it often because I can’t wear heels for more than 2 hours! I walked around downtown Memphis in heels Saturday afternoon and I still feel horrible because of it.
I’ve also read all the Doctor Doolittle books and have never outgrown my love of horses.
I have held the original cover art painting for Nancy Drew #46 “The Invisible Intruder”. I own one of the movie props from the 2007 Nancy Drew movie starring Emma Roberts.
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I sympathize with the ankles/hips. I’ve had bad ankles my whole life, and now, it seems, it’s the genetic legacy of the women in my family. And though I know it’s a different situation from yours, I’ve been having the problem with my right hip when I try to walk too much right now, too.
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I collect novelty erasers, and have over 350!
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How long have you been collecting these—and do you have a special case or shelving unit on which you display (some of) them?
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Kaye, telling my age…..seriously there was a tv show named Bride & Groom which we were actually married on in 1957. The show went off the air that next year! They chose us from a letter we wrote…about our love story…that was their practice. We flew to NY; our wedding was taped (some of them were live)…so we got to watch it about a month later when it was shown on TV. They gave us a honeymoon to Niagara Falls/Canada and many sponsors gave us gifts. They provided a new car for the honeymoon (had to be turned back in lol). It was quite an experience for a couple from a small town in GA.
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Too bad that was in the days before VCRs or recordable DVDs!
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I married my first husband, twice. After a 10 year hiatus. Never could have imagined that in a million years. We were married 10 years the first time and now for almost 5.
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Good for you, Carla!! I have a friend with a similar experience, and they’re happier now than ever.
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I worked two years as a dental assistant.
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I am absolutely addicted to Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. I’ve watched the entire series all the way through once and now I’m doing it again. I love history and there is so much of it in the show.
A fun and embarassing fact: once in high school during shorthand class (I’m old!) the teacher told us we’d sometimes have to take shorthand in unusual situations and told us to take shorthand on our knees. I, alone in the entire class, got down on my knees in the floor! I looked up and NO ONE else was on their knees. Talk about embarassing. I wish that floor could have just opened up and swallowed me. That’s probably why I never took a secretarial position.
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