April 29, 2005
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FRIDAY FIVEAppetizer – Which keys do you have on your key chain?
My car key [‘98 Chevy Prizm] (I keep a second one in my purse in case I lock my keys in the car), a front door key to the security door that I never keep locked like I should when I’m home (keep a second one hidden by the back door for the same reason or in case there’s a disaster and I have to call my neighbor to open the house because I can’t get home – like an earthquake while I’m at work), 2 office keys (one of which opens most of the doors in my department and the other opens the others – this because as a computer fixer person I have to be able to get in anywhere), a key to the deadbolt on the inner front door and the door from the kitchen to the garage, and a key to the back door. Plus a green Bimart member tag that gets me into the store free, and a little purple whistle/flashlight combination. That was good. I had to go check and make sure about a few of them, now I’m sure what they are.
Soup – What is the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
Well, starting on day one? The most spontaneous thing with the most long-lasting consequences was getting pregnant with my two children.
Salad – Who is the best cook in your family?
Nobody in my living blood family was Born to Cook. My mother was a pretty good cook, having to feed a farm family consisting of her, me, and her hardworking husband and father. Cholesterol city back then though – lots of meat and potatoes and baked stuff. But also fresh vegetables and fruit. She eventually got adult onset diabetes from her sugar addiction.
Main Course – If you were to write a “how-to” book, what would the title be?
How to Survive in This World as An Expert on Nothing.
Dessert – Name a recent fad you’ve tried.
Myntz – In fact, I’m chewing on one now. In case you don’t know they are Dentist Recommended Sugar-Free Breath Mints without Aspartame and Low Carb, with Green Tea extract and Siberian Ginseng. What a life – decaf coffee, diet coke, and Myntz. And by the way, take this test to find out your life expectancy. I found out if I would eat even more fruits and vegetables and exercise even more I could live to be 100.
Deep Thought: “Just as bees will swarm about to protect their nest, so will I “swarm about” to protect my nest of chocolate eggs.”
Today I am grateful for: Irony
Guess the Movie: “No, you submit, do you hear? You be strong, you survive… You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.” Answer: Last of the Mohicans, 1992.
Winner: hereathome.
Lesson of Abu Ghraib? Whatever
by Elizabeth Sullivan
The current Pentagon white wash seeking to recast prisoner abuse into a simple case of way ward soldiers should come as no surprise.
A year after America’s terrorism war suffered a huge setback, with the revelation of Abu Ghraib abuses via pictures showing Iraqi prisoners naked, hooded, handcuffed, leashed, forced to pose in sexual positions and threatened by unmuzzled dogs, the military has rendered its comprehensive verdicts:
No one is guilty except for a relative handful of the most low-level soldiers and reservists. (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 9:36 pm
+ = Yard really starting to shape up.
- = Daughter’s father died of throat cancer on this day in 2002.
Comments (12)
I can’t help thinking that the movie sounds like ‘Titanic’, but I’m not completely sure.
No darn it. Clue – think forest.
1) house, work, car, truck (and one unknown).
2) Sex on a slide in the park (years ago when I thought I owned the world)
3) My mom
4) How to survive as an online instructor
5) I’m not a fad person, I guess, cause I can’t think of anything!
ah, yes–Daniel Day Lewis was so buff in …oh, geez, his character was Hawkeye–oh, yeah–”Last of the Mohicans.” Loved it. I too am still eating chocolate eggs, with marshmallow innards, slightly stale from the Easter goodies.
1.house, my car, hubbie’s car, and 2 unknown. (need to check those…)
2.ok, it’s sad that I can’t think of one. Well, in college a friend and I stayed after to meet a local band in a bar, and it was the one and only time I tried a substance a step beyond pot and booze.
3.My now-deceased great aunt Meta, from Germany, who made a pot roast with gravy that you would kill for.
4.in all seriousness…the best way to clean a bathroom from top to bottom.
5.I am enrolled in a ‘Body Pump’ fitness class. (it helps with the upper body strength us gals need.)
Daniel Day Lewis is about the best actor I’ve ever seen… ever. He was robbed of an Oscar for Gangs of New York. Last of the Mohicans is one of my all time favorites.
Last of the Mohicans – very good! How more romantic can you get than bounding through the forest for your country and your lady.
I put “I Will Find You” on in the car and completely space out – Natty Bumpo was the epitome of romantic hero for me, way before the movie. In fact, he’s my Inner Hero, the one I call on for help when I do stupid things that get me in trouble or when I’m being chased by demons. He always knows what to do. I sort of didn’t like that they called him Nathaniel in the movie, but hey, it was DDL – he could be named Chester Cadwallader and be romantic. And intense, very very intense.
Perfect pairing for a movie: Daniel Day Lewis and Johnny Depp. How intense would THAT be? *fanning self*
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It really was Last of the Mohicans? Huh, I was thinking something else too. I like your thought for the day and think your site is pretty cool, thanks again for looking me up. I saw in your profile you like cats, how many do you have? Have a good weekend.
now that is a funny deep thought…
Interesting to read that you were raised on a farm…same is true for me…I still have mine, here in the Midwest…for me, the isolation was more than a bit trying, yet, I’ll always value the cycle of life lessons learned in the rural kingdom…Last of the Mohicans DVD will be included in the escape to Panama trunk…D D Lewis is exactly who I want to look like when I grow up, which will be, as Stephen Stills told us,…a long time comin’.
(1) too many and what are they for? cars (2), house, back door to the office, I think lockable files there, maybe a key to a previous house, oh yeah – a key to “her” house, a bike lock, plus the pass to the aquatic center and a jump drive, because information is the key to everything, right?
(2) Signing the “I’ll attend Michigan State” letter-of-intent based solely on watching a basketball game from there and thinking that the students looked like they got high.
(3) The two person family? Me, no doubt. The family of origin? I’m probably second to one sister, but I’m more inventive if I decide to put in any effort.
(4) How to Let Your LD or ADHD Kid Survive Education
(5) I guess I don’t do that often, outside of falling for interestingly packaged toothpastes and stuff like that.
OK, no one asked the question, so I will! The bottles picture at top of post–are they your’s? I love ‘em-so unique.
1. Way too many—don’t even remember what most of them are for
2. Sex, of course!
3. Back when, my mother and my grandmother were great cooks, but I refused to eat any lutefisk-yeck.
4. Hmmm…maybe How to Procrastinate, and Learning Proofreading.
5. Occasionally wearing bandanas, like a fad from a past decade.