October 27, 2006

• FRIDAY FIVE

  Appetizer – Create a new candle scent.
  I
  love candles but I don’t usually burn them when I’m home alone because
  I’m afraid somehow I’ll forget and leave them on when I go out or fall
  asleep – or one of my cats will knock one over when I’m not looking,
  etc. My favorite scent for years was vanilla and I used them for air
  freshening when company was coming because god forbid using incense
  these days. Then you have to go into long explanations about how you
  used to be hippie 40 years ago. But a new scent – how about the smell
  of a fall wood fire.
  Soup – Name one way you show affection to others.
  My
  birth family were not huggers. During my vagabond flower child days
  free love was the word so way beyond hugging was common. There’s
  nothing better than when your children are little enough for hugging
  while sitting in your lap. Then they get bigger than you are and
  suddenly they’re hugging you. In Recovery programs hugging is de
  rigeur. Total strangers have hugfests. But I never got over the
  original no hugging days altogether.  That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s an A-1 idea.
  Salad – What is your favorite writing instrument?
  Oh,
  I must have fine point pens and not ball point because they smear when
  you run a highlighter over them. I’m running out now and they’re on my
  shopping list.
  Main Course – If you were given $25 to spend anywhere online, from which site would you buy?
  Well,
  you can’t buy much for $25 for starters. I’d probably find something
  used on Amazon.com. Some kind of spiritual or self-help book or DVD.
  Dessert – Are you dressing up for Halloween? If so, what are you going to be?
  No
  freaking way. I’m so happy for everyone who loves to gung ho for
  Halloween. I’ll be the one with my front porch lights off. When my
  grandkids were little and my kids were little I put up with all that bags
  of sugar seeking. Thank god they now live far enough away and got old
  enough that I don’t have to worry about it. Please don’t hate me.

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  Deep Thought:
  “It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money. And I
  guess that’s what I like about it. It’s easy. Just sitting there,
  rocking back and forth, wanting that money.”
  Today I am grateful for: Presumption of innocence
  Guess the Movie:
  “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea
  that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re
  licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no
  matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”  Answer:  To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962.
  Bush OKs 700-mile border fence
  WASHINGTON
  (CNN) — President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing the
  construction of a fence along one-third of the 2,100-mile
  (3,360-kilometer) U.S. border with Mexico, but missing from the
  legislation is a means to pay for it. (Rest of article here.)

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