Sunday, March 17, 2024

Sunday Stealing.. questions


Here we are with another Sunday Stealing.
 

Stolen from Friday Five.

 1. What ONE thing would you change about your life? How would your life be different?
 I would be pain free and not disabled.

2.  What is the hardest thing you have ever done? Why was it hard for you? What did you learn?
Bury children.  I learned a lot about God and a lot about people. The God part was good, the people part was not so good.
3. Write about the most glorious moment in your life so far.
When I realized I had come through hard things in life and overcame them.

4. Write about a moment you felt brave.
When I stood up to someone who was trying to kill me.

5. What made you happy today?
Having a friend over for dinner.

6. What did you dislike most about growing up?
That childhood ends.  That my mother would call the library to make them send me home for dinner. I loved hanging out reading things.     That I got too old to jump double Dutch jump r ope or play stick ball with my friends in the street.     
7. Write about five activities you love the most and why you love them.
  • making a nice garden because it helps nature to dress and keep the creation.
  • Ice skating because I felt free to speed along in the wind and cold.
  • Dancing.. dancing.. dancing
  • painting because it lets me create my own world
  • playing piano because it fills the house with song and lets me create my own music as well.
8. Do you have an embarrassing moment that still makes you cringe?
No.  I don't get embarrassed easily and I refuse to cringe over things.  

9. What has been your best trip so far?
There are a lot of them that  vie for first place:  Poconos, Prince Edward Island, Lake Placid, Niagara Falls. 

10. What traits (physical or personal) do people notice when they meet you for the first time?
People usually say something about my hair. Other than that I don't know as they don't say anything.

11.  Is social media a blessing or a curse?
It can be both depending on how it is used.

12. What is your greatest hope for your future? What steps can you take to make it happen?
That people will learn to love one another and live in peace.

13.  What did you struggle most with today?
Pain.  It was pretty awful today and the fact that I despise Daylight Saving Time. It's bad for your heart and your circadian rhythm and would be even if it became permanent.

14.  Name the biggest priority in your life right now
It is always my family and friends.
15. What are 5 things you wish others knew about you? 
  • .That I like getting to know people.
  • That I keep confidences very well.
  • That I do not remember faces at all.  I can meet you and not know you an hour later.
  • I love people. I seriously love all kinds of people. Its why anthropology is so important to me.
  •  As a kid I idolized Lena Horne. To me she sang like an angel, was gorgeous and so ladylike and charming.  To me she was exactly what a lady should be like. I still think so.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Happy weekend friends.   I am joining in for Saturday 9 by Sam Winters.
Not familiar with this week's song? Hear it here.
 
1. This week's song is about a legend, Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer. Tell us about something you enjoy so much you could sing about it with the same enthusiasm the Salt Sea Pirates sing of beer.
If its food, then I can sing about the wonders of pizza, hot dogs, tacos, French fries..   

2.  The lyrics tell us beer goes well with breakfast, dinner and snacks. Think about what you dined on yesterday. What beverages did you have with your breakfast, your dinner, and your between-meal snack?


I had coffee with breakfast, water with lunch and dinner and coffee in the evening as it got a bit chilly.

3. "Charlie Mops" was chosen because it's an Irish drinking song and Sunday is St. Patrick's Day. Do you expect to raise a glass in honor of the day?
Nothing for me.
4. Beer is not the only beverage often dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. In 1970, McDonald's introduced the Shamrock Shake, a milkshake made with a minty green syrup. If we were to go out for shakes right now, what flavor would you order?
Vanilla
5. Legend has it that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns, who can be mischievous pranksters. Is there anyone you would like to avoid today?
Yes, probably a few people but I never see them anyway.

6. For all our talk of green, it was not the original color of St. Patrick's Day. Through most of the 18th century, blue was worn across England and Ireland to honor St. Patrick. The Irish switched to green to express their independence from the English. Which color do wear more often: blue or green?
Blue
OU Marching 110
7. Today St. Patrick's Day is observed all over the world. In Tokyo, it's not a single day but a weekend celebration. When you think of Japan, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
WW2 and their treacherous  cruelty.. the fact they never apologized to the comfort women, etc.

8. One of the biggest parades each year in Buenos Aires is for
 St. Patrick's Day. Have you ever participated in a parade?
Yes as a girl scout.

9. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA, crowns a Miss St. Patrick's Day. Tell us about an event you recall from your college days.

Homecoming at Ohio University.. with the OU Marching 110 band.   
And...
Rutgers U:  the annual game vs Princeton U.  They are rival schools and have been since 1869.  


Monday, March 11, 2024

Tuesday 4 :A Chilly March Day

Howdy friends!    Another week is flying by but I think I know the secret to slowing them down.... work!    The more I pack into a day the more slowly they seem to go which suits me just fine.

Today here on the middle Atlantic ocean, we have gale force winds, a bit of light snow and low temperatures. We are under a flood watch until 2PM Monday.   Of course it is still officially winter until the 19th of March and Spring is notoriously volatile.

Hot coffee/tea, candles, warm clothing are the order of the day..  It's nice to be cozy inside on a tempest tossed night like this.

1. What kind of weather makes you feel you need to dress up warmly? Do you get chilled easily or does it take a lot to get you shivering?   As I get older it does not take as much to make me feel chilly. I want a sweatshirt or sweater when temps are in the low 50s and below. In the low 40s  I want a jacket and when we get down into 30 and below I put on my heavy coat with the fur hood!! 

I love to wear sweatshirts and hoodies in the fall  and on chilly summer nights on the beach where it can get chilly because of the ocean breeze and damp air.

2  How is your weather so far this month? Are you happy with it or how would you improve it? 

I am happy with it.  I like interesting weather and I would be bored by same old same old all year round.       We just went through a couple of gales that blew us every which what way n over big wheelie bins and trees. It rained and then light snow fell too. Temperatures varied a lot from the 50s down to the low 30s.   I think the only improvement I would make to NJ weather is an end to high humidity in summer.  We are classified as semi-tropical like the southern eastern states and it's not nice.   We didn't used to be so humid and I do not like being forced indoors for air conditioning because the weather is too hot and humid.  That's baloney!  You should be outside enjoying life in summer not indoors with sealed up windows. Boo Hiss.   Last year was more normal though and not as humid as it had been some years.

3. How do you handle very hot days where you live and what constitutes a very hot day in your opinion?          I handle them with super cold iced tea, fans, air conditioning and the bay/ocean.  That's how!

A very hot day for me depends on the humidity which makes hot all the hotter. 

When I lived in Utah, it would go up to over 100 in summer many days but the humidity was super super low and what would have been unbearable with humidity was not as oppressive.  But still northern Utah does have 4 distinct seasons.

 I hate days with humidity over 50% or more.  New Jersey is usually in the 80's in summer with a few days climbing into the 90s.   As a kid I  do not recall so many humid days as we have had but then again when you are young you can take more than as an adult.   

When I stayed with my mother in law, a native Floridian in her Miami home on a lagoon, it was super hot and humid in August but at 21 it hardly phased me at all.   Her home was on several acres backing up to a canal and crotons and royal palms out front.  A stinky Melaleuca  tree was in the back.       

We visited all her friends in the keys.  One lady had a miniature  chihuahua who I fell in love with.   She carried it around in her shirt pocket.   I did like the less dense side of Miami... I guess that is gone now... but, being young the heat was not a huge concern for me.  I did not like the bath tub temperatures of the water in the Gulf and the southern Atlantic and being me you know I was in the water non stop every single day while I was there just as I was in the water here all summer long.

4.  Is weather an important reason for you to live where you are or would you move to a better climate if you could?

Yes.  I enjoy 4 distinct seasons very much.  Winter with palm trees would bother me a lot.    I really seem to need the autumn weather and I really do love the vibrant color of that season as well.

Be well friends... See you tomorrow.