Another Sunday, Another Meme

 

  Welcome to Sunday Stealing.   Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the
blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week we're inspired by Blogography. More than 20 years ago, he stole this meme from Neil, his blogging buddy. Alas, Neil's blog no longer exists, so that's where the trail goes cold.

Another Sunday, Another Meme

1. Do you have a business card? If yes, what's your job title?   Not anymore, no.  At one time I had a cute little business card made for me in Virginia Beach that said my name and then "Professional wife and Mommy."

2. What day of the week were you born?   Tuesday's child is full of grace.

3. What vegetable do you refuse to eat?   I like them all. Brussels Sprouts and broccoli are at the top of the list.

4. How many times have you stayed overnight in the hospital?    I  had extensive spinal surgery and was in the hospital from May 18th to nearly the end of August.   I was supposed to stay another 2 months but I went home because I was so homesick.  So they gave me a home nurse and physical therapist to vist me each day for another month until I was fit to go out for PT.

5. Do you have more piercings or tattoos?   No tattoos but pierced ears.

7. How much cash is in your wallet right now?    Not much.

8. Let's play MASH:    Do you live in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house?   I live in a little house in a coastal community.  

9. Where are you in the family birth order (oldest, middle child, youngest, or only child)?

I am my mother's only child and my father's youngest child, but I was raised as an only child as the half siblings  were very much older and off with their own families.

10. When you were 5 years old, what did you call your parents?   Mommy and Daddy

Halloween Saturday 9

Hi friends and if you celebrate Happy Halloween.  

 Welcome to Saturday: 9.    What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

  I've Written a Letter to Daddy (1962)

Unfamiliar with this week's featured song?        Hear it  HERE.

1) This song is from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, which was released on Halloween Day, 1962. Do you like scary movies?

 Not at all.   I don't need it in my life. Too much of real life is scary, escpecially today..

2) The "Baby Jane" of the title is Baby Jane Hudson. Jane was a child star, singing and dancing in vaudeville. She was so popular that Baby Jane dolls sold well at her shows. Tell us about one of your favorite childhood toys.

 I really enjoyed paper dolls very much.

3) Baby Jane's career hit the skids when she hit her teens and audiences no longer found her cute. Adolescence can be a tough time for many of us.   Did you ever go through an awkward phase? 

I think the time between 13 and 15 can be a bit trying as a young teen trying to figure it all out.

 

4) Meanwhile, Jane's older sister Blanche blossomed into a beauty and became a major movie actress. Her career was cut short when, at the height of her popularity, her back is broken in a car accident involving a drunken Jane. Most of the movie takes place in the mansion Blanche bought back when she was a star. Blanche is confined to a wheelchair and completely dependent on Jane, who is bitter, jealous, and well, bonkers. Very bad things happen. Can you think of another movie where scary things happen in a big old house?

• Home Alone 
• Practical Magic

5) As a (crazy) older woman, Jane convinces herself she can relaunch her career and recapture the love of the public. She dresses like she did as a little girl and makes up her face to look like those Baby Jane dolls that were sold long ago at her childhood performances. Then she rehearses this week's song. The result is so memorable that now, more than 60 years later, you can still find "Baby Jane" Halloween costumes online. Tell us about a Halloween costume you really enjoyed wearing.

My mother once made me an authentic Martha Washington dress and mob cap for  a dress up. She was a very good seamstress.   Another time I was dressed as Queen Esther and I really liked that.

 

6) Which kind of spooky movie villain do you find scarier: supernatural monsters (Dracula, Wolfman, ghosts, etc.) or human monsters (Baby Jane, Michael Meyers from the Halloween franchise, etc.)? 

I think the ones from the gory movies  which is why I just won't watch them.

.....Questions inspired by Halloween ....

7) Orange and black are the traditional Halloween colors, with orange representing the autumn harvest and black symbolizing all things scary and mysterious. Are you wearing either color as you answer these questions?

Yes.  I have on a Led Zepplin tee shirt which has black and a dark dusty orange in the logo.

It's now a work shirt for around the house as it's seen better days.

8) Jack-o-lanterns originated in Ireland, though instead of pumpkins, they carved gourds. When Irish immigrants arrived in the US, they used pumpkins because they were more readily available. Did you decorate your home with a jack-o-lantern, or anything else, for Halloween?

I have a wicker pumpkin with twinkle lights in it and I see it more as an Autumn decoration than Halloween.. I just like it.

9) Think back to your trick-or-treating days. Which candy were you happiest to find your bag?

 I am a Snickers fan.  I also like Baby Ruth.

 

Golden Autumn

Friday is the 6th day of the week and the entrance to the weekend. It's like an open door leading to rest and peace after a busy week.

It's football season too and high schools and universities are high on excitement. Bonfires crackle on campuses the night before the big games. Everyone brings wood of one kind or another , even chairs, until the pile is well over a story hight.

And, it's sweatshirt weather. Nothing is more inviting and cozy than jeans and a sweatshirt.

New Jersey is awash with colors that deepen by the day.  Orange, reds, plums , yellows are all on display now.   Days are cool and nights are downright cold.

The open bay is at the horizon, not that far really.

Sunset sends a golden glow over everything.  They don't call it the  Golden Hour for nothing.

  No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.

Haiku by  Matsuo Basho

In the backyard the trees show off.  Soon enough the leaves will be gone and skies will turn silver.

The old pump sputters
then bursts to life.
Moss is grateful for a drink.

Happy Autumn