Thirteen Thursday
1. I have my suitcase in my bedroom, but it’s not packed. My dad is in the hospital and we are all on the edge of our seats.
2. My current favorite movie is “Off the Map.”
3. This week, I got my teeth cleaned, my hair cut, and a new timing belt put on my car.
4. My sister, Tricia, and I have the same car (Honda CRV). Same color. Same year. Same kind of mess in the back seat.
5. Tricia and I have an ongoing long list of similarities that we share (keeping our cars messy is just one of them), but I wish one of us would write the list down.
6. I like the language of lists. I think making them is more an exercise in poetics than the construction of prose composition is. In list making, one disjointed line leads to another and you can condense a lot into one sentence.
7. At the dentist, with an intrusive tube and a buzzing tool in my mouth, I felt sad thinking about all the stuff the nurses and doctors are doing to my dad, and I wondered how it would feel to have a tube down my nose.
8. This week, I’ve been darning our wool sweaters. I hang them on the clothes line and beat them like rugs.
9. My potato crop isn’t nearly as prolific as last year’s. I feel very Irish when I harvest potatoes, or like a pirate digging for buried treasure.
10. I thought I would enjoy the unraveling of some of the Bush Administration’s architects of the Iraq war (Thinking Rove, Libby, Cheney, and the forged document from Niger here) more than I am. It seems a little too little, too late.
11. Yesterday, I researched phosphorus and looked up the word Atelectasis (not in the regular dictionary) because my sister was low in phosphorus when she had her seizure and my dad has developed some atelectasis, a collapse of part of his lungs.
12. A cyber friend who is planning a website on quotes asked to use this quote from my blog bio “Whenever I don’t know what it is I’m doing and it borders on wasting my time, I call it research.”
13. Remember that white streak I told you I have in my hair. Nah…just kidding. It’s a wig.
Leanne, the master conductor of 13 Thursday keeps a list of participants at Artist by Nature. Check it out.
October 27th, 2005 9:30 am
Hi Colleen. This is my first post here at your blog.:) Thank you for visiting mine! Leanne did a great job getting it to look pretty!
I hope you have a wonderful day! And I love the hair!!!
October 27th, 2005 9:34 am
Thursday Thirteen #11
Thirteen Things about Leanne, Thursday, October 20, 2005
My other Thirteens
1. There are 3 days left to enter the Pumpkin Carving Contest. I have 3 new entries that I need to add, plus whatever YOU send me! (GREAT BIG GIANT HINT there, in …
October 27th, 2005 10:15 am
I’m thinking of your family. I’m sorry that your dad is having a rough time. If you need something to take your mind off of things you could always clean out the back seat of your car. I find cleaning therapeutic during times of stress. Weird, huh? Have a peaceful day.
October 27th, 2005 10:20 am
Your wig is Fabulous!! I’ll be sure to come to the party tomorrow. What can I bring?
October 27th, 2005 10:30 am
hey, i’m playing the 13 today as well.
when my youngest was born, she was a premmie and had a tube down her nose for feeding, she kept pulling it out, not very pleasant i’m sure. i don’t know what’s wrong with your dad, but i can imagine it’s not an easy time to visit with him, it’s hard to have to see him like that, i guess just put on a brave face and be there for him right now. i love lists too, i’m going to work on my christmas one today.
October 27th, 2005 10:42 am
Good morning Colleen. Michele sent me. I enjoyed your Thursday 13. Thanks for the movie recommendation.
October 27th, 2005 12:16 pm
Sorry to hear that your dad isn’t well. I’ll be thinking of him.
I’ll have to check out that movie. There are some great actors in it.
Funny picture! 😉
My 13.
October 27th, 2005 2:48 pm
I’m sorry to hear your Dad’s not doing so well…I’ll keep him in my thoughts, my most positive ones 🙂
October 27th, 2005 4:28 pm
Ok……….13 has significance for me right now too. It was 13 years ago that I had my first seizure pretty much to the day. I’ve been joking at work for them to watch out in 2018 when October comes because I’m beginning to think it’s a 13 year curse or something (lol!). The list of ours that’s growing by the minute might look something like this but since it’s so big…..I might forget some: loves salt, knows how to make the perfect cup of tea, agrees the perfect boiled egg is somewhere between hard and soft, loves words and language, loves lists, has to write things down or the brain won’t retain it, in a room full of people you can read them well…..if somebody was overly sensitive about a comment that was made you would notice, use to get lump in throat, experienced a coming of age nervousness in your early 20’s that was major, loves baths over showers, messy car, same model make and year, gets overstimulated very easily, can tolerate beer better than wine, has experienced nearly identical vertigo attacks, really hard math problems make us feel like our brain is tripping out, and has had auras that are seizure related. Ok…..the ones I forgot have to be picked up by you! Love you.
October 27th, 2005 4:40 pm
All I can think of right now is that we love peppers with eggs and have to have eggs in the morning to feel good. Okay…also doesn’t like to drive in/near cities. Prefers slow traffic over everyone speeding by (most people are the opposite). And we both have two boys…both blonde…with the same age difference.
Now that’s a good start for our list!
October 27th, 2005 8:26 pm
How could I forget eggs with peppers and driving?!! Yes…..this is a good start to our list. Love you.
October 27th, 2005 8:46 pm
I’m sorry about your dad. We’ve had a lot of medical issues lately, and I know that undertow of tension no matter how things are going.
October 27th, 2005 9:21 pm
I hope you find your dad doing a lot better. When he sees you, he will be better. Nothing lifts a father’s spirits than seeing his little girls.
I enjoyed your previous post. Tried it myself and I’m not sure yet if it is printable. There were quite a few writing romance novels and one who once was a boy but is now a girl (transgender site). And I was hoping for something boring.
October 27th, 2005 10:15 pm
Of the four members of my household — Mary, me, and our cats Daisy and Red — only Daisy has not experienced a naso-gastric tube. I have no memories of pain or discomfort associated with mine, but I do remember watching the bubbles travel along the tube. Wishing your dad a steady recovery….
October 27th, 2005 11:21 pm
I hope your dad and sis are doing ok. This must be a rough time for you and your family.
October 28th, 2005 12:03 am
I am sorry for what you are going through. My Dad is now 91 and after loosing Mom this past summer, I dread the day when I have to pack my bag and head out that way again. We all go through these times, but I have a feeling you handle them better (at least for those around you) then I do.
October 28th, 2005 3:01 am
Colleen,
Your dad is in my thoughts. I have missed your blog in my time away!
Good day!
Ivy
October 28th, 2005 7:21 am
Since you like making lists so much…how about the next chance you get, clean out that messy car and make a list of all that you remove and throw out?
What is it about some people that causes them to have extra messy vehicles? My daughter is the same way. Her trunk is always stuffed. If you give her something, she must put it in the back seat to transport it and that area is extra messy too.
May He who loves us give you the strength to deal with what you are facing.
October 28th, 2005 9:40 am
Coll, Thought of another one while making breakfast this morning: likes lots of butter on toast!
October 30th, 2005 7:46 am
Egad, I’m keeping up with the list you and Sherry are making and it’s downright scary! (too many in-common-withs)
The messy car? STANDS UP, RAISES HAND AND SHAKES IT ABOUT FEVERISHLY. GUILTY!
When I drive a cleaned out car, I always feel like something just plain missing.
Colleen, I too love the whole list concept. I think, for me, it’s because I tend to ramble so much that committing to an abbreviated list helps keep me in check!
Great post! (will have you and your family in mind all weekend till we hear your good news this week)