13 Things: I’m Just Saying
1. I don’t understand certain meats. There’s rump roast, pot roast, chuck roast, and roast beef. I’ve always been confused about what to buy and then, how to cook it.
2. I feel the same way about coffee. I’m not a coffee drinker and when it comes to making it, I’m developmentally delayed. I still remember when people either drank instant coffee or had to percolate it. I recently bought a Mr. Coffee maker because I had a lot of company in town for my son Dylan’s recent wedding. His older brother, Josh, gave me a lesson because I had no idea how to use it.
3. Sadly, listening to music is becoming like meat and coffee to me. It’s not as easy as putting on an album, playing tape, or even a CD anymore. Josh brought his IPOD home and turned me onto some new music. “But how do you get the music in it?” was all I wanted to know. I wish learning to download music onto an IPOD was as easy as learning to make coffee.
4. My son Dylan was born more hairy than his brother Josh. One of the funny stories Josh told during his Best Man’s wedding day toast was about the time when little Dylan came to me teary eyed, “Mum, Josh says I’m a werewolf cause I got fur!” he cried.
5. Josh was honored to be asked to be Dylan’s Best Man, even though he knew part of the reason he got chosen was because all of Dylan’s friends were too shy to do the toast.
6. Josh, who is not shy, didn’t get to make a wedding appearance in his gorilla costume, as he had planned, but he did go to town with the suit on and drank a cup of coffee at the Black Water Loft.
7. This is what Josh wrote for a web page profile describing what kind of music he likes: I like ninja surf rock, spy theme song music, any music that sounds like your underwater, especially music that sounds like ninjas are fighting spies underwater. I like car chase spy hunter type music, underground hip-hop, hip-hop in other languages, dancing with Rachel Reeser, music that sounds like you just broke up with your girlfriend, and all types of reggae music.
8. I love the hula hoop but not the twist. I love the Macarena but not following the dance steps that go with it.
9. The pictures I took of the wedding rehearsal dinner on Friday and the cook-out on Sunday all came out great, but the ones I took on the actual wedding day on Saturday were mostly all blurry. (I just had to get that off my chest). When Dylan and Alexis posed for a picture, I said, “Say Cruise” instead of “Say Cheese.” They’re going on one for their honeymoon.
10. In order to get her youngest son, Patrick, to smile for the camera, my sister Tricia used to have to say “Say Underwear.” That would put a big grin on Patrick’s face every time.
11. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there’s a black snake in town, the phoebe birds that have nested on our porch rafters are learning to fly, and a bee got caught in one of the metal tubes of our wind chimes and now it’s buzzing like a continuous Buddhist chant.
13. Last but not least; check out these amazing painted hands, which came via my niece Beth and inspired my 13 Thursday photo this week, HERE.
Post Notes: Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13’s are here. Also, it’s my sister Kathy’s first 13 Thursday and her entry is all about her recent trip here to Virginia for my son’s wedding. Go say hello HERE.
July 13th, 2006 9:08 am
That happens to me alot…pictures are wonderful right up to the once in a life time big event, then they aren’t so good. Maybe it is nervous shaking…anyway that was a great shot of the kids!
I don’t understand the roasts at all. I made one this winter and liked it but only went by what looked like a good size for us. I had no clue what each term meant!
July 13th, 2006 9:13 am
Awww congratulations, proud new Mom-in-Law! ((hugs)) What a beautiful time – beautiful couple, and you look amazing, too!!
I have a hard time with the coffee too, I was forced to figure it out when Mark went to Iraq. I can’t tell you how many coffee grinds I’ve wiped up from the floor and counter from overflow! I had to go to the help desk online when I got my MP3 player for Christmas, too! You’re not alone!
xoxo
July 13th, 2006 9:48 am
coffee drinking has become way too complicated. I agree. 🙂
July 13th, 2006 10:23 am
If Nyssa were “tying the knot”, my pictures would be blurry from the tears, well maybe not.
So the wind chime sounds like a continuous chant because of the bee buzzing or in spite of the bee. Yesterday, I watched a bee get so drunk on flower nectar that he just sat on the edge of the flower for ten minutes without moving. Then he tried to move and fell off the flower. He really was “fall down drunk”.
Gardening question: So, how do we keep the squirrels off the tomatoes? Keep in mind these are city squirrels without much fear of anything. They have been busy on the roof the last two nights and I’ve lost two big tomatoes and several small cherry ones. Right now I have strung bird netting over them hoping to discourage such bad behavior, but I think the netting tangled me up more than the squirrels.
July 13th, 2006 10:34 am
I think the camera battery was low, was on the wrong setting, and I kept passing the camera off to others who didn’t know how to use it for them to take shots. For my own shots, I was not exactly calm.
I never knew squirrels liked tomatoes… to eat them or just to vandalize them? We live in the country and don’t have trouble with squirrels, maybe because they have so much room to roam. The netting sounds like it will be helpful.
July 13th, 2006 10:41 am
Say underwear? That is funny…
For the meat thing, watch Good Eats on the Food Network – you learn all kinds of stuff there about food….
I played too
July 13th, 2006 10:52 am
I’m just sayin’ you have some great experiences…
Thanks for visiting FBO and my T13 – Bible Misquotes Edition.
July 13th, 2006 11:16 am
Your boys sound like a hoot! I laughed at the Gorilla costume. My boys have teach me stuff about the computer all the time and how to download my music to my ipod too. Congrats to your son on his wedding. Great TT, I played too. Stacie
July 13th, 2006 11:21 am
Congratulations to Dylan and Alexis and to the mother of the Groom!
I loved Josh’s description of the music he likes.
You sound like a totally cool mom because you at least understand the concept of the iPod.
I never seem to make coffee to taste as good as when I buy a cup.
July 13th, 2006 11:27 am
So glad I found your blog! I’m from Charlottesville VA and just moved to NY a year ago. I’m also a writer…
Makes me miss home.
The wedding sounds like it was wonderful. Congrats to all.
July 13th, 2006 11:38 am
I’ll give you a lesson on making coffee, buy you may not like it! Thanks for the tip on the painted hands. My son and I had great laughs looking at the rest of the site too.
July 13th, 2006 12:52 pm
# 3 – with a siphon isn’t it? #2 yep, I’m coffee-clueless too, #11 intriguing.
July 13th, 2006 1:03 pm
Happy Thursday!!
July 13th, 2006 1:12 pm
Those hands are amazing.
I get confused w. meat but more confused about potatoes. I always buy the wrong ones.
I hope your son and his new wife have a great time on the CRUISE!
July 13th, 2006 2:36 pm
I still have no idea how to work the coffee makers! I don’t drink caffinated drinks, but I do know how to boil water and put the tea bag in!;)
I have heard about IPOD’s, but haven’t seen one (I don’t think). I’m sure I wouldn’t understand them either!
Glad you had such a wonderful weekend!!! Congrats again to you all!!!
July 13th, 2006 3:00 pm
Happy TT and thanks for linking mine to your site Col. I might just do it again.
I really really had a good to in VA. It was fun to write about it.
BTW, when my pictures get developed on my old fashioned camera, I’ll send you my doubles.
July 13th, 2006 4:43 pm
I’m trying to learn on the cut of meat and coffee things… we just recently bought whole bean coffee and I had to post about some help on grinding it and how much to use! 🙂
Congrats to the newlyweds, and have a wonderful day 🙂 My T13 is up also…
July 13th, 2006 4:48 pm
I’m not multilingual, I’m probably best at Spanish. All that means is I can get by. The others didn’t stick well. So, if you hear of a plot to banish me to a foreign country, please try to influence them into sending me somewhere where they speak Spanish very slowly 😉
I love those hands! That’s fabulous!
When I want my kids to smile for photos I make a really vile farting sound. It works great, but I’m hoping the youngest will be old enough soon to just smile on cue 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
July 13th, 2006 4:49 pm
Those painted hands are just amazing!! My son has an iPod too, he e-mailed my sister telling her how to download music. I asked him to put my e-mail in copy!! the wedding sounds fantastic and the couple is so handsome!! happy tt 🙂
July 13th, 2006 5:22 pm
Thanks for the laughs again today- What would Thurs be like without you writing and me trying to find the threads that make it into the whole that it becomes. By the way, it was a cucumber.
July 13th, 2006 9:14 pm
This is a great list. I know what you mean about uploading music to an iPod…and those roasts??? I don’t know what to do with any of them!!!!!!!
My TT is up here. Hope you’ll drop by!!
July 13th, 2006 9:27 pm
Josh in the gorilla suit at the wedding, that would have been hilarious!
My TT is up!
Luv ya!
July 13th, 2006 10:07 pm
I’ve been tossing around the possibility of doing my own Thursday 13, but I’ve never had the courage – or the time.
Reading yours this week, however, has convinced me that I need to take this step. This is absolutely inspirational. It reminds me why living on this planet is such a blessing.
I’ll start putting my ideas together for next Thursday’s “do”.
I’m sorry I don’t live closer. If I did, I’d drop by the cafe and give you an everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-iTunes tutorial. It’s easier than it looks.
July 13th, 2006 10:14 pm
hahaha to the werewolf story!!!
July 14th, 2006 1:45 am
As always Coleen, your TT Are Fascinating! Filled with interesting tidbits and special informatioin about many wonderful things!
I’ve seen those hands pictures before and I found them simply AMAZING! Thanks for posting them so I could see them once again….I fogot how truly remarkable they are!
July 14th, 2006 5:40 am
yeah something happened to our camera the first few days after the podlets were born. everything was an indistinct blur. thank goodness for everyone elses cameras!
great list again 🙂
the grinlets smile for me only when i say “say ‘CHEESY KAKA’!”
July 14th, 2006 11:46 pm
saw yoou at micheles – and couldn’t resist.
we are having a fire this week ( pics)
pray for the firefighters
July 15th, 2006 5:47 pm
OH NO…..You’re NOT a coffee drinker? And even worse…your coffee challenged?
See the things we learn about a person on blogs….lol
Loved the photo of Dylan and Alexis….what a great looking couple!