13 Thursday Rocks On
1. My kitchen is a disaster area. My desk is in an uproar. My car hasn’t been cleaned out since my husband and I returned from our beach vacation over a week ago. I’m still processing photographs from my son’s July 8th wedding, and my feet are dirty from barefoot dancing at Floyd Fest. My blog is on a lag system. I post Saturday’s entry on Sunday and Sunday’s on Monday, if I post at all. My head is swimming with ideas and words, most of which are unlikely to be written down. ~ Monday’s journal entry
2. But it’s okay, because it’s all in the name of fun.
3. Not only did I have a Deana sighting at Floyd Fest, but I ran into Tom and Pat Devrin, Floydians who live in Cedar Key, Florida, half of the year, right next to Terri from Island Writer! I also met up with Jan, a former Blacksburg resident from my Seeds of Light days. She and I have reconnected by way of “The Jim and Dan Stories.”
4. Writing recent blog posts,“The Fairies of Floyd Fest” and “A Few Floyd Fest Favorites,” makes me feel like I’m inventing tongue twisters. Here’s a challenge: how many F’s are there in the following text? FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Leave your answer in a comment.
5. Today’s “Rock on” is yesterday’s “Sock it to me.” It’s hard to believe that I once had “Sock it to me” written on one of my school notebooks.
6. Number 35 of my “100 Things About Me” says: If I hear Aretha Franklin sing “Respect,” I will get up and dance no matter where I am. And number 3 says: I manifested my second husband (love of my life) by playing and dancing to Steve Winwood’s “Bring Me a Higher Love” over and over.
7. My favorite quote of late is by none other than Sigmund Freud. He said: Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
8. Sometimes my poetry begins on its own, as a rhythmic and original line that I can use a springboard. Other times it’s like coming across a shiny coin that wants to be picked up and spent.
9. I just want to mention that I’ve never written about gout or arthritis. I’ve known for a while that there is an alternative Colleen Redman who is active in the Democratic Party in Alaska, but I just recently discovered a new Colleen Redman who is a medical writer. Oddly, both seem only a few degrees away from me.
10. I met my husband at the Great Oaks Country Club pool yesterday afternoon. He had just come from Christiansburg and brought some photographs that I had sent to Walmart online to be developed. After looking at them, I said to him, “According to these pictures, we’re having a great summer.”
11. Lately, I become nervous when I hear a crow cawing because I worry it’s blabbing to its friends about the corn in my yard.
12. Every August I get paid in corn for my garden labor. Corn is a gardener’s version of pure gold
13. Because of 13 Thursday, Thursdays are almost like a work day for me. So many bloggers to visit and comments to answer. It reminds me of playing tennis. Is it my serve?
Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13’s are here.
August 3rd, 2006 9:23 am
Cool 13. What on earth is Floydfest???
August 3rd, 2006 9:30 am
nothin’ like home-grown corn! Especially the white corn. Keep that crow outta there!
August 3rd, 2006 9:34 am
http://looseleafnotes.com/notes/2006/08/floyd_fest_the_homecoming.html This should explain Floyd Fest. Or scroll down or go to floydfest.com.
August 3rd, 2006 9:58 am
Your corn is not safe. lol Anyway, my T13 – Various Jobs Edition is up at Bloggin’ Outloud – http://blogginoutloud.blogspot.com/2006/08/t13-various-jobs-edition.html
August 3rd, 2006 10:07 am
Nice to meet you!
Thanks for visiting my TT!
August 3rd, 2006 10:27 am
5. Today’s “Rock on” is yesterday’s “Sock it to me.” It’s hard to believe that I once had “Sock it to me” written on one of my school notebooks. LOVE it!
Corn is pure gold to me. There’s nothing in the world like corn on the cob. Well, fried corn is a close second. 😉
3 F’s… is that a trick question?
August 3rd, 2006 10:48 am
What a nice analogy of TT and a work day/ tennis!
I love corn in any form, I lived in Iowa for a couple of years! Happy TT 🙂
August 3rd, 2006 10:50 am
Sounds like you ARE having a great summer. And I saw 6 F’s in your statement.
August 3rd, 2006 12:35 pm
#5, love it, that’s great! and I love your favourite quote, so true, so true.
August 3rd, 2006 12:40 pm
I would love to come over and crow about your corn. Do you have several varieties? Peaches & Cream? That’s my favorite, you know. Peaches & Cream. Mmmmmm. Corn.
Have a wonderful Thursday – your fest pics are a blast!!!
August 3rd, 2006 12:47 pm
Really enjoyed reading all of this,but two of them jumped out at me.
#6…Love the idea that you “manifested” your husband. I understand the concept and truly believe in it…and just the little I know of Joe from your blog…I’d say that’s exactly what you did! Very cool.
And #9….Gosh, what are the chances, huh? I mean, really, it’s not like your name is Mary White or something. And a heads up….have you seen the ads for the new show coming in the fall, “Six Degrees”? It’s about the six degrees of separation. Think it’s going to be on Thurs. nights, after Gray’s Anatomy and “I” can’t wait to watch it!
Oh..and talk about “small world” huh? Pat and Tom and me meeting you in the blog world!
August 3rd, 2006 1:05 pm
Oh, love that Floyd Fest, sounds fun!
But #6 just have to be my favorite, it’s something I could have done myself.
(We’re always starting the dance everywhere, even where it should’nt be any dance…)
August 3rd, 2006 2:26 pm
And once I’m up dancing, I usually don’t sit down until the band does.
Terri, what’s even wilder about my “higher love” manifestation is that my sister Tricia told me she manifested her husband the same way… with the same song! She told me one year at a family cookout and there was a friend of hers there who wanted to try it, so we went upstairs, found the song, blasted it on the stereo and all danced for her!
August 3rd, 2006 4:08 pm
We have very similar taste in music, Colleen. I love that song but I never imagined I could use it to conjure up a husband. Although honestly, I can’t think of anything I am LESS in the market for these days.
August 3rd, 2006 4:11 pm
My dad’s growing corn this year too! He lives right outside charlottesville and their corn is so high I can’t believe it.
August 3rd, 2006 4:16 pm
I’m reading the Fly Lady right now…trying to get my “life” in order!LOL
I read 6 F’s.
August 3rd, 2006 4:20 pm
Five “f’s”, right???
August 3rd, 2006 4:38 pm
corn IS like gold!!! Why is that!!! YUM!
August 3rd, 2006 6:26 pm
i love that steve winwood song !!!!
anotehr fave is (you make me feel like a) Natural Woman
August 3rd, 2006 6:31 pm
I just bought peaches and cream corn yesterday. Never heard of it before. I’ll try anything once!
Happy TT
August 3rd, 2006 6:54 pm
Mine are up.
Where did you get that cool picture?
I’ll be coming to get some corn if you have any extra!
It’s one of my favorite things….
Luv ya
August 3rd, 2006 9:06 pm
Great post…
I don’t get the F thing but I count 6?
I agree this is like tennis..I try so hard to visit but it is getting harder to keep up..
My TT is up
August 3rd, 2006 9:34 pm
Awesome Billboard! I had to click back to see your 100 things about me list. I’d never seen it before. I think number 79 is pretty much me…summed up perfectly. What neat things you have written.
Today the crow line got me…It is what I love about this place, your original and creative way of saying neat things. Things that I can “see” as soon as I read them!
August 3rd, 2006 11:00 pm
According to your blog, you’re having a great summer.
I’ve been a big Steve Winwood fan since high school.
August 3rd, 2006 11:11 pm
“100 Things About Me” used to be popular with bloggers, but I don’t see it much anymore. I used to look for them because it was a quick way to get to know someone. For me, it was like the precursor to 13 Thursday. I like the flow of lists, slightly disjointed lines that loosely relate.
It seems there are a lot of smart people visiting today. Most people only count 3 F’s in that sentence because we tend to skip over the f’s in the word “if.” Yes, there are 6 F’s in the sentence.
It really is a good summer! I’m trying to enjoy it while it lasts.
August 4th, 2006 7:47 am
Yum, corn. The corn was doing so well in VT this year. I hope it recoverd.
Isn’t it interesting that those other “Colleen” might be someone you would want to get to know better?
That is an amazing song. And, manifestation is so possible….
August 4th, 2006 8:49 am
Yes, and I’ve written about health issues before and have been involved in the Democratic party! Have you ever googled your name and found your bizzaro world counterparts?
August 4th, 2006 9:46 am
Thanks for the follow-up comment on the “manifesting.” Amazing, but not all that surprising to me. The Universe contains so much more than we’re aware of.
August 4th, 2006 11:28 am
So we poets drove Freud into making a niche for concepts? I like your #2 maybe best of all.
August 4th, 2006 11:56 am
I’ve been reading your posts about the Floyd Fest… sounds like an awesome event!! I think I am going to have to put it on my list of things to do. 🙂
The best part of late summer… fresh corn on the BBQ. mmmm…. Wish I had my own garden corn, but I’ll just have to make do with farmer’s market corn. If you are ever in the Alberta, Canada region… I totally recommend you find some Taber corn. Taber is a small town just north of Lethbridge (I think north….) and they have some of the sweetest, juiciest corn I have ever tasted. No idea what they do different, but it is just wonderful corn.
August 4th, 2006 5:21 pm
I don’t know all of you do it! THe visiting of everyone and commenting, too…AND the people who do all the other ‘group’ things..Wordless Wednesday and Something or other Tuesday and Friday Feast….I’m tired just thinking about it and feel I spend too much time on the computer, NOW! (LOL)
I know I say this every time Colleen, but I LOVE your TT’s. (That almost sounds risque…HA HA)
There is always so much to take in like great great shmorgesboard…YUM!
August 4th, 2006 11:09 pm
Wow, I never heard of “13 Thursdays” !! These are great. I’ll have to keep that in mind for next week. I particularly like your No. 7.