Get Your 13 Thursday Here
1. Since I started doing the 13 Thursday I’ve been on the lookout for opportunities to photograph 13 images, but due to the superstition surrounding the number, it hasn’t been easy. There is no #13 floor in most buildings, no #13 seat on planes. No airport gates. No #13 room in most hotels.
2. Evidently, fishermen aren’t superstitious. I saw this channel marker during a pontoon boat road in the Indian River at Bethany Beach this past July. My husband, Joe, understood, but the others on the boat couldn’t understand why I was excited about getting a shot of it.
3. I’m a messy blogger, gardener, and cook, but somehow I manage to write a lot, grow a lot of food, and eat three meals a day.
4. A salad without arugula is like hot water without a tea bag.
5. I don’t have much faith in germs. I don’t get worried about something getting contaminated because it got dropped on the floor. I know where potatoes come from, and it’s not the supermarket.
6. Remember “cooties?” I think spam is the updated version of them?
7. I didn’t know the word for “spatula” until I was about 20 years old. In my family we just called it “the spanking stick.”
8. During a recent phone call with my son Josh, he said: My friend Ethan’s son just turned 3. I went to his birthday party. He thinks my name is Josh Circus. I guess he can’t pronounce my real name (Josh Copus).
9. In the past few days, I’ve met an actor named with the last name Stump who performed a one-woman play outside, and a woman name Pickett who sat with a sign about politics in front of our town courthouse, which makes me wonder: If I change my name from Redman to something else, will I stop blushing so much when I have to do public speaking?
10. Read more about how our names are our assignments HERE.
11. Do you know your mate’s IQ? Read about how my husband and I have the same IQ number but for completely different reasons HERE.
12. Who do you think said this? “I’m an accidental overachieving underachiever. An unlucky person with a failure complex who somehow managed once in his life not to.”
13. It was 3-time National Scrabble Champion Joel Edley. Joel still lives at home with his parents in New York. According to Stephen Fatsis, author of “Word Freak,” the sign on the Edley’s front door says: MISSIONARIES AND OTHER SALESPEOPLE PLEASE USE THE ENTRANCE IN NEW JERSEY.
Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13’s are here.
August 17th, 2006 9:57 am
Great list! I happen to not live that far from Bethany Beach, small world!
HAPPY TT!
August 17th, 2006 9:59 am
Great list. My list is up too.
August 17th, 2006 10:06 am
Sweet 13 pic this week, a channel marker! LOL
We didn’t have a spanking stick, we had a wooden spoon. We had a lot of broken wooden spoons, they fracture easily when they hit flesh. 😛
I can relate to Joel’s quote. And the sign on his door, too!
August 17th, 2006 10:15 am
Arugula is the one the kids quickly spit out when I gave them an organic salad with their lunch one day.
Cooties is a great word for spam!
Our gate leaving Charlotte to Buffalo was actually C13 but everyone had a hard time finding it because it wasn’t with the other gates…It went C12, 14,15,etc. C13 was up a bit tucked into a corner. My guess was it had been added later or more recently and they figured folks now weren’t scared of 13 anymore. (Maybe we are more afraid of 11.) But they reminded us to be weary of 13 by making us look all over hell and back for it!
August 17th, 2006 10:31 am
Loved that list-especially #5
Mine’s up
August 17th, 2006 10:33 am
I am always looking for 13 to photograph and have not found one yet.
I have to agree w. six.
August 17th, 2006 10:37 am
I really like the pic you got of the 13! And I tend to agree with you on #5.
Have a great Thursday!!
August 17th, 2006 10:42 am
From now on my spam folder is going to be called “cooties”. Happy Thursday. Cheers.
August 17th, 2006 10:54 am
The names and assigments has always been of interest to me, as you know. I wrote about it also; mentioning the reporter here in Boston named Gale Huff. Can you guess what her job was?
And to # 5…
did you hear the one about the new mother who boiled the pacifier for a full five minutes when it fell out of her baby’s mouth.
When the second child came, a rinse under the faucet was fine.
By the time she had the 3rd child, when the pacifier was dropped, she quickly slipped it into her own mouth to take care of the stuff from the floor and then back it went into baby’s mouth (ugh…but cute)
August 17th, 2006 10:58 am
Hmmm…#4 seems was the first to catch my attention so I should add my 2-cents worth as I see it from my perspective….
I doubt I would put anything in my stomach with the nickname of “Rocket Salad”. There is just something rather scary about that name. Makes me wonder if it is something you should eat while sitting on the toilet? ….LOL
And it has been years since hearing the term “cooties”. Gosh…what a great word.
“Ewwww….don’t touch me or I’ll get your cooties!”
That’s pretty much all I heard during those days when I was trying to secure my first kiss from some unsuspecting third grader.
Spatula? Found out from watching Kramer on Seinfeld that they make great back-scratchers. Us single folks have to improvise.
August 17th, 2006 11:13 am
Come up to Baltimore! I worked in a building downtown that had a 13th floor. I was only there one year. Hmmmm… Also, there is a bar called the 13th Floor in the Belvedere Hotel!
August 17th, 2006 11:19 am
Arugula is for adult tastes and tastes best mixed with other greens. I remember the first time I had cilantro in a burrito. I turned up my nose thinking the burrito had soap in it. Now I love it!
I love that story about the pacifyer! And Deana’s story of gate 13 isn’t going to help redeem the number 13. What, does the number 13 have coooties or something?
August 17th, 2006 11:31 am
I love arugila and your list. ANd I especially don’t freak out when something falls on the floor. I have twins and it would be a constant worry if I did freak ateverythime something dropped.
Have a great Thursday!
August 17th, 2006 11:37 am
Great list! I never did think how difficult it would be finding signs with the number 13 on it. But now that you mention it, I don’t think I have really ever seen one. I am going to have to keep a look out now. 😉
August 17th, 2006 11:38 am
If arugula is like “rucola lettuce” I am not very fond of it. I am a true Eisberg lettuce fan! I agree with your nr 5 and germs!!! very true. What doesn’t kill us makes us only stronger. Don’t remember who said that…happy TT, off to visit your links!
August 17th, 2006 11:58 am
Ah, finally my curiosity were fed. You made me hop over here at once with your comment. You knew I would be too curious didn’t you? *lol*
#2: I find it amusing that people find our photo shooting amusing, exactly like yours.
#3: I’m sure that your food etc is as interesting and fun as you’re blog posts are! Well worth the mess 😉
#5: I’ve actually heard a lady on the radio got interviewed once, saying that she didn’t like eggs. They asked why and she said that it was because you don’t know what the hen had been picking in…. (My add: Does she even consider where the eggs come out…? *LMAO*)
#7: I think I pass this one totally, just shut my eyes for it. I haven’t even read this one.
#11: That’s what we always claim, Mr L and me, that we are one full brain together. But do you know what my best friend Miss Ass. Lifecruiser says then? “No” and laughs that terrible laugh…. 😉
August 17th, 2006 12:00 pm
regarding #6 i’m not sure, you could at least get rid of cooties.
August 17th, 2006 12:15 pm
People are always “concerned” at the things I get excited about taking pictures of, too. 🙂
August 17th, 2006 1:24 pm
I haven’t heard the word cooties in years, and this makes twice today. Liam asked me this morning if they are real.
My TT is up.
August 17th, 2006 1:24 pm
there is a family owned haulage company near my mum called ‘lugg’s haulage’. sadly mr lugg’s daughter is called grace.
we also have distant cousins called lobb. one is sadly also called grace. tragic really. she i always thought should do as little as possible. or take up the shot putt.
🙂 lovely 13 as ever.
August 17th, 2006 2:04 pm
You always have the best 13 pics 🙂 I wish I didn’t care about germs. I care about them more and more as I get older – and probably not in a good way. Water fountains make me cringe!!
August 17th, 2006 3:16 pm
You must have seen “They Call Me Aunt Orlene”. I was going to see the play here in Roanoke, but they cancelled the performance.:( I’ve heard wonderful reviews though! You made me think of the old rhyme…God made dirt and dirt don’t hurt!LOL I enjoy your Thirteen Thursdays!
August 17th, 2006 3:42 pm
I love your 13 pictures. Such a great idea. And I completely agree about argula. I could care less about germs especially since I heard that kids who grow upin messier households have less allergies than kids who grow up in immaculate homes. 🙂
August 17th, 2006 6:08 pm
3,,4,5, 13 made me smile one by one. The 13 superstition is funny. We once lived at house 13 on building lot 13. Didn’t do us a whit of harm. Liked that post on name meanings. I have to a degree codified myself as being originating in hurt lacquered over to beauty but I think I’ve outgrown that shell. P like bubbles burst to a cool spritz, u; a grunt, rrr, an effort , L light and lovely free.
August 17th, 2006 9:05 pm
speaking of germs, here’s a story about our receptionist. Last week, I had to go to the dentist. I had a brush at work, but no toothpaste. I’d noticed her walk by with brush & toothpaste, and so asked if I could have some of her toothpaste. She smiled, said sure! and off I went to brush my teeth. Fast forward to today, I had another dentist appt and me being me, didn’t remember to get toothpaste. So I asked her if I could have more of hers. She said sure! and handed it over. I noticed, in the bathroom, it was different from the toothpaste I’d used last week. When I handed it back, the light dawned, and I said…OMG you threw out that toothpaste I used last week, didn’t you! She blushed and laughed and said yes! I was apologetic, cause I knew she was going to throw out this one too. Talk about germaphobe! Kinda insulting, really…I don’t have THAT many germs!
August 17th, 2006 9:54 pm
Love your saying that cooties are now Spam!!! That’s the truth isn’t it? So annoying thatspam stuff! I laughed out loud at the one Colleen and I thank you for that!
Always enjoy your TT posts!
August 18th, 2006 12:39 pm
With a sign like that on his door, he had better still be living with his parents.~,:^0
My wife, who, as you know, grew up in a family not unlike yours but even bigger, still won’t use the spatula. It is called a “turner”. There’s a no-nonsense name for something.
So is spanking stick.
August 18th, 2006 11:34 pm
Hwy 13 runs through Virginia Beach and on over to the Eastern Shore. Perhaps I’ll try to get a picture of the sign.
August 19th, 2006 7:47 am
Yes, I know it’s Saturday….your point? You blog is like a familiar book that you want to read, nestled in your favorite chair. I’ve chosen to read your thirteens on Saturday. I love your links (thanks…I am old enough to remember cooties). I love your mind…I’m a horrible speller so I would be a horrible Scrabble player. My hubby and I complete one brain also, it’s kind of nice that way. Thanks for my peek at life in Floyd.