13 Thursday: I’d Rather Be Blogging
1. Eulogy for Falling Leaves: Some die of natural causes … They drift to the ground and close their eyes …. Leaving their perfectly unmarked bodies … scattered like photographs of my ancestors …
2. Read the rest of this poem HERE or listen to my Shakespearian understudy recite a stanza of it HERE.
3. Speaking of wigs … I’ve been doing 13 Thursday for a year! 53 of them! THIS is my second 13 Thursday from last October, done in Halloween wig!
4. Plastic surgery is like the new anorexia. People who get obsessed with it actually think they look good.
5. Last night I tried to blog my dream while I was dreaming it. I was at big party where Van Morrison was playing. When another Van, who lives here in Floyd, was called up to the stage to play with him, my blogger’s mind kicked in. I started looking for my camera while a blog title … something like “Van on Van”… began to take shape.
6. The week before I dreamed that I met Jessie Colin Young from the “Youngbloods.” He was a regular guy living a regular life. I asked him where I could get a copy of “Get Together” and he said he didn’t know.
7. I like costumes. I still remember dressing up as Huck Finn in elementary school and Davy Crockett a few years ago. When I was visiting my sister Sherry and her husband Nelson last year, we were getting ready to go to a Robin Hood Festival where festival goers dress the part. Sherry laid out all her “lady” and “wench” costumes on the bed for me to pick out an outfit to borrow. I tried a few on but didn’t feel comfortable in any of them. “Do you have any boy’s clothes?” I asked. (See photo)
8. At a Halloween Party some years ago, I dressed all in black with a veil over my head. No one, not even my friends, knew who I was. When the music began and I started to dance, I changed my dancing style, so as not to give myself away to those who knew me.
9. HERE is a photo of me and Robin Hood when I joined the Merry Band.
10. Robin Hood would probably be called a terrorist today.
11. I now know what a load of laundry looks like after it’s been washed with a whole roll of toilet paper that fell in the laundry basket and then got covered up with clothes. 
12. As a teenager, I actually did once throw an egg at a car on Halloween and have since then felt guilty about it. The friend I was pulling this “trick” off with grew up to be the Police Capitan of the town.
13. HERE is my sister Kathy’s monkey understudy giving her monkey mind a piece of her own.
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October 19th, 2006 9:22 am
My fave is the costumes! Those are great! You look very happy! Great pic! 😉
October 19th, 2006 9:49 am
Love this tt’s title!! Love your costumes!
Your nr. 4 is so true…plastic surgery is the new anorexia, how terrible!
Oh, no: a whole roll of toilet paper being washed…a nightmare! halloween-like!
Ok, I will tell my real name on next TT – never planned on making a big deal out of it, but people are curious and Thirteeners are busy and won’t visit my site twice in one day…
October 19th, 2006 9:52 am
sorry to laugh at your laundry misery, but that’s kind of funny. It happens when you leave a tissue in your pocket, too. 🙂
October 19th, 2006 9:58 am
Like the picture!
My girlfriend reads in her dreams and I write great books. The only problem, as you may know, is trying to retrieve the info.
Laundry can be such an issue. I still get crayons in the dryer!
October 19th, 2006 10:14 am
Just sent my own little monkey-minded email. Great fun.
Have a Happy!
October 19th, 2006 10:57 am
I like you in your boy clothes! You look really cute, and that monkey thing is so cute I can’t stand it 🙂
That toilet paper in the wash sounds like something I would do.
I always enjoy your 13 🙂
October 19th, 2006 11:28 am
Oh the old “toilet paper in the wash” trick. And here I thought I was the only one who left kleenex in pockets and such. This would be one time where an electric dryer would be of immense help.
October 19th, 2006 12:04 pm
Great costumes. And I’m SO jealous of you…I used to dream as vividly as you do…but not for years now. I’m lucky to awake with barely snippets…even tried putting Lapis under my pillow. Nothing seems to work to allow me to wake with vivid accounts of the dreams.
October 19th, 2006 12:13 pm
Van on Van, Snort! I don’t have the toilet paper experience but I do with a wad of kleenex.
My son loves the whole Ren Fest thing. There is a huge on here not far out of Houston every year. He’s been a couple of years and always dresses the part. And comes back with wooden versions of the weapons.
And, my son loves anything monkey. So, I had my son on my mind throughout your post!
October 19th, 2006 12:26 pm
Shakespearian understudy! So cute how you worked that into your TT.
I hope people click on the monkey to hear the rest of your stanza.
Thanks for mentioning mine too. What a hoot that was. Notice too how when you move your mouse the monkeys eyes follow. LOL.
I like costumes too. My best one was the Halloween head that Oz made out of hangers and paper mache. Trouble was, I couldn’t see out of it. What a migraine I had by the end of the night. Dressing all in black with a veil over my head would have been a better idea … especially if I washed it first with a roll of toilet paper!
Great list. No pet peeves here.
October 19th, 2006 12:43 pm
Wonderful list 🙂 I loved reading it!
Happy Thursday!
October 19th, 2006 1:38 pm
I love all the pictures and the poem for sure, but #11 cracked me the hell UP!
October 19th, 2006 2:15 pm
ugh that poor load of washing! 🙁
i loved the costume pics. i’d ratehr be robin hood or huck finn than a wench too, anyday.
and the plastic surgery thing is so true. horrid.
October 19th, 2006 2:27 pm
Okay, number 10 got a chuckle out of me, but #11? YIKES! That’s one I haven’t experienced yet, thankfully.
Congrats on a year of Thursday 13s! 😉
I’ve posted 13 Scenes from My Chaotic Life, today. Enjoy!
October 19th, 2006 2:53 pm
Too funny!
I’m with you on wanting something more boy-ish. I was a tomboy growing up and had to wear dresses to school (back in the day) and hated every minute of it. I think that’s why I’m rebelling now. 😉
I thought a pocketful of kleenex was bad! Oy! A whole role would kill me!
Happy Thursday and thanks for visiting!
October 19th, 2006 4:07 pm
Oh, you look wonderful. Great choice of costume. Very natural. 🙂
~S
October 19th, 2006 4:46 pm
Remembering my dreams is a double edged sword. Last night I dreamt my dog was cut in half and I had to watch/help her die! I washed the clothes over 3 times before the paper came out. I couldn’t understand what had happened ….to much for just a tissue … until the next day when I was in the bathroom saying….where the heck did that new roll of toilet paper go…!!!
Karen, I used to live in Tomball and we went to the Ren Faire all the time. I used to go with my brother Danny, who lived in Houston for 20 years. My sisters and their kids came to visit and we did the Ren Faire with them too. I have very fond memories of those days.
October 19th, 2006 7:08 pm
So much fun to see my picture on your blog.
I love wearing female costumes all the way. I was shocked when you wanted to be a plain commoner/male. But we sure did have fun…remember the lemonade?? and of course the first Faire I ever went to was in Texas. Those were great memories. xo
October 19th, 2006 7:26 pm
I was actually born on a Friday the 13th, which explains a lot. It’s probably the reason I’m constantly in trouble. My latest debacle is on my blog.
October 20th, 2006 2:04 am
Neat banner! Except, now I won’t be able to go to sleep! LOL!
October 20th, 2006 2:31 pm
re: #11- funny, my mom’s visiting and the same day you wrote this, i did a load of laundry with some of her clothes in it. she not only left a bunch of tissue in her pant’s pockets, but had also left a pocketful of cosmos seedheads in her shirt. that was a fun lint trap to clean out!! 🙂
October 21st, 2006 12:17 pm
Guess you could call it “Moondancing With Van”! I dressed up as Huck Finn in High School and as Tom Sawyer once when teaching and reading “Whitewashing the Fence”. I love dressing up. I’m going to dress as the Russian WiTch, “Baba Yaga” next week when I read that story to some classes for Hallowe’en! I’ve even got green plastic witch hands with black nails!