The Three Things Thingy
Aka: tagged by Rebekah
* Three things that scare me: Driving on highways near cities, people whose body language doesn’t match what they are saying, things like rats and cockroaches and public speaking.
* Three people who make me laugh: Stephen Colbert, Julia Louise Dreyfus, and my nephew Patrick. Here’s why.
* Three things I love: Kelly Erb’s carrot cake, taking off with my husband with our camper in search of an ocean, having days on end with nothing scheduled.
* Three things I hate: child abuse, speed bumps, when I spill tea on my clean white shirt.
* Three things I don’t understand: Where the dead go, algebra, and why anyone would think Bush is a good president.
* Three things on my desk: Two plastic frogs that I like to arrange in compromising positions. A ceramic mug that my son made with a photo of me in a castle in Ireland somehow imposed on the front of it. A paper crown of gold foil with the word “WORDS” pasted on it.
* Three things I’m doing right now: Trying to sit up straight, getting ready for a trip to Asheville for my son’s BFA Thesis show, working on a piece about foster care for people with disabilities to submit to the Floyd Press.
* Three things I want to do before I die: Go to a blog convention and meet all my blog friends, learn to be fearless and present in the moment, eat pastry in Paris and pasta in Italy but not get fat.
* Three things I can do: Hoola hoop, speak with an Irish accent, grow arugula and lettuce in a cold frame and eat it in December.
* Three things I can’t do: Cartwheels, sew my own clothes, solve world hunger.
* Three things you should listen to: Your muse, your mother, and the real nightingale as opposed to the gilded one.
* Three things you should never listen to: Rush Limbaugh (the guy who said the fiasco at Abu Ghraib was just young soldiers blowing off steam.), bigots, loud music next to speakers, especially if it’s rap that is denigrating to women.
* Three things I’d like to learn: desktop publishing, shorthand (I use to know this), and how to cure CFS.
Post Note: Rebekah from East of Oregon is also the inspiration for the photo above.
December 5th, 2006 7:02 am
Great list. Really curious about the paper crown on the desk, though. 🙂
December 5th, 2006 8:39 am
Years ago a friend (who has since passed away) ran a Woman’s Wellness Week retreat in Floyd County. Sometimes she would enlist the help of her friends to run workshops, once I attended a full week, but mostly I attended weekeneds. One year the week of self-empowerment concluded with us claiming what we were the queen of and dressing to the hilt for a final ceremonious closing. I pronounced myself as the Queen of the short poem, so I made a crown with the word “words” pasted on it. Here’s a link to one photo of some of us http://looseleafnotes.com/notes/2006/04/the_class_picture.html posted here at Loose Leaf.
December 5th, 2006 8:45 am
I always wear a tiara on my birthday, which is coming up soon. Maybe this year I’ll wear a crown instead!
December 5th, 2006 9:27 am
I enjoyed reading your post! I can definetely relate to loving finding a beach somewhere with your (mine actually) husband.. It’s one of the greatest things. Take care and have a beautiful Tuesday 🙂
December 5th, 2006 9:28 am
i like your list! i think things like this are fun to read as it gives you a little more insight into a person- lets you know some of the small things that make up a person. i guess you wouldn’t understand me, though, b/c i think president bush is a good president that’s had to deal with a whole lot of craziness during his term- but i think you know that about me! 🙂 and child abuse is probably also on my list of top 3 things i hate as i see the daily repurcussions of it in my line of work.
December 5th, 2006 9:44 am
Did you hear that Bolton resigned? doing a happy dance….
Have a great time w. your son! I can’t wait to hear about it when you get back.
I need days and days w. not appointments and nothing to do. That sounds like Heaven!
December 5th, 2006 10:09 am
Colleen that is a wonderful list….I may have to steal that one and try it. I hate driving in big city traffic too and you know I agree on how could anyone still support Bush! Maybe one day we all could have a convention, I would be there!
December 5th, 2006 11:32 am
Great list, Colleen and like Deana, I’m right there with ya on the Bush one.
Have a safe and great trip with your son.
December 5th, 2006 1:51 pm
~~ Have recently found your website and feel your connectedness (I think thats a word, but assume you know what I mean) to the community of Floyd, and your friends. The trip over to Asheville sounds like such a fabulous time…the joy of the opening of your son’s show, spending time with him and all of his contemporaries…wonderful.
And about the comment of Bush…let’s just say that the mere mention of him brings something close to indigestion for me, so I’ll refrain from making any other comments.
Have a safe journey and take care
lauri
December 5th, 2006 6:08 pm
Nice blend of serious and fanciful…I’m sure with ya on the cure for CFS! (I’d add diabetes and clogged arteries!) I love unscheduled days! Just let them evolve!
December 5th, 2006 6:50 pm
hi. i read your list and it was fun reading it! i also don’t like rap music but it is only then that i knew that some of them were only about dissing women. thanks for letting me know, have fun 🙂
December 5th, 2006 8:06 pm
“eat pastry in Paris and pasta in Italy but not get fat”…….You can do both of those, Colleen, and I am living proof. All you have to do is walk 3-4 miles per day! That’s what we did, while eating like kings, plus desserts. I lost five pounds while I was there.
December 5th, 2006 8:42 pm
I never knew Gregg or Pittman shorthand, but I taught myself Speedwriting decades ago. I used it occasionally on temp jobs but it really came in handy for taking notes in college — and for writing particularly private diary entries, like the first time I made love….
December 5th, 2006 9:21 pm
My mom still takes notes in shorthand. The only problem is she has to translate them for us, no one else knows shorthand.
December 5th, 2006 9:35 pm
WOW! This is a very vey tough MEME…(Is that “Me Me” or “Memory” or what?)
Anyway….I have to come back, dear Colleen, because this is soooo filled with rich interesting stuff aqnd very dense fascinating stuff, I cannot take it all in, in one reading….Oh My!
December 5th, 2006 10:08 pm
Every single word of this is wonderful. You deserve your crown!
December 7th, 2006 7:06 am
“taking off with my husband with our camper in search of an ocean” – me too – we sing Willie Nelson’s On the Road Again as we head out.
ditto on Bush and Limbaugh!
December 10th, 2006 1:52 pm
“Three things I don’t understand: Where the dead go, algebra, and why anyone would think Bush is a good president.” I’ll explain algebra and Bush to you whenever you’re ready to listen. I have no knowledge of the dead – maybe they go nowhere and just are no more?
March 5th, 2015 10:26 am
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