13 Thursday: Home Sweet Home
1. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~ Zen Proverb.
2. As far as writing goes, I’m a late bloomer because I’m self-taught and I spent the majority of my adult years as a stay-at-home mother.
3. In Floyd, we have homebirth, homeschool, homegrown, and homemade. I guess I fit in pretty good here since I’m a homebody.
4. My writing career began because I was too poor to afford a subscription to my favorite magazine, Mothering. I submitted an article and it got published. Back then they paid in copies and subscriptions.
5. I feel like my identity’s been stolen. If you google my name, you’ll find another Colleen Redman who writes articles on subjects that I have in the past or would like to, like organic food, homeopathic remedies, and etc.
6. I’m so glad that my sons graduated from high school before the SOLs came about and that I graduated when you could still earn your way in life through hard work, talent, or experience and didn’t have to have a PHD to get credit for it.
7. Will handwriting eventually go the way of shorthand? Although I forget all the shorthand I learned in high school, my handwriting is beginning to look just like it.
8. Apparently, there are seven Colleen Redmans in the U.S. How many people in the country have your name? You can find out HERE. Compliments of Lisa.
9. My husband would like you all to know that although he didn’t get me the overkill ergonomic mouse hand-rest for Christmas, he recently bought me a mouse pad with a built in padded place to rest my hand and it only cost $6.
10. It’s navy blue, just like the big terrycloth bathrobe I frequently blog in. I like it, but it covers up my other mouse pad, a miniature Grateful Dead red Persian rug.
11. He showed me the little house up on the toolbar menu at the top of the page. “If you click here it will take you right to your homepage,” he said. “Oh, I thought that was a doghouse,” I answered.
12. If you’re a writer, blogging in your pajamas or bathrobe until noon isn’t necessarily a sign of a slouch as much as it’s a sign of a busy writer who gets right to work the minute she gets up and doesn’t have time to get dressed. Right, Patry?
13. Mara while playing Scrabble on Monday says: “How come the term conservative has nothing to do with conservation?” Me, changing the subject after abusing our 3 free dictionary look-ups says: “I think we should be required to look up a word with every play.”
Post notes: The snow was only a dusting and only lasted for an hour, just long enough to etch out the 13 on my trampoline, posted above. Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13’s are here. View more 13 Thursday’s here.
January 11th, 2007 9:48 am
Hi Colleen! 😀
Michele sent me.
there are 5 people in the US with my name!
your blog is beautiful
xoxo
January 11th, 2007 10:06 am
I have been a published poet since 1978 and I have not encountered another person with my name who is a poet.
January 11th, 2007 10:18 am
There are 0 people in the U.S. named my name…does that mean I don’t exist?
January 11th, 2007 10:32 am
There are 16 people who have my married name, 231 w. my maiden name and ZERO w. my hypenated name.
LOL! I love #12!
January 11th, 2007 10:44 am
Well, I’m not a writer, but I’m sitting here in my pajamas. In my case, however, I think it’s just sheer laziness, LOL!
January 11th, 2007 10:49 am
Those are the best kinds of snow: when you wake up to a beautiful white forest, but it’s gone when you need to go to work.
January 11th, 2007 11:59 am
Sometimes, I start blogging or reading blogs early in the morning, only to realize that it “suddenly” became lunch time, and I still had not dressed for the day! 🙂
http://www.chelleyoung.com/index.php/archive/thursday-thirteen-43-thirteen-reasons-to-get-up-in-the-morning/
January 11th, 2007 12:23 pm
~~ “A Miniture Grateful Dead red persian rug” ?? ~~ Ohh…I want one of those!! I’d set all my glitter pens & their holder on top of the rug ~~
January 11th, 2007 12:23 pm
I don’t really think of myself as a writer but it is very comforting knowing that I am not the only one sitting at my computer in my bathrobe until 1100.
A little dog house. :-).. that is sooo cute!
January 11th, 2007 12:35 pm
I like your 12. 🙂
Well, all them, but that was a chuckle.
January 11th, 2007 12:53 pm
Nice TT, I blog in a pink little miss naughty dressing gown.
Clairex
January 11th, 2007 1:03 pm
There are 5 people in the US who have my name! surprise! but I used Marcy, which is my American nickname.
I had a bunch of snowflakes on my stomach when I rode the ski chairlift last week and it started to snow all of the sudden. Such delicate & fragile things… There was an albino gorilla in the Barcelona zoo who was called Snowflake. I bought a Xmas snowflake for my window they day he died of skin cancer, 11/24/04.
January 11th, 2007 3:41 pm
I saw something about that other Colleen and thought it was you, at first. There is another person with my name in Chicago and one in FL. It does seem odd, doesn’t it? I always wonder how much alike we might be, and when their birthdays are.
January 11th, 2007 3:55 pm
At least you HAVE snow… I remember one time in Mississippi when it was below freezing, I looked out and thought I saw a few flakes. They were so tiny, you almost needed a magnifying glass to see them. It took fifteen minutes to make sure it was really snowing and by then it stopped. Oh well!
My mouse pad has an old calendar from 1998 on the left side and a golden-eyed tabby sitting on the right side holding…… you guessed it …. a mouse, of the computer variety! Which reminds me of a birthday card I once received with a similar tabby cat having one feather sticking out of his mouth. The outside said… A little birdie told me it was your birthday. He told me how old you were going to be too!… Inside… Don’t worry! I ate him!
January 11th, 2007 4:43 pm
Ok, that’s spooky that you’d include that Zen quote… because I got it as a Christmas card this year, and I looked and looked for it to finally put it on my inspiration board. 🙂 I played today.
~S
January 11th, 2007 5:24 pm
As always Colleen, I love your TT…My name? (And I have two different names…) Nobody else in the US has either of my two names together….There are lots and Naomi’s and lots of Caryl’s but none but me, when they are together…! Same with my other last name, too! Amazing!
I was talking to an old friend yesterday in Portland, OR. We spoke for about 25 minutes—It snowed there and stopped snowing and the snow melted during that 25 minutes, so he told me laughingly! (LOL) A weird winter, isn’t it, Colleen?
I’m touting a young singer on my blog who needs our votes…If you get a chance go on over and take a listen and vote for her if you are of a mind! If she wins, she gets to be on ONE TREE HILL singing the song you will hear! Thanks in advance, dear Colleen.
January 11th, 2007 7:46 pm
How odd is it that there are only 5 Deana Heaths in the US. (I still feel like that is my real name.) Yet there was another one in Surry County….where I lived prior to marriage and worked for 15 years! I have one right next to me and only 3 more scattered about the entire country.
There were 55 Deana Clarks.
My handwriting has become atrocious. It looks so shaky and pitiful that I need to really start practicing it again. Its embarrassing. It worries me that I have some early nervous condition!
January 11th, 2007 7:51 pm
Here’s a link to what the Grateful Dead Persion rug mouse pad looks like http://looseleafnotes.com/notes/2006/12/13_thursday_spam_i_am.html
January 11th, 2007 8:10 pm
One more link Colleen? Science news: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=11048
January 11th, 2007 9:20 pm
My handwriting is now totally impossible. Really. It was wrecked by journalism.
Mara is right, of course. In Europe, the people we call conservatives ARE called liberals because they establish laws that let businesses and rich people get away with murder. Depends on which end of the banana you’re lighting, I guess.
And I’m afraid that I tar the Grateful Dead with the same brush that I slather Garrison Kiellor. My neices at the wedding last weekend were all disgusted with me for this kind of thing. I guess, by the European standard, I’m a cultural conservative.~,:^)
January 11th, 2007 10:34 pm
I love #4…getting published in a magazine that you couldn’t even afford to purchase!
Michele sent me…how ya doing?
January 11th, 2007 11:06 pm
Floyd is a nice place to have a home then!
I quite often blog while in pj’s and drinking coffee.
A person with my name was famous and wrote, “I’ll Never Smile Again”, which I used to play on the trombone in High School.
January 12th, 2007 12:13 am
I thought I was the only pathetic creature who sat at the computer in PJs, then glanced at the clock only to realize that it was lunch time. The most pathetic thing is that my kids are all running around like crazy & wondering when lunch is going to be. I love your Thursday Thirteens. I enjoyed the snow the other day — wish it had stuck around though! But my hubby got to stay home from school, so that was fun. I had two children born at home, by the way. Maybe I belong in Floyd instead of C’burg! 🙂
January 12th, 2007 1:17 am
If you look up a questionable word in the dictionary and it’s not a real word, do y’all have to lose your turn? That’s how we play it. No mercy.
Susan
January 12th, 2007 7:11 am
Handwriting indeed is becoming a lost art. I use to love to write in longhand. I use to get nice compliments on my handwriting when I was younger. Now I can hardly scribble out a ledgible check. I miss that quite honestly but I fear technology is making it obsolete. We may be back to signing our name with an “X” in twenty or thirty years.
January 12th, 2007 7:13 am
It says there is only one of me but I know that’s not true because there used to be someone with my name who worked at Lewis Gale. I never worked there so I know it wasn’t me. I heard my name over the loud speaker calling me to do something or another and it freaked me out.
January 12th, 2007 7:59 am
Navy blue is a great color. 🙂 I’m scared to know how many people have my name. 😉
January 12th, 2007 8:51 am
They had 0 for my sons name too, who both have social securtiy numbers, but they say they are using the census. Not very accurate, I guess.
When Mara and I play Scrabble we used to say 3 FREE dictionary look-ups, but lately we’ve been using the dictionary as much as we want. Maybe that’s why my average score has gone up! Alex got me started on free look-ups. She just thought the game was for learing new words and the dictionary was part of that.
January 12th, 2007 9:12 am
Very interesting TT….especially the name thing.
Well, my husband always said I was “one in a million”…guess he was right. While there are 157,484 “Terri’s” and 720 “DuLong’s”…..there isn’t ONE other person with my full name. Which makes me happy that I didn’t choose a pen name for my professional writing….sometimes it’s good to be unique.