13 Thursday: # 100
1. My friend Alwyn has been known to care for feral cats. She named one Misery, a name whose melodic sound defies its actual meaning.
2. I have an imaginary small press called “The Nevertheless Press.”
3. I recently rushed to meet my girlfriends who were scheduled to pick me up at the bottom of my long driveway for a writer’s workshop meeting. I was determined not to be late, but as I made the trek, I began to worry that I left the stove on. I dropped my notebook and pocketbook at the end of the driveway near my mailbox and ran back to check. The stove was fine, but by then I was convinced that someone had come by and stole my pocketbook. With compounded anxiety, I ran back to find my pocketbook still there and my girlfriends pulling up. As I climbed into the car trying to catch my breath, one friend asked “What’s the matter?” “I just had a mental illness moment,” I answered.
4. Keeping it Floyd: What others are saying about us. HERE.
5. Last week I was tagged by Musing Woman with an interesting meme which asked for a list of your five strengths as a writer. The meme is still traveling around the blogsphere. I’ve been following some links to see what other writers have said. My favorite writer’s strength comes from the Inner Minx and goes like this: “My second strength lies in my strong physique. I have an uncanny ability to stay in one position for hours on end and have developed a bottom that could crack walnuts. Therefore, I am a professional lazy cow.”
6. As far as I know, my friend Will came up with the sayings “Don’t just do something, Sit there,” and Love is a Verb.” He definitely coined the term “alter-native,” referring to the Floyd alternative community.
7. I tagged Book Lover Bonnie for the five strengths challenge. In her list she revealed that she keeps a quote of something I said beside her computer. It says: “The secret to writing a book? I think it’s this: Take good notes and write often enough that it starts to accumulate.”
8. Whenever I see my name in print, I get a mixed feeling of pleasure and dread. Mostly, it reminds me of being called to the principal’s office over the loud speaker in school. It was hardly ever for good news.
9. Some of the phrases “Loose Leaf Notes” anagrams to say are: A Feel Note Solo, Lao See Eon Loft, and Tao Feel Lone So. You can anagram the name of your blog HERE.
10. Colleen to Joe: We’re almost out of venison burger but we have plenty of sausage left. Joe: I guess we had the butcher do more sausage this year because last year we ran out of it. Colleen: Well, whichever one we run out of is the one I like the best.
11. When it comes to the state of the environment: We over slept the American Dream. The Industrial Revolution was a nightmare.
12. This is my 100th Thirteen Thursday. On August 11, 2005, TT founder, Leanne of Intricate Art, said, “I thought it might be a fun thing to start up a Thursday Thirteen thing. If you blog, I’d love for you to participate!” As many as 5 other bloggers played back then, but it quickly grew, and now Leanne is retired but the TT still goes on. In fact, over 300 bloggers play every week. The History of TT can be found HERE. FAQ’s about TT are HERE.
13. It’s last call for the beach, so I’m putting in my order before the clock strikes October. Maybe my next post will be of a sandcastle or of me swimming in the ocean. One thing I know for sure, I won’t be wearing anything like THIS.
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September 27th, 2007 8:58 am
Wow, congrats on #100!
Happy TT!
http://blog.vigilant20.net/?p=1317
September 27th, 2007 10:23 am
You have an imaginary small press called “The Nevertheless Press,” and I have an imaginary sailboat called “Whynot.”
September 27th, 2007 10:56 am
Bonnie, I also have names for a few kids I’ll never have, bumperstickers, and a vanity plate for my husband, which should say “AWSUM.” He is.
September 27th, 2007 11:22 am
Congrats on 100! Anagram for my blog is WATCH PORK FELICE SNORT.
Have fun at the beach, get sand between your toes, bask in the light therapy, come back all refreshed!
September 27th, 2007 11:36 am
Congrats on 100 TT posts!
The first anagram for my blog is A GERMAN MUM. LOL: I am the non-German mom to an actual German! My son was born there and his father is German, there you go!!
I do your nr 3 very often. Too often, I may add…either thinking I left the iron on, the door unlocked…
Happy TT!
September 27th, 2007 12:03 pm
That’s cool, I didn’t know that about T13.
I didn’t even know it was around then, where was I?
September 27th, 2007 12:33 pm
Loved the last picture of the dog on the couch! Have fun at the beach! Great TT!
September 27th, 2007 1:07 pm
where exactly will you go to the beach?I’m going to Daytona myself .Must get every fiber of that atmosphere before th cooling down.I want to join 12 Thursdays but feel like a copy cat – not so ??
September 27th, 2007 1:11 pm
Congrats on 100. That’s impressive. And thanks for the anagram link. I’ll find a use for it, I’m sure.
September 27th, 2007 1:19 pm
Wow, an original Thirteener! I feel really honored. Thanks for the background on the meme and for the phrase “Nevertheless Press” (which already seems stuck in my head. Nevertheless press! Nevertheless press! neverthe—
September 27th, 2007 1:45 pm
I actually missed the first half a dozen TT’s before I caught on. It’s a more the merrier thing, Sandy. If you can figure out how to do the icon and links. I had help from the Master of Ceremonies Leanne on that and I probably couldn’t do it again if my life depended on it. But some just do it on their own without signing up at the hub and that’s fine too.
We take our camper and go to the coast of Virginia, NC, or SC. Still undecided and lining up housesitters, and watching the weather.
September 27th, 2007 1:52 pm
WOW Congrats on your 100!! Thats pretty Impressive.
Thanks for sharing the history of TT and the anagram thingy…
Happy TT
September 27th, 2007 3:14 pm
Oooh, do I have the thirteenth comment for your Thursday Thirteen? Congratulations on your hundredth (I actually typed that “fundredth!”) And I always do have fun reading your Thursday Thirteen, Colleen. They are always lively and very often funny or thought provoking or both.
September 27th, 2007 3:35 pm
I was wondering about TT and may get into it once my dust settles a bit. I always enjoy reading yours and am also always impressed with your TT graphic. Spatter’s anagram had a lot of “rats”! Have fun at the beach – get lots of sand between your toes and elsewhere:-)
September 27th, 2007 5:36 pm
I thought # 3 was a “Senior Moment”…….I could be wrong. But I have never heard of this one before. Did you just make it up?
Congratulations on 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 27th, 2007 5:53 pm
Oh that my bum could crack walnuts, unfortunately, like most of my writing this is in fact a fantasy. The ‘lazy cow’ part is perfectly true and I am often startled by the fact that one of the books on my shelf is mine. I must have got up off my walnut cracking cheeks long enough to tap out a few words – amazing!
Happy TT day – nice cake.
September 27th, 2007 7:57 pm
After having done only a few, and now sporadic, TT’s, I can really appreciate your streak. Happy TT-versary.
The anagram for my blog, that I think is most fitting:
A CRAP SPASM DENSE
Ah, yes, could not have said it better myself!
September 27th, 2007 10:59 pm
100 of anything is impressive to me. How lucky you are to live in Floyd! Its so rare to get a town council and the local business community to agree on anything. But when they do, magic like you’re seeing in Floyd are the result.
September 27th, 2007 11:36 pm
Congratulations to your 100 TT ! I always asked myself who had created it and when did it start. Now I know. I had never payed attention to the “history” in the blog header !
September 28th, 2007 3:45 am
I think it is way cool that you number your TTs. And congrats on 100. Quite an accomplishment.
September 28th, 2007 4:21 am
I’m starting to feel guilty – though I’ve had a good excuse… I’ve been tagged twice for the writing strengths meme and will do it tomorrow – promise! 😉 It’s certainly done the rounds in blogosphere. Good meme.
September 28th, 2007 10:23 am
I’m going to the beach for my very first time in November; looking forward to it. Happy 100!
September 28th, 2007 11:10 am
#3 & 5 made me giggle! funny b/c i used the phrase ‘love is a verb’ in my post today. there was a song of that title back in the early 90’s by a christian band called ‘dc talk’, speaking of ‘agape love’ that the bible refers to when it says ‘love your neighbor’. in its essence, it means serving….not a mushy feeling. 🙂
September 28th, 2007 10:16 pm
Well, just so you know the date wasn’t totally i dud. I did find you some free wireless outside of the travel lodge…which was the first place i had suggested to you…
September 28th, 2007 11:10 pm
Hi Collie,
I couldn’t fit my current blog name, so I went with my old one. And it’s freakin’ great!:
1) VERB SOP
2) PBS OVER
3) PBS ROVE
~,:^)
September 29th, 2007 1:56 pm
Favorite anagrams for my blog: A Phrase Held Sly, A Harpy She’d Sell, Heard Splash Yelp, and Has Pa Shed Lyle?
Very fun!
Congrats on 100! I always enjoy your lists.
I wanted to do that 5 strengths as a writer, but… then I wondered who’d care? 🙂 When I read this, I realized I could be less literal (still thinking).
I like “Alter-native.”
~S
September 30th, 2007 1:41 pm
I can relate to 8. It’s like being called by my full name. Makes me jump.
Congrats on 100 cycles of 13s.