13 Thursday: Write On
1. You know when you forget someone’s name and no matter how hard you try, even if it’s on the tip of your tongue, you can’t remember. Then you go off and do something else and the name just pops in your head? Writing poetry is like that.
2. At Johanna and Nick’s wedding, my friend Eli, who works at the Chinese Medicine Clinic I go to, was massaging my injured ankle. “I’ve hurt this ankle before. Well, you know my chart,” I said to him. “I try not to think about people charts when I’m at a wedding,” he answered. “And I try not to write stories about people when at a wedding, but once I get home anything goes,” I answered. And it did. See HERE.
3. Years ago when I worked in day care there was a little boy who had been born on the Fourth of July. His middle name was Boom.
4. Last year at a fourth of July party I got THIS close to a shark.
5. Live fireworks HERE.
6. You’ve heard of Girls Gone Wild? THIS is Wild Girls in Need of a Hairdresser, starring yours truly.
7. My blog roll is starting to feel like my closet, kinda overstuffed with stuff I’m not using.
8. The jury is still out on my new answering machine message. Jayn likes it; Mara can’t get used to it because it doesn’t elicit poetic answers like my last one and won’t make me any friends, she says.
9. This is it: People who work at home … Don’t answer the phone … At least not right away … Do I need to pick up? … Call you right back? … After the beep have your say …
10. I tend to putter and stutter before the flutter of keys on the keyboard each day.
11. Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ~ George Carlin
12. David Letterman on George Bush: We should get our money back on that guy, don’t you think?
13. The photo above, taken at the Spoken Word this past Saturday night, is of Mara’s signature cargo pants with a 13 signature written on them, and my signature notebook. Also pictured are my remedies for public speaking phobia: a bottle of rescue remedy and a dark beer. More on that phobia HERE.
Thursday headquarters is here. My other 13’s are here. View more 13 Thursday’s here. #140
July 3rd, 2008 12:07 am
hah! Cute phone message. Happy 13!
July 3rd, 2008 1:21 am
Great list, mine is up at 13 Not So Famous Last Words; Most Americans die peacefully in their beds, but for those who die violently one can only guess what their final words must have been. I think that after you read these you will have to agree that they do indeed sound like they might have been the last words of those who did not go peacefully into the night.
July 3rd, 2008 4:52 am
I have a shark on my blog this TT too. It’s not quite the same, though.
July 3rd, 2008 5:42 am
lol @ the wild hair video. mara’s cargo pants are becoming famous all over the country now via your blog! i would recognize them anywhere! :)) hope you have a great holiday weekend. we looking forward to a trip to the coast.
July 3rd, 2008 6:51 am
When I write, my hands often get animated when trying to come up with a word.
Is #9 your new message referred to in #8? I’ll have to call you and find out.
Would love to get treated at the clinic, but no new clients are being taken. You’re lucky to be one of the “founders”.
Check my post tomorrow…it happens to be about Frisbees.
July 3rd, 2008 7:14 am
Hmm. What is a Thrusday? (Check your title!). Great list as always. Love the phone message. Had to mention the misspelling because you are pretty good about not making such mistakes! Plus I thought you might want to fix it. I know I would.
July 3rd, 2008 7:33 am
I love that hair video. Of course I would I am in it with you. It is hard to believe it was last year. I am going to the fireworks tonight. Nelson is taking his truck and using his own keys, so I won’t be responsible. We might be taking his sister this year. We will miss you.
PS I think your fingers think to quick on the key board too, look at the TITLE. xo
July 3rd, 2008 7:57 am
You description of writing poetry is a poem in itself, Colleen. Thanks for another great TT!
July 3rd, 2008 8:48 am
I woke up blurry eyed and wondered myself about Thrusday after posting late last night. I probably wouldn’t have noticed it because my mind “sees” it right. Thanks for pointing it out. I dislike typos especially ones in the headlines already gone out to feed subscribers.
Sky, while your on the east coast maybe you’ll get to see Mara’s pants close up?
July 3rd, 2008 10:43 am
Love all the giggling 🙂
July 3rd, 2008 4:00 pm
isn’t that funny. we both came to the rhyme family of putter today.
Frisbeetarianism makes as much sense as anything, including as wearing a frisbee as a sunhat as I saw yesterday.
July 3rd, 2008 10:50 pm
Stop #3 you are making this up !!
July 4th, 2008 1:11 am
Have you cleaned out your closet, aye your blogroll? I have two long blog lists!
Happy TT, happy 4th! 🙂
July 15th, 2008 3:42 pm
I’ve started opening your comments area in a separate window so I can remember what I wanted to reply to. 🙂
I like your answering machine message. I love silly answering machine messages too.
I love that someone out there has the middle name Boom.
I think more than our money back, we need additional compensation.
~S