13: Gently Down the Stream of Consciousness
1. My two favorite words heard recently are brouhaha and jalopy.
2. I keep getting the Jubilee and the Jamboree mixed up. We have both in Floyd now.
3. I’ve been calling the Station, the newly renovated old building in town with apartments upstairs, the Dakota of Floyd.
4. While shopping this week I saw a bright gold bra with a smiley face on one of the cups.
5. My first trip to the Country Club pool resulted in some pictures of the tadpoles (a pre-beginner swim class), at least 13 of them.
6. Learn why I have a brand new pink blow up raft not yet out of the package HERE.
7. I bought four new cushion lawn chairs that unfortunately required some assembly but when we opened the box to put them together, we discovered there were no screws, bringing a whole new meaning to “we were screwed!”
8. I just got a message from the little voice within that my rice cooking on the stove is burning. Be right back.
9. The rice was stuck to the bottom of the pan but still eatable.
10. Speaking of pan, I was recently asked in a meme that I didn’t finish to name a fictitious character who made a lasting impression and my answer was Peter Pan.
11. Because I grew up on a tiny peninsula in between Boston and Cape Cod, I’m fortunate that I can visit my family and have a beach vacation at the same time.
12. Whenever I say Cape Cod, I think about when I was a young girl picking wild blueberries there with my grandmother, which leads to remembering a poem I wrote about baking a birthday blueberry pie for my son Josh … I feel my grandmother’s wildness in me … navigating rough edges of coastline … as I steer the rolling pin like an oar … like an antique relic from her “roaring 20s” … it rocks back and forth … And especially this stanza: As I search the bowl of blueberries … for the bluest black ones … I remember 4 and 20 … blackbirds baked in a pie … and my son arranging battles … between blueberries and grapes … The blueberries always lost because he ate them …
13. I just this second remembered that Josh’s birthday is on July 10 and I may be away for his birthday, so now I’m going downstairs to find a card to send him.
More Thirteen Thursday fun HERE.
July 2nd, 2009 12:04 am
Brouhaha and Jalopy are fun words. My ds recently developed an interest in the sound of words. He’s decided he likes “Bunny” Image a 5’9″ string bean with the barest hint of mustache hopping around saying “bunny! Bunny!”
July 2nd, 2009 12:09 am
ds?
July 2nd, 2009 12:38 am
“Brouhaha” is definitely a fun word to say! I think living on a small peninsula could be fun, but then…I imagine it could also be as much of a pain as living on an isthmus is at times.
July 2nd, 2009 12:49 am
ds = Dear Son
July 2nd, 2009 5:02 am
🙂 lovely
My Thursday-13″
July 2nd, 2009 5:45 am
OMG…my S.O.L.s birthday is in a few days!!
July 2nd, 2009 7:33 am
#4 You bought it of course
July 2nd, 2009 8:12 am
I haven’t been to Cape Cod in years.
Nice list.
http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/07/thursday-thunks-and-13-great-stats.html
July 2nd, 2009 9:40 am
Have you ever noticed that there is a point when cooking rice overlong that it is better than when cooked right? I can never do it intentionally, but the crunch that rice can develop is beautiful…At least to my taste buds (just add butter as needed).
My two favorite words theses days are synchronicity and serendipity.
Have a great 4th…
July 2nd, 2009 10:05 am
What a great list for TT. Have a great weekend and Happy 4th.
July 2nd, 2009 11:21 am
are you familiar with the peter pan guy?
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/
July 2nd, 2009 12:46 pm
I learned years ago that computers and cooking don’t mix; burned three… count them three… batches of macaroni and cheese within an hour and a half. Gave it up and went out.
July 2nd, 2009 2:37 pm
Love your stream of consciousness post! I’m so jealous that you get to have a beach vacation/family visit every year (or more?), but I’ve never been to any of the northern beaches.
Just here via the TT.
July 2nd, 2009 3:01 pm
Whenever I hear Cape Cod, I think back to the days when my grandmother convinced my mother to give me and my sisters cod liver oil before breakfast! Bleh!!!
July 2nd, 2009 5:05 pm
I like your words. I’m not sure I have favorite words, just like I don’t really have favorite authors. I have preferred authors… and probably preferred words. Hmm.
Nice TT.
July 3rd, 2009 9:51 am
favorite word recently payola, which showed up on the scrabble tray. not great points, but how could I not play such a fun one?
I recently saw a deep purple bra hung over the bush by the sidewalk on the morning after Canada Day.
That little voice in your head is handy. Last time I was burning rice it decided it was curious how someone was sizzling popcorn in the hallway. my rice: not so very recoverable.
July 4th, 2009 8:55 am
“the dakota of floyd!” hahaha
i like the poem you wrote about baking…so filled with images.
i think hull would have been a great place to grow up. lucky you.
July 4th, 2009 10:58 am
Oh I almost forgot Josh’s birthday too……….Do you believe he will be 30???xox
Happy 4th…….I am glad you are here with us to celebrate!