Thirteen Thursday: Another One Bites the Dust
1. Lately I’ve been thinking about those leather patches on sweaters worn by professors and realizing, as I type and click with my elbows on the arm rests of my chair, that I might be needing some soon.
2. I’ve also been wondering about bedsores and if there is a computer version of them.
3. I’ve always thought it would be fun to have a job naming lipstick and nail polish, but I don’t think I’d have ever come up with the name of the last lipstick I bought, which was kangaroobie. Always the editor, I would at least change it to kangaruby, in reference to the wine red color.
4. My friend Mara took the very cool above picture of a Floydfest golf cart numbered 13 and sent it to me with her phone. Mara is a reoccurring character on this blog whose shows up frequently in the categories of SCRABBLE and SPOKEN WORD, and sometimes LOSING A LOVED ONE.
5. One thing I learned early on about living in the country is to always roll up you windows when your driving on dirt roads or your car will soon be as dusty as a dust bowl in a drought. 
6. A few days before my nephews were due to arrive with my sister and her husband for Floydfest, I noticed a tall lettuce plant going to the seed in the garden that looked like a Christmas tree. So I put red bulbs on it as a prank to see if I could turn their heads.
7. Favorite sentence uttered this week: The green beans are going like gang busters but the peppers are a bust.
8. Some of the writing research I did this week involved finding out the difference between a guitar lick and a riff.
9. A lick is combination of notes, frequently based out of scales or chords and used often. A riff is a repeated chord progression, pattern, refrain or melodic figure, often played by the rhythm section instruments or solo instrument, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a musical composition.
10. Speaking of guitars, HERE’S today’s 13 Thursday soundtrack.
11. And a very cool optical illusion involving color that I found at Pearl’s place is HERE.
12. Interesting email headings in my mailbox yesterday: Dick Cheney called; he wants his empire back. Ding Dong the Purse is Found. Scrabble on Thursday? The Jim and Dan Stories. I Hope He’s Good. Josh Copus Wrote on Your Wall.
13. The full collection of this year’s Floydfest photos can be found on Facebook HERE. Or scroll down to see what all the fun is about.
More Thirteen Thursdays can be found HERE.
July 29th, 2009 11:53 pm
YOu have a very busy mind lol Love the pics. Happy T13!
July 30th, 2009 12:05 am
Cute list. Loved the first part of #12, about Cheney wanting his empire back (LOL). We obviously think alike because earlier in the week I was actually looking at my thighs and thinking about #2 . . . (-:
July 30th, 2009 2:47 am
I always through the elbow patches were high literary style. Too bad i go with rough, bare elbows instead.
July 30th, 2009 4:33 am
Nos. 3 and 6 are cute.
P.S. I ‘traveled’ to your post with the Queen in my head 🙂
July 30th, 2009 4:37 am
adorable list 🙂
Dear life, 13 things I want today
July 30th, 2009 7:03 am
#7 is something my late father would have said when he’d come in from his huge acre sized garden…
Hmmmmmm. elbow patches. Maybe I should get a set of those also.
My Thursday’s road signs & slogans are posted…come on over if you need some laughter!
Happy 13’ing!!
July 30th, 2009 8:24 am
All day now I shall see you in this new shade of lipstick . Is it brownish red with white patches??
July 30th, 2009 8:35 am
I love your random ’13s’ … actually knew the difference between a ‘lick’ and ‘riff’ (signs of a misspent youth perhaps?) … laughed aloud at the list of post titles in #12 ;–)
Hugs and blessings,
July 30th, 2009 9:44 am
It is so creepy when people paint their eyelids to make their eyes look open! Thanks for the optical illusion link – I love learning about how wrong my perceptions can be!
July 30th, 2009 10:45 am
kangaroobie made me think of a rooibos tea, which is also kind of red in color. Maybe that is what they were going for?
July 30th, 2009 10:52 am
Good point, Dew. Hey, out of curiosity I googled Kangaroobie and found a web page http://www.kangaroobie.com/. It’s a camp in Australia.
July 30th, 2009 2:23 pm
LOL! I’ve pondered on #2 myself a few times. And I love the way “Ding Dong the Purse is Found” sounds. It’s like a little micro poem.
July 30th, 2009 2:38 pm
A friend lost her purse at Floydfest. We were all hoping it wasn’t stolen, and thus taint the good vibe of the festival. Her dad emailed me letting me know it was turned in! And so that was his email subject line. I liked it too and it’s what prompted me to look at the day’s email subjects.
July 30th, 2009 2:59 pm
Great list – I could have said #7 this week!
July 30th, 2009 3:55 pm
Love the lettuce “tree”!
July 30th, 2009 7:10 pm
I don’t how you keep coming up with 13 things like you do!! I enjoyed that illusion and the explanation for it – made perfect sense to me.
July 31st, 2009 1:54 am
Very good idea to put Christmas bulbs on a plant in the middle of summer ! I get a nervous breakdown when I see this, I hate winter, lol !
July 31st, 2009 6:22 am
Another successful 13. You have a crazy mind. I just love that lettuce tree!
July 31st, 2009 12:48 pm
I made this one up out of thin air.
I know what you mean, Poe. If illusions can fool us so easily, what else are we being fooled by, which reminds me of this quote:
“Seeing is believing but feeling’s the truth.” Thomas Fuller