Thirteen Thursday: Summer Ketchup
1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches. The last time I got measured the nurse told me that and after measuring me, she asked if I wanted her to write down 5 foot or 5 foot 1 inch, to which I replied, “I want my age rounded down and my height rounded up!”
2. The brain: “A cognitive prosthesis for the soul.” Paul Bloom, Enlightenment Magazine
3. Said to Joe on taking a break from my meditation practice: “It feels like getting out of school. I haven’t lost anything I learned. I just don’t want to be sitting at a desk right now.”
4. A McCain aide on Sarah Palin: “She doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know.”
5. Always the poet, when Joe calls me sweetie, I call him tweetie. When he calls me lovey, I call him dovey.
6. Always on the lookout for 13 finds, I got the above photo from my brother-in-law Nelson who took it at my brother Joey’s 4th of July bash.
7. That’s my brother Johnny in the red hat cooking at the grille and HERE he is with the largest and ugliest lobster I’ve ever seen, so big that John named him “Conan the Crustacean.”
8. On our recent trip to my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, we had a stop in D.C., so we drove Interstate 95 and it drove us …. crazy!
9. The trip included an unplanned tour of old-time carousels. We just happened upon the Dentzel Carousel in Glen Echo near D.C. and the Flying Horses in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, and of course we visited THIS, the Paragon Carousel in Hull that I rode when I was five and thought if I touched the horses mouths snakes would come out and bite me.
10. I don’t do grilles. I bought mine only because it has a gas burner on it and I was afraid if we lost electricity I wouldn’t be able to make tea. When I’m not making tea on the grille, I use it for storing dog food.
11. I love to walk the beach because it’s a clean slate everyday and you never know who you might meet or BUMP INTO.
12. Remember in the early 80’s when Reagan tried to pawn ketchup off as a vegetable in the school lunch programs to save money and Carly Simon sang THIS famous song in a ketchup commercial?
13. In Belgium they eat mayonnaise on fries.
Catch up with others playing 13 Thursday HERE.
July 16th, 2009 1:11 am
I think the old-time carousels would be fun to see. Love stuff like that!
July 16th, 2009 2:32 am
I can’t stand I-95 either, or any interstate for that matter.
July 16th, 2009 5:46 am
why don’t you like to grill? i love grilled salmon marinated in basil vinaigrette or a grilled turkey burger with pesto paste and diced jalapenos mixed in, then smothered in onions and mushrooms. a summer night delight.
July 16th, 2009 5:53 am
1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches.
Hmmm, that’s not the case here. I had reached 5’8″ by seventh grade, but when I was in my mid-30s, a nurse measured me at 5’8-3/4″ (that’s 5-foot, eight-and-three-quarters inches). I figured she was wrong and didn’t say anything, but it was the same the following year — and the one after that. The driver’s license folks say that means 5’9″ and that’s what they put on my license, even though I’m now 69 years old and probably shrinking. Nobody has measured my height in years.
4. A McCain aide on Sarah Palin: “She doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know.”
That’s what I think higher education does for us. The more education I got, the more I realized I didn’t know. Or maybe, because I knew a lot, I could see all the areas I needed to learn in order to call myself knowledgeable on a subject.
July 16th, 2009 6:09 am
I like your answer to the nurse’s question 😉 Happt T13
July 16th, 2009 6:55 am
I really like this TT, I want to comment on all them, but it would be too long of a comment, so I will just comment on the ketchup one………I used to love that song, until they put it to a commercial. It ruined the song for me and I still think of it as ketchup instead of LOVE. xo
PS The lobster looks huge and I love the look on Joe’s face when he is bumping into you.
July 16th, 2009 7:12 am
I remember that ketchup commercial well…sometimes commercials are great creative works…other times, most times, they’re just in your face bunk! As for SP, I’ve developed quite a Pavlovian reaction to her…not a good one!
July 16th, 2009 7:33 am
I remember my mother was so mad that Reagen called ketsup a vegetable for school lunches. I love the clean slate of the beach myself and really like that description.
July 16th, 2009 7:52 am
I always liked the ketchup commercial, but like the song much better. Love Carly Simon.
Great TT.
July 16th, 2009 7:59 am
Oh, that beautiful carousel at Paragon!! I remember those mirrors. Great video, Colleen.
July 16th, 2009 8:00 am
I like Paul Bloom’s line. I will remember that.
July 16th, 2009 8:39 am
Sky, I have nothing against grilling. I just never got acclimated to it. A stove top is second nature to me. I’m more of a sauter. I don’t do over roasts either, although I like eating them. Never could figure out the cuts or afford them for so many years.
Bonnie, sounds like you do know what you don’t know.
July 16th, 2009 10:06 am
I’m glad I don’t live in Belgium – I hate mayo!!
Like the video of hubs on the beach!
Palin is a joke.
July 16th, 2009 10:36 am
I keep meaning to try fries with mayo. Maybe next time McDondalds forgets the ketchup I’ll remember
July 16th, 2009 11:06 am
What else do you want to put on “french” fries, they were invented in Belgium and always eaten with Mayonnaise,lol ! Ketchup came later after WW2 when American soldiers brought it over ! and Palin … no comments ! Just wonder how a woman like her got into politics _
July 16th, 2009 11:36 am
Mayo on fries is a very European thing to do. I love it!!!! Happy TT!
July 16th, 2009 12:40 pm
Loved your list – so full of light heartedness – and I love that beach in your video clip! What a beautiful expanse!
July 16th, 2009 5:06 pm
#9 a favorite haunt of mine old carousels and train stations sandy
July 16th, 2009 10:07 pm
This is just lovely. Thanks so much! Happy T13!
July 17th, 2009 3:44 am
absolutely wow!
visit me 🙂
July 17th, 2009 3:54 pm
I remember both the ketchup is a vegetable argument and Carly Simon’s song in the Heinz commercial. Ack — I’m old!
July 17th, 2009 6:01 pm
Prince Charming mixes mayo and ketchup and dips his fries in that.
July 17th, 2009 6:26 pm
Hi Colleen. Popped by from Tanya’s to let you know something I’ve never told anyone: If you knew what I put on fries, I suspect you’d think less of me 🙂
Considering how much I eat of pretty much everything, it’s a wonder I’m not as wide as I am tall.
July 17th, 2009 7:00 pm
I’m guessing the mayonnaise thing may be more WIDE SPREAD than I realized!
July 18th, 2009 9:35 am
Here in Canada they use centimeters to measure… I still have to convert to feet and inches to truly get it. 🙂
Can’t help wondering … what happened to Conan. He is one big boy. 🙂
July 18th, 2009 10:19 am
Comment on No. 4: A person who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know has a big problem. Sometimes, I experience it. 🙂
July 18th, 2009 10:56 am
When I was a teen I ate mayo on fries and dill pickles. I would still eat mayo on fries IF I could afford to eat either one of them!
July 18th, 2009 9:06 pm
wow, see what happens when you move down south? You lose that wicked Mass accent!
I recently got measured at the doctors and was shocked to find I’d lost 1.5 inches of height! I’m now 5 foot 3 and a half! Gah!