13 Thursday: Old Blue Shoe
1. There are two stats I check without fail first thing every morning. Today they were 8:15 and 118. Can you guess what they were?
2. I never had the bride getting married fantasy when I was a girl, but I have fantasized about going to the Academy Awards to see the stars up close. I used to fantasize sitting between Susan Sarandon and Tom Robbins (I like their politics and they have the same age difference as Joe and I), but they recently split up, adding just one more reason why the fantasy won’t ever come true.
3. HERE’S another reason.
4. I think in poetry. Even my shopping lists tend to get arranged in rhymes: Feta, arugula and aloe vera are followed by broccoli and tahini. Red pepper and peanut butter go good together.
5. I haven’t made it back to Laughter Yoga class, but I practice laughing loudly on my walk to the mailbox. It helps when I imagine someone comes along and catches me laughing hysterically about nothing.
6. My friend Katherine sent me an email and in it she referred to me as her “over the hill friend,” which sounds sort of derogatory unless you know that I literally live a stone’s throws away and over a hill from her.
7. You have to be a certain age to get THIS, but it’s funny even if you aren’t.
8. This is the snowiest winter I’ve experienced in my 24 years of living in Virginia, but during yesterday’s snowfall, coming home from town, I saw a bright pink birdhouse hanging from a tree and a bluebird land on a branch. I took both as hopeful signs of spring.
9. Favorite answering machine message left this week by my friend Mara: “What’s new, old blue shoe?” It was in answer to the question I left, “What’s the story, Morning Glory?”
10. Last week, I wrote a blog entry and a newspaper story about my friend Asa who is in Haiti with a relief team. Every time I typed Asa’s name, my spellcheck wanted me to change it to ASAP.
11. I’m also writing about My Asheville Potter son Josh’s collage journals, a ten year body of work, which he plans to publish soon. Josh recently gave me the names of some collage artists he knew I’d like to research. I never got past the first one, Ray Johnson (1927-1995) because any Taoist who called “Pop Art” “Chop Art,” staged “Nothings” in answer to the 60’s Happenings,” photocopied his ear for art’s sake, and did a make-up blush commercial collage with the words “Your fly is open,” is my kind of guy.
12. Being one who is used to being on the other end of the camera, when I opened a recent newspaper and saw that I had been photographed at an art opening in town (twice!), I shouted out to Joe, “I’ve just been punked!”
13. Look what you can do with an old blue shoe HERE.
~ Speaking of over the hill, my Thirteen Thursday membership is really old. This is my 230th edition. See what others who are playing are saying HERE.
March 4th, 2010 5:13 am
I love that clip. Happy TT
March 4th, 2010 5:47 am
Your grocery lists are much more artful than mine — I always write my list in order of which aisle items are in. It always throws me off when the store decides to do major rearranging.
March 4th, 2010 7:02 am
i have to admit.. i love your grocery list!
Not So Normal
March 4th, 2010 8:58 am
No. 9 is really charming. I like your poetic grocery list too 🙂
March 4th, 2010 9:09 am
hmmmm….the time you rise and the number of feeds awaiting your perusal?
tim robbins and susan sarandon. i hated to hear about their breakup which is funny since i don’t know them or a thing about their relationship except that they never married.
i love the typing clip! ;D i remember all too well – my secretary was a typing whizzzzzzz….she could slam that return like nobody’s business! she never felt at home with the computer keyboard like she did with the typewriter and retired (early) within a year after our office went high tech. :((
as always i love your Thursday posts!
March 4th, 2010 10:38 am
Wow you are old school T13! I’ve only just started – this is my 4th! LOL
Love your post – you are very creative.
Here is my Thursday 13
Hope you can drop by and say hello!
Sassy
🙂
March 4th, 2010 12:02 pm
I’m of an age to find that clip funny…my mother had the same reaction to high tech that Sky’s secretary did. Oh, and I love your new design! Very nice 🙂
March 4th, 2010 12:54 pm
#1 ‘s answer is time and stats, #3 doesn’t work for me and
I laughed out loud at #7!!! Happy Thursday! xo
March 4th, 2010 1:16 pm
Still chuckling at number seven. Loved what you did with a blue shoe lol Fun list!
Happy T13!
March 4th, 2010 1:44 pm
# 3 takes you to the poem I wrote: After the Golden Globes and in honor of Valentine’s Day which starts: It seems that my chances
of wearing a gown on the red carpet
and being mistaken for a movie star
are coming to a close…
I think I fixed it.
Want to take another guess at the second # in #1, She.
March 4th, 2010 3:08 pm
How funny that your lists are in rhymes.
http://harrietandfriends.com/2010/03/should-a-2-timer-get-no-more-mail-on-saturdays/
March 4th, 2010 4:15 pm
I never fantasized the bride thing either. I fantasized receiving the Nebula award.
March 4th, 2010 5:13 pm
#1 – Waking time and weight, which must be nice.
Love your posts.
March 4th, 2010 5:24 pm
Yes, weight! I have to do it right away before I pile on clothes and slippers that make the numbers rise!
March 4th, 2010 6:37 pm
I’ve never heard of Laughter Yoga. Sounds interesting.
March 4th, 2010 8:50 pm
You have been doing TT longer than anyone else I read! You’re a champion.
March 5th, 2010 1:28 am
250!!! No wonder this is such an interesting post…thank you.
b
March 5th, 2010 9:00 pm
oh, TT is the second post down. think I missed a couple days this week somewhere.
1. time and new events on FB?
2. when I looked up movie stars on imdb I was surprised to find that most of the ones I remembered were 40-55 when I was 10-15.
March 5th, 2010 9:01 pm
did you say why there’s a “yazmış:” after each of our names?
March 6th, 2010 9:32 am
I always love your popurri(?) of Thursday Thirteen, Colleen…I cannot believe you have done 230 of these….FANTASTIC!