13: This Way to Narnia
1. Sign put on my blog over Christmas: I Brake for Christmas cookies and Narnia in 3D.
2. The Roanoke Times called the Christmas snow that just kept falling “The little snow that could.”
3. One of the benefits of having read all of the Hobbit and Narnia books aloud to your young sons is that when they grow up they’ll want to see the movies with you.
4. After the movie, Josh and I went into a sporting goods store to run an errand. When I asked the clerk “do you have pool cues?” and he answered, “Yes, down this aisle. Follow me,” it felt otherworldly, like we were on a mission and still in Narnia where the pool cue took on the feeling of being a magic wand. I turned to my son laughing and said, “I’m stoned on Narnia!”
5. Caught in the act. Watch me raiding Santa’s cookies and milk HERE.
6. One good thing about this wintry weather is that I don’t have to lock the house at night when Joe’s out of town because no one would be out in this weather and if they were they couldn’t get down our driveway.
7. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
8. If you took five, 10 minutes of quiet time every day or every other day or once a week and asked yourself simple questions like, who am I? What do I want? What is my life’s purpose? Is there a contribution I can make to my community or to society? What kind of relationships do I want to have? What is my idea of well being, and how can I achieve it? I don’t ask that you even know the answers, but if you start to do this kind of reflection, it has a very interesting way of not only moving you to the answers but of changing your behavior. So instead of saying, I’m going to have all this willpower, and I’m going to try so hard, which is all mental fatigue, reflective self-inquiry spontaneously leads to change. ~ Deepak Chopra on New Year’s Resolutions and more HERE.
9. My blogging friend Fred First’s word to describe dismal drizzling weather “drizzmal” is gaining credibility HERE.
10. My other favorite invented word, also included on the Merriam Webster dictionary list, is E-quaintance: a person known to another through online communication only (as via email or Internet social networking)
11. Inappropriate real-life business names like Hammered Liquors, Stoner Drugstore, and other signs I can’t repeat are HERE.
12. Sign I posed under while in England in the 70’s: Fags, Suckers and Backy (translation: cigarettes, lollipops, and tobacco).
13. Favorite Floyd line on Facebook this week, penned by my friend Jeff: Nothing like a snow bank to chill a bottle of wine! Are we blessed or what?
More blogging 13 on Thursday HERE.
December 30th, 2010 11:46 am
I love #8 and am going to borrow it 🙂 And I wonder if a certain liquor store in Salem MA made the list in #11 😉
Happy New Year, Colleen!
December 30th, 2010 1:45 pm
Post the picture from #12, pleeeeease. =)
December 30th, 2010 2:17 pm
I love Chopra quote; that is exquisite and perfect for this time of year. Happy new year to you, my E-quaintance.
December 30th, 2010 4:40 pm
Thanks for the Deepak quote. Off to add E-quaintance to my vocabulary…
Happy New Year!
~Xakara
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December 30th, 2010 6:08 pm
Thanks for the comment on my first Thursday 13.
I think “drizzmal” is appropriate for a lot of Pacific Northwest Weather as well… I might just adopt this word.
I love all the snowy pictures in your post previous to this one – beautiful.
December 30th, 2010 9:39 pm
Awww the baby is adorable. You seem to be enjoying Christmas snacks lol
Happy New Year!
December 30th, 2010 10:06 pm
Another fabulous TT!! xo
PS Did you steal Santa’s cookies or Dylan’s ?
December 30th, 2010 10:13 pm
Southern England is so unfamiliar with snow, except for the past couple of years, it is amazing how many home theifs are caught by their footprints in the snow! The best security systems are dry leaves in the fall (if you are at home) and snow!
December 30th, 2010 10:24 pm
I was eating the ones I made: butter cookies with jam in the center. Joe put ginger cookies that he bought in everyone’s stockings (along with jerky, clementines, and lottery tickets) and Bryce actually raided Dylan’s stocking. He loves ginger cookies, fruit, and jerky.
December 30th, 2010 11:18 pm
Such a rich T12, Colleen….Lots of good stuff. Every time I see Bryce he is more and more grown up….That much time could not possibly have passed….But, I guess it has.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY DEAR DEAR COLLEEN!
December 30th, 2010 11:18 pm
T13….LOL! LOL! LOL! My finger slipped…..!
December 30th, 2010 11:40 pm
I ventured forth for the first time since the airport white knuckles drive on Monday… it was better. Still, there are big patches of ice that suddenly appear in the road. They keep saying the temps are to get into the 50’s and 61 on New Year’s Day.. I will believe it if I see it. It has been beautiful!
December 31st, 2010 2:12 am
Your No. 8 has me thinking it’s time to do just that.
Your post has me thinking how literature is the exactly right blanket for each family to wrap itself with.
December 31st, 2010 10:50 am
Happy New Year, Colleen! I love the business names!