13 Thursday: Take Note
1. “I feel like bluebirds are carrying pieces of silk fabric and floating them around my head when I’m with her.” ~ My son Josh about his girlfriend Katie.
2. We have a wren’s nest in our tree birdhouse, a phoebe nest on our porch rafter and an unknown nest inside the hardhat helmet worn by our scarecrow.
3. I recently discovered that I can’t have a pocketbook with too many zipper compartments because I forget where I put things and start endlessly zipping.
4. The photo above is of me taking an intermission on my friend Jayn’s bed from her daughter’s wedding, which was held in upper field where it rained, hence the mud on my toes.
5. I saw Super 8 with Josh when he was in town for the wedding, a sci-fi movie about a group of kids in 1979 who stumble on a deadly mystery while filming a homemade zombie movie. I kept waiting for a Super 8 hotel scene to explain the reason for the title. It wasn’t until the next day that the reference to Super 8 film came to me.
6. Fake mustaches were passed around at the wedding to surprise the bride and groom who where off posing for photos. Not only did they show up on people’s upper lips, but I spotted them in people’s ears, on eyebrows, as goatees, on beer glasses, decorating people’s clothing, and one guy had his face covered in them.
7. I came home with beer in my hair (spilled on me from an impromptu line dance), bottles of bubbles in my pocket book and a cookie fortune that read: K92 FM will rock on with you as the host.
8. Man robs a bank for $1 to get jail healthcare HERE.
9. Speaking of the sad state of health care: After a couple of doctor’s visits, a cat-scan and MRI to find out why he was having headaches, fatigue, cognitive disturbances and numbness and tingling on one side of his face, we discovered that Joe is likely suffering from a electromagnetic hypersensitivity, contracted after a super increased bout of cell phone and computer use while starting a new business. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is the chronic fatigue of today, not yet recognized by the mainstream but, like chemical sensitivity, a growing and serious problem. Read more about electromagnetic hypersensitivity from the World Health Organization HERE.
10. I’m still looking for that bright yellow mole trap that someone thought was a Tonka truck and tossed in the bushes in my yard during the 16 Hand Studio Tour.
11. When it comes to typos, ignorance is bliss.
12. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chödrön
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June 23rd, 2011 5:22 am
LOL, LOL…Sounds like a preety wild wedding…Love the idea of the mostachio’s….!
Poor Joe….this doesn’t sound good at all…! And it makes one wonder if more and more people will begin to suffer with this, along with all those who already are…
As always, my dear, I rich T13!
June 23rd, 2011 5:29 am
I don’t know what to say about your first one, its reminding me too much of my own son. I hope Joe is okay. Technology is great but it also sometimes takes us so far from what our bodies were built to do. Numbers 6 & 7… you had fun 🙂
June 23rd, 2011 7:22 am
I had never heard of the electromagnetic thing. Definitely something to look into and watch out for. I live near power lines and have always wondered what they are doing to me.
June 23rd, 2011 9:43 am
thanks for all the great pics this week.
Andrea and Cam want to know…Where did the saying “you can have your cake and eat it too” come from.
June 23rd, 2011 9:54 am
I think it is ” you CAN’T have your cake and eat it too. Found this:
What does have your cake and eat it too mean?
In: Idioms and Slang, Cakes [Edit categories]
Answer:
You will not get what you want without giving something in return.
– Danilo Castro Dy
Meaning: To spend or used something up but still have it; to have two things when you must choose one.
Example: You can either go to a movie or get pizza, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Origin: This saying started sometime in the 1540’s. Once youve eaten a piece of cake, you don’t have it anymore. So you have to a make a decision to eat it or save it. In the same way, money that you’ve spent is money that you no longer have in your pocket. You have to choose what to do with what you have. The original version of this expression is”you can’t eat your cake and have it too.”
June 23rd, 2011 12:08 pm
I love #1. I want to feel like that. and #4. it’s a real feel-good photo. #5 – that’s what I thought when I read the title too.
do you think electromagnetic hypersensitivity will cause a drop in cell-phone use? I don’t.
June 23rd, 2011 12:46 pm
I don’t either. I think it’s like chemical sensitivity. As a culture we accept that some people get sick easily from environmental toxins but that hasn’t stopped anyone from making more and more.
June 23rd, 2011 1:35 pm
#1 oh how glorious
June 23rd, 2011 1:38 pm
Number 8… A sad commentary on the current life and times in our country, isn’t it? Thanks for visiting!
June 23rd, 2011 7:07 pm
#1 I read it four times before I continued on. What a wonderful feeling. I have a version of it, but in my the silk keeps fluttering for my attention while I’m trying to write and I want to use a squirt bottle on the birds to get some alone time. Still, a wonderful feeling! 🙂
#5 In Super 8, the kids are making a zombie movie, not a vampire movie. There’s homage to George Romero made in the short that rolls during the closing credits. It was great.
#9 As someone with CFS who had to go through years of issues before diagnosis and treatment, I have complete sympathy for Joe. I hope he feels better soon.
{{{Hugs}}}
Happy TT,
~Xakara
13 Circling Thoughts
June 23rd, 2011 9:30 pm
When it comes to #11… my favorite.
Have you noticed that on occasion.. the spell check decides that the word is misspelled and though it is the correct spelling from the dictionary.. it still tries to convince me that it is misspelled? A little thing that annoys… but only on days when being annoyed seems the thing to do.
June 24th, 2011 3:50 am
#9 is scary and carries the same symptoms a friend of mine had in the 90s whose neurological diagnosis ended up being malformation of arteries near the brain stem. emory university medical center (atlanta) surgically resolved the problem. it is the “numbness and tingling” on one side of the face that set off alarms and would have me getting a 2nd neurological opinion. i hope joe is ok.
your son and his gf are adorable! i love his description of being in love!
if you have any luck with mole trapping please let us know. we have mole issues off and on, and nothing has worked in a permanent way. spraying the gardens with a castor oil mix moves them to outlying areas, but they always come back.
June 24th, 2011 8:05 am
So interesting about the electromagnetic sensitivity. And – I love that Pema Chodron quote. Not sure if I should laugh..or cry!
June 24th, 2011 6:05 pm
Thank you so much for sharing the links with me.
I’ve only been blogging since late ’07 and then stopped for a bit ’08 to 2010 after the cross-country move, I just couldn’t manage it, so I don’t know tha I have older post talking about my CFS, but I do have a recent one from the beginning of the month.
WisCon A Look Back in Gratitude
It’s the first time I’ve had to look at it head on for years, but I was so affected by it during my trip and felt so confined and defined by it, that I had to admit it had reared in full and had done so a while back but I chose to ignore it.
It means a lot to me that you shared with me.
June 24th, 2011 6:49 pm
There’s not that many of us. I know of two around here. Being at the computer gives me a way to be functional when I don’t feel like physically doing anything else. I’ll check out your link.
June 24th, 2011 7:30 pm
Moles are hunting for Japanese beetle grubs under lawns, if you apply Milky Spore disease the grubs will go, and the moles will have less reason to hunt your yards and more reason to stay in the woods and pastures where the bounty is.
(Milk Spore is a powdery innoculant, bought by the pound and applied during wet weather)
Moles are hard workers and while they can be a nuisance rarely cause real damage, it’s the voles which follow their tunnels which girdle fruit trees and attack our gardens that are the real culprits..
Sign me- just another misunderstood creature.
June 24th, 2011 8:36 pm
Thanks, Jeff. I had moles all over my yard this spring and they do get in my perennial flower beds. How to you apply “Milky Spore Disease?” Is it something I can buy at the Farmers Supply? I got a mole trap from Seven Spring Farms but it takes too much muscle and I can’t set it and now of course, it is lost.
June 25th, 2011 11:26 am
Just saw a boxes/bags of spore at the C’burg Southern States on the discount table. 50% sale.
Applied with a spoon on a grid, it takes hold in the beetle larvae and becomes an endemic disease, if your neighbors participate in a few years you won’t see the adults on roses or plum all the foliage which was ruined stays safe now.
June 25th, 2011 11:44 am
I’ll check it out, but, oddly, I don’t have a big problem with Japanese beetles here. The woman who runs the Villa Appalaccia just told me their first vineyard planting in Chapel Hill was ruined by them.
I wonder what else the moles could be grubbing for?
June 25th, 2011 11:41 pm
I was at Master Gardener College at VT this morning, and went to a bug lecture. The extension agent said that Milky Spore is not very reliable. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. He also said that for it to be effective in the long term, it would pretty much have to be applied everywhere within a five mile radius of your property because the beetles fly very well and very far. The extension recommendations are to physically remove the beetles (knock into a bucket of water) or cover things you don’t want eaten (exclusion).
For moles, our outside cat seemed to keep them away pretty well.
June 26th, 2011 12:31 am
Gotta rent a cat.
June 26th, 2011 9:28 am
So sorry to hear about Joe. I hope he is better and what can he do about the diagnosis?
June 26th, 2011 9:35 am
Like someone who get chemical sensitivity after a toxic exposure, he has to limit or avoid computers and cells phones, I guess. He does notice that they bring on the headaches and numbness.
June 26th, 2011 5:22 pm
6. huh, those fake moustaches get around. was wearing one myself a few days ago.
8. saw that story. something is upended huh?
9. WHO recognizes it. that’s an interesting development.