13: Going Green
1. Best quote seen on Facebook this week: Growing your own food is like printing your own money. ~ Ron Finley
2. The closest I came to wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day was brushing my teeth with my green toothbrush and drinking a stinging nettles infusion.
3. Posted on March 18, 2008: “I’m so confident in my Irishness that I went out yesterday wearing purple and completely forgot to post an Irish related entry on my blog or tell an Irish joke to someone.
4. When it comes to blogging I feel like I imagine old rock stars do. I would have never thought when I started blogging in 2005 that I’d be going into my 9th year of doing it. This is my 339th Thirteen Thursday, which has turned out to be a life practice.
5. I think it’s cool that Obama is part Irish and you can spell his name like this: O’Bama.
6. My mother didn’t believe that my chickens laid green eggs so I took the picture above for her.
7. When I first heard THIS song, Little Green, on Joni Mitchell’s album Blue, I wondered if she had a child that she didn’t keep. That was eventually revealed to be true. She was reunited with her daughter (who she named Kelly) 30 years after giving her up for adoption. More HERE.
8. After getting some preliminary work for a dental implant that included a sinus lift, I was told not to sneeze. Of course, a week later I got a cold and was unable to repress what came next. After a few days of sneezing and blowing, the abutment piece holding the thing in place fell down. I returned to the dentist and had it fixed, at which point I said to Joe, “Good. Now I can enjoy this cold!”
9. I’ve been at this blogging thing for so long that I even have a 13 Thursday title “Sneeze as You Please” with this line in it: I’m a loud sneezer. I learned it from my dad who not only sneezed loudly, he cursed as he did it. Instead of AH-CHOO, he said AH-SHIT.
10. Water is our first medicine. No one needs to be without safe drinking water. See HERE.
11. On my wish list: THIS
12. I consider St. Patrick’s Day my blog anniversary date, which is part of the reason it’s green.
13. I think the word SNEEZE sounds like a Dr. Seuss character.
More blogging 13 Thursday HERE.
March 20th, 2013 5:07 pm
That sneeze thing sounds so very weird. An implant and raising your sinuses? Something I have yet to experience.
March 20th, 2013 5:31 pm
Lost so many back teeth over the years and have to create a place to chew to save my front teeth from that wear and tear. It is weird. At this point my mouth is patched together with fillings, crowns, root canaled teeth and a bridge. I hope the implant will be worth it in the end.
March 20th, 2013 5:39 pm
What a great blog. So glad I found you.
March 20th, 2013 6:29 pm
My mother told me I didn’t have to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day because my name is Colleen Shannon. I think you get the same pass. 🙂
March 20th, 2013 7:01 pm
Hey, Colleen! You have a double Irish name!
March 21st, 2013 12:20 am
How cool that you don’t have to dye your own Easter eggs. 😀
March 21st, 2013 4:07 am
A Green Egg! WOW!!! This is a very rich T13 Colleen….I was not familiar with Jonie’s story…very touching…!
And that CAR looks Fabulous! I hope you can get one.
I wish you much luck with that implant….I have some on the bottom so no sinus lift was needed…And they are GREAT!
March 21st, 2013 4:11 am
A particular breed of hen lays those green eggs, don’t they?
One of the worst things about sneezing is doing it while you’re driving. You just have to close your eyes.
March 21st, 2013 6:10 am
I always loved “Little Green”, loved it even more when My Beloved Sandra began seeking out a daughter she had as a teenager & gave up for adoption, only to find out the daughter had recently begun seeking out her natural mother. Happy ending: they found each other, the daughter had been raised by wonderful people, is a beautiful and accomplished woman with a daughter of her own, and we’re all great friends today.
Oh. Gesundheit.
March 21st, 2013 7:36 am
Cool car.
I think I’d like to curse when I sneeze.
Thursday 13 – 1st words of tSLBoM
March 21st, 2013 8:02 am
I really was touched by the video you sent with Joni Mitchell and her daughter.
She talks just like her Mom.
Happy Belated St Patty’s Day and Happy Anniversary on your Blog!!
March 21st, 2013 8:28 am
@1 love everything about going green makes wonderful sense to me a farm girl sk
March 21st, 2013 9:27 am
Happy Anniversary! I know I look forward to reading your posts. May you have many more years of successful blogging.
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March 21st, 2013 10:16 am
I love that it’s turned into a life practice 🙂
March 21st, 2013 10:19 am
I’m usually so anti-practice, so it was good for me to recognize it as such. Another practice is watching the moon and interpreting it in different ways, making little moon poems. I have 100’s.
March 21st, 2013 10:40 am
Colleen, I do have a double Irish name as do my sisters Tara and Maura. 🙂
Plus, I forgot to wish you a Happy Blog Day, nine years is an impressive accomplishment. A belated Happy Blog Day to you!
March 21st, 2013 10:42 am
I had to laugh at how your dad sneezes! My brother’s first wife used to sneeze extremely loudly – a sort of Ah- CHOOO!!! Loud enough to startle someone in another room – especially if she did it after we’d all gone to sleep.
I guess some folks just can’t do it subtly, eh?
Happy TT!
March 21st, 2013 1:07 pm
St. Paddy’s is becoming a different creature. So many drunken students screaming to the sky. Garish green decorations, body paint. It’s like another frosh week.
Oh, you have an arcana chicken. I have (emptied) eggs from one of those which has outlasted the chicken by about 20 years.
10. amen.
March 21st, 2013 4:12 pm
My mother used to sneeze like your father. Congrats on the long blog life – I think that’s pretty cool.
March 22nd, 2013 6:23 am
It’s so hard to believe you’ve been blogging for nine years, but then again, it feels as though you have always blogged. I’ve always felt this about my kids too. Yuor blog is your baby.
I like # 1. So true.
I like # 6 too. It made me think of the children’s book, “green eggs and ham.” Funny you mention Dr. Seuss on # 13.
I didn’t know that Joni Mitchell was reunited with a daughter, but I’m glad to hear it. I loved that song and thought the same thing. Maybe we talked about it.
#10 made me so sad.
#11 – that’s an amazingly great price.
March 22nd, 2013 3:51 pm
Congratulations on 9 years of blogging!