Tuesday Musings #10

Do you collect anything? If so, what? If not then, why…or what would you collect if you had to start a collection?

Well, today, all I feel like I collect is...

LAUNDRY!!!

With all nine of us wearing clothing everyday, it can get pretty bad. Every once in a while, I threaten the kids with "Naked Week", but I haven't followed through, yet. It is only a matter of time...

Sometimes it is sorted...

...and sometimes, like today (the first day home from vacation) it is just sordid.

So, how about a rain check on my real collecting fun and fantasy? I'll post all about it (with pictures!) when my laundry is caught up or before I turn 40, whichever comes first...

Tuesday Musings #9

Imagine your life is now a book. In 100 words, write the blurb for it.

Now you can travel the globe (only a little bit) with Amy, the beautiful (on a good day, in very forgiving light), daring (seven little dwarves), pampered (by her dh) daughter of gem mining tycoons (not! but I like my parents better anyway) as she solves the mind-numbing mystery of where the lost pacifier went.

Cringe with her as she cleans the boogers off the bedroom wall.

Grip the armrests of your chair while she dodges soggy, flying pancakes.

Most exciting of all, you’ll want to read about how she convinces her teenage daughter to do the dishes before midnight!

Tuesday Musings #8

Who was the last person you prank called? What did you say?

I'm not sure if this was the last prank call I made, but I made a series of calls in high school to my major high school crush. (This is embarrassingly idiotic.) He was kind of a weird kid from an interesting family. He claimed the reason they didn't mow their lawn was because they were all too romantic to like short grass. He told me once that I wasn't Machiavellian enough. He was weird. I was (am?!?) weird. I had an on-again, off-again crush on him for at least two and a half years.

I am the oldest of seven kids and there was a very distinctive background noise at our house, so I had to be extra devious when I made prank calls (see I made enough of them to figure this out). Do any of you remember the old rotary dial desk phones?


Well, you could unscrew the plastic covering over the mouthpiece and take out a metal thingamajig. Then, you could screw the plastic part back on and the phone would look normal to curious passing siblings, but the person on the other end couldn't hear a thing. So, to answer the second part of the question, I didn't say a thing. I used to call this kid's house and just listen. The fascinating (at least to me at the time) thing was, they would talk. To "no one". Yep, more than once (I said it was a series), for up to twenty minutes at a time, someone, either my weird crush or his older brother would just talk about who knows what. I can't remember what either of them said, probably because my sensible side (there, now you know I have one) has tried to forget how absolutely ridiculous I have been in my checkered past.

Tuesday Musings #7

If you woke up tomorrow morning and were someone else, who would you hope to be?

Okay, here it is my turn to choose the topic and I am the last one to post! If you look at the date above and the time below, you can see when I put the topic in, saved the first draft, and started trying to figure out who I'd be. Kind of like Rebecca, I kept thinking of downsides to each person I considered.

Here are some of the people I thought about choosing -

Benjamin Franklin - how cool to be both a silversmith and a founding father

Calamity Jane - pros - a great nickname and got to ride horses a lot
cons - hung around with a bunch of smelly guys and prostitutes

Joan of Arc - didn't she ride horses, too?

Artemisia Gentieschi - but would I really want to suffer that much just to paint with emotion?

and another artist - Sudcliff Maudsley

Carole Lombard - I think she was so funny, but that's where my admiration stops

Julia Child - hey, I'd just want to eat like her for a day

Neil Armstrong - he is still tempting, but I found someone more well rounded -

and the winner is -

Marie Marvingt

because she did everything I don't have time to do. She climbed mountains, wrote books, canoed, flew planes and balloons (that is my favorite), fenced, played tennis, rode horses (that is my second favorite) and even spoke five languages (including Esperanto)!

Woo hoo - wouldn't that be fun?