Showing posts with label Tag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tag. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2008

I've Been Tagged!

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My fellow Native Texan, Tara, at Design on Post has tagged me times two and challenged me.

Tag #1:

"Post the 6th picture in your 6th folder."

So that explains the horrible photo above, taken through the shower door. As to why there are bunnies in the shower: I bought these two bunnies a couple of years ago and put them in the shower that same evening to surprise Tall Husband. They actually startled the heck out of him when he headed for the shower. Such language, Tall Husband!

Tag #2:

"Grab the nearest book.Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same."

I have just returned from the bookstore, so the nearest book is the one I purchased from the bargain table: "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said." Selected and compiled by Robert Byrne. And wouldn't you know it; the pages aren't numbered so I had to count them. Here are the sentences:

"A piano is a piano is a piano. Gertrude Steinway, Unknown"

"A manuscript, like a fetus, is never improved by showing it to somebody before it is completed. Unknown"

"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Russell Lynes"

Now, for the matter of that challenge. Post some “sparklies” (bright spots in life in the midst of all the “bad news” out there):

  1. Tall Son and family are arriving for a visit this Friday.
  2. Calvin Klein Home's is unveiling its first ever furniture collection (cool modern) in January.
  3. Darryl Carter has designed a furniture collection (cool twist on traditional) for Thomasville. He's a great designer and author of "The New Traditional." He edits his work down to the absolute ethereal essentials.
  4. Yes, I too am thankful gasoline prices are decreasing. OPEC and other speculators always underestimate the Great American ability to "cut back," to force prices down. Just wait till they suffer from the new technologies that are coming down the pike.
  5. Tall Husband made me laugh out loud four times today.
  6. We went to an interesting party this weekend, where we saw old friends and met new ones.
So, Tara, thanks for the two tags and the challenge. It's been great fun! Anyone who reads this and chooses to respond, consider yourself tagged and challenged.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Quirky Tag


I've been tagged by Elizabeth at Gossamer Wings to write six quirky things about myself.

How to play

1. Link the person you tagged.

2. mention the rules

3. Tell six quirky, yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.

4. Tag six other bloggers by linking them.

5. Go to each person's blog and leave a comment that lets them know they've been tagged.

Please only play if you really want to and haven't done this already.


Here are my quirky things.

1. I rarely watch television.

2. I always mess up a joke. My family members tell me that my mess up's are frequently funnier than the original jokes.

3. I hate smoked salmon. In order to eat it and not offend my friend, I would get drunk on Aquavit and cover the salmon with bundles of dill whenever she served the wretched stuff. Now that I can no longer have alcohol, I don't know what I'll do the next time she invites us to over. Borrow a cat to take to dinner?

4. I cry when I hear bagpipes. They sound so beautiful and mournful.

5. If I find a shoe style I like, I buy a pair in black and a pair in brown. More than once I've looked down at my feet in public and found that I had on identical shoes, except one was brown and one was black.

6. I listen to the radio before I fall asleep (I use ear phones so that I do not keep Tall Husband awake.) Once I fell asleep listening to a call-in show on which a farmer and his son were describing aliens who had visited their farm and beamed up their cows. Upon waking in the wee hours, I mistook my new floor lamp for an alien being and nearly had a heart attack. O.K, I was groggy but what's that farmer's excuse!?


I will tag:

Carolina: Carolina Eclectic

Courtney: Inside the Loop

Kelly: Home in the Heights

Tara: Design on Post

Jay Lee: Bald Heretic

Grapeshot/Odette: Reading Proust in Foxborough