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Someone remarked that my photo last week for the hunt was good enough for this week’s theme. That made me want to take some new photos! I arranged flowers from my yard in these cute little vases. I started to take photos and it took about 20 photos before I achieved what was in my head. Enjoy!
Friday is almost over and I just remembered about Show and Tell!
I was thinking of what would be interesting and I thought of what I was doing with my photo on this website last night. Dare I share?
Ok….
I call this my ‘Dame Edna’ look.
And how about this one?
A few gals in my class actually had ‘fros’ like this.
You can see more on Flickr———->
And will the real Dianne from the PHS class of 1977 stand up?
Until Mom and me get to see something different…and we sure need it! (Bri and Sean have been down to that beach already). Mom was at my uncle’s house running around for him yesterday and today. I was trying to assemble bags of ‘must haves’-Tylenol, hard candy, Rolaids, snack stuff and finally my clothes. I decided to try some hard candy that I haven’t had for a while. While letting it melt in my mouth, I felt something hard in my mouth and here another gumline filling chipped off. It was right next to the one I had repaired a few weeks ago. I think when the dentist cut some of the gum away, it bothered that filling. I called and the office was closed. I left a hurried message and then went on their website to schedule an appt for next week. About an hour later, Dr. P. called and said he could put a temp fix on it. I ran down and he was the only one there and I was in and out quickly. I went to the drug store to get the filling stuff to take with me. What the dentist put in my mouth only lasted a few hours, so it was kinda of wasted trip. He told me about the stuff in the drug store over the phone.
Not much else is new. I am still sorting my craft stuff and my craft space is a bit of a mess again. I have a new swap to work on involving using The Wizard of Oz as a theme. Can you believe that movie will be 70 years old next year?
I also won a ‘door prize’ from an online site (will post link)! I won a cute snowman by Flora.
Not sure about the chiropractor. Not only is it expensive, but my tummy muscles were very stressed and sore today. They have been really touchy to begin with this summer. I will say my neck is better and so are my sinuses. Think I’ll still look into a massage therapist.
Found this on Mindy’s blog and thought it was a fun idea! It took me about 45 minutes to locate the quotes from a lot of my favorite movies, in no particular order. If you know any of them, please leave a guess in the comments. Mine are much easier than Mindy’s IMHO.
1.Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
5. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
#1 Life and death. Space and time. Fate and chance. Theses are the forces of the universe. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a man who has unlocked these mysteries. From the furthest corners of the world where the dark arts still hold sway he returns to us to demonstrate how nature’s laws may be bent. I give you …….
#2 In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. “Voodoo” economics.
Ferris Bueller’s Day off-guessed by Jennifer
#3 My mother always said my sister, Satsu was like wood. As rooted to the earth as a sakura tree… But she told me I was like water… Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Memoirs of a Geisha-guessed by Deborah
#4 All around this house I see the signs. My daughter looks but she does not see. This is a house that will break into pieces. It’s not too late. All my pains, my regrets, I will gather them together. My daughter will hear me calling, even though I’ve said no words. She will climb the stairs to find me. She will be scared because at first her eyes will see nothing. She will feel in her heart this place where she hides her fears. She will know I am waiting like a tiger in the trees, now ready to leap out and cut her spirit loose.
Joy Luck Club-guessed by Cindy
#5 it’s, uh… it’s capped with an elaborate headpiece in the shape of the sun with a crystal in the center. And what you did was, you take the staff to a special room in Tanis, a map room with a miniature of the city all laid out on the floor. And if you put the staff in a certain place at a certain time of day, the sun shone through here and made beam that came down on the floor here… and gave you the exact location of the Well of the Souls.
Raiders of the Lost Ark-guessed by Amy
#6 A scout has a certain look… Kit Carson, for example. You look like… a muleskinner!
Uh, General I don’t know anything about mules…
Lieutenant, it’s amazing how I can guess the profession of a man just by looking at him! Notice the bandy legs, the powerful arms. This man has spent years with mules. Isn’t that right?
Uh, yes sir!
Hire the muleskinner!
#7 Jeesh, all Bolivia can’t look like this.
How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we’re standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know.
Look, I know a lot more about Bolivia than you know about Atlantic City, New Jersey I can tell you that.
Aha! You do, huh? I was born there, I was born in New Jersey. Was brought up there, so…
You’re from the east? I didn’t know that.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid guessed by Amy
#8 I don’t have the right style for you do I?
No you don’t have the right style.
I’ll change.
No, don’t change. You’re your own girl, you have your own style.
But then I won’t have you. Why can’t I have you?
Because you push too hard, every damn minute. There’s no time to ever relax and enjoy living. Every things too serious to be so serious.
If I push too hard it’s because I want things to be better, I want us to be better, I want you to be better. Sure I make waves you have I mean you have to. And I’ll keep making them till your everything you should be and will be. You’ll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.
The Way We Were-guessed by Lee
#9 I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn’t think you wanted me.
It seems we’ve been at cross purposes, doesn’t it? But it’s no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Gone with the Wind guessed by Jennifer
#10 Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of spears! Thought you were pretty foxy, didn’t you? Well! The last to go will see the first three go before her! And your mangy little dog, too!
The Wizard of Oz-guessed by Jennifer
#11 Were you scared in Vietnam?
Yes. Well, I-I don’t know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out… and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water… like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It’s so beautiful.
Forrest Gump-guessed by Jennifer
#12 Well, yes, ma’am, I do… I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or, who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.
Titanic-guessed by Lee
#13 I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You’re the love of my life.
I love you too, Kelly. More than you’ll ever know.
Castaway-guessed by Lee
#14 Are you suggesting that I killed my wife? Are you saying that I crushed her skull and that I shot her? How dare you! When I came home, there was a man in my house. I fought with this man. He had a mechanical arm. You find this man. You find this man.
The Fugitive-guessed by Jennifer
#15 For God’s sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can’t let him die in front of a live audience!
He was born in front of a live audience.
The Truman Show-guessed by Amy
Hints:
One was about a man over 100 telling his life story.
One was about magic.
Sometimes I like to share email that is worth a second or third read. This is suppose to be something Bill Gates said at a graduation. I usually check stuff first, but it sounds legit.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
And my favorite:
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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Not too much new. I went to the chiropractor and he suggested 20 treatments-let’s see 20 times $50 (no insurance help) is something I can’t afford. We’ll see-maybe a couple of more times. He cracks my neck and pushes on my spine and then I lay on a table that has massaging balls that run up and down my back. I have a chair pad that does the same thing. I’m not in pain. I still have the tingling off and on that runs around from the right back. I think that pushing may be aggravating. I have found that I’m not really that hungry the last few days. I’ve been busier, but it’s not like I am starving. I waited until 6 last night to eat 1.5 pieces of leftover pizza and I really wasn’t hungry. I think I was a little empty in the middle of the night. And I think I lost 2-3 pounds. Maybe it’s helping my digestion?
Sean bought a GPS system that was dirt cheap yesterday. Linens and Things is closing and he got a $200 one for $60. He is having fun figuring it out. It would have been nice to have one when we went to NYC as we were a little lost. Not that we would drive in there again-lol. If we went again, we would park in the Meadowlands in NJ and take a bus in.
Moonlitstitcher’s eBay page-clickable.
Cute little kits that I had saved to do and decided I didn’t want to anymore. Can’t beat $2.50. There are larger kits for only $6.75. They come with everything you need. You’ll find birds, Mary Engebreit, a train engine, an English cottage and Christmas.
I did hear some of the above noises today at the chiropractor! My neck cracked really well. He pressed on my spine and that was uncomfortable. Then I laid on a table that vibrated mostly my butt area for a few minutes. I told he I had a chair massager pad that I should use more. Our insurance won’t cover these visits, so I have to figure out what to do (they take the same credit plan as the dentist, but I’m kinda saving that for extreme bills from them). I guess I can go a few times a month. I’m going tomorrow too. I think my neck feels a bit looser.
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I won a big box of ephemera from eBay to scan and use in my art projects. What fun it is to look through old photos and cards! It can be sad too as the photos are unmarked. I am not saving all of them. I bought the lot mostly for the really old photos. I have seen just one on sale for $4 and I got 11 pounds of goods for around $10. I love this hobby! There is so much history involved-the clothing, the cars, the scenery and towns.
Here’s ‘sort of’ any oldie I found in my craft desk. It’s me at my Communion/Confirmation back in about 1983 with my grandmom Ruth and my mom Jeanne.
I know who I am getting a bod like. This has a few spots on it. And my mom is the height of my grandmom now-I am taller than her! I think my grandmom was about 80 here and mom is almost 78 now.
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Thanks to Jennifer for mentioning the Absecon Lighthouse. Think we’ll go there. Sounds great. I love gift shops too. ; )
I finally got to my mom’s house after not being there for a few weeks. It was just so hard to drive with a sore shoulder blade. (I do go for my first chiro treatment tomorrow). I went to my brother #3’s house first and got my hair done by C. Got to see my niece play ‘Dance, dance revolution’ on the Wii system. She had to follow-move-dance to arrows that come up on the screen. She did pretty darn good. I said she should be a cheerleader and I didn’t know they had try outs (for 4 graders?) and she didn’t want to.
I then went to mom’s and took her out to lunch up the street-she had crabcakes and I had their famous chicken salad club. Before we went to lunch, I checked out mom’s yard. My brother #2 had chainsawed a bunch of bushes, even the lilies I planted a few years ago next to the house. Mom said they had all bloomed. Mom got poison ivy on her foot from being outside with my brother the day he was working in the yard. You can cut stuff back, but you really need to get the roots to a bunch of things-like the ‘weed’ trees. He had planted a tree thinking it was a red bud tree like 30 yrs ago and they are all over the place now. I never saw any tree grow so fast.
We got to see Mom’s friend who hurt himself, as he stopped by after a doctor’s appt and to get a few things. He’s in an assisted living place until his family helps him find a place to live. He has about a 4-5″ triangle shaped cut on his forehead-I think his friend called it a dog tear? and his nose is scabbed over and looks like frost bite. He has a dimple over the top of his nose, from hitting hard I guess. I think it had to be a paver that wasn’t set correctly and he caught his foot on the front of it and down he went. They are new this year and he never fell before. I worry about mom falling too. We’ll have to fix them in the ground better. My #2 brother put those in.
Sean came to mom’s after ‘work’ (he is finished his internship on Friday) and he was craving brick oven pizza. I wasn’t really hungry as I had a late lunch, but I went with him and ate one piece of white pizza with broccoli.
We went to Pet Smart and talked to the kitties there-so cute! And mom and I went to JoAnn’s and I got a 3 drawer piece for my craft goods and a few yard things for 70% off. If you like Debbie Mumm, she designed many of the things-with roosters too (Zoey!). I got a rooster whirligig-couldn’t resist.
There seemed like a ton of people on the road tonight, we’re thinking tourists.
I missed the last episode of ‘The Mole’ so just watched it online and found out who the mole was-I was right! Yeah! I almost changed my mind at the end, but I said ‘Craig’. I like who dunnits!
We have to start getting ready for our Atlantic City trip. I hope it will be a good time. We have always enjoyed walking through Caesars and to stay there will be awesome.
For the time being, it works. Someday I’ll have a second guest room, and I can really go to town. I need the first guest room open for the snorer in the family and my collection of Barbies and other 11.5″ dolls. There may come a time when I want to sell most of them, but I was really selective about what I bought. I just found my Barbie case. The date on it says 1968, so it was around that time I got it. I opened it and Barbie, Stacy, Francie, Skipper and a GI Joe (!) looked as if I just played with them yesterday. I forget why the GI Joe was in there-I figure Mom found him at an auction or yard sale for me.
Not feeling too great to go to the chiropractor. My upper back is bothering me more and I woke up with a ‘tummyache’ about 2:30. I took more Rolaids and chewed some gum then and am better, but feel like I am hungover (only been that way a long time ago!) He may say that 21 years of gardening, plus having Lyme Disease may have taken their toll on me. When I mentioned I had LD (got it in about 1997) he asked if they followed up on me after I took the 3 weeks of antibiotics and I said ‘no’.
Anyway-here’s my desk that I will spruce up-it’s bigger than it looks-about 30″ long:
I found the teapot piece in the back and am finally utilizing it. My friend sent me most of the papers on the left and I was going through the papers on the right. I have tons of paper! Still sorting through them and will arrange by color. I’d like to bring a 3-door storage piece up from the basement to replace the boxes.
The bookcase on the right is just one of my pieces for my cookbooks.
I’ll let you know what goes down today.
~Update-I went to the chiropractor and he said my neck and back muscles are definitely tight and could benefit from treatment. He did strength tests, used the little rubber hammer and told me his dislike of one of the doctors where we go. I don’t care much for her much either and was always glad when I had the PA instead of her. She wouldn’t listen to anything you say. I am going to go a few times a week (I hope the insurance covers some of it or I won’t be able to afford to go). I hope it helps!
Bri kept telling me it was going to rain-he must have known. I did go out and water my plants as it was so nice and cool for a change. I had more energy to do so as it wasn’t humid. I also picked a few flowers to photograph in these cute little vases I have. I’ll share on I photo shopped as a ‘sneak peek’ for Saturday’s Photo Hunt:
I love that Paint Shop Pro!
Ever have a pretzel from ‘The Pretzel Factory’? They are pretty good and we got 10 for $5 plus chocolate and cinnamon dipping sauces. I believe the yeast plays havoc with your digestive as we all took Rolaids. Or it was my homemade tomato sauce (?), but I added a pinch of baking soda to it to help with the acidity. The sauce was good (tasted so fresh) and while we ate, it poured outside. We needed the rain so badly.
My shoulder area is better, but I’ll still go see the chiropractor tomorrow. It’s not my only issue. My neck on the left has been hurting off and on and my knees aren’t that great. We’ll see what happens-never been to one before! My uncle was teasing me-saying that first he’ll use the little rubber hammer, then a metal hammer and I better watch out for the tongs! He had a good laugh, which was music to my ears.
I’m sorting out my papers and craft stuff, or I’d show you a photo of the desk. Bri couldn’t believe it was messed up already. I had to take a break. ; )
Was a bit teary-eyed to see the American male swimmers on the relay team (Michael Phelps was one of them) take the gold a little bit ago! They were hooting and hollering!
Collages & Creative Goodness 