Easy - Week #12

I was just at Kelly's journal and decided I needed a pick me up after reading the latest about Adrian.  So I'm following her advise.  I know things happen for a reason, but...

Anyways, this week, Kelly asked...

Tell me......

"What is your favorite kind of ice cream?"

Good old-fashioned vanilla...French Vanilla if possible.  Why?  Because I can make it any flavor I want once it's in my bowl.  The toppings are endless...chocolate, caramel, butterscotch, strawberry, orange marmalade, sprinkles, peanuts, cookies, M & M's, brownies, hot fudge, Root Beer!!!!   It's the best of both worlds!  What more could you ask for in an ice cream?

They are out to get me!

They are!

I swear it.  Either that or I'm losing my mind...which is highly possible, all things considered lately.

Who are they?  Those pesky grammar gremlins who keep changing words in my journal, that's who.

A couple of seconds ago I was going back over a previous entry (the One Word entry), and I noticed I misspelled the word 'temptation' (I already corrected it so don't bother looking).  Now I know for a fact before I posted that entry, I spelled the word correctly.  See, I always go back and re-read/review my journal entries before I click on 'Save.'  Always.  At least two or three times...sometimes more.  I am a tweaker.  And I can't leave well enough alone, so I review my work.  Reviewing gives me the chance to edit, spell check, tweak, etc.  And I know I spelled temptation right the first time.  I know I did.  But, in the past month this is the second time that's happened and I'm starting to get a bit worried.

There's got to be a way to catch them.

Ignorance is the enemy

Heads Up!

I'm sitting here watching a C-SPAN rebroadcast of Ashley Judd speak at the National Press Club in DC about the YouthAIDS efforts and her experiences as the Global Ambassador.  Ashley addressed the NPC last Wednesday, June 22.

For those of you who followed her journal 'A Journey of Hope' earlier this year, you may recall she mentioned a documentary about her...and India.Arie's...journey in Africa being filmed by VH1.  VH1 will air the documentary on either August 21 or August 23 (or both?).  Hard to tell which date, as Ashley mentioned both dates in such a way that at first I thought the first date was a mistake and second date is correct.  I checked the YouthAIDS website but the only mention of the documentary was the private screening held on June 23.  Right now, the VH1 website has nothing on the broadcast schedule for the month of August.

Just thought you might like to know.

And in case you were wondering I generally do not watch C-SPAN, but I was channel surfing and when I saw Ashley, naturally I put the remote down.  :)  Earlier today I purchased her movie 'De-Lovely' and plan to watch it later tonight.

Easy -- Week #11

This week's question goes hand-in-hand <grin> with last week's.  Now Kelly wants to know...

Tell me......

"What is your favorite thing to drink on a hot summer day?"

I figure we better get some drinks going with all that food we're grilling, right?

 

Most days it is

Water

Occasionally it is

Red beer  - OR -  gin digger

 

One Word

Feeling: Curious

The past two days, in my travels through J-Land, many have posted a 'game' of sorts.  Temptation tickled me, yet I resisted.  Today, alas, my curiousity bested me.  So...

Please leave a one word comment that you think best describes me.

It can only be one word.  No more.

Then copy and paste this into your journal so that I may leave a word about you...

Stolen from Secret Garden.

...and then I stole it from Sorting the pieces !

And I stole from Midnight Diaries....

http://journals.aol.com/gardenmantis/MidnightDiaries/entries/379

And I stole it from SheetGuy, Karebear, karensull12 ,et all.

Sisters and Teenage Drivers

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Comment from: chrismlt
"Dona, I can't express enough to you how much this means to me!  After all these years, I thought I was the special one!  You've given me so many ornaments over the years which are my treasures.

Love ya!

Your sis, Chris

Aw, Chris, what can I say?  Other than it looks like we got ourselves a little sisterly love fest going on!
Of course you always knew you were the special one...after all, who did I wake up at 4 in the morning all those times I was craving hot cocoa and butterhorns at the Westbank?  Wasn't Jayme...she couldn't keep her mouth shut about it to Mom.  But I knew if I told you not to say anything, you'd keep it to yourself.  ;)    And while we're keeping secrets...don't tell you-know-who about my you-know-what, 'k?
Oh, and, I hate to nag, but....where's my disk?
Love ya, too!
Okay, now that I've had my little stroll down memory lane, I have an announcement to make.

****** A T T E N T I O N ******
All drivers in the central Georgia area.  Be advised of a recently licensed driver now loose on the roads.
Name: Beth aka Helen Wheels
Age: A lady never reveals her age.
Sex: See above
Hair: Yes
Height: Hmmm...taller than me!
Weight: I guess...she's weighted for everything else.

Congratulations Beth!  The summer of 2005 is rapidly becoming a memorable one for you, isn't it?

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Sentimental Gifts

For the subject of this week's photo shoot, John Scalzi asked us to share a photo of a treasured gift.  After giving it much thought, the choice was obvious. 
The figurines below are all from my sister, Chris.  Silly as it may sound, I treasure each one, and they mean the world to me...because they are from her.  The oldest is the little girl hugging a bird, with the word 'Love' written on the base.  If my memory serves me right, Chris gave this to me sometime between 1982-1984.  Next are two cats from Avon, which she gave me in 1986, the year we fulfilled a childhood dream of getting an apartment together.  And last, but not least, is the pair of jumping dolphins, which I believe she gave me about ten years ago.

I'm not really a nicknack person, but I love these.  And with the exception of a small chip on the Siamese cat's ear, I've taken extra good care of them over the many years.  There was one other gift Chris gave me many years ago, for Christmas in 1978, the year our mother died.  It was the first Christmas we ever spent apart.  For years it was my most treasured gift ever and I had it for almost 30 years.  But a few years ago it was accidently destroyed.  It was a simple small plaque, with a color drawing of a little bunny sitting in a witch's type kettle, over a raging fire, with a very worried look on it's face.  Next to the drawing were the words, "I'm in a stew without you."  I loved it, because I felt the same way.
To some people, they are just junk.  To me, these simple gifts are a token of my sister's love and appreciation...for who I am, what I am, and what I'll always be, to her.  They are me, and they serve as a constant reminder of the memories we've made together over the years.  Whether together, or apart.