I'm linking up with Sam and the gang for the Saturday 9 today. I'm off this weekend. Hooray! The mix of personalities and behaviors we have going on in the dementia unit are more than a little stressful these days and it is good to get a break.
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1) This week's artist, Jennie Abrahamson, is very happy living in Stockholm, but she refers to Paris as "a flirt." She enjoys her time there so much she always wants to return. Is there a place you've visited that tugs at your heart and imagination, tempting you to return? Chincoteague Island, Virginia. It has been in my heart since I read Misty of Chincoteague when I was 9 years old.
2) Jennie has said her music has been heavily influenced by 80s pop, which was popular in her early teen years. Are your favorite songs the ones you listened to when you were growing up? There are certain songs that take me back and that I love to listen to, but I don't really have a favorite genre or period. My musical tastes are very eclectic. I listen to everything from Big Band on up to the present.
3) "My Favorite Things" is from The Sound of Music. Crazy Sam's high school claim to fame was playing Sister Margaretta in the senior class production. Though not a big part, her performance lives on because relatives love embarrassing her with pictures of her in an especially unflattering nun's habit. Who took an embarrassing photo of you? What were you doing? The only one I can think of is my 4th grade school photo. It was during my awkward period to begin with and then my mom got my hair cut in a shag with super short bangs and dressed me in a ruffly blouse and a sweater in my school colors of green and gold. I also had the awful glasses she and my dad made me get, not the cool, wire-framed ones I begged for. I was the poster child for all of Nerd-dom!
4) The lyrics celebrate "brown paper packages tied up in strings." What was in the last box you received in the mail? I got a big bottle of hair gel and a new book (yes, in the same box) from Amazon yesterday.
5) It mentions doorbells and sleighbells. What's the most recent bell or alarm that you heard? One of the dementia residents pulled the fire alarm at work tonight. Talk about LOUD!! We had the fire department there and everything before maintenance got it sorted out and shut off.
6) This song has nice things to say about cold weather, specifically snowflakes and mittens. What do you like about winter? This pretty much sums it up...
7) Dog bites and bee stings are singled out as things that can leave us feeling sad. What's most recently given you the blues? Lack of sleep. I get all out of sorts when I'm tired.
8) In 2018, when this song was released, Roger Federer won the Australian Open. Are you good with a racket? Not particularly. I played some as a teen, but it just wasn't a big thing with my friends. We most hit it back and forth on the street or on the patio at my friend's house.
9) Random question -- Your local zoo announced the hatching of three snowy owlets. All males. You won the honor of naming them. Go ahead. Blizzard, Frosty, and Tinsel.
But weren't all the girls in your fourth grade class nerdy looking? It's such an awkward age. (Except for Linda J. She was always beautiful, K-16. I'll have to google her and see how middle age works for her.)
ReplyDeleteNot at my school, they weren't. It was a private school full of rich kids (I was there on the benevolence of my dad's employer) who were given all the coolest stuff.
DeleteThe 2 stages of winter...yep. Bring on the sunshine!!! Have a great weekend!!
ReplyDeleteFun questions and I enjoyed your answers. You know, I lived in the metro-DC area for 12 years and never made it over to Chincoteague Island. Need to make that trip someday when we are visiting in Maryland.
ReplyDeleteOh yaaa … those gosh-awful class pictures. And there was always one in the bunch whose smile looked like a professional actor. Thank goodness my parents kept mine carefully locked away or I would have destroyed them. All these years later, at least I can laugh at them.
ReplyDeleteWe took the ids to a nursing home yesterday and the kids sang to the residents and then colored and did puzzles with them. It is always fun. Your comment about the resident pulling the fire alarm made me think of it. How funny. The 2-3 year olds have been known to pull the fire alarm as well at the school.
ReplyDeleteI love all kinds of music too. Have a nice weekend! Loved your answers!
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Oh, I shudder to think of those god-awful school photos. May they never resurface!
ReplyDeleteI think January is an awful month. I never liked school photos, but you had to have them, so there they are. Thankfully not online like the poor kids of today.
ReplyDeleteI loved Misty...and always wanted to go to Chincoteague but never made it. Nice dream!
ReplyDeleteLove your owl names, these were such enjoyable questions. Have a lovely rest of your weekend!
ReplyDeleteI too am a survivor of the moms who think their daughter should sport a shag haircut. Like we were 10 year old Carol Bradys or something.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of sleeps gets to me also. I had to reach a class yesterday on 3 hours of sleep.
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