December 9, 2013

• Top Ten Countdown Finale or Finally

  • this is probably the longest time I haven't been on xanga since I started posting here...I had a dear friend in Virginia pass away from ovarian cancer...she fought a good battle for 9 years...it was a fairly aggressive form and they didn't give her much time at the onset I think, but she was determined to see her youngest daughter happily married and a grandchild...the daughter married the perfect man and had two beautiful daughters...I think she's resting in peace now... I wish I'd made more of an effort to see her before she passed... Life is short ... unless compared to eternity.

  • I thought I should finish this top ten thing before I do Adamswoman's Christmas Survey... and I put it all together so the post would seem longer,  only 9 and 10 are new and there's one addition to my dinner party list:

     

    10. The top ten things you wouldn’t want anyone to know about you.

    1.)  my political views

    2.)  my weight - I don't even want to know =/

    3.)  my addictions or afflictions

    4.)  my afflictions

    5.)  my social security number, although if someone stole my identity they might just kill their self's.

    6.)  my password - I only use one, it's all I can do to remember one, maybe I should share that just in case =/

    7.)  my financial information (although #5 gives me away)

    8.)  my personal thoughts

    9.)  hummmmm...I'm running out of things here

    10.) see #9

    9. Your top ten best memories.

    1.)  my wedding day

    2.)  the birth of my children ( should this count as four top tens )

    3.) sailing the Caribbean on a 282-foot, four-masted schooner called Fantome

    4.) seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time

    5.) getting a Danny O Day Ventriloquist doll for Christmas ( I was 11 and mother had told me I was too old to ask for dolls anymore)

    6.) that perfectly perfect day on Caladesi Island

    7.) diving off the cliffs at Websters Overlook on Lake Allatoona

    8.) the week I was on the Marietta Blue Devils diving team

    9.) my first paycheck - it was only 20 bucks but boy did I feel rich and independent!

    10.)  well - somethings you don't really need to know, but it involved my husband and a blanket and a mountain.

    8. Your ten best friends.

    1.) my husband

    2.) my children

    3.) my siblings

    4.) my mother

    5.) my cousins

    6.) my boss

    7.) the ladies group from church

    8.) Linda Stout

    9.) Lynn Stout

    10.) if you add these people up it’s way more than ten….so I’ll stop here.

     

    7. Your ten best qualities or talents.

    1.)  accounting

    2.) organizing

    3.) loving children

    4.)  compassion

    5.) talking to animals

    6.) driving

    7.)map reading

    8.) memory

    9.) cooking chili

    10.) making cornbread

    1. Your top ten foods.

     

    6. The top ten ways you would spend money if money was no object.

    1.) good healthy food  for everyone

    2.) health care for everyone

    3.) education for everyone

    4.) a home for everyone

    5.) build my own observatory

    7.) roof my house in slate

    8.) go off the grid

    9.) own an island in the florida keys

    10.) help animals

     

    5. Your opinion, the top ten inventions / discoveries of mankind.

    1.) fire

    2.) antibiotics

    3.) looms

    4.) wheels

    5.) printing press

    6.) velcro

    7.) computers

    8.) telephone

    9.) electricity

    10.) preservation – as in canning and preserving food

     

    4. The top ten ways you’d like to spend your Saturday.

    1.) swimming in the gulf of mexico

    2.) swimming in a clear mountain lake

    3.) swimming in the atlantic ocean

    4.) swimming in the pacific ocean

    5.) swimming in the creek behind the house

    6.) reading

    7.) star gazing

    8.) playing with puppies

    9.) watching hunnered year old movies

    10.) water skiing

     

    3. Your top ten favorite songs.

    1. “Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants” – Jimmy Buffett

    Now young Mr. Moon flew away in the night

    With his best friend Magnus right by his side
    They soared through the Milky Way counting the stars
    Once around Venus, twice around Mars

    2.) “Blackbird” –  the Beatles

    Blackbird singing in the dead of night
    Take these broken wings and learn to fly
    All your life
    You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

    3.)  “Night Rider’s Lament” – Jerry Jeff Walker

    And he asked me
    Why do you ride for your money
    Tell me why do you rope for short pay
    You ain’t a’gettin’ nowhere
    And you’re losin’ your share
    Girl, you must have gone crazy out there

    4.) “Moon River” – Audrey Hepburn

    Moon river, wider than a mile
    I’m crossing you in style some day
    Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
    Wherever you’re goin’, i’m goin’ your way

    5.) “Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke

    Everybody get up
    Everybody get up
    Hey, hey, hey
    Hey, hey, hey
    Hey, hey, hey

    I can’t post many more of the lines of this song…they are awful!  But you can do some dancin to this song.  I just dance, I promise I don’t listen to the words…I haven’t even watch the video ( or much of it anyway )

    6.) “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay” – Otis Redding

    Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun
    I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come
    Watching the ships roll in
    And then I watch ‘em roll away again, yeah

    7. ” Hey Ya” – Outkast

    One, two, three, uh!

    My baby don’t mess around
    Because she loves me so
    And this I know for sure.

    8.) ” A gift of a Thistle” – Horner – preformed by the London  Symphony Orchestra 
    

    from Braveheart – the whole sound track is just dang good.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQkSDwsn1I

    9.) ” You Are My Sunshine” – Willie Nelson

    You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
    You make me happy when skies are gray
    You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
    Please don’t take my sunshine away...

    and because it’s been that sort of couple of weeks;

    10.) “Angel” – Sarah McLachlan

    Spend all your time waiting
    For that second chance
    For a break that would make it okay
    There’s always some reason
    To feel not good enough
    And it’s hard at the end of the day

    odd sorta list isn’t it….

    no one ever said I wasn’t sorta odd

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    2. Your top ten people in history living or dead to invite to a dinner party.

    1.) John Wayne

    2.) Jane Goodall

    3.) Willie Nelson

    4.) Paul Newman

    5.) Albert Einstein

    6.) Jimmy Buffett

    7.) Ken Burns

    8.) Rachel Carson

    9.) Georgia O’Keeffe

    10.) Katharine Hepburn

    I'm adding #11 here - because I would really love to have this friend at a dinner party:

    11.)  Michel Fauquet

     

    1. Your top ten foods.

    1.) lobster with drawn butter,

    2.) the stuff that’s left after you clarify butter – omg!!!!

    3.) oysters on the half shell – small cold and salty

    4.) asparagus

    5.) steak, preferably Filet mignon  grilled and rare  - although if  the squeamish family is here I go med rare .

    6.)  trout caught out of the creek behind the house, smoked with pecan wood from the tree behind the house

    7.) mangoes – I wish I had a tree behind the house, but I’d have to move the house.

    8.) avocados

    9.) key lime pie – (no kitty you can not have my pie 

    10.) seafood etoufee

    1.) lobster with drawn butter,

    2.) the stuff that’s left after you clarify butter – omg!!!!

    3.) oysters on the half shell – small cold and salty

    4.) asparagus

    5.) steak, preferably Filet mignon  grilled and rare  - although if  the squeamish family is here I go med rare .

    6.)  trout caught out of the creek behind the house, smoked with pecan wood from the tree behind the house

    7.) mangoes – I wish I had a tree behind the house, but I’d have to move the house.

    8.) avocados

    9.) key lime pie – no kitty you can not have my pie 

    10.) seafood etoufee

    So there you Go....

    I hope if you are snowed in somewhere that you have a warm place to stay and plenty of bread and milk!

    ILYM

     

    p.s....if it's not cloudy where you are check out the heavens tonight and the next few nights:

    Expert observers are reporting an unexpected outburst of a little-known (but historical) meteor shower. The Andromedid meteor outburst began yesterday (December 8, 2013) and might not have peaked yet. The Geminid meteor shower is going on now, too, peaking on the mornings of December 13 and 14. So tonight might be an awesome night to go outside and watch for meteors!

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