Linking up over at From This Side of the Pond. Ya know - "pond" is a hard work for me to type, since I work at a place called Point! I keep wanting to put that letter i in there....
3. Watermelon-yay or nay? Which melon is your favorite-watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew.
1. I saw a meme on Instagram that went like this-'The movie Dirty Dancing came out in 1987 and was set in 1963, so if remade in 2026 it would be set in 2002. Now I need a little lie down in a dark room for a while." Time is crazy isn't it? So...what were you up to in the year 2002?
In 2002, I was getting the Spawn signed up for kindergarten and had just met the guy who eventually became the Spouse. I had only known him a few months when he asked me to go on vacation to Alaska with him - there we took a photo of us on horseback (his first time!) and looking at it a couple years later - it was taken exactly 4 years to the day before our wedding! And we bought our house the end of 2002. I also took my first trip to Arkansas - for the Spouse's Dad's funeral. That's another whole bunch of stories right there - including the pastor, "Brother Bubba" who stopped in the middle of the graveside service to re-read the names of the surviving family members, clearly trying to figure out who I (and the Spawn) were. Once he found out, he wanted to marry us right then!
2. "Me? I'm scared of everything..." What's something that scares you that you'd like to try anyway?
2. "Me? I'm scared of everything..." What's something that scares you that you'd like to try anyway?
It's not that I'm scared of heights, it's the thought of falling from heights... That being said, I am still sad that we didn't get to have a Swim Call while in the Navy. That's where you get to jump off the ship into the ocean. I'm sure there's a lot of red tape involved in having to park all the planes and basically shut down all shipboard operations to do this, tho. Someone probably would have had to push me, and I would have likely peed myself on the way down, but I would have done it - just to say that I did. And yes - I would have been jumping off an aircraft carrier.
Fun fact - there's people standing watch up on the flight deck with rifles - looking for sharks.
3. Watermelon-yay or nay? Which melon is your favorite-watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew.
Watermelon & cantaloupe are tied.
Of the watermelon food/beverages listed which would you say yes to...
watermelon salsa ~ yes
watermelon salsa ~ yes
watermelon feta salad~ yes (except without the red onions - blargh!)
watermelon sorbet~ sure
a watermelon Jolly Rancher~ take it or leave it
a watermelon Jolly Rancher~ take it or leave it
a watermelon margarita~ hell yes!
4. August 12th is National Middle Child Day. Are you a middle child? If not, where do you fall in the birth order in your family of origin? Do you think this has influenced your personality? Elaborate.
4. August 12th is National Middle Child Day. Are you a middle child? If not, where do you fall in the birth order in your family of origin? Do you think this has influenced your personality? Elaborate.
Nope, I'm the youngest. I don't think I follow the typical "baby of the family" stereotype. In fact, I looked up personality traits according to birth order and this is what I found.
Youngest children may be the last to be born, often with parents more relaxed and less strict. Traits can include:
Charm, creativity, and spontaneity (idk about charm, but the others, yes)
Loving to entertain and be the life of the party (HA! no.)
Adaptable and flexible (hmmmm, yes)
Sometimes seen as “getting away with things” (also - NO!)
May develop strong social skills and empathy (social skills, no - empathy, yes)
5. Would you rather talk to everyone at a crowded party for a short time, or have a significant conversation with two people? Explain.
The significant conversation with 2 people. I'd probably attach myself to them all night, unless it's a crowd of people I know well. I hate small talk and the thought of mingling makes me want to throw up! Also, there's my ability of having the middle of my sentences interrupt the beginning of other peoples. Meaning no matter where I am or who I'm with - I get talked over.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I took this while "American the Beautiful" was being sung.
Sunday, I went to the local cemetery with my VFW (since I'm the post social media peep) for the annual ceremony they have for VJ Day and the installation for the cemetery's WWII memorial.
When the Memorial was dedicated in 1948, there were also 115 WWII veterans buried in what is the largest peacetime mass burial in US History.
The Four Freedoms Memorial is absolutely beautiful.
There is so much detail on it that I'd have to take 100 photos in order to show it all.
The solider (left) and sailor (right) are both bigger than lifesize.
