1. Did you watch the solar eclipse? Your thoughts? Sun Chips, Moon Pies, Starburst candies, a Blue Moon beer, a Sunkist orange, or a Milky Way candy bar...what's your favorite eclipse related snack on this list?
We did! The kids were mesmerized by it. We had a fantastic time playing outside and watching the sun disappear little by little. We weren't in the path of totality, but we saw a lot of it!
I wanted to get Moon Pies, but the store was sold out. Not that I'm surprised...2. What are you 'over the moon' about these days? What's something you enjoy doing every 'once in a blue moon'?
The cooler weather. I'm not necessarily meant for winter, but I like it when fall starts to arrive.
Once in a blue moon...I...don't know what I like to do. I seem to be kind of all-or-nothing about things.3. Tell us about something in the realm of science that interests you. How do you feed that interest?
Electronics. I used to have an IT job that I loved, but I left that job long ago. So I try to help out when I can.4. What are a few things you remember about going back to school as a child?
Nervously looking around my classroom to see if any of my friends were there. Wondering what the teacher would be like.5. I've seen several versions of this around the net so let's make one of our own...share with us five words that touch your soul and briefly tell us why.Huh, I haven't seen anything like this!
peace
service
sharing
understanding
love
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Tuesday was my 37th birthday (though a lot of people in my orbit have started joking that I'm turning 29 again). I don't mind getting older, I kind of feel like I've earned it.
It was also the day a tree landed on my house about ten minutes after I took the kids to Scout's violin lesson. Everyone is okay, but the house is in desperate need of some repairs. But everyone's okay, and since my son had actually been IN the room that got the most severe damage about fifteen minutes before that tree came down...we're hugely blessed to all be safe.
In other news, I'm redecorating a room, and I'm totally open to ideas anyone has...
1. Do your actions match your words? Elaborate.
I hope so. I like to think I can be relied upon to be honest. It's harder during the summer, when I can't do ANYTHING without having to open a juice box or answer a question about cats or settle a debate about anything...
2. Sick as a dog, go to the dogs, dog days of summer, dog tired, it's a dog's life, every dog has it's day, can't teach an old dog new tricks...now doggone it which saying could most recently be applied to your life?
Dog days of summer. It hasn't been that hot here, which is good, but it's closing in on the beginning of the school year, and we're running out of energy and time to do everything.
3. Your favorite book featuring a dog in the storyline? What makes it a favorite?
Is anyone gonna laugh if I say Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? I know the dog was Sirius, but he was a good boy. Yes he was.
4. What's something you hope to one day have the confidence to do?
Speak up. There's kind of a lot of stuff going on, and I wish I had the spine to make my opinion clear. I feel like my own blog should be a safe place for me to say something, but I've seen people get burned by that in the past. The only thing I think we can all agree on here is we don't have the time or the place in our lives for hating one another.
5. August 16th is National Tell a Joke Day. So tell us a joke.
I stole this one from my son, who wrote it down and put it in his sister's lunchbox.
What sound do porcupines make when they kiss?
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Ouch!
(Putting jokes in Sunshine's lunchbox is kind of our thing. I'm gonna need some ideas for the coming school year, so hit me with your best ones! She's gonna be eight in October, if that helps...)
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I discovered the other day that most of my tea towels have holes in them. What the heck? So I ordered a bunch of new ones, and I ordered some of those designs that you iron on to embroider over so they wouldn't be so BORING but turns out, I don't know how to use an iron because the pattern I was trying to iron on to a towel this morning only got half transferred. I have no idea what I'm doing and I kinda feel like less of an adult because of it.
