A Hot and Thundering Thursday!

"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
~ Edith Sitwell

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." ~ Elmore Leonard

"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I almost always share three things with you on Thursday.. Today I am sharing three poems.. But Before I do that I'd like to let you know about my new Blog.. for a while I have been posting a lot of Photo's here along with my poems and words.. I will still be sharing Photo's here some of the time.. But from now on I will be posting most of my Photo's on my new Blog.. Please take the time to visit me there.. @ Patsy's Photos!.. I thank you for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you have enjoyed your visit .. Have a wonderful day!!
Patsy

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#1~ a short poem


Awakening

a warrior awakes
full~ hardened at sunrise
love breaks his fasting
young squaw with belly rounded
quickening~ a warrior wakes

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
9-8-2009


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#2~ A Senryu


Love of Money

sitting at the bar
sweet desire an untamed fire~
tender smiles for tips

written by: Patricia Sawyer
1-26-2010


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#3 ~ Thursday Thunks..




Welcome to the July 22nd edition of Thursday Thunks!

They pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - they don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....


Thursday Thunks: None of Your Business


The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Jill Hennessy's marriage certificate and the number 33,333,333.

1. What is the most common question that you are asked (in life) that is none of the questioner's business? ~ what is the household income.. I think if Ours were higher we might not mind as much.. and honestly that question is on everything you have to fill out and unless It is important .. like maybe if we were seeking a loan.. I choose "rather not say!"

2. Who makes you happiest right now?~ I am basically a happy person.. but I love my dear

Husband Dave.. ~ I am pretty happy with my kids and grand-kids too.. and my siblings and my Mom and friends.. and readers.. need I go on?

3. Would you consider yourself to be spoiled? ~ I am a spoiler.. and maybe I am a tiny bit spoiled by Dave...

4. Do you want to be famous one day? ~ I am famous now.. everybody around here knows me.. some folks who I would rather not know me.. but truly famous.. can I get the money without the fame??

5. Could you handle being in the military?~ No I would die on the first road march.. I can make up fine cadences though.. reckon they need a writer?

6. Do you believe in Karma? ~ Of course I believe in Karma..

7. What’s the stupidest thing you ever did with your cell phone? ~ I don't "DO" anything with my cell phone except answer when it rings.. sometimes I don't even do that.. I hate cell phones..

8. Who knows a secret or two about you?~ I don't have any secrets... at least not any that anyone else knows..

9. Who is the most experimental person you know?~ does that mean they experiment with stuff? what stuff... I am going to say my oldest son.. only because he is scientific..

10. Last thing you did that ticked off your S/O (or if not in a relationship) most recent S/O?~ I most likely said something that he didn't agree with or he said something I didn't like and I was an ass..

11. Have you ever purposely been irritating to someone? If yes, explain. ~ I have never purposely been irritating to anyone.. and if I have been I wouldn't tell it on my blog for the whole world to see.. I used to follow a certain person around town giving her the nasty eye.. but I wasn't hoping to irritate her.. I was hoping she would stop.. I had and still have something I want to give her....

12. What's crazy to you? ~ I have been told I am crazy myself so I don't think there is much that really seems crazy to me...

13. Who (other than the three of us TT writers) writes the most interesting blog? ~ I visit a huge number of blogs each and every day.. I like way to many of them to list them all.. I do like my own though I'm pretty sure that shouldn't be my answer.. ThomG from Three word Wednesday has interesting blogs.. I love his writing style..

~ and those are my thoughts for Thursday's Thunks!!

Three for Thursday!

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." ~ Doug Larson

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." ~ Walter Hagen

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." ~ Benjamin Franklin

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#1~ a haiku ~

On the Sand

sunbathers glisten
dipped in rich coconut oil~
Seagulls fight for crumbs


written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-26-2010

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#2~ Thursday Photo Challenge!

Each Thursday you are given a challenge.. you may then go out and make a new photo or you may use one that you already have.. This weeks challenge is water..

"WATER" (Ocean, Lake, Waterfall, Ice, Rain, Wet Things,...)

A water tower.. on the oceans edge.. in a thunderstorm should pretty much cover the water challenge!...

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#~ 3 Thursday Thunks!

1. Have you ever performed the Heimlich Maneuver on someone or had it performed on you? ~ No but I have snatched a child's arm up over their head .. and yanked on it when they choked.. that was the old way... it worked too but now they say we can't do that.. they say it's abuse.. who would have thought.. don't choke around me.. I'll do the snatch and jerk on you!!

2. Do you have a red room in your home? (Either painted red or red curtains etc.) ~ I do not have a red room... I am not to fond of red.. my kids once painted most of their room and all of themselves red with fingernail polish though..

3. Have you ever felt like banging your head against the wall?~ besides right now?? yes!!

4. Reports came out this week that Michael Jackson was gay. Are you shocked, don't believe it, don't care or felt he was all along?~ I wouldn't be shocked at much that was said about any famous person.. I don't really care if he was or wasn't.. they are not really important to my life and much as I wish it was different.. I'm sure I wasn't important to his... maybe that's why I'm just finding out about the gay thing huh?.. besides he's dead why do we need to know this now?

5. What's the dumbest thing you have done after a breakup with a S/O?~ I did a lot of dumb things after my one and only divorce.. I don't think I ever had a significant other besides him.. I had a few others but they were purely insignificant! I did do a smart thing though and marry my wonderful honey man.. (that honey man thing is for spite to the kids..) I love ya Dave!

6. If Berleen and Bud are standing on the roof of a one story building and decide to throw water balloons at Kimber walking down below on the sidewalk, what color balloon hits her first?~ I'm almost sure the jar of tinkle.. that the old witch on the first floor tossed out the window.. falls faster! But if you demand a balloon color I'll say purple..

7. What are the wildest, craziest pajamas you own?~ I used to own some of those now I just crash in shorts or sometimes a gown.. I do have some old red cloth that I could wrap up in and pretend I'm in a red room or something..

8. Have you ever ridden in a sidecar on a motorcycle? ~ I have not.. I have ridden behind Dave and was once even thrown through the air across his back and landed on my feet.. I know it sounds like a lie.. but it is in fact the whole truth.. The side car sounds fun though..

9. Do/did you go party on Cinco De Mayo, and if so what color was the bartender's shirt?~ I did not go.. but I could have drank some tequila.. I like tequila.. If I had gone I'm thinking the shirt would have been black..

10. Why does a hat have a bill?~ to shade your eyes.. to write crazy sayings on.. and so people could ask this question..

11. If you were a WWE professional wrestler, what would your stage name be?! ~ wrestling is faker than fake and I would never be one... but the name crazy lady works alright..or I could use my old Trailer park name.. Miss Meany!

12. How many keys do you have on your keyring?~ lets see.. car.. house.. mama's house.. special secret box.. hidden cages.. handcuffs.. hmmm.... a few..

13. What is the oldest picture you currently have in your home? What year was it taken and who/what is the photo of? I love pictures and I have a bunch of them.. the oldest one I have is of my parents before they had children.. I'm guessing at 60 years old.. maybe a little older..

Thats my three things to share with you this Thursday.. Thanks for dropping by my blog..

I hope you have enjoyed your visit and maybe smiled or had a laugh... Please feel free to leave me comments.. Have a wonderful night..

Patsy

It's Thursday.. Time for me to Thunk!

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final
exam. " ~ George Carlin

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."
~ William Shakespeare






Welcome to the February 18Th version of Thursday Thunks!
(which they almost always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where they make you think a little bit before you blog!


Yes! they do have rules~~They pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want. Write about it on your blog... simple as that. Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - they really don't care! Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post. Please mention them in your post, and link back to the blog. Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs. Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks! That's what all this is about after all, isn't it? And this final one is not their rule but mine.. Enjoy yourself!


This week we will answer some crazy questions brought to you by Berleen's demon spawns (teenagers), the color of snowflakes, and the number 7200.

They are 15 and 13... that is your warning.

1. Why are computer mouses called mouses? ~ I have no idea about this one unless it's because they are pests.. I call mine names most days..they stick and do exactly what you hoped they wouldn't.. mine won't click to save my life sometimes and then appears to click on what it wants too.. Maybe I should have just looked this up..
2. If a guy has no money and he goes into a bar does he get kicked out?~ not unless he tries to order a drink.. on the other hand he doesn't get a girl either.. or a drink.. maybe he can eat the free peanuts.. do bars still have free peanuts?
3. Why does Taryn hate rat terrier puppies?~ I'd have to ask Taryn that.. personally I love most puppies.. I have a new puppy myself.. he's a mutt..
4. Why do polar bears not moo? ~ cows moo.. Polar bears roar and growl.. I love them though and think they are beautiful.. When Mason and I went to New Mexico the second time he came home and told everyone that he and I "swam with the polar bears at the Albuquerque Zoo" it was blazing hot and if we wouldn't have become bear fodder I might have given it a shot.. they have the coolest Polar bear exhibit I have ever seen..
5. Why do people let doves fly at their weddings?~ It is said that doves bring good fortune and a happy home for newlyweds.. Doves also choose one mate and mate for life.. I have a pair of doves but I am beginning to wonder if they like each other.. maybe they don't like me OR even their cage.. I hoped they would lay eggs and multiply.. so far they just coo at me..

6. Why are no two snowflakes alike? ~ I am going to say because God made them all different so that we would have something to wonder about.. sorta like each of us are different and unique in our own way..
7. Why do people want things that don't work? (ads in newspapers - like junk batteries wanted)~ I actually know this because I read about it on a blog.. people use old batteries for solar power systems in their homes.. They have a solar panel that charges the batteries then they watch TV.. compute.. even cook with free power.. and let me add that if My electric bill continues to rise I might have one of those please give me your junk battery adds myself!
8. Why do we have to wear shoes at school?~ I hate shoes too.. maybe so other folks can't see how ugly some people's feet are? Come on no9w.. you know you have seen people with ugly toes or scaley feet..
9. Why do people wear socks with sandals?~ Hmm I don't know<~~~ glad you can't see me with my toe socks and flip flops!
10. Why do we always want bear hugs? ~ I don't.. bears scare me..Haha..

11. Why do dogs lick people's toes? And why do they like to lick lotion?~ what kind of dog do you have that just licks stuff? That is why I don't give dog sugar to my pup.. no telling where his mouth was last!
12. Why do people get this little thing pierced ~ as she points to the little thing on her ear. ~ I got my ears pierced because I liked wearing ear rings.. now I'm older I barely ever remember to put any thing in the holes.. what I hate is when folks have straws or other stuff in their ear holes.. I saw a girl at the mall last week with the ties from bread bags in her ears..
13. Why do dogs like to eat out of litter boxes?~ yuck.. glad I don't have a litter box!
14. Have you ever eaten a sandwich that had really weird things in it? ~ No but my nephew once brought me coffee with bird seed in it..
15. Why isn't snow purple?~ because it is white... I have seen yellow snow once though..

16. When the earth was made why was the sky made blue? ~ I think maybe things were made different colors so we could tell them apart and plus to give us something to ask questions about when we got thirteen and fifteen!
17. Why do cats like laser lights?~ I think maybe cats are just crazy like that..
18. When someone invented Santa Clause, why did they make him fat?~ Jolly and round sound better than jolly and skinny.. plus how could a skinny belly shake like jelly?
19. What do you think Santa does when he's not making toys?~ I think he plants a summer garden and reads to his grandkids and cuddles with the Mrs! Plus sneeking around looking for bad kids takes a lot of time!... or maybe he goes to the bar and eats free peanuts?
20. Why is it that suddenly I don't care anymore? ~ I don't know.. suddenly I could care less too!
21. Why are the healthiest things for you most expensive?~ I'd like to know this myself.. maybe when you find out you will share with the rest of us!



Wow.. for teens they ask some pretty tough questions.. I did my best to keep from being a smart hiney since I am figureing the kids might read this.. wouldn't it be something if that affliction stuck and I quit being a smart butt forever? ~~~> shuddering<~~~ could that happen? Nah.. I am me and a smart butt too.. Have a good night!
Patsy

Weird Wednesday.. all day long! And a day later too!!!

"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd." ~ Morgan Brittany

"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid." ~ Uma Thurman

"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
~ Augusten Burroughs



1) When have you been the most silent? ~~ I can hear the thought of some folks right now..."That weird women has never been silent... she never shuts up.. Her silent... not a chance..!" ....But weirdly.. I was once silent for a full 24 hours.. It wasn't easy ..you have to understand... I really.. really loved to talk!!!..It was downright hard for me... but still....

.Early one morning I had been talking non-stop for quiet a while I reckon.. Daddy finally asked me to please be quiet and let my mouth and his ears rest for a little while.. he added that I could talk the horns off of a billy goat.. then patting me on the head he said that maybe I should just write everything in a book.. I think I was around twelve years old.. I confess that I was mouthy back then.. I rarely hushed.. My Grandma Morris even said it was indecent for a little girl to talk so much... I really do like to talk.. I'll gladly admit that much.. But Jimmy decided that he had to add to what Daddy said.."Yea she can talk the horns of billy goat... the buzzards off of a gut wagon and the stink off of a pile of chicken poop!" Daddy told him that was enough but he kept on.. my talking things off abilities growing by leaps and bounds as his imagination grew.. soon even Mary and Frank had joined in.. Trudy wasn't saying anything but she was laughing.. They each agreed that they would pay me their weekly allowance if I could not say a single word for 24 hours.. The total amount was to be 20 $$.. Davey shook his head and said he wasn't loosing his money.. he had a job up town.. He told them to stop being weird and to leave me alone but they kept at it.. They double dog dared me to take the bet.. To be silent for a full 24 hours.. They were even going to set Jimmy's watch..I wasn't sure I could do it..but I was going to try.. I didn't care about the money.. I just wanted to prove to them that I could be quiet for all that time.. and I was.. I didn't utter a single word for hours and hours.. at first they all laughed and thought it was cool but the next day when I still wasn't talking they began to get worried.. they had never really intended to give up their money.. and now it looked like I might pull it off..my silence was really beginning to frustrate them all.. They tried sending Reuben and Martha to ask me stuff.. they even came and said Mama wanted me.. all kinds of tricks.. but I am stubborn.. I never spoke.. Finally Jimmy yelled TIME and I danced and sang " I did it.. I did it!!!.. See... I did IT!!" They all laughed and shouted with glee.. they had tricked me.. I had missed the real time by about five minutes..when they told me that I ran to my room and threw myself on the bed crying.. after a few minutes I heard a small knock on the door.. it was Reuben and Martha.. I tried to send them away but they said Daddy had called a family meeting.. there was no getting out of a family meeting.. I did wonder a tiny little bit what was wrong or who was in trouble.. but mostly I didn't care.. I wanted to stay in my room and cry.. I hated being tricked.. and they had tricked me real good this time.. I had been silent for ALMOST 24 hours for nothing.. "Just Five more pitiful minutes" I said to myself as I slumped down the hall to the dining room.. Everybody else was there already.. Daddy was standing at the head of the table and he had what looked like every one's allowance laid out on the table in front of him.. After I slid into my chair he looked around at us all and he asked me if I was OK.. I nodded even though my feeling were still smarting from being tricked.. I was sorta over the hurt and was just beginning to feel anger.. That would have to wait though because my Daddy was talking.. his words.. "a dirty trick".. caught my attention.. as I listened he got on to everyone of them for planning to make me talk just so I couldn't have their money..what sounded like a good way to shut me up only lasted until they thought I might really do it.. after that they were all trying to ruin it.. Daddy and Mama had been paying much more attention to their whispered plans than they thought.. and worse they had tried to even get the babies .. (Reuben and Martha).. in on it.. "Yea " Daddy said" Shaking his head.. " A plain out dirty trick if I ever saw one.." I looked around at them and they were all head hanging down ashamed.. Daddy gathered up all of the allowance and handed it over to me.. "here Patsy.. you earned every penny of this and from now on just talk when you want to.." Later that afternoon we went to Mr. Floyd's little store down the road.. I bought me a sack slam full of candy..and gum.. a big fat notebook with lots of pages to write things down on and a new pencil...finally I got a box of ice cream... and two cokes.. everybody else was frowning at me.. But when we got home I handed Mama the cokes and the ice cream.. she made coke floats for every body!!! My siblings never challenged me to be quiet after that.. I can't help it that I have a lot to say.. I have learned though ..that sometimes.. it's just better to be quiet.. and that writing things down is a great idea after all...

2) What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done on purpose? ~~well.. I don't really do dangerous things.. I have done two things though that turned out to be dangerous and both involved water.. Once a bunch of people decided we would swim out to the middle of the river where an old draw bridge sits open in the river.. we were going out there and have a shindig..
they had loaded up some inner tubes with coolers of drinks and beer.. they said that anyone who couldn't swim would be towed.. I wasn't even going to tell them that I can dog paddle.. how weird do you think that would have made me look?? I wasn't about to look weird in front of all those people.... I decided to wait till they were all out in the water then just dog paddle along behind.. needless to say that once I was deep enough that my feet wouldn't touch the muddy bottom.... the current was so fast that I was picked up and snatched along by the river.. I tried to swim but the river said NO and rolled me head over heels along the way it wanted me to go.. finally my hand touched something solid and I lifted my head to realize that it had flung me into the last set of pilings under the bridge.. One of the guys yelled at me to come back.. the stairs up were over there.. <~~~~ way down there.. with all of them...I smiled and clung to the pilings and felt my way along the rocks piled along the edges of the narrow bridge supports.. finally my hand found a cable that ran from one pile to the next and hand over hand I dragged myself back to the stairs.. I said I had wanted to check out the other end of the bridge..they all gave me weird looks.. but when we got ready to leave I jumped into an inner tube and grinned like a weirdo.. all the way back to the shore.. It was way after midnight.. I'm pretty sure it's weird to dog paddle in a river after midnight.. there might even be some weird law about it... another time me and my friend Vicky dove off of the bridge at The local lake.. we had a rule against it for our kids but then we both did it anyway.. yes we were weird.. as Iwas swimming out of the lake.. OK OK!!!dog Paddling out.. I paddled right into a submerged grocery cart.. Just as I squealed.. she squealed too.. turning I saw her hold up her foot and she was bleeding.. something under the water had ripped her foot open.. she had to have 27 stitches.. I'm sure my children jumped off that bridge when I wasn't around.. all the teenagers even told a story of how My children would go down the bank and swim around in the water before they would jump.. they always said they were checking for grocery carts.. I bet their friends really thought they were weird!!!!!

3) What's the weirdest place you've ever visited with the sole purpose of having sex?~~
Did you think to scare me with that weird question?? I can actually answer that.. when Dave and I got married.. 15 years ago next week.. we decided to go camping for our honeymoon.. See everyone goes on their honeymoon expecting to have sex.. nothing weird about that.. except that by the time we got two sets of kids delivered to their other parent and got all our stuff loaded in the car and drove the almost three hours down there.. it was pitch black dark.. it was pouring rain and the temperature was dropping fast.. we couldn't find a ranger but we knew the rule of if you come after dark you can pay in the morning.... we picked sight 100...We did manage to get one small tent up and crawled in it with all of our clothes on.. we thought we would wait for the storm to pass.. and the ranger to drive by and realize we were new campers...we cuddled some and talked and the rain kept on falling.. soon we noticed that the floor was wet and looking out we realized that we were sitting in a run off zone.. water was flowing around us like a river.. So out we crawled in the pouring rain and yanking up stakes we dragged the tent up the hill in the dark.. and set it up again.. we decided to go ahead and carry in our sleeping bags and covers this trip.. we also got clothes and pillows.. as a last thought I grabbed some crackers and Dave got some drinks from the cooler.. we were soaked from the skin out and it was about 30 degrees.. I was freezing.. he was frozen and sex was put on the back burner.. In fact I think it was took slap off of the stove... by 3am the next morning I had decided that honeymoons were just weird and I was going home.. we crept out from the tent in the rain and yanked it down.. we rolled everything up in a wad and mashed it down in the trunk of the car..soaking wet and wore slap out and frozen to death we decided we better look for a ranger since we hadn't found one to pay the night before.. spotting a ranger's truck at the restaurant we decided that we might as well have a cup of coffee before heading home.. The ranger wouldn't have the money and treated us to grits and eggs with bacon for breakfast.. I'm pretty sure he thought we were weirdo's.. him and the waitress just laughed out loud when I told them we were on our honeymoon.. Dave did manage to convince me that we should stay and look for a Motel.. It rained the whole time we were there.. we walked all over the place in the rain and cooked out camping food in the motel microwave.. we talked and laughed and even rode back to the camp grounds in the daylight and looked over the place where we had spent that first weird night.... we had a good trip.. I was cold the entire weekend.. It was weird.. I guess the camp grounds wouldn't normally be a weird place to go for sex but that night it was weird... Yep.. Cold ..wet and weird!!!

That's enough weird for me for one day.. have a great weird Wednesday!!
Patsy

Welcome to Wednesday~ a day for Weirdness!

"Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing." ~ Meg Chittenden

"Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills." ~ Catherine of Siena

"The devil's voice is sweet to hear." ~Stephen King

Welcome to another batch of weird questions for Wednesday. I actually had to dig for these since the regular weird sight hasn't been up-dated today. It's kinda weird; they usually have plenty of questions.. some too weird even for me. I hope you enjoy today's weird questions and my equally weird answers.

1:) You are in the Witness Protection Program and must invent a new first, last, and middle name. What’s your new name? ~ Wow. can't I just use one of my old names.. No one knows My middle name anyway. How about I use the name I used to sign into clubs with when I was single? I like my name. I don't want a new name. Why am I hiding anyway. Did I see something at the hotel that I shouldn't have seen? Can I take my kids and Grand kids into hiding too? Is Dave allowed to go?I don't think I'm going either.. what if I don't like it where ever y'all put me? Wait now, can I have chickens there? OK.. OK.. OK.. alright already.. My new name is Emily Ann Cooper.. but I still don't want to go!

2:) You can press a button that will make any one person you choose explode. Who are you going to blow up? What a loaded question... just one person huh? I have a list that I will have to look over.. yes I actually have a list.. It's my @sh cutting list... it's pretty short too... I used to just jump right in.. But there was this promise I made to my Daddy about one of my children being an adult before I might have to go to jail.. All my children are grown now though.. Hmmm.. Just one person huh? Can I tie two together or three? Maybe I can lure the others close to the boom! Hurt their ears a little at least? I'll be honest with you.. I looked over the list and honestly I decided that blowing any of these people up would be way to kind and quick.. I'm weird that way I reckon.. I'd rather just keep their name on my list and one day when they cross me in just the right place and the right time.. I'll be on them like stink on a pile... They will wish I had blown them up... then again maybe I'll just leave them alone.. Daddy said what goes around comes around and if that's true I might even feel sorry for them some day.. in fact looking over the list I sorta feel sorry for them already.. But now if I can tie them all together somehow.. then the BOOM will be on!

3:) You meet a wizard in downtown Chicago. The wizard tells you he can make you more attractive if you pay him money. When you ask how the process works, the wizard points to a random stranger. The wizard says, “I will now make them a dollar more attractive.” He waves his magic wand. Ostensibly, this person does not change at all; as far as you can tell, nothing it different. But – somehow – this person is suddenly a little more appealing. The tangible difference is invisible to the naked eye, but you can’t deny that this person is vaguely sexier. This wizard has a weird rule, though – you can only pay him once. You can’t keep giving him money until you are satisfied. You can only pay him one lump sum up front. How much cash do you give the wizard?
~ This question is just weird.. Why am I in Chicago? Did I get stranded there again while flying somewhere? Am I sure this is a real wizard and not some street freak stealing my money? And anyway why would I think some stranger is sexier? Did I find him or her sexy to begin with? Who thinks up these questions? Can I just walk away from the wizard or will he then take away all my own "sexy?" Can I run from the wizard or will he wave his wand and bring me right back? I'm going to give the wizard five dollars.. That is enough to get him a drink if he is a street freak without breaking my pocket book and I'm already sexy enough.. much more and I'll be so sexy no one would dare to approach me.. I'm still trying to figure out why I'm in Chicago.... Maybe the wizard will just send me back home for free!

4:)Would you rather be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say? ~First of all, I never speak without thinking. I learned a long time ago that you can't call back words. I try not to say hurtful and mean things. Only a very few times have I let something mean slip out and that was usually when some idiot made me madder than a hornet quicker than my mind could keep up. That doesn't happen to me often. I can say some things that people think is meant to hurt.. if the truth hurts then I am sorry that you were hurt.. Maybe you should work to change the truth.. I have seen people talking and thought to myself and sometimes even said to others; " I'd like to be a fly on that wall!" I wouldn't want to hear all conversations.. I don't think what others think of me is really any of my business. They are entitled to dislike me if they so choose. I won't care if they don't like me. I'm weird like that! I guess if I have to choose one I'd like to hear any conversation.. I sure hope I don't have to listen to boring stuff or worse; weird sexual conversations.. I'm looking for ear plugs right now!!! On second thought~ (are second thoughts allowed?) Maybe I'll just choose take back what ever I say.

5:) Have you ever played naked twister? ~I am sitting here in from of My own personal computer and just shivered at the thought of seeing anyone play twister naked... When I was ten I got a twister game for Christmas from "Uncle J" ( not his real name of course!). He gave us all games that year... Well except Jimmy... he gave Jimmy Lincoln Logs... He was too old for Lincoln logs I guess... Jimmy cursed and carried on.. anyway back to twister.. We all gathered in the living room... us kids and the grown ups and His fancy kids too. We were going to play twister. We spun the little thing and it said left foot green. and by the time it got to me and right foot blue there were foots and hands on every single dot. "Uncle J" said just stack them up and that's when My Daddy said .." that's enough of that twisting and stretching and rubbing and stacking up stuff.".. I looked at daddy and he was frowning over his glasses and I quickly folded up the dotted mat and put it and the spinner back in the box. I ran to my room and shoved the game on the closet shelf where it stayed until I got married. I left it there on that shelf and if someone else didn't take it then it was most likely still there when they pulled that trailer away a few years ago. When I got divorced I went to a party once and out came the twister game.. they weren't naked while I was there but they were making the game into something that made me want a shower..I'm pretty sure they got naked after I left.. Nope I have never played naked twister.. Don't you think it would be weird? Wouldn't stuff that isn't meant to be twisted get in the way? Wasn't twister designed for kids? Why is it that some people want to play a kids game naked.. there are so many weird people in the world!

Well there are five more weird questions for you to laugh at and enjoy with their weird answers too. I used to think that the world was a bright ans Sunny place.... the truth is that there are a lot of weird people in the world and almost all of us have some weird habits... yes even me! At least I don't play naked twister... I guess I shouldn't knock it without trying it so maybe I'll try to find a group to play at my house next week.... See I can be weird too.. I can just see me telling my kids I played naked twister.. I wonder if they have played.. I'm going to email them all and ask.. Now see what you have done with that weird question!!! Now I'm acting all weird and stuff.. That naked twister thing is going to cause me to have nightmares tonight! I'm thinking I'll go for a midnight swim and practice some of my twister moves in water.. Now how weird is that?? I hope you have enjoyed tonight's weird questions.. Have a wonderful weird Wednesday!
Patsy

Wednesday Weirdness!

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." ~ Lord Byron

"A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms." ~ Rob Schneider

" Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years." ~ Tina Yothers


First of all let me say that I apologize for not posting this week. I have sat down with good intentions every night... I have had a story or poem on my mind every night.... and every night something has happened or someone has called or come by and I have gotten up and left this blog with all my good intentions forgotten and neglected. Daddy used to say that the road to hell was paved with good intentions.. I don't plan on knowing that since I plan to take the other road.. But just in case I'll try to do better with my intentions from now on.

And now I'll move on to the questions!!!!

1:) What's a weapon that you feel suits your personality? ~ Wow! do weapons have a personality? Actually it's a known fact that I almost always have a knife if not on my person then it's in my purse. I carry a pocket knife that Daddy gave me. I also have another one that is a bit bigger that I like to carry in my pocket sometimes.. You know; just in case I was to need to cut something.. ( or someone!) I also have a double dagger that I could wear on my ankle. It's beautiful with Jade handles. It was a gift to me from a friend who knows I love knives. In My kitchen I have my own knife. I don't like for others to touch it. It's just an old knife.. I keep it sharp. It can cut deeply or give you a smooth Shave! I don't like guns.. I will admit that a stick makes a great weapon.. and I am on the look out for a long staff like My Grandma and Uncle Neal both carried.. I asked Grandma once why she carried a stick and she said..."Child there ain't no telling what you might run up on out there in the woods.. Might have to kill a snake or beat off a wild dog.. Might stumble across a hobo!" Grandma carried a knife too.. it was in her apron pocket. Yea I'll choose a knife to match my personality.. we're both sharp! Y'all can help me keep an eye out for a staff too.. I love the woods and ain't no telling what I might run up on while I'm poking around out there!

2.) Are there any conspiracy theories that you believe could be true? ~Almost Everyone enjoys hearing about a good conspiracy theory. There are so many new ones every day that it appears that a good many people enjoy coming up with new ones. You can spend an enormous amount of time reading about theories on the wonderful world wide web, and just as much time wondering if there is any truth to them. Some of the most well known ones are about movie stars and famous people. Princess Di is said to have been killed by the Royal Family and in some stories, her death ordered by the Queen herself.. I think Her death was a sad end to a pitiful Fairy tale gone all wrong... Enough people believed in the theories though that they have taken a second and third look into everything to do with her death. ~ Most conspiracy theories blame the government or the military with something. A lot of them claim a person is still alive who was supposed to be dead or in a few cases a person is dead who we all think is still alive. There are a few though that I have often thought might have just enough of something to make me believe in them.

~ The Roswell crash cover-up~ Do I think that the Government hid or captured aliens? I'm not sure they had one alive. I do think that if there was a crash they would cover it up. They would have to cover it up to prevent Mass panic and Chaos. People would go nuts... I have seen things in the night sky that have never been explained to me.... yes, I know they could have been the neighbors kid flying a kite with a glow stick tied to the tail... I think that maybe out there somewhere?? ... I think that there are many things in this great big universe that we don't know about yet..

~ John F. Kennedy~ The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. He was fatally wounded by gunshots to the head, while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade. The official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a ten-month period. The Commission concluded that the assassination was carried out solely by Lee Harvey Oswald. A number of conspiracy theories exist with regard to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Theories began to be generated soon after his death, and new ones continue to be proposed even today. Many of these theories propose a criminal conspiracy involving parties such as the Federal Reserve, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, George H. W. Bush, Cuban exile groups opposed to the Castro government and the military and/or government interests of the United States. Do I think I know why he was killed or by what group? NO way; but neither do I think that this elaborate plan was conceived and carried out by one man.

~ The Elvis was alive theory~ I can see and believe how a man with that much fame might want to fake his own death. On the other hand I can't see him living a quiet and simple life without ever being seen again. Of course there were so called sightings of him for years. I don't really have a good reason but I always thought he was still alive for a few years after they said he was dead. I think he is dead by now though.. I know~ I'm Crazy!!!

3:) How often do you try new things in bed? ~ well just the other night I tried some sprite with a twist of moonshine and some newfangled potato chips/cracker type things. I liked the shine pretty good but I gave those crackers to the chickens. We have been trying that new converter box while we are in bed too.. Dave likes it pretty good but since I don't really watch TV it doesn't make much difference to me. My friend gave me a spot warmer.. It goes under the sheets and warms just one side of the bed.. That works for us since I like to sleep in a warm spot but Dave doesn't.. I tried a new gown one night but it was just like all my other gowns..... whoa! wait a minute! I think this question might have been about sex... Do Y'all reckon people really put things about their sex life on the Internet? I can't answer any sex questions.. I promised my Mama and my kids I wouldn't.. But just be sure I do try new things in bed.. I have tried reading and writing and yes, even drinking moonshine! In fact we try new things pretty regularly..

OK there ya go.. There are my answers to three questions for this weeks Wednesday Weirdness.
I plan to do a better job with getting down to the writing side of blogging.. Maybe I'll put the phone out in the chicken yard!? I still have to tell y'all all the wonderful tales from my new job.. and all the great things about my newest chickens and quail. I will be seeing you soon with more words of wisdom! Why don't you try to be a little bit weird sometimes.. do something out of the ordinary for yourself... Take a new route to work.. eat breakfast for supper.. It can brighten a dull day! Have a great day!
Patsy

Wednesday Weirdness!

"Where's your will to be weird? " ~ Jim Morrison

"Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them."
~ Dick Francis

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose

weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness

and call it love.”~ Santiz

This will be my first try at Wednesday Weirdness. I had checked out the sight and thought about trying it many times but today decided to actually just dive right in and do this after one of My co-workers said to me... " Patsy, you are so delightfully weird!!!".. I took it as a compliment and immediately decided that I would try the Wednesday Weirdness questions for today and maybe make it a regular part of my blog. Please be sure and let me know how you..( the ones who read my blog)... like this new thing! If Y'all hate it I'll toss it. The way it works is that someone else makes up the questions and we bloggers answer them on our blogs. I have been told that the questions vary and that sometimes they might even be a little bit racy! WOW! I might have to skip some of the really racy ones. I wouldn't want y'all to see me blush! Besides my Mama and my kids read this. They would be mortified if I answered some of those questions for all the world to see. Also this first time I am going to choose questions from several different weeks to answer. After all this is my first weird Wednesday! Here goes my first weird Wednesday questions!

1:) What is the most annoying commercial on the air right now? I Hate the smiling Bob ~enzyte commercial. I hate the fact that they use a Figure (Santa) who appeals to children to sell a sexual enhancement drug. I will turn the channel and not watch it. There are actually a few that I hate but I think I hate smiling Bob the worst. I know it airs late and most children are in bed but still... I hate it!

2:) How long do you think could you disappear for until someone would notice your absence and start looking for you? I actually tried that once a long, long time ago. It is part of what convinced me to marry my beloved Dave! I was dating someone else. Dave and I were neighbors and very good friends.. he was my best friend I just didn't know that then!.. He was doing his very best to become everything I ever needed in a man and hoping to be my next husband... I had been having a lot of issues with my health and it seemed that my life was falling apart again. I was lonely all the time except when I was with Dave and our slew of children... I was in a relationship that I knew was going no where at all and yet I didn't want to hurt any one.... I was sick and tired~ of being sick and tired! I decided to vanish for a week or so. I loaded up my two youngest children and away we went to a State Park about one and a Half hours away. I stayed the first week.. having pre-arranged with Dave to call him at my house every night so he could let me know if anyone was looking for me. My Parents I had told where I would be.. I even borrowed their cooking tent. Not a living soul looked for me. I decided to stay another week.. After all. I apparently wasn't needed at home! The Guy I was dating came by once and asked Dave if he had seen me that week... Dave didn't lie when he said no, since I had by then been gone longer than a week.. Just after daylight on the ninth day I heard horns blowing and children laughing. I came out of my tiny dome tent to see Dave and his two children along with another couple, who were our friends, pulling into my campsite. Dave said he couldn't stand it any longer. He had convinced the other couple to come along to help convince me to come back home. Being that I had already paid for the whole week, we had a great group vacation and only a few weeks later Dave and I got married. I don't think I could be gone for more than a few minutes now though before Dave would call my cell phone and ask~ " Hey Baby where you at?"

3:) If you could have the ability to solve problems quickly and easily or the ability to know without doubt every time a person told a lie, which ability would you want and why? First I want to say that I am pretty good at reading between the lines. A lot of people who have told me lies about things would be surprised to know that I knew they were telling me a lie even as they stood in front of me with a smile on their lips and made up a ball faced lie for no good reason. I hate a person who will lie to me. Daddy used to say that anyone who would lie ~ would steal; and vice versa. He also hated liars and thieves! My thing is, and I used to tell this to the young people who would come in and out of my life through my kids.. If I ask you something that you feel the need to lie to me about.. please don't lie.. Just look me in the eye and say.. " Miss Patsy, I would rather not say!" I will accept that as warning that it is none of my business and and move on to another topic... I wouldn't want to cause you to lie. I do know people though who just love to lie. At least that's the way it appears. They will lie about insignificant things. If I ever catch someone in a lie.. I never quite trust what they say again.
~ I would rather have the ability to solve problems quickly and easily. I can right now think of quite a few things I would fix if I could. A few for myself but mostly for other people in my life. So many people have problems that seem to be new to our world. No jobs~ everywhere people trying to find work. Violence and anger in families. Brothers and sisters who don't speak even if they pass each other on the street. Parents and children who haven't spoken in years. I really worry a lot about the problems our children and Grand-children will face. ~ Yea I'd take the problem solving ability any time..... after all.. if a person feels the need so strongly to tell me a lie.. maybe I shouldn't have asked the question.. and if I had the problem solving ability.. I could maybe even fix his little lie telling problem... (smile!)

I only chose three questions for my first try at Wednesday Weirdness. I tried to pick out questions that maybe you would find interesting... If you would like to visit their sight I have included a link for you. Please check them out for yourself. Maybe you will see a question there that you would like for me to answer. Maybe you have a question of you own that you would like for me to answer. If you do then feel free to send it along to me..
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Patsy


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