Peach is my favorite color of rose.
I've been considering a lot lately about really knowing a person and how we can think we know someone but, either because they were never honest with us or we just both changed, we suddenly begin acting like strangers.
So, here are a few of my favorite things to help you get to know me a little better. Why should you care? Beats me, but if you're interested here I am in no particular order.
Salad Meal: Haas avocado, tomato, thinly sliced sweet onion, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Served with a slice of "good" french bread and a glass of wine.
Movie: Ishtar and Desk Set (I know that's more than one but it's my list and I can have more than one favorite if I want.)
Now if you've never seen Ishtar I suggest you at least try. This movie is usually on the list of all time stinkers but it stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty with music by Nichols and May and I like pulling for the underdog.
Toy: Yo-yo
Season: Whichever one it is except winter. God, I hate winter.
Cocktail: Gimlet made with gin, not vodka, and make mine tart.
Holiday: 4th of July
I hate those little firecrackers but the big fireworks displays that they waste thousands of dollars on downtown just thrill me and I don't have to buy any prsents or cards.
TV Show: House
How can Hugh Laurie be so sexy with a scruffy face and addictive, abrasive personality? I don't know, but he is!
Music: Well, Lucinda Williams and Tom Waits, have been very high on my list lately but the one with the most songs on my iPod is Rod Stewart.
Book: I've read a lot of books in my life but the books that I could read over and over and never tire of them are "Winnie-the-Pooh" "The House At Pooh Corner" "When We Were Very Young" and "Now We Are Six", especially if there is a little one lying in bed listening to my voice as it sings the words.
Flower: Peony, even more than the peach colored rose.
Fruit: Blackberries especially if I can pick them myself, give a little blow to be sure no spiders are clinging and eat the berries there in the field. My only problem with this is the little green snakes that like to sun on or near the bushes but I'm getting better about them and only shudder for a second as the poor frightened snake hurries away. My grandmother taught me to be afraid of snakes. Thanks, Gram, wherever you are!
Tree: Weeping Willows with their graceful branches swaying in the breeze. There was one near my grandmother's house in South Carolina when I was young and I can still see it in my mind. When I lived in Georgia there was a small weeping willow in my back yard and I'd make tea from it's brances since it has the properties of aspirin.
Actresses: Audrey Tautou, Toni Collette and Katherine Hepburn
Position: Well now, that really depends, doesn't it?
Actors: John Cusack, Tommy Lee Jones, Billy Bob Thornton (this one is constantly changing)
Religion: Buddhism because the little Buddha images just make me happy and, as Wayne Gallant pointed out, the teachings weren't meant to be a religion.
Animal: Tiger
Fun Place: The French Quarter in New Orleans but not at Mardi Gras
Snack: Currently it's carrots or celery dipped in hummus.
Pasta Topping: Pesto and fresh parm
Coffee: Iced with one sugar and half and half
Pastime: Toss up between driving and the ocean but you already knew that if you've been around me very long.
So, that's enough about me, me, me. Do you have anything about yourself that you'd like to share? I'd love to get to know you better.
Sharon
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you had me at Lucinda Williams and Tom Waits. You are a peach!
I've been considering posting something similar. ~R~
the rest of my list is pretty shifty these days.....I've never had a gimlet but I would love to down one right now. (probably this would be unwise, careerwise, since I'm still at work, but given the opportunity....)
I could go on and on but this is your post. Thanks for letting us get to know you better:)
(And a small headshake at Ishtar)
(thumbified for individuality)
Regardless, thanks for the insights but I felt like I
already knew you pretty well Sharon.
I loved your list of things about you. I thought I knew ya pretty good but now I think I know you even better now..
Thank you for sharing this about you..
You are great..
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Favorite Toy -- Slinky
The rest---NO GOOD ANSWER!! :)
Kisses and good night,
Marcela
Your salad sounds delicious, but I'm not sure about the gin. I might have to give that a try! Thanks for sharing.
"When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad"
Rodgers and Hammerstein sure could write a song.
My niece, Alice , is four and at family gatherings she is regaled with :
"They're changing guards at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice,
Alice is marrying one of the gaurds.
A soldier's life is terrible hard -
says Alice."
Yup, fun times with my family!
"TV Show: House
How can Hugh Laurie be so sexy with a scruffy face and addictive, abrasive personality? I don't know, but he is! "
Amen Sister! I swear, I just want to jump through the screen and make out with him sometimes (don't tell my husband).
The peony is my favorite flower - I wrote a piece about that once...let's see if I can find that around here somewhere.
I'm sure more will be revealed! Nice2Meetu.
I like: making cookies without a recipe, massages, someone whispering in my ear, all movies - good, bad (bad movies can be the most fun!), trendy shampoo, candles, the scent of pine, singing, dining, all creatures, this time of the year, the idea of magic, carl jung, vampires, life after death, dreams, shopping at thrift stores, chinatown in nyc, sex, sex and sex.
She had grown up in a New Orleans housing project shamefully named Desire. Desire had been constructed in an isolated area northwest of greater New Orleans, bordered by industrial canals and railroad tracks. Pinch often recounted her nights as a young child lying on the floor under a matted blanket listening to gunshots in the night. Desire had been built in the late 40s over the Hideaway Club where Fats Domino had played his first gigs. Pinch swore she could hear Fats sing “My Blue Heaven” just for her. As Pinch’s childhood tumbled forward, she learned survival skills. By the age of twelve, she had tried just about every street drug going and stole to keep from going hungry, acquiring the nickname Pinch. She would have been doomed to a child’s death but for the help of an aged aunt. Pinch pulled herself up, finished high school, and made it through college by working sometimes two shifts as a housekeeper in seedy hotels that bordered the Ninth Ward. A city auditor once asked her why she hadn’t worked in the Lafayette Square District or the famous 625 St. Charles suites. “You could have paid for a Ph.D. with the tips alone.” And she replied: “Well, I guess ‘dis sista just feeling mo’ secure wid da brothers. Ozanam Inn be my place, homeless peoples and all.” Then she rubbed his arm. The poor guy broke out in a sweat, brushed his thinning hair back with an aged-spotted trembling hand, and looked at me for intervention. Later I asked Pinch why she’d stuck it to the auditor; she shrugged her shoulders and replied: “I guess just every once and a while I have to remind myself where I come from. Pride has many forms, love.” Pinch had overcome. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
Elijah Rising -merci mille fois