20 posts tagged “qotd”

What are your top five break-up songs?
Submitted by gt.

Lemon Parade

Tonic

This album, the song, If You Could Only See

What do you daydream about? Is it something far-fetched, or something that might actually happen?
Submitted by lost_in_eternity2207.

I don't have much time to day dream, but usually as I fall asleep, I try to imagine how things would be different.  It helps me fall asleep many times.  Like lately I've been thinking of turning our old ranch house into a bed and breakfast.  Even tho, I doubt it will ever happen, I picture it each night as I remodel it, so it will be perfect.  I have the paneling and areas all mapped out in my head!!  I can even imagine, how fun it would be having guests!! 

Silly I know, but heck it helps me to sleep.

What's the best thing about your mom?

My mother had patience and elegance.  She could do anything with nothing, she was amazing!  She passed on when I was 7, and I can remember to this day the parties and decorations she would have for our home.  She would spend weeks baking cookies for christmas, not a batch or two, but dozens of dozens of the most elaborate cookies.  The dinners with china from her home in England, silver she had family in England send.  Linens and wineglasses, the works!  She could do laundry, polish silver, arrange flowers and be ready for a crowd and think nothing of it.  I can remember sitting at the top of the staircase, watching guests arrive, and her just being so elegant.  She threw her very being into being the best mother and wife a woman could be.  Her private letters home to her parents and sister tell the story, and now after she has been gone 40yrs and I'm now a mom, I appreciate her letters all the more.  She was homesick and worried about them, and yet her love and dedication to us was all encompassing.  She was amazing, she was my mother.

What are you most sensitive about? 

I guess I am most sensitive about how people relate to me and me to them.  I avoid confrontation because I always want to be the nice guy (girl).  I am definately hard to get to know unless you ask the right questions. 

Has anyone ever done something so horrible to you that "I'm sorry" couldn't fix it?

Sometimes, "I'm sorry" just isn't enough.  I feel like the words are empty and cold.  People use them way to often to excuse themselves for their inappropriate behavior. They know when they are doing the action, or saying the words or whatever it is that they have hurt you with, but they are more into themselves or their ideas or what they feel are their wants, irregardless of how it will hurt or wound someone else. Then because they have said the "magic words" it should be all better.   Actions my friends, speak louder.  Show me the change, make a difference in yourself or in something, just don't excuse it or complain about it.

What are you most looking forward to this weekend?

Tonight I am looking forward to attending a high school play.  As a thespian myself in high school I remember the hard work, and fun we had putting together a play.  Tonight our high school is putting on "Tea and Arsenic"   An Arsenic and Old Lace variation, my niece is in the cast and my son is lighting and sound guy.  It will be a fun start to the weekend!

Do you believe in ghosts? If so, have you ever seen one?

Of course I believe in ghosts!  I have seen several, we lived in an older home in Chicago.  We had several ghosts, a woman who would walk the upper floors hallway and the stairs.  In the living area, there was a more expressive male, who would show his disgust or anger often.  He would knock over things regularly and always wanted the curtains open to see out. In the basement, was who we called the beggar, dressed in rags who seemed to be always wanting something, he would raise his hands to you for you to give him something!   We never knew their stories tho.  Here, in the older home we lived in, someone was always opening the back door, leaving it open, they would bang the screendoor like they were knocking on it.  People in town have always thought that house was haunted.    Now we live in a new house, the only ghosts will be our own!

Nostalgic shadow

Whose house (besides your own) were you in last and why?

My mother-in-laws, her siamese cat had bitten her.  She's 85 years young, and as soon as the cat bit her, it started to swell, it continued swelling over the weekend, and she ended up in the hospital for antibiotics for a week!!   They said that when you are bitten by an animal, you basically need antibiotics within hours.    Anyway, I was in her house, caring for the demon that bit her.  He was a gentleman with me,  of course as the saying goes, "don't bite the hand that feeds you."  He knew I was the only one to feed him while she was gone.  The day she got home, he was excited to see her, and with that nipped her again!  Yes, she still has him, he's at the vet's getting his male parts fixed and perhaps some dental work!!

Which news websites do you frequent?

I'm a big Fox News watcher online, also my local newspaper is online so I don't subscribe to delivery anymore.  Saves paper I guess.  I'm also big time addicted to Craigslist.

What do you want to be famous for?
Submitted by bluemoon07.

I don't want to be famous, all it gives people is trouble.  Look at the famous people and their lives are screwed up.  Society puts too much emphasis on fame and fortune.  The only "fame" I need is the love of my family and friends.  Knowing inside that I do the best I am able to help all those around me.