When Worlds Collide, and That 4 Thing

I had another one of my little gatherings for tarot friends last night. We had a few new attendees (boys!) and it was a bit nerve-wracking for those who brought them--you hope your friends from one sphere in your life will get along with your friends from another friend, but you never know. It all went pretty good, though, and I think everyone liked or at least tolerated each other well. So our worlds collided, but it ended up being an OK thing.

The new attendee who bonded the best, though, was the visiting dog, who was quite enamored of my pug, and vice versa. They were incredibly cute and happy playing together, but the poor blind corgi just stood their aimlessly barking all the time. I thought I was going to lose my mind at one point, when I was attempting to center myself and she kept doing her sharp bark at slightly irregular intervals. ANNOYING.

The energy in the room was a little difficult to deal with last night (but it was OK, EM, so you settle down, now). In the end, I finally chugged Ace Pear Cider, and I am so NOT a chugger. That let me just get silly. Luckily the silly 48-year-olds quite amused Tina and Kat.

Note: purple and lilac candy looks brown in candle light.

All righty, so everyone on my little email list just HAS to do this thing, so here is my list:

FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE (before the current employment)

1. director at dysfunctional nonprofit organization
2. web designer
3. publications manager at mathematics software company
4. lowly worker at printed circuit board factory

FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER

1. Young Frankenstein
2. Clockwork Orange
3. Tommy
4. Best of Show

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:

1. Gainesville, FL
2. Plantation, FL
3. Champaign-Urbana, IL
4. Austin, TX (and that is the ONLY four places)

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH:

1. Football
2. The Daily Show
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Baseball

FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:

1. St. Thomas, USVI
2. Ireland/Wales/England
3. San Diego
4. High Point, NC (to see my daddy)

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:

1. butternut squash
2. Mexican dulce de leche candy
3. guacamole
4. salmon sashimi

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:

1. anywhere with my psychic twin
2. at a retreat with my distant women friends
3. see #1
4. see #1

FOUR BOOKS I HAVE READ OVER AND OVER
1. Robin Wood Tarot
2. Knitting from the Top Down
3. Chicago Manual of Style
4. The Spiral Dance
(I don't read a lot of books over and over)

FOUR PEOPLE WHO WILL ANSWER BACK:

1. I don't pass these things on except via blog

FOUR PEOPLE WHO YOU KNOW WILL NOT ANSWER BACK:

1. He Who Never Comments or Answers Email

translation: at some point during the previous few days, Lee had brought up his desire to end his marriage, and his STBX moved out of his house. Sorry, I didn't write this down because of the lack of privacy issue. At some point AFTER that event, we became physically intimate. Yes, we were already emotionally intimate. I don't know how I could have prevented that. The important thing to note is that nothing occurred beyond hugging and kissing until after that talk.

3 Things, which Barbara Says Is a Meme

Once again, I mined the depths of Barbara's blog to come up with something to put in that is fun. And again, not sure how they mean "meme" here, but here's what it usually means:

a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another

In any case, I like to think about stuff like this.

Three Things I Do Every Day:
-draw a tarot card
-knit something
-drink coffee


Three Things I Wish I Could Do Every Day:
-do something fun with a friend
-cook
-ritual

Three Hopes I Have for Today:
-do something fun with Work Man
-get some good writing done at work
-enjoy Younger Son's band concert

Three Things I Hear:
-keys clicking
-a lady helping a person process their ALE gift card
-Linda Ronstadt on the MP3 player

Three Ways I Have Changed my Life:
-I have learned not to give my heart and soul to any job
-I have stopped looking for happily ever after
-I have really assimilated the fact that everyone has something they can teach me

Three People I Wish I Could See Again:
-Corey
-Nori
-Billy

Three Items I Wish I Owned:
-a yarn store, with someone else to run it
-a house on a quiet lake (no jet skis)
-a really comfortable chair

Three Wishes I Had When I Was Young:
-to own a pony
-to become an AA Fuel Dragster driver
-to be a witch

Three Fears I Have:
-one of my kids having something bad happen to them
-guns
-motorcycles (hoping to cure myself of that one)

Three Things on My Desk:
-MP3 player
-memory stick with funny party pix on it
-fresh coffee from downstairs

Three Thoughts in My Mind:
-deal positively with the job situation however it comes out
-keep enjoying my new friendship however that works out
-what to get the family for Christmas


Comments

Barbara said... how fun - I was wondering what Meme meant - thanks for looking it up. I clearly just copied it from someone else. :) hey, it looks like you got at least one wish come true.Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:49:00 PM

What Someone with Too Much Time on Her Hands Does

She goes to Barbara's blog and copies another list. I bet we each wish the other would quit finding these lists. OK, things in bold green are things I have done. I will also add comments.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (Enchanted Rock)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive (actually it was a Maserati)
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula (RIP, Chichi)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it (but will I ever again?)
09. Hugged a tree (it's my religion)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (a college bowl game in New Orleans)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity (my freakin' SOUL)
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb (I have hugged a sheep)
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster (but I do not like it)
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (Buckwheat Zydeco 1986)
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (10/31/06)
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (this one, right here, under the desk)
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk. (wedding night, 1990)
42. Had amazing friends (present tense)
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe.
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach (watch out for sand dunes)
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland (but, not any more, sigh)
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love (an actual pattern!)
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them (conference for previous job)
54. Visited Japan - no but had a Japanese boyfriend, see #52
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero (Supergirl)
58. Sung karaoke (in public, ACK)
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football (lots when young)
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites (see #51, also Wales and England)
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married (twice)
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced (twice)
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest (well, funniest costume 10/31/06)
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage (love it, regardless of my "talent")
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents (I did not personally bury her, but my mother is dead)
93. Been on a cruise ship (but never on a cruise)
94. Spoken more than one language fluently (no, never that good at either language I am OK at)
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children (in the process thereof)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour (one's partner does not count)
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country (no, but that's where my ex met his new spouse)
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking (it amused the kids)
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication (I don't think "NB" is a large publication)
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart (and I feel awful about it)
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (never will, either)
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery (cesarean, gall bladder)
120. Had a snake as a pet (technically my son's but I had to feed it)
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach (hard to avoid in Gainesville, Florida)
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes (mmm)
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (a fish)
137. Skipped all your school reunions (tried to go this year but lost my job)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you (if a scarf is art)
145. Had a booth at a street fair (ugh)
146. Dyed your hair (no one's hair is this color naturally)
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life (probably)

Another List of Things

I am too tired to write much, so copping out by answering weird questions I got off someone else's blog again after a quick news update.

Brief update:

• I am happy that the older boy's band got a "1" at their competition so get to go on--they sounded wonderful, hardly like a high school band.
• I actually got happy Friday after getting perverse pleasure out of solving problems at work--trying to figure out how to work within a very arbitrary system of writing, and we made it fun--yay to my two marvy coworkers.
• I was so happy on Friday, that I danced and sang through an entire losing football game, thereby confusing my lovely boss, who sat with me so I was not alone any more, but greatly entertaining her nephew and middle school students who came to play with the band.
• I really enjoy the knitting store and the nice people there. It's fun to help people out and try to figure out some of the interesting characters who show up.
• Aha, that's it. I am viewing life as a puzzle lately and doing better than usual to solve things.
• Had a nice chat at the Olde Spiritual Home with someone whose spirituality is much like mine today--I am glad that chance meeting occurred. She's also deep in the bowels of the underworld at the moment.
• I will post more later on how I feel about two friends leaving my former employer.

OK, here's the quiz:

"If the entire internet jumped off a cliff, would you?"
No. I have never watched anything on U-Tube, so I can actually resist trends. Heck, I didn’t believe that trend for graphics on websites was actually going to last. Ha ha ha.

1. FIRST NAME? Sue but I really prefer Sue Ann or Suna

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Yes, Bettye Sue and Doris Ann, two aunts. Glad I am not Doris Bettye

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Listening to a song, “Mother, I Climbed” by Tracy Grammer.

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? You betcha

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? Haven’t had any in so long I can’t remember. Salami of some kind.

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Depends on who I was.

7. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? :this is it.:

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? yes

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No way.

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Special K with “red berries”

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Not usually

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Depends on what day you ask.

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Vanilla with chocolate and caramel swirls, or dulce de leche

14. SHOE SIZE? 7.5-8 US

5. RED OR PINK? red

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Judgmental, inability to find an appropriate life partner before someone else finds them.

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Corey Creekmur

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Tina, from whom I got this expressed it well. I will say that, no, I hate emails with this stuff in them.

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS, SHIRT AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Denim pants, red shirt, blue shoes. Red hand-knit socks. Turquoise and ruby earrings.

20. LAST THING YOU ATE? Sample of gray cake frosting my son was making for an odd school project..

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Myself typing.

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? teal

23. FAVORITE SMELL? Rose, mixed with violet

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Deana, fellow band mom

25. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? voice

26. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON you stole THIS from? Why yes, I do.

27. FAVORITE DRINK? Ace Pear Cider

28. FAVORITE SPORT? baseball

29. EYE COLOR? Brown, medium

30. HAT SIZE? Normal

31. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No, they shift around too much for my eagle-eyed need for detail

32. FAVORITE FOOD? squash

33. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy. It’s the only way I get to see happy. LIFE is scary.

35. SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter

36. HUGS OR KISSES? kisses

37. FAVORITE DESSERT? Bread pudding

38. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Barbara loves lists.

39. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Nearly everyone.

40. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? Two political books by Geoffrey Nunberg and Noam Chomsky.

41. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE Pad? trackball mouse.

42. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? End of the baseball game, then Saturday Night Live. Was at a band contest most of the time.

43. FAVORITE SOUNDS? My kids laughing

44. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES? Beatles.

45. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Switzerland

46. WHAT'S YOUR SPECIAL TALENT? I know who likes me

47. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Sarasota Florida

48. WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Tina who loves pink

translation: marvy coworkers are, I think, Greg and Heath.

Comments

Barbara said...
Of course, you knew I'd love it. :) Now I need to know what political books you are reading and if you'd recommend them. I'd like to get Pete another book to go with his CD version of State of Denial. I put the list on my blog too. Thanks!
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:27:00 PM

Suna said...
The books were at work when I wrote the post. They are: Talking Right, by Geoff Nunbuerg, and Failed States by Noam Chomsky. Thanks, pal.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:08:00 AM

Suna said...
ACK, that is Nunberg above.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:08:00 AM

Sam said...
Loved this so much I copied you and Barbara and Sandy and did it on my blog too.Take careSam
Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:38:00 PM