The purple and black fabric underneath is my lap. I lerve purple and black and white together. The lady who gave me this fabric knew that :-)
Made a potholder today
Thought I was just fiddling around with my fabric for a few minutes, and turned out a masterpiece. Yes, I really will use it in the kitchen to hold hot pots! I don't need a hanging tag because I throw them all in a drawer.
The purple and black fabric underneath is my lap. I lerve purple and black and white together. The lady who gave me this fabric knew that :-)
The purple and black fabric underneath is my lap. I lerve purple and black and white together. The lady who gave me this fabric knew that :-)
Blackberries! Soon, very soon.
Here are the blackberries on the fence getting ripe, working on being ready in time to become my 40th birthday pie. I go out there every couple days and watch their progress.
Edit, a couple hours later-- the ones in town behind the store are RIPE!!!! Some need to ripen more, but some were delicious ;-)
Need to bring a container next time.
Edit, a couple hours later-- the ones in town behind the store are RIPE!!!! Some need to ripen more, but some were delicious ;-)
Need to bring a container next time.
Blogging
A couple funnies...
I know, but that's partly what I like about it. Many years ago, the one family member I would consistently write letters to was the one who didn't ever write back. I don't know what he thought of my letters or if he was even reading them. If he didn't answer, then I never had to see any proof that he had either misunderstood or brushed aside anything that I had said. Strange? I suppose so.
I just found *yet another* Myers-Briggs test online, which I especially liked because it has an "in between" option for each question.
http://kisa.ca/personality/
It has me as INTP. I often score as an INTJ because of my big fat opinions, yet I'm about as casual with schedules as its gets. Now that I'm almost forty I can get myself to appointments on the right day and time at least 80% of the time, but I still vastly prefer a day with all options open, and to-do lists without deadlines.
They say the J/P preference is the hardest to hide, because J's can't keep their opinions to themselves and P's are always late. What if I have opinions and am late? For now I think I'm just gonna be an INTP with opinions. Oh yes, this IS important. Don't know if it's important to anybody else :-)
Reason I mention this, is an INTP profile I read recently, http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html
Here's the pertinent quotes-- the first two paragraphs just for self-indulgent understanding and the third one explains why I like my blog so much :-)
In a group situation, INTPs are sensitive to whether they believe they will be listened to or not. If a dominant (strongly extraverted and loud) person is present, the INTP will withdraw and sulk, believing the dominant person to be a brute. If an INTP speaks, he must be listened to, for he believes his spoken opinions to be important. If not, he withdraws (at least in spirit)... Hence, INTPs make very poor leaders, for they depend too much on the attitudes of others.
INTPs tend to jump to intuitive conclusions, can be fatalistic and have little perseverence. On the other hand, they can make very good assistants to leaders, provided they and the leader are of one mind... Indeed, INTPs are often glad when someone else takes over the lead, again providing the leader is of the same mind.
The only area in which an INTP will carry out his own ideas to completion is in his personal interest world, where other people are not involved. For this reason, INTPs are fascinated by computer technology as well as the Internet which gives him a voice that he would not otherwise have. Many of the most dedicated Computer Freaks are INTPs. Ultimately, INTPs tend to trust machines more than they trust people...
Next funny, courtesy of Sister!
FACE it! Everybody's on Facebook. And I love it for a certain purpose. Everybody I know is on it, siblings, cousins, more cousins and long-lost half-brothers-in-law along with dozens of real life acquaintances and some total strangers. It's not a blog, it's not set up to be one. It's for keeping everybody up to date with birthdays and graduations and baby pictures. It's for checking in every now and then, to feel reassured about having a few people in life who actually care what happens to me.
I have just three particular friends that I would like to be friends with on Facebook, so they don't miss out on my exciting status updates like, "Yay! Pizza for dinner!" but they won't join, all for similar concerns. I've nagged enough and don't want to be too obnoxious :-)
So I'll just post this here and leave it for them to see.
Concern #1--what if I join Facebook and continually encounter someone on there whom I don't want to be reminded of?
That's easy. When someone tries to friend you ("friend" is a verb now, thanks to Facebook, which means "to add each other to our friends list") there's links for Accept, Ignore or Block. If you block someone, they will go on your blocked list and you'll never have to see another squeak out of them. The only way you'd see their name again is if you and they are both on another person's friends list. In that case, just don't friend anybody who also knows that person--but it shouldn't stop you from joining Facebook in order to keep up with me!
Concern #2-- if I join Facebook, other people who know me might share information about me that I don't want shared.
Well, yes, that's true. But if you don't join Facebook, they can still talk about you behind your back.
You see, there's Privacy settings! You can set yourself up as more or less invisible, even choosing not to allow others to find you when they search for your name. Then you'll only be able to connect with friends whom you go looking for and add yourself.
Concern #3-- Facebook isn't to be trusted with my private information.
Right. So don't give them any. They only require your first and last name, birthdate and email address. If someone looks in the phone book they'll get more information than that about you. If they look at your driver's license they'll get more information than that about you. You're supposed to put your real information, it's de rigueur, so to speak, to use your real first and last name on Facebook like everybody else, but there's people on my friends list who obviously haven't. The only thing that absolutely has to be accurate is your email address.
You've heard that people can tag you in embarrassing photos? But there's a privacy setting to not allow them.
And after all, you can join Facebook and not SAY one single thing! You can just join MY friends list, and then lurk and listen, and if I post something you like, say "Yay!" in the comments box, and nothing more.
Okay, there. Done nagging.
See? Here's what PRIVACY SETTINGS look like.
Oh, those last few things, I've never entered anything in the boxes :-)
I have just three particular friends that I would like to be friends with on Facebook, so they don't miss out on my exciting status updates like, "Yay! Pizza for dinner!" but they won't join, all for similar concerns. I've nagged enough and don't want to be too obnoxious :-)
So I'll just post this here and leave it for them to see.
Concern #1--what if I join Facebook and continually encounter someone on there whom I don't want to be reminded of?
That's easy. When someone tries to friend you ("friend" is a verb now, thanks to Facebook, which means "to add each other to our friends list") there's links for Accept, Ignore or Block. If you block someone, they will go on your blocked list and you'll never have to see another squeak out of them. The only way you'd see their name again is if you and they are both on another person's friends list. In that case, just don't friend anybody who also knows that person--but it shouldn't stop you from joining Facebook in order to keep up with me!
Concern #2-- if I join Facebook, other people who know me might share information about me that I don't want shared.
Well, yes, that's true. But if you don't join Facebook, they can still talk about you behind your back.
You see, there's Privacy settings! You can set yourself up as more or less invisible, even choosing not to allow others to find you when they search for your name. Then you'll only be able to connect with friends whom you go looking for and add yourself.
Concern #3-- Facebook isn't to be trusted with my private information.
Right. So don't give them any. They only require your first and last name, birthdate and email address. If someone looks in the phone book they'll get more information than that about you. If they look at your driver's license they'll get more information than that about you. You're supposed to put your real information, it's de rigueur, so to speak, to use your real first and last name on Facebook like everybody else, but there's people on my friends list who obviously haven't. The only thing that absolutely has to be accurate is your email address.
You've heard that people can tag you in embarrassing photos? But there's a privacy setting to not allow them.
And after all, you can join Facebook and not SAY one single thing! You can just join MY friends list, and then lurk and listen, and if I post something you like, say "Yay!" in the comments box, and nothing more.
Okay, there. Done nagging.
See? Here's what PRIVACY SETTINGS look like.
Oh, those last few things, I've never entered anything in the boxes :-)
The blue dress
I read in a book long ago that you can sew clothes even if you have only fifteen minutes a day for it, if you just do one step each day. The key is to leave the sewing area with everything lying just where it should be, ready for the next step the next day, so you don't have to waste any time finding your place again.That works for me.Today, I was suddenly done! I love it when I'm just stitching along, get to the end of a seam and realize that was the last one.
I even smiled at the camera (sort of).
I know this is the design in the illustration of "what pudgy ladies should not wear" but... but... I like it!
Sarcasm or Irony
I recently saw a t-shirt that said, "Sarcasm is just one of the free services I offer."
I thought I was the sarcastic type, but when I looked up the word, I'm not!
Definition:
That's not me! I don't ever intend to wound anyone's feelings. Of course I do hurt someone's feelings, that just breaks my little heart… hahahaha.
No, really. It does.
There’s a better word for what I do.
Okay, you were dying to have that distinction made, and the confusion cleared up, right?
I think most people who say they are "sarcastic" are using the word incorrectly. This is irony:
I thought I was the sarcastic type, but when I looked up the word, I'm not!
Definition:
SARCASM: a keen or bitter taunt : a cutting gibe or rebuke often delivered in a tone of contempt or disgust 2: the use of caustic or stinging remarks or language often with inverted or ironical statement on occasion of an offense or shortcoming with intent to wound the feelings
That's not me! I don't ever intend to wound anyone's feelings. Of course I do hurt someone's feelings, that just breaks my little heart… hahahaha.
No, really. It does.
There’s a better word for what I do.
IRONY: feigned ignorance designed to confound or provoke an antagonist : dissimulation : humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm that adopts a mode of speech the intended implication of which is the opposite of the literal sense of the words (as when expressions of praise are used where blame is meant) : a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what was or was to be expected : a result opposite to and as if in mockery of the appropriate result *the irony of fate*
IRONY applies chiefly to a way of speaking or writing in which the meaning intended is contrary to that expressed on the surface *beset with confusion and humiliation he said in blunt irony, *I am certainly enjoying myself** but in a more literary or dramatic sense it implies a deeper perception of the discrepancies implicit in life and character or applies to the actual discrepancies (as between appearance and reality, what is promised and what fulfilled, what is intended and what achieved, what seemingly should be and what actually is), applying frequently to a situation in which what results is the direct, often tragic, opposite of what was desired, intended, or worked for *the dramatic irony of the play in which the hero intent upon the greatest good he knows achieves by his very pursuit of it destruction and death* *the patient had sought violent death, but, with the usual irony of life, it was the doctor whom sudden death overcame Havelock Ellis* *an irony of nature that our teeth, which decay so painfully while we live, stop decaying at our death, and outlast all the rest of us Leonard Woolley*
SARCASM applies chiefly to a type of humor intended to cut or wound, often employing ridicule or bitter irony *the satire has become in some instances sarcasm * and heavy sarcasm at that John Woodburn*
Okay, you were dying to have that distinction made, and the confusion cleared up, right?
I think most people who say they are "sarcastic" are using the word incorrectly. This is irony:
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