Patrisha

December 3, 2006

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D is for…

This is an assignment from Bambamgotchatwice.

D is for:

Dishes. I really don’t mind doing dishes by hand. Before we moved into this apartment, I did the dishes this way. But I have to be honest and say the dishwasher does them much better…
Dragons. My younger son likes dragons. Whenever I go to England, I always got him a dragon from a shop in Yeovil called "Gone Potty!" The last one was a dragon on a motorcycle picked out by his English cousin, Toby.
Dancing: I used to be a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. There was much I enjoyed–who doesn’t like dressing up? But what kept me there was dancing. At the introductory meeting I attended, we were taught Hole-in-theWall and I was hooked! When I first came to Vermont, I attended a Scottish dancing club but had to quit because I had Achilles tendonitis. Scottish dancing is largely done on the toes and the Achilles tendon is the one that is at the back of the heel…
Donuts: Krispy Kremes. That says it all. When my younger son and I used to drive down to the Mississppi Gulf coast, we always ate Krispy Kremes. And it was a bonus when the red light was on outside to announce the doughnuts were straight out of the oven.
Dollars: When I first came to the States from England, I was always mentally converting dollars into pounds, or what I thought of as "real" money!
Doormat: We have an outside doormat inside! But this will change. We are still looking for an inside one the size we want.
Dinner: When I was growing up, dinner was what we had at night. Lunch was what we had at noon. Actually, when I was a child in England, only adults had dinner. Children had supper. And we ALL had tea! Actually, I still like a cuppa and a cookie at 4-ish…
Diarrhea: A word and a condition I became intimately acqainted with six years ago when I had pelvic radiation after endometrial cancer. For a while, Immodium AD was my best friend, I knew every public toilet in Burlington and I never went out without a plastic bag and a spare pair of underpants!
Dogs: Well, they are ok but they are not cats! As a child, my sister and I had a dog named Rex whom I remember fondly and my younger son had a sweet dog named Freckles. She was given to him without asking me first when he was about three by his then 26 year-old brother whom I have still not forgiven for this dastardly deed!
Dark: I have never been scared of the dark but my younger sister was. I remember when I was 11-ish, I used to walk home in the dark from school. {We got out at 4 pm and I had a bus ride and a long walk home.} I was never scared but I remember walking from from one streetlight to another imagining I was a ship sailing from island to island. I suppose it was a safer time then. Who would let an 11 year old girl walk home in the dark these days…

Until later….

darlingnikki

December 4, 2006

This was a good entry and fun to read!

Green Goddess

Nice 🙂 I’ll have to do this later.

TheWoodsprite

This was fun to read! I prefer doing dishes by hand. And about pounds and dollars…. when we lived in England I kept them separate and only took the pounds if I were shopping in town, and the dollars if I were shopping on base. But occasionally I’d go uptown, shop, and when I got to the checker, discover I had brought the wrong currency! That would call for another walk back uptown later! hugs,Weesprite

This was fun to read. You bring your own special way of writing to this exercise, very down-to-earth and truthful. I think I would gloss over the diarrhea but it’s something we all have some experience with. Yucky! I had one bout of diarrhea that ONLY Ammodium D would help. Great stuff. I like the way you used yellow for your D words.

Violet

And here I was, converting pounds into dollars in my head. How foolish! LOL!

bambamgotchatwice

Yay! I like this exercise so very much.

Dot Com Man

Very intresting. I’m gonna do this in an entry soon. I’ll just pick out a letter and see what I can do.

gray tabby

i won’t even let me be outside walking after dark!!! i enjoyed this entry. i like merlyn. but not most other dogs. my favorite is a cat. blake likes small statues of dragons. and i’ve found that a lot of the books i’ve been reading lately have dragons in them. take care,

Pat

I used to think I was only a dog person until my daughter begged for a cat for her birthday 9 years ago. We got Peaches for her and we’ve been cat people ever since! Good entry!

wickedgood

This was fun to read. I like your memory of walking from streetlight to streetlight.

Shi

This was fun.

momof2boys2

It is sort of sad that we can’t let our kids walk home in the dark now. In this town we probably could, but I still wouldn’t allow it. Remember when everything was so innocent?

I think my parents still think in pounds as well as euros. 🙂

VeronicaCorningstone

I got your list today in the mail. Thank you so much for sending it. I really liked a lot of the things you suggested and I’m going to try some of them (especially they physical activity part… today I did a 30 minute walk with the pup on a trail by the river!). As for xmas presents- If J comes home with me, we WILL be up to see you. If I fly by myself, I will likely send your gift toyou either right before or right after Christmas!

*Saoirse*

Wow! You were in the SCA too! I was when I lived in Vancouver (Three cheers for An Tir!) since the age of 15 but only on and off – on when the friends were around and off when the politics and back biting got to drown out any fun to be had. I sought it out again in 2000 when I moved to the UK (Three cheers for Drachenwald!) and made a few good friends there but in Ireland it’s just not doable.Nearest group to me is in Belfast – a good 3 hour drive away. To be honest, the business idea took over any desire for wearing a long gown and camping, so that was that. Neat, though!

Garnet & Carnations

D is for a delightful entry.

Desert Sage

Oh, thank you for such a good entry. i can always count on you to be interesting! i’m sorry that you had cancer, but being a survivor must feel good? My mom had premenopausal breast cancer at age 47 and now she’s 73, almost 74 (this month) and one of my very best friends! i’m so thankful she’s still here…and i agree, dogs are NOT cats, and i will always have cats, but i do love my dog, Britta. 🙂

Telynor

Oh how I wish we had a dishwasher! That is one thing that I really miss about my home in slc — it had the most beautiful kitchen.

I’m working on one of these.

FredOtter

D is for Dumb ass as in Dubya the Defective.

!!! I didn’t know you were a SCAdian! I’ve lapsed, too, but I do miss the dancing…..

Lucky Lady

December 19, 2006

I can relate to converting krona to dollars after being in Scandinavia this summer. Thanks for sharing the memories, thoughts & ideas.