- I have no idea how to put a Facebook link in a blog post and need Lisa to help me.
- Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are the only dog allowed in the British Parliament by order of Cavalier King Charles who is dead but the rule lives on.
- My daughter is in Peru right now. So is her husband. He is Peruvian which sort of explains why they are in Peru.
- I am two degrees of separation from several presidents and three degrees away from Barack Obama. I am one degree of separation away from Sally Struthers which puts me two away from a whole bunch of movie stars. However, I am not impressed with myself. I just need to put 25 random things down and those came to mind.
- My uncle had mafia connections. As in the Rat Pack. Really. It’s true. Just ask my sisters. OH! That puts me two degrees away from Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.!
- I write mysteries. The current one has the mafia in it. Also theology, sex, politics, lesbians, and guns. Did I mention sex?
- St. Paul was a feminist in his day. I know. Hard to believe. But true. Live with it.
- So was Mohammed. Really. And virgins may actually be olives…..
- Paraguay is a country in South America. I almost forgot that.
- Maize. In elementary school social studies, the answer was almost always maize.
- That was before 42 was the answer.
- Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time was rejected several dozen times over close to a decade.
- Then it won the Newberry Medal.
- It snowed in Portland today. I drove anyway because it was just pretend snow. The kind that happens when it’s 40 degrees out.
- I used to be a real live hippy. I’m still real and still alive. But I had kids and sort of grew up. Sort of.
- My daughter calls me her pothead mom because I smoked pot recently to see if it helped with the pain. It did. But I forgot how to smoke and choked. Not a nice experience.
- If I would agree to live in the car with her, Good Dog Gwynth thinks that would be a very good thing. She loves the car almost as much as she loves Jenny.
- I have no idea how to spell my dog’s name. The Good Dog part I’m okay with. It’s the last part that baffles me. One n? Two n? Another y?
- When I was a kid I learned the vowels were a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. They don’t teach w and y as vowels anymore. But I’m sure that the w and/or y in my dog’s name are vowels. At least I’m pretty sure. I may be missing something. No, they have to be. Because all the other things are definitely consonants. And there has to be a vowel. That’s another rule that lives on. Unless you are from another dimension or something. And actually, the dog’s name has two syllables which means there needs to be ANOTHER vowel and I don’t think wy counts as two vowels. Where does the other one go? This is going to keep me awake tonight.
- Cows can be tipped over and I’d like to try it. Despite what people think, I’m not particularly fond of cows. Just because I gave one talk on cow piety…….Strange the things you get standing ovations for…..
- This is the 21st random thing tonight. Four more to go.
- I learned a lot of new stuff today. I believe you should learn at least one new thing every day. I’m set until mid-May, 2010.
- My favorite podcast is Cast On. It’s about knitting. It’s funny. It’s in Wales. It’s by a lesbian. These are a few of my favorite things. (Although I still love all the straight women in my life, too!)
- It really is time to go to bed because a friend is coming over at 10 am to work on a service we’re doing this Sunday. It’s on Sabbath and about Sabbath. I’m preaching. Look out! Heresy alert!
- I just learned how to knit a moebius strip. Now I’ll have to learn how to quit knitting it. But there is no real stopping point so it may go on for awhile.