
First month of my “World According to Curly Girl” calendar.
This is the last world sharing prompt from 2015, number 52. Answering it now feels late, but isn’t really because the next one is due out Monday, and today is Saturday, right? Even though the first of January felt like a Sunday all day to me. Two days in to the new year and already I don’t know what day of the week it is for sure. It’s going to be a great year.
Tell how you are feeling today in the form of a weather report. (For example, partly cloudy, sunny with a chance of showers, etc.)
Mostly sunny with a few foggy patches. Much like yesterday, also predicted for tomorrow. If there are clouds they will quickly disperse revealing silver linings. Long range forecast…. rain will fall and then it will stop. The snow will eventually melt. The sun will rise and set and rise again. This is the most boring weather forecast I have ever heard, but sometimes boring is the best thing you could wish for.
What is most memorable about your high school years?
Five years of my life, (this is way back when there was still a grade thirteen) and the first thing that pops in to my head is the hours and hours and hours spent riding in a school bus, to and from, day after day. Sometimes running late and missing it, sometimes the weather and the road conditions making the bus late. My brother missing the bus on purpose so he could take the car. He had to space those out so it wasn’t so obvious.
I was a shy and introverted loner who got crazy high marks in everything. My classmates were nice to me and most of my teachers liked me. I had a few good friends. Not really a recipe for popularity in there anywhere, and yet in my final year I was voted prom queen. That was pretty memorable. My sisters friends all voted for me, the rest of the votes were split amongst the popular girls and my favourite teacher counted the ballots. This is how elections are won.
My first year of high school I had secret crushes on boys who would have been very surprised to learn about it, since I so studiously ignored them, in case they might notice I existed and try to talk to me or something. There was a chance they would say something stupid instead of a great line from a romance novel and I didn’t want any illusions shattered. Gawd, high school. Weirdest time of your life.
Have you ever owned a rock, pet rock, or gem that is not jewelry?
No ordinary rocks, definitely no pet rocks, and hardly any jewelry at all except for watches and earrings and a wedding band. I have never owned a diamond, but that’s another story.
When I was having the mysterious lymphatic lumps on my neck investigated a couple of years ago and saw Yulanda, my favourite psychic, she gave me nothing but reassuring news (which turned out to be bang on, thus the reason she is my favourite). She also gave me a flat smooth dark yellow stone, almost an amber brown, and for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called except that maybe it started with an A. It wasn’t just a healing stone, but had balancing properties and other calming helpful things. It’s the kind of thing I think is a little silly, because, come on, it’s just a rock, but I kept it close to me anyway until things felt resolved. It was a little worry stone that soaked up my worries. You do strange things to soothe your soul. I still have it. Even put it on a chain so I wouldn’t lose it. Maybe I won’t need it again, but you never know.
Complete this sentence: I like watching…
Netflix. Because I want to get every penny’s worth out of my eight dollars a month. Occasionally I watch movies, but mostly it’s some tv series that goes on for many seasons so I can binge watch until I’m sick of it. There is no end in sight for the mystery shows; lawyers, police, forensics, investigators, detectives, criminals, victims, supernatural phenomena – I watch it all. The latest thing I’m into is Midsommer Murders, but I have to say I’m getting a little tired of women screaming every time they stumble upon a murder victim. Really, there’s a dead body and somebody screams. Several bodies, lots and lots of screaming. Other than that, it’s a good show.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for a lazy laid back Christmas and New Years. I was in bed well before the fireworks on New Years Eve. The Christmas stuff is packed and put away and W is back to driving and doing the grocery shopping. The furniture is all back to where it’s supposed to be because we no longer need a wide path for the walker. I am brimming over with gratefulness for that alone. There was a much welcomed and appreciated phone call from the latest clinic I visited telling me my fibroid test results were normal. Normal is such a beautiful word, we really should appreciate it more.
In the week coming up I would like to go through my many unfinished drafts and either finish them or delete them. I expect most of them will end up in the trash because I won’t remember what I was talking about. And I am looking forward to the increase in daylight motivating me to make use of it in my little art studio, where the artistic “drafts” are piling up much like the written ones.
There are only twenty-nine days left in January! Yay! Let’s all be grateful for that one!
I’m glad you’re feeling better, Lin. Normal is good! Loved your story about the stone. I know I would do the same thing. I think things around us do soak up our worries. I used to feel this way about my cats. I really do think this happens on a grand scale and that’s why trees and that are so important because they are the filtration system for negative energy. That and good soil and air and lots of other things. Happy 2016 to you! Twist and shout. ❤️
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That’s a truly beautiful way of looking at things, and I love the idea of negative energy getting filtered away. Of course first we have to let it go….❤️
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Good health and great happiness to you for 2016! Thanks for sharing.. some amusing stories here.
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Thanks for the new year wishes – I wish the same for you. xo❤️
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happy new year Lin! wishing you wellness and creative play time for the year! and all tests be ‘normal’ 🙂 cheers, Debi
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Thanks Debi – all the best to you too in 2016 😊👍
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thanks!!!
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haha lots of screaming on the tv shows! Had to laugh…:) … I barely watch any tv now and if I do it is some old sit-com, but I still laugh no matter how many times I see it! Glad things in your world are getting back to normal!
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Ah yes, normal is certainly nice. I have missed it. And the latest episode I watched today on Midsomer Murders had no screaming in it at all! I missed that too! lol
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I feel the same way about Netflix 🙂 I’m glad you mentioned Midsomer Murders — I’ve been looking for something new to watch. I’m watching an episode now. So far, so good — and so far, no screaming.
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Haha….wait for it…..lol
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I enjoyed Midsomer Murders for the delightful English villages but what a crime ridden county to live in. I always used to joke with David that if Inspector Barnaby was such a good copper why did at least two other murders occur before he caught the baddie? Actually I liked the show a lot as the first Barnaby’s home life was so refreshingly humdrum. He wasn’t an alcoholic and only had one wife who he was still happily married to. A nice change from many dysfunctional TV coppers.
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Yes, I love the little villages and the beautiful countryside and the gardens and the old buildings. And you’re right about the multiple murders that seem to happen right under their noses before they can figure things out. Or they have to solve a thirty year old case before getting a clue about the present one. Are there really that many violently crazy people in England?? lol. Makes for good tv.
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It does and I guess the USA has a few too. I would not care to live in the same town as Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote either.
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Prom Queen!!
(bowing, curtseying, prostrating on floor, getting up quickly and reprostrating where carpet is)
I am not worthy! I am not worthy!
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Haha…all ancient history. And not something you can put on a job resume. And the next year when I was required to make a special trip back to crown the new queen I had to scrounge around for a date. Life can be so unfair.😥
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Cry away, crocodile. I didn’t kiss a boy or have a date until second semester Senior year of high school.
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Was the stone called Amber? I used to make jewelry. Glad to hear your last test was normal. 👍 And your hubby is driving again. 😄 YAY! Hope this year will bring you many smiles. (This sounds a little like a fortune from a cookie!) Lol! 😏 Wishing you the best! 😍
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No it wasn’t Amber. Agate maybe? Maybe it didn’t start with A. I’m sure it will come to me in the middle of the night and I will forget it again by morning. 😄. I love fortune cookies! All cookies should have fortunes in them.
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Your high school years answer illuminates so much for me! I have a friend who’ll (I’m pretty sure) never date, because no one is as perfect as she needs them to be. Somehow, your articulating why you ignored the guys you really liked is more illuminating than all my pondering so far. :p
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There’s also the fear that you won’t live up to their expectations, whatever they may be, so you play at being deep and mysterious and unknowable….I think I read way too many books in my teens. lol
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Heh. It’s like you’re writing about my girlfriend, then and now!
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wonderful read Lin! Thanks for “sharing your world!” I never heard of Grade 13 ever!
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I think it was meant to be a sort of prep year for whatever you were going to do next where you applied to universities and brought up your marks. For a lot of us it was just a reminder of how fed up we were with school in general. I’m glad they did away with it.
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In a nutshell….high school was miserable, I never had a pet rock, I love watching reruns….? and I’m grateful the new programs have begun and Downton Abby will soon end! Also hopefully Sherlock will end before I hate it!
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I love your memories, happy for your and W’s good news and progress. Where does the calendar come from? Did you create it? It’s great. I realize I am commenting on older posts that I missed, but saved to read in better times. Yours are always enjoyable, however late I am at reading them.
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The calendar came from Chapters in their 50% off January sale. I love calendar shopping! I can’t get used to on line calendars and day timers on phones, or even lists there. I like a calendar on my wall that I can write important reminders on. There’s something very satisfying about flipping it over to a brand new month.
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