Crazy Sam (no, NOT my daughter) has a great Saturday meme called Saturday Nine. Every Saturday she posts nine questions…sometimes there is a theme….other times the questions are unrelated. There was a time when I had quite an aversion to memes. Now however, I feel as though memes are great writing prompts. Especially if your blog works as more of a journal than a commentary.

Today’s questions are:

1. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?  A letter????? Actually I can’t remember when I wrote a letter. However, I did just recently mail a card to my long time blogging friend and kindred spirit Miss Kris from Shelter from the Storm.

2. Can you change the oil on a car? No. I am so very old school on a number of points – I don’t change the oil in the car, I don’t mow lawns, and I don’t take out the trash. Ewwwww.

3. Name three things you have on you at all times. Hmmm. This is a difficult question. Is it meant to be literal or figurative???? I would imagine it is meant to be literal – like when you are standing in the shower – what is it that you always have on. I don’t have three things on me at all times – only two – that would be my earrings and my toenail polish. Some would ask – but what about your wedding band, don’t you wear that at all times? Nope. I never wear it. Haven’t since I was pregnant with Miss Sam. But I do believe in always having pretty polished toes – it makes me feel all giggly inside when I look down and my toes are all shiny and pretty.

4. What’s your life motto? When asked this question I always think back to my response in my high school yearbook (circa 1972): A life unplanned is a better life, always has been, always will be. However, one of my favorite quotes that I reiterate in my classes every semester is: If you don’t know where you are going you will end up someplace else. Go figure, I never said I was NOT a complicated person.

5. What’s a word that you say a lot? It’s not a word, it’s a phrase – ‘love you’.

6. What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping. Mr. John had ‘dog duty’ last night and I was able to FINALLY get a good night’s sleep.

7. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? I really want to let my gray grow out.

8. Who is your worst enemy? Myself.

9. What does your watch look like? It is gold and silver, hangs like a bracelet (I can’t stand anything tight on my wrists or fingers – perhaps that explains the wedding band issue) and was on sale at Bealls (of course).

31 Days of Autumn ~ Day 11

I went through all our bins of fall decorations and donated three huge bins, two big plastic ghosts and a huge plastic pumpkin to my dear friend who teaches first grade (she can use them in her classroom). Yet of all the decorations that we had the “Witch is In/Out” sign is the one that Miss Sam said we “definitely had to keep”. That falls under the category of ‘Things That Make You Go…Hmmmmm’. I will post a photo of the second most important item tomorrow.