Makin’ a break for it!
I’m linking up with these fellow Wordless Wednesday host sites: Comedy Plus (Sandee), Natasha Musing, XmasDolly (Marie), & Wordless Wednesday!
Good-morning! For those of you who took part in last week’s BOTB showdown, I shared the results earlier this morning. Thanks for joining my mid-week potpourri where I bring together various Wednesday participations into one post and you’re invited to join my self-promoting party where just about anything goes on with Wild Wednesdays!
I’m joining Joyce’s Wednesday Hodgepodge Q&A today.
1. Something you’ve done recently that required you giving 110% ? I hadn’t thought about it but I certainly put 110% of myself into anything I do in the kitchen or when a doodle. The results don’t always look like I put that kind of effort into my work. The thing is whatever I do, I do my best and shouldn’t we always?
2. What task-sport-chore-hobby-activity have you participated in or completed, that if judged, would land you a perfect 10? Gee, this is tough one because I’m not a fair judge of my abilities. Despite growing comfortable with my accomplishments, I still possess an ounce of doubt as to whether what I do/did is good enough. Keeping in the spirit of the question I’d have to say participating and completing the April A2Z Challenge if nothing else I deserve like anyone who took part in the challenge earned a 10 for finishing the month long posting every day, except for Sundays.
3. What are ten of your favorite things right now? Here’s my list but not necessarily in favorite order. 1. normal routines 2. daily sketching 3. creative cooking 4. use it or lose it mind-set 5. scent of fresh coffee -always 6. thinking about future Maine vacation 7. music 8. weekend movie time 9. home-made pizza 10. thoughts of cooler weather
4. Nine times out of ten I you’ll find me each week day sitting in front of my computer at the start of each morning checking in with who’s visited, doing return visits, or working on a post.
5. Where were you when the world stopped turning, twenty years ago this week? I was home, as usual. The morning started the same. I got up before the first light of day to see DH off to work. He was making a daily commute to Chattanooga which is about a 2-hour drive one way where he’d put int 10-hours on the job before making the 2-hour trip home in the evenings. After he left, I crawled back in bed to steal a couple of hours of sleep before getting up for good. When my alarm went off, I sleepily got up fired up our old Dell computer. In those days to connect to the world wide web we used dial up Internet service. What a headache but then that was about all there was at the time. I tried unsuccessfully for several minutes to get online so I could receive our email. While I waited, I called DH to see if he got to work okay. I dialed a few times before finally reaching him. He started off, have you seen the news? I told him no. He said, turn it on! We hung up and I walked into the living room where our youngest daughter was sitting. I told her daddy wanted me to turn the TV on. She said there was nothing on except for the news. Nothing prepared me what I was about to see. I couldn’t even begin to imagine the gravity of DH’s insistence to check out what’s going on. News stations’ camera men in helicopters and on the ground were filming the Twin Towers in New York City. Smoke was coming from one of the towers. The news feed crawling at the bottom of the TV screen told of a plane crashing into the towers and there was speculation of possible terrorist attack. They kept replaying the plane striking the Twin Towers footage. All I could do was flop down in the recliner horrified and then within a minutes of watching the scary scene, one of the towers crumbled to the ground like a deck of cards rendering me nearly speechless. The other tower was still standing but I wondered for how long. That’s when I noticed people leaping from the tower ledge. Fear and desperation to get out of the burning tower that would surely collapse drove those poor people to do what they could to survive. Somehow in the blur, I made breakfast for the children and I. It was a school day. I tried keeping it together to do our homeschooling but by mid-day I couldn’t do it any longer and called it a day. The kids didn’t argue. For the whole of the day I was on edge, fearful for DH being on the road with the large distance that separated us. There was talk terrorist might find other ways to strike. I imagined terrorists using big trucks as a weapon of massive destruction during rush hour. During DH’s commute I couldn’t get him on the phone because cell service was jammed which added more stress and worry. All I could do was pray. The rich blue September morning sky was far contrast to the daily events and I wondered how we would ever pick up the pieces after this nightmare but we did.
6. Insert your own random thought here. After answering such a painful question as the last one and while I hope we never, ever forget how vulnerable we are to evil and that we need to keep a vigil to protecting our country, our way of life, and freedom always because the evil in this world wants nothing more than to destroy America and her people. Alright, that’s enough sad thoughts, let’s move onto a lighter subject, like movies!
Over the weekend, we watched a fun flick on Amazon Prime, All About Steve starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper. Bullock plays a nerdy crossword puzzle designer who goes a blind date her parents set up. She really doesn’t want to go but when Cooper shows up at her parents’ house she’s immediately attracted to him. No sooner are they out the door and in his vehicle the date fizzles. Her quirky, overly talkative self (at the wrong time) caused Cooper’s character to loose interest fast. Luckily for him he’s saved by a phone call saying there’s an emergency that requires him at work. In his attempt to cut things short without making Bullock feel bad, he said I wish you could be with me but you have your work. She was totally smitten by his good looks! To make a long story short and to not spoil things, watch the movie trailer.
I’ve always enjoyed Sandra Bullocks earlier films Miss Congeniality I & II, The Proposal, The Net, Speed, Speed 2, & The Blind Side to name a few and if you’re a fan then I highly recommend this movie. It’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in quite a while.
Now let’s tune in for some music with today’s Weekly Song Challenge.
That’s it for now. I’ll be back tomorrow with a new illustration for Thursday Art Date with Rain and I hope you’ll stop by. 😉 Have a wonderfully Wild Wednesday! X💋X💋, Cathy
13 Comments
messymimi's meanderings
Loved your sketch and your answers. That was a scary day, and we all tried so hard to keep everything normal for the children.
Alana Mautone
Alcatraz East (I looked it up) sounds like a museum I’d love to visit one day. Your memories of 20 years ago were certainly powerful. I always write a 9/11 tribute post and this year’s will be hard. It’s unbelievable – I had connections with a number of people who died on 9/11 (although I didn’t know any personally) and two of them left pregnant wives. One of their born-after-the-event children made it to the People magazine article on 9/11 babies at 20 years. This young man was born six days after his father died at the World Trade Center. I, personally, will never forget that day.
jodaley
I haven’t seen that film so will look for it. I like most anything these two are in. I am with you on that smell of early morning coffee : ) Thank you for sharing your thoughts on 911. I feel like it’s an event that when you think about it the emotion is still so palpable.
Brian
Alcatraz East is pretty cool and we enjoyed your answers!
Mary B
Hi Cathy! Thank you for joining in the fun today! I really enjoyed your bonus track. I really like what they did with the song. Clever! Still trying to keep my head up over here and not drown. I’ll respond to your email with details of what’s going on.
csuhpat1
Great art and such an interesting building. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a great rest of the week.
Kathe W.
Love your Laundry art and I was not aware of an Alcatraz East!
Sandee
I didn’t know there was an Alcatraz East. I’ve been to the rock in San Francisco. How fun.
I’ll have to check out that movie. I’m always up for a good movie.
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Kirstin
Great thoughts and answers. I’ll have to check out that movie too. You can also find me at the computer in the mornings with my cup of coffee.
-Eugi ☕️
Morning, Cathy! Love the photos of the prisoner trying to make a run for it, and I enjoyed your answers. Yep, the scent of coffee and cooler weather are some of my favorite things too.
15andmeowing
That photo with the prisoner is too funny. Nice to learn more about you from your answers. I love the smell of coffee too. 🙂 XO
Libby @ Beauty Without Within
Love the pencil sketch and that you try doing something creative like that every day. We saw the movie “Respect” this weekend – the first movie we’ve been to in ages. Since we enjoy watching old ones at home, we don’t feel the urgency to see one in a theater. There’s not many options there anyway.
Thomas Anderson
Hi, again, Cathy!
I’m sure many heads turn as they pass by the Alcatraz East crime museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Wikie sez it was: << formerly operated as the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. >>
I read your Wednesday Hodgepodge answers with interest. Based on what I know about you, I agree that you give 110% in the kitchen (whipping up yummies to delight DH’s taste buds) and in your doodling, sketching, drawing, and other forms of art composition. I admire people like you who always strive to do their very best. Yessum, The A to Z Challenge is another example of how you give 110%, and your full color depictions of characters from The Little Mermaid, the Looney Tunes gang and various classic pinup girls are, in my opinion, perfect 10s. Your illustration of the pinup gal hanging her undies (and her yellow dress) on the clothesline is an example of your talent. You and I match on 8 out of 10 favorite things you listed including dreaming of a Maine getaway. I would simply substitute daily creative blogging for sketching and eating Mrs. Shady’s meals for creative cooking. Like you, I love routine and like to start my day early, between 4 and 5 am, pour strong black coffee and see what’s happening on my blog and on the blogs of friends like you.
Yessum, most of us remember all too well where we were and what we were doing on the morning of 9-11-2001, twenty whole years ago now. I remember that I was vacuuming the house when something told me to stop and turn on the TV. There it was, the unthinkable, horrible spectacle unfolding in real time right before my eyes. I had only been watching a few minutes when the second plane hit, increasing the terror and apprehension. Then came the Pentagon attack and the hijacked plane crashing into the Pennsylvania field. I began to wonder about the scope and magnitude of the attacks. Like you, I spent the day dreading that the assault would continue and manifest in other forms such as gas bombs set off in public places, poisoning the drinking water supplies of cities, etc. My mind was reeling. Life has never again seemed as safe as we thought it was before 9-11-01… another “date that will live in infamy.”
I love Sandra Bullock and we have Prime, so I’ll look for that All About Steve movie and put it in My Stuff. I enjoyed the trailer. Looks like Sandra delivers another nuanced comedic performance, Thanks for the tip!
Good picks on the WSC, dear friend! I was just telling Mrs. Shady that we should look for Reba’s TV sitcom and watch it again, because we both enjoyed it first time around. We’ve been seeing the actor who played Reba’s hubby over and over again in a recurring role as an irritating shark lawyer on Boston Legal. I didn’t know Reba covered The Everlys’ hit “Cathy’s Clown.” I enjoyed it. This was my introduction to Aussie artist Kate Ceberano. She’s exciting! I also enjoyed hearing that cover of “Folsom Prison Blues” for the first time.
I already busted my brain on the WSC at BB’s, but I can do three more in support of your post.
BLUE SONG: “Blue Monday,” a hit in 1956 for Fats Domino.
“T” SONG: “They’re Coming To Take Me Away (Ha-Haaaa!),” the 1966 novelty hit by Napoleon XIV. I score TRIPLE points for picking a song with 3-T’s in the title.
ROOM SONG: “In My Lonely Room” by Martha And The Vandellas, a single that barely missed the top 40 on the pop chart and made a run at the top 5 on the Cash Box R&B chart in 1964.
Yessum, I’ll be back tamale to see more of your work on Thursday Art Date With Rain. Until then, have a fine day, dear friend Cathy!