Meme ideas

Living with Ghosts is the Monday MeMe


My house is haunted. Literally. And though they (yes, there is more than one and only two of them are connected to us personally) have been very quiet since last fall when I lost my temper a couple of times with the non-family ones, it seems they are back. Things are happening again. Banging noises in empty rooms. Footsteps overhead where no one is. Rustling sounds of activity that have no discernible origin.

The topper was the other night after we had gone to bed and Rob felt someone pressing on the side of his face. This has happened to him before and I am glad they choose him because that sort of thing would earn them a scalding verbal lashing from me, but I am not glad to know that the weirdness of late is a return of creepiness and bad b-movie spiritual cheesiness.

So what do my ghost-busting issues have to do with you? Tell me a ghost story. Personal or one you remember from slumber party or camping days of yore. Write it. Link to it. Something scary (and ugly women don’t count, Uncle Keith) for all to enjoy.

Here is my story. Looking forward to hearing, seeing or listening to yours.

Victoria Day MeMe


It’s Victoria Day, honoring the Queens birthday, and the end of the May long weekend in Canada.  Although I am currently enjoying a mountain view in B.C., I wanted to share a bit of the culture of the mother country with you. Your assignment, should you choose to accept, will be to find and post an artistic British export on your own space and link back here for all to enjoy.

Monday MeMe


I know the correct pronunciation for “meme” which incidentally means the spreading of an idea, but I like to pronounce it “me – me” because that is what meme’s are about really – yourself.

Today’s meme I found through The Daily Meme. It’s a site that collects meme ideas. A productive use of the blogosphere? Is there such as thing as a product use of blogging space? The site I found today’s idea on is BeccA’s Buzz. The blogger is a good Christian. I am a bad Catholic. Consequently if there were a hell, I would be earning air miles for my flight there with what I might be doing by lifting her idea and setting it free here. Fortunately, there is no heaven or hell. There is simply the university of the soul. Debriefing. Reeducation. And reassignment. Fun times.

Today’s rules:

Gimme Five! This meme is designed as a way to disclose information about ourselves. I create a random list of topics and you respond – think ink blot – and link back here when you are finished. You can use photos, links, songs or just respond in writing. You can also create a list of your own of 5 things that relate to the topics. Any order is fine.

1) evening wear

2) blue food

3) science fiction

4) sponges

5) plastics

Evening wear – Really depends on the time of evening but I am thinking about bed time and being a woman of a certain age, I sleep in the nude. Sorry but photographic evidence is not available.

Blue food – According to George Carlin there is no blue food:

I often wonder why there’s no blue food. Every other color in well represented in the food kingdom. And don’t bother me with blueberries; they’re purple. The same is true with blue corn and blue potatoes. They’re purple. Blue cheese? Nice try. It’s actually white cheese with blue mold. Occasionally, you might run across some blue Jell-o in a cafeteria. Don’t eat it. It wasn’t supposed to be blue. Something went wrong.

Science Fiction – the idea that aliens will look like this anywhere but in a man’s fantasy.

Sponges – I can’t see this word and not be reminded of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine discovers her favorite method of birth control, the sponge, has been discontinued and she goes on a quest to secure as many boxes of the things as she can. From then on she refers to dates by the “sponge-worthiness” because she has to ration her horde. Yeah. I didn’t think it was funny either.

Plastics

Tagging? Well, like Pammy and my husband, Rob, I have my wish list. But today I would be happy if just anyone played at all.