Sunday Stealing + Sunday Matinee

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Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme.
Let's go!!!


This week's questions come from FoxyDanish but she didn't say where she got it.

Have you ever clicked on an ad on the side of your screen by accident?: 
Yes, that's another reason why I hate those ads.

When was the last time you were disappointed?: 
When we all didn't get to go on a sky trip to Colorado because the date was changed, and DH had to fly there instead of taking us all.  We even all got moon boots for the trip!  Well, that was one of the nicer disappointments in life; I have to admit it.  But I'm not into sharing any of the major downers.

Do you like the smell of rain?: 
I'm a desert dweller.  So, to me, there is nothing sweeter than the smell of rain.

What was the last thing you took a picture of?: 
This evening, I got a picture of the first tomatoes out of our garden, and we ate them in the salad.  Yum!

When you go to McDonald's, what drink do you usually get?: 
We never go to McDonald's.

What were you doing today at 2:15 in the afternoon?: 
I was reading The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, by Jane Smiley.

What's the nickname of your home state?: 
The Golden State

What's the worst type of weather in your opinion?: 
Anywhere in the world?  Hurricanes or Typhoons.

Do you have a Kindle, Nook, iPad or none?: 
The only thing I have is a tiny net book, and I like it.

Would you rather read or write?: 
Actually, I thought I'd be writer at one time.  I like both.

When was the last time someone took a picture of you?: 
A few weeks ago one of the girls took a picture of Wolfie, and I was in that.

Do you own a pair of slippers?:
 Yes, I don't do barefoot well anymore.  Before that, in my wild youth, I went running across the desert at high noon with bare feet!  I love you, Feet!  I think it might be that this is the first life I've had feet in.  Probably I'm usually a shell fish or a minnow.

Name something negative that you hate about yourself: 
I hate how upset I get over things that I really cannot do anything about, anything that is legal or moral that is.

Is your house currently hot, cold or just right?: 
The cloud cover came back and the house is just right!  Yay! 74°F!

Is there a Dead End road near where you live?: 
Nope

Do you roll your eyes often?: 
No.  I'm old enough to know that someone will ALWAYS see that bit of disgust, and will, without fail, report it to the person who engendered the action.

Growing up, did you see your cousins often?: 
I didn't see much of my cousins until I was 13, and then we became almost inseparable.  That was the most fun I had in my entire childhood!  Running with my cousins was the best!

Where was your first job at?: 

I was a bi-lingual telephone operator, mostly because I was the only operator that even spoke or understood ANY Spanish at all!

When's your birthday?:
 Do you really want to know, or is this just so you can put up side bar ads groomed to my day?

Is life a party to you?: 
Ya, it's a raiding party, with plenty of villains to go around. 

Who are you tired of seeing in the news a lot? :
 I don't watch the news because I'm sick of all of them! 

When was the last time you flew a kite?:
 When I was about 30.  DH and I spent hours flying those new kites that could go thousands of feet into the air.  Lovely things!  Why did we ever quit?  Oh that's right.  Soccer came to America!  Love Soccer.

How long have you had a blog?: 
May of 2004 but I did iRC chat before that, out of which came an amazing lot of truly creative stuff.

Have you ever had to call and complain about a product you bought?: 
I once sent a piece of a pineapple sticker back to Gerber.  I said, "Look what my baby found in your jar of pureed pineapple and pear!".  They were so appalled, almost more than I was, and sent me a big sampler of product back.  So nice of them, truly.

Name something positive you love about yourself:
Love?  Is it ok if I just like something?  My feet.  I like my feet.

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Sunday Matinee.
But first, speaking of feet... I am sad to know that a very young woman in the documentary," River of No Return", had some seriously nasty joint disease going into this year of wilderness, and she went through incredible pain to finish even 10 months of the year that was planned.   I hope that she is now at least a little better.

Anyway, I degress...

My friend G suggested that I needed a better class of cheer-me-up documentaries, so last night we watched a Nature series Documentary called ,"The River of No Return" where various carnivores died of poisoning because some bastard set it out for them, or they dined on unlucky, physically challenged quadrupeds.  It was a Wilderness after all, and to be expected, but Poison?  I could do something seriously illegal to the one setting poison out.

We followed that up with a Nova called, "The Secrets of the Viking Sword", where we watched staged battles by re-enactors of when the locals in various countries battled the Norse hordes who possessed advanced, for the time, slice and dice weapons.  Yes, I'd say I got away from at least some of the dog eat dog competitions of the modern age.   I think my friend must have meant some OTHER documentaries from NOVA and Nature.