Tuesday Heads or Tails

The theme/prompt for THIS week, July 14, is:

HEADS - "Pile"

Make any kind of post using any version of the word "Pile" as your theme/prompt.

The first thing that comes to mind are the piles of laundry waiting to be cleaned that I have absolutely *no* energy to do. I've been sick for the last 2 days and I think today is the peak, hopefully tomorrow will be better. I hate having to do household chores when I'm not feeling well.


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Tuesday Heads or Tails

The theme/prompt for THIS week, July 7, is:

HEADS - "Spin"

Make any kind of post using any version of the word "Spin" as your theme/prompt.

Remember these:


Ahhh, childhood memories. I used to play with my sit 'n spin for hours. Looking back, I'm trying to remember what the appeal was, it's just a boring piece of plastic that you sit on and go round and round. No lights, no noises, no plug-ins - oh wait, that's probably what was so great about it. Powered buy imagination engineering.

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Tuesday (er, Wednesday) Heads or Tails

So, I'm a bit late this week. Oops.

This week's theme is:

TAILS - "Summertime memory"

So we are supposed to share a memory related to summer. I think the memory that I will share is from our first summer here in Florida. I was 9.5 when we moved from Augsburg, Germany to Palm Bay, Florida. What a shocking difference! I mean, sure it got hot over there but NOTHING like the FL heat.
When we first moved back, we lived on base housing right on the beach, so we spent a good deal of time on the beach, playing, swimming, sun-burning. We learned that summer about tide pools and currents and low-tides and high-tides and sand dunes and sand in your toes and salt-water in your eyes. My oldest sister had to save me and my younger sister one day when the tide came in and we got stuck.
We also visited the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the first time that summer. Gawd I was in awe! For a kid whose childhood hero was Neil Armstrong, this place was heaven. We walked around and I stared at the rockets. I remember walking around the museum type area and gawking at the space-suits and other gear that was used. I also remember being soo sun-burned that it hurt to walk, but I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else.

I have a picture (or rather my mom does) of me sun-burned at Kennedy that summer. I'm hoping she's able to find it and email it to me. If she does, I'll update this post with the picture.


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Tuesday Heads or Tails

This week's theme is:
HEADS - Lost
*OR*
TAILS - Found

First thing that came to mind was the TV show "Lost." I figured, though, that since I have only ever seen one episode of the show, it would be better to find a different topic.

So, instead I will go with Lost AND Found and share a poem by Cummings that I happen to like. By the way, have you ever noticed that all Cummings poetry (that I've read anyway) is always in all lowercase. Why is that, do you think?


maggie and milly and molly and may by e e cummings

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea


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Tuesday Heads or Tails

Just found this Blog Meme called Heads or Tails that looks pretty cool. If I'm getting the directions right, you're given a word and are to write a post based on that word. Sounds easy enough, right. Today's word is TUNE. Now, I can't carry a tune to save my life, but I do love music. Pretty much any kind of music, but I mostly listen to punk, pop punk, indie alternative, etc.
My all-time, absolute favoritest (yeah, I made that up - so what?) band is Green Day. They just came out with a new CD last month called 21st Century Breakdown and it is freakin' awesome. Sometimes when I'm listening to it, it reminds me of Dookie, sometimes Warning, but at all times I am just in awe - because it is awesome.
My favorite song on the album is probably definitely 21 Guns. Billie Joe's voice on this song is just...GUH. Love. Feel free to sing along - I will be.

What's your favorite song, favorite band? Leave a comment and let me know. And check out the Heads or Tails blog for more interpretations of the word TUNE.

Oh and just a little "YAY ME!" - for my 100th Blog Post. Okay, end dorky moment.