The Tick-Tock Meme

Welcome to The Queen's Meme #10
The Tick-Tock Meme

Sometimes silly. Sometimes serious. Always fun!
Step out of the box. Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one's answers are quite like yours.

1. Are you a Rolex watch, a Mickey Mouse watch, or a pocket watch?

A Rolex is a just a tad flamboyant for my taste and Mickey Mouse just a little too silly. So I guess that makes me the modest pocket watch?

2. Can you think of a time when you couldn't see the forest for the trees?

Forest? What forest? There's a forest out there? Damn trees... can't see a thing...

3. Can you think of a time when you were on the outside looking in? What did you see?

Oh yes... for sure. I spent a lot of time on the outside looking in. Unfortunately I couldn't see the forest for the trees.

4. Go back in time. Maybe a long time ago, maybe today. Pick an hour you'd like to freeze frame forever and tell us why. It doesn't have to be THE most important hour of your life, but make it a good one.

Already done. When my daughter was 8 months old she fell asleep on my bed just after her bath. I was stroking her hair and smelling her sweet baby scent when it occurred to me that I will never get this moment back... so I took a snapshot in my head. It remains there to this day.

5. If you were a cuckoo clock, what would others say about you?

You are one annoying bird. Get back in the clock or else.

6. Can you think of a time when time stood still?

Oh yeah. Nineteen hours worth of STILL.
It's called LABOUR.

7. Watch this! You are a stopwatch. What would you stop?

Stop! in the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over

8. Imagine you were just born and have infinite wisdom. After the doctor smacks your newborn dust ruffle you look around and say to the Universe: "Give me a whole lifetime to do "this" and I will bless the day I was born."
What did you choose?

I would be a kindergarten teacher.
Everyone would have to attend my class and learn how to play nice according to the rules set out by Robert Fulghum...


All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I
learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school
mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things
I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and
stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The
roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but
we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the
Styrofoam cup--they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you
learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love
and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult
terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world
it would be if we all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about three
o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or
if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are-- when you go out into the
world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.




Goodnight Mary Ellen ;)