Well, hello! First day of 2017 and londoner18 came up with this new idea, so here goes. You can find him at https://theguywhosaidalwaysno.com/.
1. Three words that describe my 2016 are: discovery, satisfaction, and happy
2. Two most influential people this year are: Cohen, SJ
3. Botanical gardens was a beautiful place to visit this summer because of the variety of flowers and plants.
4. Easy one. The most delicious food I tasted was rhubarb-strawberry pie at the Shari’s restaurant last week.
5. The event most striking this year was the US presidential election.
6. The best purchase I made this year was a tablet for my grandson.
7. Three good intentions, and I specify intentions, are: eat more vegetables, eat more fruit, curb my craving for French fries
8. In 2017 a place I would like to visit would be Jackson Hole, WY.
9. One food I want this year? You got it, another piece of that rhubarb-strawberry pie!
Bloggers I read and like are very many, but here are a few to check out:
emotionsoflife2016.wordpress.com
suesuzzz.wordpress.com
thestoryreadingapeblog.com
quirkoque.wordpress.com
gbolaboadetunji.wordpress.com
tonyburgess1969.net
emariemon.wordpress.com
betchadidntknowthis.wordpress.com
poetry2473.wordpress.com
Thank you so much my friend from the bottom of my heart, I love your answers and I’m so happy that you liked the TAG ❤
Have an amazing day 🙂 ❤
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Thank you for thinking of it
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Great post and thank you for mentioning me 😁
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What do you want to know about the rugby name
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I thought I was the most influential person you knew 😛
And who is Jackson? And why would you want to visit is hole?
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Well I must admit I learn things from you.
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That’s not necessarily a good thing 🙂
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What?
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Who?
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Hard to keep up with this you can here, you can’t here system😳🤓
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When?
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Any kind of learning is good.
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Including how to murder someone?
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It depends on the victim
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You should see the stuff I don’t post, trust me some of those lessons you don’t want to learn 🙂
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Btw, really liked the last post, the truckers.
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Thanks but the truckers was so last year 🙂
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Dated Jan 1st
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Truck Race? On my admin screen it shows as 31/12. Seems the time stamps are up the creek too. I’m pretty sure I wrote in NYE my time.
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Go look at the site
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Posted by lostpropertyrepository on December 31, 2016 — Edit
Which is actually wrong, I did write it before the family fireworks show at 9pm and included the Dec 30 prompt word (because the rest of the world is so far behind us) but it was posted after midnight. However I never changed my WP time for daylight savings (our DST not the US) so therefore it would have been posted as 11pm (ish) on the 31st not 12am on the 1st
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TMI
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Bloody Hell!!! You asked 😛
Oh well, if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
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That’s what I like about you….pure calmness
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What the hell are you on about, I’m as calm as a cyclone.
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Maybe you just didn’t have your nap today
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It’s not even lunch time yet, nap time isn’t until the afternoon.
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I put one of these on my comment just now🤠 but they never show up.
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I see them in my admin panel where I answer the messages
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But I try not to let you influence me too much!:p
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A wise lady 🙂
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So true!:ppp
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I figured you’d agree.
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Especially after that stupidhead comment
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That’s once!
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Do I get the usual three?
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I’m not telling you how many you get 😛
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Unfair
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It’s all part of the game you chose to play!
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What game
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The game you agree to play, you can’t get out of it now.
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And the name of the game is?
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Now that’s just giving away too much information.
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So it’s hide and seek?
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It’s too late now to be asking question, you entered the game and now you must play.
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So what character am I?
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I told you, it’s too late for asking questions.
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Ok, I’m game, ER, get it?😂😂😂
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No you’re not a game, you are in the game 😛
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Mine was funnier:p
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You want to be careful being a smart arse, if you had read the rule book you’d know there is rules against that.
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I don’t even know what game it is, say nothing about rules. There are no rules, sort of like rugby.
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Oh so because you didn’t take the time to read the rule book you are now complaining.
Which rugby? I only follow league, but being a yank I’m surprised you know what rugby is.
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I know rugby, that’s my name
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Yes which I have wondered about but have been too polite to ask.
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I like the All Blacks your neighbor
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I follow league in this country and watch the international games when they are televised in my time zone but I don’t go out of my way to watch any game except the NRL Grand final in this country.
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Ok
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Why does an old american lady like a sport that’s not generally played in her own country?
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I love it! That’s why. Sick of football. I like soccer and some baseball. No tennis. Rugby is full of action, excellent talent, good sportsmanship, and above all, cute gyus😂😂
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I got the same with our ‘national game’ and turned to rugby, then our state got a team in the national comp and things just got better. Apparently my team has the cute guys according to my wife and some of my female friends.
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You bet
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There are teams starting up, but being used to watching older teams, they’re not as fun to watch. Even girls teams starting here in WY
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We are predominantly an AFL state (they invented it here) and NRL is still frowned upon a bit by those idiots who think there can’t be two sports dominant in the one state but we get bugger all on TV because the telecast channel is too scared to go up against the AFL who apparently owns the entire country and makes their own rules.
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That sounds pretty strict. I can only see highlights of games and player interviews when they go live. A real pita because I’d love to watch them more.
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It’s not really strict. The AFL just think they won the country. Their latest drug scandal’s they actually got to investigate before the police did. It’s like all sport, without corruption there is not sport.
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We’ve had some of that. Disappointing
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Unfortunately all sport is corrupt, as are some of the players but the monkeys that run these things are given way too much power.
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True of everything right?
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yeah even wordpress 🙂
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Watch your step
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Haha, I’m sick of pandering to ‘the man’ I got told yesterday that I should pay for a premium service because paying clients don’t have issues. I could only laugh at such naivety.
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That’s snotty.
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I’m a snotty person 😛
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I meant the other guy, but I admit you have your moments
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Some people actually believe you get better when you pay for it.
I’m never snooty with you, you old bag, now take that back!!! 🙂
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You’re skating on thin ice
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I’ve never ice skated, so this should be fun!
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All the better. Make sure to skate on that shiny blue spot over there
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Hmmmm I think I’m being led into something.
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Just let me give you a little push to that area
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Hmmm I knew I should have gone on that diet
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All the better to sink you my dear
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Haha joke is on you I went out shopping and missed the thin ice 😛
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Chicken
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You call going shopping around christmas time with two young kids chicken?
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It’s after a Christmas! Yes, I like to do that.
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Don’t you still have christmas shopping happening? In this country we have the boxing day sales which start on the 26th and go into the new year until they run out of stock. It wasn’t as crazy yesterday as boxing day would have been but it’s still annoying because people think they are getting a bargain.
We had Easter buns hit the shelves on Boxing day too.
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No shopping for me. I bought some wrapping paper half price but that’s all. No Easter out yet, but Valentines Day is out, Christmas gone.
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We used to start putting Easter buns in the first week on January when I delivered bread but now it’s boxing day and the traditionalists are bitching, and I don’t blame them.
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I really wanted to see AB when they came to Chicago.
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You just wanted to see them do the Macarena…I mean the Stomp….no the Hakka.
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Love the Hakka
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They make funny faces.
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A lot like we saw in Hawaii at the Polynesian culture center. Samoan men made those faces of intimidation.
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Yeah they look funny, but one would not tell them that
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That’s one man’s opinion.
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not only one, I know quite a few kiwis who say the same
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Fruit?
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Well they are hairy like the fruit. but surely you know what a kiwi is?
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Just the fruit.
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Kiwi is a Noo Zulanda
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Ok, thanks
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Consider yourself edumacated 🙂
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How’s it going today?
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Yeah ok, got some sleep, probably not enough, kids are happily playing and reading, wife is still talking to me and I’m doing some writing whilst having some morning tea.
How about you?
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I’m eTing my rhubarb pined reading email.
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Translated, eating rhubarb pie and reading email
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I never go back and re-edit once it’s posted.
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Glasses were off
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Yeah I try to re-write if I don’t like the first go.
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Sometimes the first way is the best
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I think so too some times but there a some of my stories I know didn’t work first time.
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Doubt that
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You should see some of the stuff that doesn’t get published 🙂
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As long as they work for you, that’s what counts
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Yeah I agree. I don’t often re-edit but I do have a lot of things written that I just don’t think worked. They may one day work when I am in a different mindset but it’s not often look at a publish posts and decided I can do better. I have looked at poems and decided to make stories from them though.
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I’m prejudiced, love your stories
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I’m thankful, but I also know they aren’t perfect and some are downright unpublishable 🙂
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That’s true of every writer
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Yeah I agree, I accept praise better now than I used to, but I’m happy also knowing I’m not perfect, or if I am it’s perfectly flawed 🙂
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You’re your own worst critic!
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I’m sure we all are, but I’m also a little be realistic.
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I like to write but it’s fun and makes my brain stay active, well most of the time. But I’m surprised anyone reads it
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I’m surprised people read mine too. I think it would be silly to be the sort of author who is surprised if someone doesn’t read their work.
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Yup
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Why would you be surprised? You’re an author!
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Yeah but not a published one so that just makes me a hack. Over the last 20 years I have published more websites with my name on them than I have had stories published.
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And what is that name, c’mon fessup
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It’s not a name, I’ve been creating websites for companies and businesses for 20 years, I have lots of stuff published on the web but the majority of it is web pages not stories.
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So another hidden talent! Whoa!
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I don’t know about that. If I was any good business would come to me 🙂
I’ve actually been self employed as a computer tech/web designer for more than 20 years, because of the nature of work from home businesses I’ve been able to take a lot of breaks from it and do other jobs, but essentially my job title pretty much been tech and web guru since I left school, the rest of the jobs have really just been fun side projects.
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Okay, Mr.businessman….you have to seek businesses out. Competition is too great to sit and wait! Now do I have to tell you that? Editor, now promoter. I think you need to hire me! 😂
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Business used to be good it always came to me, but then things slowed down and other factors not related business also got involved. Now days businesses, especially in the country are to scared to spend money on websites and computers because they cannot be convinced they will get their money back.
I used to be a band promoter as well 🙂
You haven’t edited or promoted anything of mine yet so therefore on a performance based salary you are still singing for your supper 😛
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How did you know? I cannot sing, at least according to my kids….
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Don’t all kids say that? I two cassettes (yes I am that old) from when I was singing in the band and my kids still tell me I can’t sing.
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Typical kids speak.
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Yeah it’s only when they get older they start saying it with barbs in it.
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That’s when you need to ignore them.
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I ignore everyone.
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You never give up, do you?😂😂😂
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Oh I meant I ignore everyone but you and my other devoted followers 🙂
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Oh and about the supper? Haven’t seen any yet.
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Hang out for coffee then
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It’s eight degrees, spitting snow, and I’m freezing! Hot drink on the way!
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A bit cooler here today, only mid 20’s I think
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Send some of that heat up here
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20 is not that hot
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You’re chillin at 68 f
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Yeah it might be getting close to high 20’s now, one of the kids came in a bit red in the face from riding her bike.
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Oh for the summer days. However snowman building claims the same red face!
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In winter everyone says they miss summer, then summer comes and everyone whinges it’s too hot. It only took 4 days of heat for people to whinge this year.
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My granddaughter and I were talking about that tonight. The grass always seems greener type thing. We were talking first about how many Americans say they hate it here, etc, and we agree that they should leave then, see how they like it.
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It’s the same where ever you go look how many celebs said they’d leave if Trump got voted in, to my knowledge none of them did.
In 1999 I told everyone that if a particular pollie got in as State Premier I was going to leave the state and I did, two months after the election, although I was already planning to leave before the election, I just didn’t tell them that.
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Sneaky
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I’m that too sometimes 🙂
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I don’t doubt it.
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Certainly not a perfect system, but better than some.
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People just love to whinge
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Oh well ignore them too. My kids didn’t whine. It was a one way ticket to their room.
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Kids I can put up with, they are kids they need to be taught not to do things but adults who whine about every little thing really bug me, especially the kind who whine about a paper cut to someone with a terminal illness. I’m sure we all know one person like that.
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😂yes for sure.
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Got it.
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You’re lucky to get it!
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Gee, thanks again. Btw, loved the story about getting stuck in the bog. Just how many beers were consumed that day?😂
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We rarely counted beers if we weren’t driving, sometime we forgot to count them when we were diving. The thing is no matter how many we drank we were never unable to walk or function. Of course we were over any legal driving limit more than a few times and we were effected (I’m not one of these idiots who reckons they can drink 10 cases and still be sober) but we weren’t stupid drunk, just stupid 🙂 We built most of the neighbours house under the influence and it took a bush fire to knock it down 🙂
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I didn’t know about it until a guy from twitter told me about it. First game I saw was the 2015 championship. Smitten after that
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Who won that?
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AB
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That might be why I don’t remember 🙂
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Whatever you say….
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If it wasn’t played in my local time zone I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to watch it. Billy’s cute but I wont stay awake for him! Actually I think he was out for ’15 anyway.
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I’ll let the old go by since you added lady.
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I’m so glad 😛
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You’re being a poor sport
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No I’m not, if you didn’t read the rule book that’s your fault.
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I just make up my own. Serves me well.
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Aaahhh but I am the rule keeper and overseer
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Love learning more about you… ☻and again thank you so very much!!!…
Oh haven’t had rhubarb sticks or pie in so many years….
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