Not-quite Ten on Tuesday – Five Favorite Photos of 2007

Not-quite Ten on Tuesday – Five Favorite Photos of 2007

I really hadn’t planned on participating in this week’s Ten on Tuesday, since the prompt is “10 Best Moments of Last Year” and I had enough of a challenge coming up with three memorable moments, so never mind ten of them! But I thought I might give the optional topic, “Photo 10 on Tuesday – 10 Best Pictures of Last Year,” a go. Tall Paul is the family photographer, and I mostly play around with […]

Ten on Tuesday 1-1: Ten Predictions for the New Year

I’ve mentioned previously that I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, and I’m even less inclined to make predictions for the year to come, so I’ve been mulling over how to respond to this week’s Ten On Tuesday prompt. Predictions for the world at large? Predictions about politics, or about celebrity scandals? Predictions about trends for 2008? Or should I go the wimpy, cautious route and keep my predictions much closer to home? Predictions about […]

Ten on Tuesday 12-18: New Year’s Resolutions

I’ve never really been one to make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think there’s anything magical about January 1. If you want to change something in your life, you can do it any time you decide to – the beginning of next month, the first day of summer, next Monday, tomorrow, five minutes from now! New Year’s Day is an artificial milestone. For example, if you decide you’re going to start a healthy new habit […]

Ten on Tuesday 12-11: 10 Things You Want for Christmas

My husband actually requests a wish list from everyone in the family at Christmastime. He’s the administrator, passing out items from the list to extended-family members who need gift ideas, and keeping others for us. (Of course, he also makes his own wish list, which he gives to me to manage.) In any case, I’d already done some of my homework for this week’s assignment. “iPod my car!” This would involve a new iPod-compatible stereo […]

Ten on Tuesday 12/4 – 10 Favorite Things to Complain About

Funny thing – not too long ago, I was complaining about complaining. But there’s something appealing about making a list of “favorite things” to complain about – I guess we all have our pet peeves, don’t we? When someone answers a “How are you?” greeting with “Can’t complain,” I sometimes think they just haven’t thought enough about it. If you’ve ever seen those bumper stickers that say “If you’re not angry, then you’re just not […]

Ten on Tuesday 11-27: Ten Best Games

I’m interpreting this prompt very generally – I don’t play many games these days at all, and I’ve never been one for computer or video games, so here are ten games I like, regardless of where or how they’re played. Trivial Pursuit – I rocked the original version 25 years ago, and I’m still pretty good at the general-knowledge version.Scrabble – This is the unofficial “official” board game of my family (all permutations).Dogopoly – This […]

Ten on Tuesday 11-20: Ten Reasons It’s Great to Be a Woman (or Man)

Obviously, I can’t speak from experience about any reasons it’s great to be a man… I’m going to qualify this list, based on my book club’s recent discussion of A Thousand Splendid Suns, and make it “Ten Reasons It’s Great to Be a Woman in 21st-Century America.” We may still have a long way to go, but we’ve truly come far… We have choices and control over our lives that our foremothers probably could never […]

Ten on Tuesday 11-13: Songs That Bring Back Memories (and Why)

This week’s Ten on Tuesday prompt is an excellent one, and a bit of a challenge for me, for several reasons: It’s hard to think of the songs on their own. Recollection by song, for me, is usually prompted by hearing the song (or at least reading the title somewhere). For me, exposing things related to my musical tastes always feels risky. Combining my iTunes library with Tall Paul’s after we moved in together was […]

Ten on Tuesday 11-6: Ten Words To Describe You

Ten on Tuesday 11-6: Ten Words To Describe You

The “official” Ten on Tuesday is back! This week’s prompt is one of those things that sounds pretty simple, but can turn out not to be: Ten Words That Describe You Thoughtful Caring Curious Humorous Loyal Nerdy Practical Generous Introverted Petite The thing about an exercise like this is that I find it hard to nail it down to ten – at first I can’t think of that many, and then it gets more complicated […]

Ten on Tuesday: 10 Things About Me – True or False?

The “Ten on Tuesday” site was down on Tuesday the 9th, so there’s no official prompt for this week. Sorry folks! The Ten on Tuesday database seems to be corrupt. I’m working on fixing it, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be back up (soon). While we’re down, take the time to write a (top) ten list of your choice! That assignment actually fits very well with this one: My agency had its […]

Ten on Tuesday: 10 Things That Worry You

I’ve always been a worrier, but a few years ago I became less of one. I had an insight that there’s an inverse relationship between worry and control; when we feel a lack of control over something, we worry – because we can’t do anything else about it. This was helpful to me, because it spurred me to look at situations and try to determine how much I really could control or affect them. If […]

Ten on Tuesday: 10 TV Shows You’d Like to Have (or already have) on DVD

Ten on Tuesday: 10 TV Shows You’d Like to Have (or already have) on DVD

Now that the fall season is here, TV will be a bigger part of my life again, even though some of my major favorites won’t return until January or later. But during the off-season, TV on DVD really helps fill the gaps. I’m going to mix this list between shows I have and shows I’d want to own. As usual, the list is unranked. Shows that I have on DVD: Freaks and Geeks, The Complete […]