Saturday, April 6, 2013

Saturday 9 – Friends

Time for a Saturday 9!

1) How did you meet your best friend? We rode horses together.  I think I was 6 when we met.  Shoot, that was a LONG time ago! 

2) Mother Winters used to say she loved all us kids equally, but at various times she liked one of us more than the others. Does your "friend ranking" ever shift? Or is the person you think of today as your best friend always #1?  Hmmm, I have a handful of really good friends who I know I can count on.  I’d say they rank the highest.

3) What makes you a good friend? I’d do anything for my friends and, not to toot my own horn, but I’m pretty fun.  :)

4) Think back to your childhood -- what games did you and your friends like to play?  This would actually be funny post in itself…since most of my childhood was spent at the barn, we played a lot of crazy (dangerous) games with our horses after the trainers went home.  I don’t remember all the “rules” but the worst one had something to do with one of us galloping past the others standing in the arena trying to yank us off our horse.  Thinking back, I don’t know how no one got seriously injured.  Those horses were saints.   When we weren’t flinging each other onto the ground, we played a lot of Barbies and board games like Life and Sorry. 

5) Would you rather lose your hair, or the little toe on your left foot? (Yes, you must commit to giving one up.)  Oh that’s totally easy…a toe!  There are plenty of cute shoes out there to cover it up. 

6) Think of  the phrase, "like nails on a blackboard." What is your least favorite sound?  I don’t like nails on the chalkboard but that’s kind of an outdated sound isn’t it.  I also get chills when someone folds a piece of paper and runs their fingers over and over the crease.  Not sure if it’s the sound or the visual of that, but I don’t like it.  Car alarms are also pretty irritating, especially the one that has 4-5 sounds continuously repeating.  Does anyone even care about a car alarm going off anymore?

7) Do you add fabric softener to your wash or place a softener sheet in the dryer?  I have sheets, but I rarely use them.  I think I forget about them.

8) Showtime, HBO, or neither?  Both, I watch more cable than anything else. 

9) Have you ever fired a gun?  No, I have not.  There is a gun in my home, hidden in the closet, but it is not mine per say.  I sometimes think I should learn how to use it, if it’s ever needed.  But, who am I kidding, I can’t even look at it, let alone pick it up and shoot it. 

17 comments:

  1. Every little girl's dream a pony, how I envy you. I am a pre-Barbie child, I was an early teen when she came out and Mom said I was too old. My girls had so many Barbies because of Mom's near criminal behavior.

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    1. Is Barbie still considered a negative influence like it was in the late 80s and 90s? We had fun with all the clothes and shoes regardless. :)

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  2. Oh, I totally forgot how my friends and I would play Barbies for hours. Then I moved on to the hippy-dippy Sunshine Family!

    And I bet you are fun! ;-)

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    1. I totally am. :)
      I have no idea who the sunshine family were, even after looking them up. They were stopped in the mid 70s it looks like, so I was still probably too little to know them.

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  3. I had the Barbie airplane. It was so cool. And I said I was fun too! Love that we had some similar answers :)

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    1. Mine had a corvette and a horse, of course. My Ken doll on the other hand was a disgrace. Some how I acquired a frilly purple Donny Osmond jumpsuit (maybe from a Donny doll?) that poor Ken wore all the time along with white rubber loafers and no socks. He didn't have any other outfits, but Barbie didnt seem to care. ;)

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  4. Hmm, I have friends from different stages of my life that I rarely meet but when I do it's as if we never were apart.
    Oddly though, through my life I've been friends with more women than men but they never last as I expect what would you say to a husband if you were going out to meet a man you knew from years ago. And I'm talking friends, not ex-gfs.

    Messing about in barns eh. Ah well, it might mean something else over your way.

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    1. Well, when I was ten it meant something else. ;)
      For many years I was adamant that it shouldn't matter if you have friends of the opposite sex, but I get it. It's too bad, but I get it.

      Those are the dearest friends!

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    2. I was thinking overnight on the noise. I'd say most grown men would say their women have a pitch in their voice that can reach out to dolphins and whales cruising out at sea. Even dogs try shaking that icicle from their heads.

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    3. What do you mean? (she shrieks) :) You're probably right, although some have more of a propensity for it than others. A few years ago there was a teacher on my grade level team whose regular voice could shatter glass. That year, the rest of the team carried so much tension in our necks and backs due to all the cringing we did during prolonged periods of time with her.

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    4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEliTwhqtHw The blonde in this, on the left at teh table. Sarah Chalke.

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  5. I wish I had such easy proximity to horses! I took riding lessons one summer as a girl and loved it. I am so totally jealous of you right now.

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    1. No need to be jealous now...I haven't been on a horse since I left for college at 17. I'd really like to get back into it, but money and time (or lack there of) are always a factor.

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  6. I really only watch cable too- except for the local news. Network TV is just way too bad to tolerate.

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    1. Ya, they're a bit edgier and smarter than the big 3 networks.

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  7. When I was little we had farms all around us and sometimes the cows would escape and I'll wake up in the morning and see cows on our front lawn.

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