Sense and Sensibility

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I had no idea that Elinor and Marianne wore
CudlDuds under their dresses!
Now I'll probably get spam from the source.
If my blog is gone next week, you'll know why. 
(and no, I did not do this)

Anyway, my daughter always accused me of having a low EQ (emotional quotient). After reading the book and watching the movie, I took it as a compliment. Marianne would drive me crazy!

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1. Describe love using all five senses.

With my disability of a low EQ, I have a difficult time even interpreting this question. But if you're looking for a particular thing that says 'love' in all those modes, this might be it:

At least they cover Sight, Sound, and Touch

(Mr. C. said 'especially the Smell part.' )
He's so mean.

2. February is Canned Food Month. What's your favorite food that comes straight from a can?

Black Olives. Nothing else.

3. A principal in a UK school recently sent home a letter to parents requesting they (the parents!) dress appropriately when escorting their children to/from school (basically saying please don't wear your pajamas) You can read the letter here. It's gotten a lot of publicity, both positive and negative. Your thoughts? And do/did you ever make the school run (or hit Starbucks, Walmart, etc) in your pjs?

I've only occasionally (when I'm in a rush to get something mailed out) shown up at our village post office in my pjs, which I don't think anyone else would recognize as pjs: T shirt and black jersey pants. 

4. Crew neck, V-neck, turtleneck, scoop neck...which is most prevalent in your wardrobe?

Scoop necks, almost exclusively. I like to make sure everyone gets to appreciate the wrinkles I've spent YEARS accumulating. I can't breathe in turtlenecks and don't like the seam at the bottom of a V neck. It irritates me.

5. I read here recently a list of four things to avoid so you wake up happier. They were late night snacks, hitting the snooze button, social media just before bed/upon waking, checking emails. 

Are you guilty of any of these behaviors? Which on that list do you need to work harder at avoiding?

I would probably be better off if I left all electronic devices (phone and Kindle) downstairs when I go to bed and if I were to avoid eating popcorn in the evenings. These are hard habits to break!

I think Shrek is drowning.

6. Share something you remember about a house you lived in as a child? Of all the homes you lived in as a child, which did you love best?

I lived in only two different houses as a child. One of my clearest memories of the first house is when I was six or seven years old and sitting at the lunch table with my two older brothers, stalling trying to eat the disgusting tomato soup my mother had lovingly set before me. After an eternity of trying to avoid my soup, my older brother leaned toward me and whispered, 'Hurry up and eat it before it clots.'  That put me off tomato soup for years. 

The house had a very steep stairway which gave me wonderful dreams on many occasions, all of which were nighttime. I would dream that I was standing at the top and took a leap - and floated all the way down to the bottom.

That was before I got a beautiful horse and spent my nighttime dreams galloping across the hayfields with the wind blowing through my hair (unlike the daytime reality of galloping across the hayfields and getting thrown off time after time.)

 What? Where did you come from??

7.Your favorite movie based on a true story?

Most movies I love are based on true stories. The most recent is Bridge of Spies, which I loved enough to pre-order on Amazon. And the UPS man brought it today!  A good movie to watch during a snowstorm. I think I see popcorn in my future.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.

I'm glad the Iowa Caucuses are over. Why does that word always transport me to Russia! Anyway, it was great fun to see the media unable to control the outcome. For once.

And speaking of Russia, formerly known as the Soviet Union, (during Stalin's reign of terror), there is a true, first-hand account of the Soviet prison camps that I think you might find interesting. I did.

From the back cover of
Coming Out of the Ice, by Victor Herman:


"This astonishing true story is the tale of a young American man who was sent to the Soviet Union with his parents by the Ford Motor Company to set up an auto plant. He was eventually thrown into Soviet prisons and could not return to America until forty-five years later. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he met and fell in love with a beautiful Russian gymnast who followed him into exile and lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia, in a caved chopped out under the ice. Theirs is the compelling story of a romance destined to thrive under even the most desperate conditions. It was 1938 when Victor Herman was inexplicably thrown into prison, after he had become a celebrity in the Soviet Union, having won acclaim as "the Lindbergh of Russia" for his flying and world-record-breaking parachute jumps. But what happened to him was a common nightmare during the Stalin years: those who survived imprisonment and torture were sent north to hard labor in the icy forests and mines, or into exile. Victor was one of the few who survived."

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