SHARING MY WORLD. . .
Have your blogging goals changed?
Yes they have. This blog was suppose to be all about my last year of teaching, but that never got off the ground, proving I rarely finish what I start. (See below) So now I just want to take pictures and write – and like the caption up top says, simply blog about nothing. Hey, ‘nothing’ worked for Seinfeld!
If you were to perform in the circus, what would you do?
I would love to prance around the ring on horseback. At this point in time, it would be more like broken back. Dang these degenerative discs!
If you could go back and talk to yourself at age 18 what advice would you give yourself? Or if you are younger than 25 what words of wisdom would you like to tell yourself at age 45?
Read more.
Write more.
Be less critical.
Be more nurturing.
Finish things you start.
Start the day with a positive thought.
End each day with gratitude,
and always say your prayers.
What is your favorite comfort snack food?
Cheese and crackers, El Diablo hot mustard for dipping, and Sweet Baby Jesus Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter Beer. And if I’m out and about, a Philly Pretzel will do just fine. Great stuff, huh? Well the keys words were comfort snack food, not healthy snack food.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
Lunch with my friend, Gen, mother of Cupcake, who lives too far away to see as often as I’d like, but who is always in the car and heading south when I need her. As far as looking forward to, well, nothing planned, so I guess I’m in for a surprise!
Gen, Cupcake’s mom. http://cupcakepetrillo.wordpress.com (Ah, Cupcake is a pup.)
Try sharing your world over at Cee’s blog. Click on the icon below. It’ll get you there. 🙂
Dear Bliary 
Oh that pretzel looks so good right now. 🙂 Thanks so much for cheering up my day. See you next week!
You saw this before I could even post it on your blog! Quick Draw Mcgraw!
ENJOY THE HOT TUB, YOU LUCKY DUCK!
GAH! I got shared in your world! Yay! Thank you! Meanwhile, Swiss cheese? No. Soft pretzel with mustard? Yes, please. Plus the Philly one is way skinnier than the NY one. I may need two….
For the price you can have ten! And, no. As my mom’s friend use to say, “Thank you, YOU!”
Looks like great snacks. I might have to try that mustard.
I don’t remember where I bought it. If you find it let me know!!
Your blog may not be what you intended but it is enjoyable to read anyway Gemma 🙂
Have a wonderful time with your friend when you see her.
Always do. Thanks, Colline. Friendships are soooooo important. Don’t need a lot. Just need good ones. 😉
That is so true.
Now you’ve made my mouth water, Gemma. I’ve never come across that SBJCPBP beer, but it sounds delicious, and just the thing to imbibe before prancing around on horseback. Cupcake’s mom looks like a lovely lady. 🙂
SBJCPBP is crazy. Love it! And Cupckes’s mom is amazing and I’m so lucky to have known her for – yikes – 50 years and counting!
Thanks, ad. xxx
That was some lecture of a list you gave your 18 year old self. Go easy on the girl, looks like she turned out just fine. 😉
Aww, thanks, Janna but I am so a work in progress. Still crazy after all these years – and working hard to stay sane. 🙂
Your snack photo has me running to the kitchen!
And the pretzel ain’t bad either! Thanks for stopping by, FF.
Gen has such a great smile !!! It is always nice to meet fellow bloggers ! What a nice post.♥
That smile never disappears. 🙂
That is a really nice trait to have I think!
OK, Sharing My World, and one of these really makes me think. But the first is easy – my blogging goals are quite unchanged – photography is a HUGE creative outlet for me, and my blog is THE ideal vehicle for getting my visual creations (creations – how grand!) out to the wide world. Its not a goal but, over the years, I have also come to vastly enjoy communicating with other bloggers – like you!!!
Circus? God knows! But no, wait, I’m a clown, so that’s what I would have to be.
And giving advice to myself at age 18, I had no idea about, but suddenly its obvious – but how can I put this? I would impart a lifetime’s worth of advice that I badly needed at age 18 on how to interact and socialise with the opposite sex – there, that’s delicately enough put, isn’t it? And I would also explain to my younger self that, although I had yet to realise it, a grandmother that I had never known had given me an eye for a picture.
Gem, I LOVE this comfort food you’ve pictured here!!! I mean, we were talking about Obama – is this what he eats when everything goes wrong in the world???!!! As a beer-swilling Brit, the Sweet Baby Jesus Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter Beer just has me in hysterics, but the prize for weird just has to be the pretzel – not sure I’ve ever eaten one. But me? Certainly Duvel beer from Belgium and good Somerset cider too; chevra, an Indian snack, like curried chilli crisps; and bread and cheese or tongue or ham; pork pie, sliced tomatoes and salt; Full English Breakfasts; plain chocolate digestive biscuits.
Last week we gained another grand daughter, and very old friends now living Stateside came to see me. This week my wife is off work and, amongst other things, we’re going to a Macdonalds!!! And I’m going to buy a fast attack table tennis bat that I’ll probably never master using!!!! A
Circus clown? And a good one you’d be! Eating tongue?Yuck! I actually tried that once and NO THANK YOU! I’m not touching the ‘sex’ thing with a ten foot pole! And, you have tons to be grateful for. WAHOO!
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A joy and a blessing to share your week my friend. If I have the chance to go back to my younger self, I will copy all you wrote. I will probably add the following, “live a simple life, travel as much to your country of birth and immerse in its culture, spend as much time with family, don’t be afraid to try something new and unfamiliar, listen to what your heart wants, trust only those who earned it through the years. We learn as we get older but no matter what, we should always cherish, celebrate and find time for true family and friends. Kind of what you showed us today. Thanks. Have a blessed day.
Your add-ons are perfect for rounding out the list. ;-). Thanks for stopping by and sharing, Mr. B.
I always knew I’d led a sheltered life! Chocolate Peanut Butter beer??? Can’t I just have strawberry cheesecake icecream (with white chocolate chips). Pretty please? 🙂 Or some of those blueberries you mentioned? When is blueberry season? Bet I’ve missed it!
Blueberries? July. And there’s a place right outside the fields that makes home made blueberry ice cream – hard or soft. Good enough to curl your toes, sweetie. 😉