Manic Monday: Leaf

Graphic by Janna at Jannagraphics

I took this picture last week while taking a drive to see the fall colors. Actually, many of the leaves had fallen already, but there will still many beautiful views. I took so many pictures, but this one is my favorite.

I'm participating in Manic Monday today with the theme of Leaf.
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Manic Monday: Seven Lies My Mother Told Me

Today's Manic Monday word:
Lie.

I have gone from being meme queen to meme slacker lately. Mo always tags me, and I always LOVE it. When he doesn't tag me, I always self-tag. But lately, you know, I've been a busy bee and I have just been entirely delinquent. So. Since he did this meme to redeem his past non-meme-doings, I'm taking up on the same deal. I'm supposed to list ten lies that my mother told me.

Plus, it fits with Manic Monday, so yay!

Here we go!

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Dude. Blogger's license. I'm going to flip this around and do lies I told my mother instead. It's just way easier. And I'm still struggling to come up with ten. Because I was such an honest kid. :)

1. "Can you sign this piece of paper? I'm making an autograph book and I need your autograph." After which I wrote, above her signature, some sort of something for school. I can't even remember what that was for.
2. "I have to do a book report for school." Yeah. I was in 2nd grade, and I didn't have that assignment. I just wanted to do a project. I even made up the book too. As eternal punishment for that lie, while I was working on it I stabbed myself with a pencil and still have that little piece of pencil lead in my hand.
3. "There will be a chaperone." I totally went to an honor band weekend senior year at Tennessee Tech with no adult supervision. Our band director didn't even go. Just four of us in one car and we got our own hotel rooms. And you know the dorkiest part? We actually went to the honor band. And didn't miss any rehearsals. Dorks.
4. "I'm spending the night with Denise."
   
5. "We fell asleep watching a movie, that's why I missed curfew."
6. "I already did my homework." Look, I know these last two are pretty standard and everything, but seriously. How many lies can I be expected to fess up to in one post?
7. "Yes, I made the car payment (on the loan you cosigned)." Sorry about that one, Mom. I didn't know they'd call you and threaten repossession the week before Christmas.
   

Sorry I just came up with 7. Either I was a very honest kid or I have selective memory...

Manic Monday, Seven

Today's Manic Monday word:
Seven.

This may be totally weird. But when I saw the word for this week, the very first thing I thought of was this song. Which always reminds me of my college roommate. And karaoke. Enjoy.

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Manic Monday, Heat

Today's Manic Monday word:
Heat.

Don't know why, but this is what came to mind when I was thinking about today's word.

A few years back (5? 6? Something like that) when Memphis was finally getting an NBA team, there was discussion about what we would call the team. It wasn't that long after the Houston Oilers had moved to Tennessee and changed their name, so I guess people thought that the Grizzlies would change their name too. They didn't. But anyway, I remember people suggesting names for the team, and the arena that would be built. We knew that FedEx would be sponsoring the arena and one of my favorite names suggested for it was "FedEx Hub," which I thought was clever, but apparently the powers that be disagreed (is that too inside? The Hub? Maybe only Memphis people who either worked or know someone that worked at the actual FedEx hub would find that particularly amusing) and named the building the far-less-funny FedExForum. But my absolute favorite suggestion for the team's new name was Memphis Humidity. Cause when they played the Miami Heat, we would finally answer the eternal question...

p.s., and absolutely not at all relevant for today's word, but when Memphis was trying to get the team, one of the competing cities was Louisville, Kentucky. KFC was going to have naming rights for their arena, and one of the names mentioned was KFC Bucket. I don't know if that was official, but I loved it.


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Manic Monday, Friend

Today's Manic Monday word:
Friend.

Seems fitting, since this is a blogger's meme, to talk about blogging friends. And even more so since the creator of Manic Monday is Morgen, one of my earliest and bestest internet bloggin' buddies. Our cats, oddly enough, brought us together, as his Daphne had an understandable crush on my Merlin, and the rest is history.

Blogging has introduced me to friends like her, her, her, her, and her; and allowed me to better get to know people I knew from other online spots, like her (btw, "her" looks really funny when you type it that many times).

But blogging has also allowed me to meet people in real life (or at least on Google Talk), people who have become my friends, people who make me laugh, people that make me feel better when I feel like crap, people that I wish I'd met a long time ago... They have been amazing, funny, helpful, and I appreciate their friendship and support.

Blogging has also allowed me to keep up with (and reconnect with) friends that I've known for years. Including the one friend that I haven't laid eyes on in literally years, who read this blog before she knew it was mine.

And my best good friend. Love you.

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Manic Monday, Tax

Today's Manic Monday word:
TAX.

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Manic Monday, Branch

Today's Manic Monday word:
BRANCH.


Here is the Momma Robin whose nest was featured in last week's Manic Monday. She was sitting on a BRANCH and keeping her eye on me (and tweeting her brains out) while I checked out her nest. One of the three eggs is gone now. But I'm checking the nest every day, waiting for the babies to hatch!


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Manic Monday, Spring

Today's Manic Monday word:
SPRING.


We have a Momma Robin that loves our camellia bush. Last year we had 3 baby birds, and looks like she's looking for a repeat. I love to watch them grow, it happens so fast! One day they're all beak with weak little wobbly necks, and before you know it they're balls of fluff, ready to fly away...

Last year, when they were tiny babies, we had an awful terrible thunderstorm come through. The wind was really blowing hard, and there was lightening and hard rain. I was so worried about my baby birds!! Mr. Incredible set up a ladder next to the camellia bush and propped an umbrella on top it. He secured it so it wouldn't blow away, and the next day the birds (and their nest) were intact and dry...

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Manic Monday, Chip

Today's Manic Monday word:
CHIP.




I wish I had thought to take a picture of my own, but this will have to do. Mr. Incredible and I visited the casinos in New Orleans this weekend. No, I did not win a lot of chips, unfortunately. But it was still a good time.

Manic Monday, Blow

Today's Manic Monday word:

BLOW.

Okay. So after spending the weekend trying to come up with something clever, I decided to search Google Images for the word "blow" and see what comes up. Seriously, I got this. I'm not complaining. The name of the gallery where you can see this lovely work includes the world Blow. So. I think it counts.

Manic Monday, Yellow

Today's Manic Monday word:

YELLOW

I took this photo this morning! My forsythia has decided to start blooming in February. Don't know if it's going to regret it, but we shall see.

Manic Monday #2

Today is the big FOUR-OH of my buddy and Manic Monday founder, Morgen. Please visit his blog, It's a Blog Eat Blog World, and wish him the Happiest.

Happy Birthday, Mo! Love ya, mean it!






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Manic Monday

I am lame and this is all I could come up with for today's Manic Monday word:

SPIKE

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