I've Been Negligent

This week I  received a Blogger Reflection Award twice, from Kim of Hiraeth and Carla of Reflections of the Times. This is an award given to bloggers who

…who have been an encouragement, a source of love, impacted you in some way, and have been a Godly example to you…who when you reflect on them you get a sense of pride and joy…of knowing them and being blessed by them.

I haven’t said thank you yet, and I want to do that. It’s a great honor to receive something like this from bloggers of Kim and Carla’s calibre.

Now I’m supposed to give five awards, but most of the bloggers I’d give it to have been on the receiving end of it already, so I think I’m just going to be thankful I receive it and leave it at that. Thanks, Kim and Carla. You guys made my week!

Random Playlist Meme

Summers are short here, and once the snow goes, we have about 2 weeks to clean up the yard , fertilize it, till the garden, and plant the vegetables and flowers. I have a big yard and a big garden, so I’ve been a busy person. That means the blog has been neglected a bit and it may continue to be neglected for at little while.

But here’s a little meme I do have time for. I copied this from my friend Scott at Magic Statistics. Here are the instructions:

Get your ipod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel!

It’s pretty difficult to embarrass me, so I’m game to play the playlist game:

1. A Song for You by Whiskeytown from Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons
2. Just One Time by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler from Neck and Neck
3. Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues by Jim Croce from 50th Anniversary Collection
   
4. Blue Skies by Willie Nelson from Stardust
5. Morning Ride by Mark Knopler from Screenplaying
6. Canon for 3 violins and basso continuo in D minor by the English Concert from The #1 Baroque Album
7. Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three Dog Night from The Best of Three Dog Night.
8. How Deep the Father’s Love by John McDermott from Great is Thy Faithfulness
9. Myers: Cavatina by Norbert Kraft from Guitar Favorites
10. Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac from Rumours

If you’ve got an iPod and a playlist, why don’t you play along, too? 

Update on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:13PM by rebecca

Juanita plays along, with a list that includes a few things piratish.

Update on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 11:57AM by rebecca

And now the two Kims:

• Kim in ON
  
• Kim of Hiraeth
  

Update on Friday, May 25, 2007 at 7:58PM by rebecca

 Warren has also joined in.

Meme is the Theme or So It Seems

I’ve been tagged again with the seven random thing meme. I would have just skipped it, except that Gummby said this about me:

[She] probably doesn’t do memes, but I just gotta try. Just think of it: 7 random things from one of the most deliberate bloggers in the ‘sphere—how could you not want to see that?

That’s like a challenge or something isn’t it? He thinks I can’t do random, doesn’t he? He thinks I’m spontaneity challenged! Well I’ll show him! I came up with random things yesterday and I’ll come up with random things again today. In fact, I’ll put in on my schedule and come up with random things … oh never mind.

The idea is to list 7 random facts/habits about myself.

1. I like Hank Williams and Willie Nelson. Don’t think less of me.
   
2. I almost never have my hair cut professionally because I won’t be satisfied with the job done. Instead I rope an unsuspecting kid and force them to cut my hair. I still might not be satisfied with that job, but at least I didn’t pay for it.
3. I have a pair of binoculars beside me as I type this. They are for spying into my neighbour’s yards…to see what birds are hanging out there.
4. I have very short toes and one of my little toes has almost no nail. There is a possibility I’ve used this fact in one of the other random memes I’ve done, because as I typed that, I had a bizarre feeling of deja vu.
5. The first web page I check every morning is this one.
6. I have a natural drive to win every argument at any cost. Even when I’m wrong.
   
7. You know those women who can multi-task? I’m not one of them, which is why I left the oven on after I took supper out tonight and then left it on while I typed items 1-6 of this list. How’s that for spontaneity?