Thirteen Thursday: Summer Ketchup
1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches. The last time I got measured the nurse told me that and after measuring me, she asked if I wanted her to write down 5 foot or 5 foot 1 inch, to which I replied, “I want my age rounded down and my height rounded up!”
2. The brain: “A cognitive prosthesis for the soul.” Paul Bloom, Enlightenment Magazine
3. Said to Joe on taking a break from my meditation practice: “It feels like getting out of school. I haven’t lost anything I learned. I just don’t want to be sitting at a desk right now.”
4. A McCain aide on Sarah Palin: “She doesn't even know what she doesn't know.”
5. Always the poet, when Joe calls me sweetie, I call him tweetie. When he calls me lovey, I call him dovey.
6. Always on the lookout for 13 finds, I got the above photo from my brother-in-law Nelson who took it at my brother Joey’s 4th of July bash.
7. That’s my brother Johnny in the red hat cooking at the grille and HERE he is with the largest and ugliest lobster I’ve ever seen, so big that John named him “Conan the Crustacean.”
8. On our recent trip to my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, we had a stop in D.C., so we drove Interstate 95 and it drove us …. crazy!
9. The trip included an unplanned tour of old-time carousels. We just happened upon the Dentzel Carousel in Glen Echo near D.C. and the Flying Horses in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, and of course we visited THIS, the Paragon Carousel in Hull that I rode when I was five and thought if I touched the horses mouths snakes would come out and bite me.
10. I don’t do grilles. I bought mine only because it has a gas burner on it and I was afraid if we lost electricity I wouldn’t be able to make tea. When I’m not making tea on the grille, I use it for storing dog food.
11. I love to walk the beach because it’s a clean slate everyday and you never know who you might meet or BUMP INTO.
12. Remember in the early 80’s when Reagan tried to pawn ketchup off as a vegetable in the school lunch programs to save money and Carly Simon sang THIS famous song in a ketchup commercial?
13. In Belgium they eat mayonnaise on fries.
Catch up with others playing 13 Thursday HERE.
Comments
I think the old-time carousels would be fun to see. Love stuff like that!
Posted by: Heather | July 16, 2009 1:11 AM
I can't stand I-95 either, or any interstate for that matter.
Posted by: Nicholas | July 16, 2009 2:32 AM
why don't you like to grill? i love grilled salmon marinated in basil vinaigrette or a grilled turkey burger with pesto paste and diced jalapenos mixed in, then smothered in onions and mushrooms. a summer night delight.
Posted by: sky | July 16, 2009 5:46 AM
1. I recently discovered that when you’re measured in a doctor’s office they do not record ½ inches.
Hmmm, that's not the case here. I had reached 5'8" by seventh grade, but when I was in my mid-30s, a nurse measured me at 5'8-3/4" (that's 5-foot, eight-and-three-quarters inches). I figured she was wrong and didn't say anything, but it was the same the following year -- and the one after that. The driver's license folks say that means 5'9" and that's what they put on my license, even though I'm now 69 years old and probably shrinking. Nobody has measured my height in years.
4. A McCain aide on Sarah Palin: “She doesn't even know what she doesn't know.”
That's what I think higher education does for us. The more education I got, the more I realized I didn't know. Or maybe, because I knew a lot, I could see all the areas I needed to learn in order to call myself knowledgeable on a subject.
Posted by: Bonnie Jacobs | July 16, 2009 5:53 AM
I like your answer to the nurse's question ;-) Happt T13
Posted by: Hazel | July 16, 2009 6:09 AM
I really like this TT, I want to comment on all them, but it would be too long of a comment, so I will just comment on the ketchup one.........I used to love that song, until they put it to a commercial. It ruined the song for me and I still think of it as ketchup instead of LOVE. xo
PS The lobster looks huge and I love the look on Joe's face when he is bumping into you.
Posted by: Sherry | July 16, 2009 6:55 AM
I remember that ketchup commercial well...sometimes commercials are great creative works...other times, most times, they're just in your face bunk! As for SP, I've developed quite a Pavlovian reaction to her...not a good one!
Posted by: june | July 16, 2009 7:12 AM
I remember my mother was so mad that Reagen called ketsup a vegetable for school lunches. I love the clean slate of the beach myself and really like that description.
Posted by: Tabor | July 16, 2009 7:33 AM
I always liked the ketchup commercial, but like the song much better. Love Carly Simon.
Great TT.
Posted by: CountryDew | July 16, 2009 7:52 AM
Oh, that beautiful carousel at Paragon!! I remember those mirrors. Great video, Colleen.
Posted by: Gretchen | July 16, 2009 7:59 AM
I like Paul Bloom's line. I will remember that.
Posted by: SandyCarlson | July 16, 2009 8:00 AM
Sky, I have nothing against grilling. I just never got acclimated to it. A stove top is second nature to me. I'm more of a sauter. I don't do over roasts either, although I like eating them. Never could figure out the cuts or afford them for so many years.
Bonnie, sounds like you do know what you don't know.
Posted by: colleen | July 16, 2009 8:39 AM
I'm glad I don't live in Belgium - I hate mayo!!
Like the video of hubs on the beach!
Palin is a joke.
Posted by: kenju | July 16, 2009 10:06 AM
I keep meaning to try fries with mayo. Maybe next time McDondalds forgets the ketchup I'll remember
Posted by: Alice Audrey | July 16, 2009 10:36 AM
What else do you want to put on "french" fries, they were invented in Belgium and always eaten with Mayonnaise,lol ! Ketchup came later after WW2 when American soldiers brought it over ! and Palin ... no comments ! Just wonder how a woman like her got into politics _
Posted by: Gattina | July 16, 2009 11:06 AM
Mayo on fries is a very European thing to do. I love it!!!! Happy TT!
Posted by: Miranda | July 16, 2009 11:36 AM
Loved your list - so full of light heartedness - and I love that beach in your video clip! What a beautiful expanse!
Posted by: Absolute Vanilla | July 16, 2009 12:40 PM
#9 a favorite haunt of mine old carousels and train stations sandy
Posted by: sandy | July 16, 2009 5:06 PM
This is just lovely. Thanks so much! Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | July 16, 2009 10:07 PM
absolutely wow!
visit me :)
Posted by: AD | July 17, 2009 3:44 AM
I remember both the ketchup is a vegetable argument and Carly Simon's song in the Heinz commercial. Ack -- I'm old!
Posted by: Carleen | July 17, 2009 3:54 PM
Prince Charming mixes mayo and ketchup and dips his fries in that.
Posted by: Twisted Cinderella | July 17, 2009 6:01 PM
Hi Colleen. Popped by from Tanya's to let you know something I've never told anyone: If you knew what I put on fries, I suspect you'd think less of me :)
Considering how much I eat of pretty much everything, it's a wonder I'm not as wide as I am tall.
Posted by: Carmi | July 17, 2009 6:26 PM
I'm guessing the mayonnaise thing may be more WIDE SPREAD than I realized!
Posted by: colleen | July 17, 2009 7:00 PM
Here in Canada they use centimeters to measure... I still have to convert to feet and inches to truly get it. :-)
Can't help wondering ... what happened to Conan. He is one big boy. :-)
Posted by: Col | July 18, 2009 9:35 AM
Comment on No. 4: A person who doesn't know what he doesn't know has a big problem. Sometimes, I experience it. :)
Posted by: kikit | July 18, 2009 10:19 AM
When I was a teen I ate mayo on fries and dill pickles. I would still eat mayo on fries IF I could afford to eat either one of them!
Posted by: Deana | July 18, 2009 10:56 AM
wow, see what happens when you move down south? You lose that wicked Mass accent!
I recently got measured at the doctors and was shocked to find I'd lost 1.5 inches of height! I'm now 5 foot 3 and a half! Gah!
Posted by: Janet | July 18, 2009 9:06 PM