I can’t concentrate, so this Thursday Thirteen will be all over the map. Usually, I take great pains to put together something silly, but today I’m just going with the flow, because I’m

1. Get cool letters with Spell With Flickr. They were much too large for this page, so I copied them into Adobe Photoshop and reduced them.

2. Speaking of “scattered,” Janet at Life in Westcliffe had a “Scattergories” meme that is going around. She didn’t tag me, because I scream like a banshee when people tag me, but it looked interesting. You are supposed to answer the questions with a word that starts with the first letter of your name. This is how I spend my time instead of doing something productive.

My name:Shelly (so the answers start with an “S,” get it?) Really, my name is Michele. Don’t go there.
1. Famous Singer/Band: Sinatra (No, not Nancy)
2. Four letter word: Do I have to say “**it” on the blog? It’s not “shoot”, which doesn’t have four letters. Slap—that’s a four letter word! It will have to do.
3. Street: Sunset Strip
4. Color: Sapphire
5. Gifts/Presents: $$ (that’s an “S” with a line through it!)
6. Vehicle: Suburban
7. Things in a Souvenir Shop: That would be that four letter word I “won’t say on-line”.
8. Boy Name: Seamus (which means “supplanter” in Gaelic)
9. Girl Name: Sophia(in Greek means “wisdom”)
10. Movie Title: Snakes on a Plane (never saw it, never want to see it, you can’t make me see it)
11. Drink: Sangria
12. Occupation: Storyteller! Is there any other occupation?
13. Celebrity: Sting
14. Magazine: Seventeen (OK, I thought it was cool back then)
15. U.S. City: San Francisco (I left my ♥ there)
16. Pro Sports Teams: Stars (as in Dallas, Texas Hockey team)
17. Fruit: Strawberry
18. Reason for Being Late for Work: sexSlept late
19. Something You Throw Away: Nothing. Oh, that doesn’t start with “s” My goodness! “That word I won’t say on-line” could get used here, too.
20. Things You Shout: Soooey! (Oops, been on the farm too long) I could have said “that word I won’t say on-line,” because I shout it often enough if you aren’t listening. “**it’s” an all-purpose word, isn’t it?
21. Cartoon Character: Snoopy

Wasn’t that special? Aren’t you glad you know? I do what I can to amuse you.

3. In Roanoke, when I go to crochet on Wednesday, I always see interesting projects. Many of the women are knitters (which is a skill I haven’t mastered). Alice knits these wonderful bags

on the tiniest of needles. I think she said the size of those needles was 0000, and they aren’t any thicker than a darning needle. She learned to crochet and knit in Germany before she was old enough to go to school, and her skills are astounding. Before she begins to knit these teensy two inch long bags, she has to string 2,000 seed beads on the thread! Pretty amazing. They make me think of a very elaborate “medicine bag” like the Native Americans used. You could put your lucky charms in there (not Lucky Charms cereal, because that would make a mess, however it would be a handy snack during the day).

4. I have procured a couple of those beaded bags, and one is going to be a prize in a contest. Which bag do you think I should put in the contest?

Yes, I definitely need to have a contest, don’t I? Since I can’t ever get finished with anything! Watch, though because in the next week I’m going to have a writing contest. Yep. I’m resurrecting the

This Blog Blows My Dress Up Contest.
This time, there will be a theme. Hmmm. I’m thinking “Date from Hell?” Start thinking about a possible post, if you want to win that bag !

5. I shamed my husband into buying me flowers, bless his heart. NOW, I have to wonder what he did!

6. Yes, there is a new update for Share A Square. There is a new FAQ page, too. We now have 15 afghans finished and there are 10 of them farmed out to other people to finish. This one needs an edge crocheted around it. I’m working on the one below today.

7. I have some cool new shoes, and I’m looking for a chance to wear them. Maybe with a pink poodle skirt? Maybe with my hot pink vintage bowling shirt?

OK, you don’t think they are “the tops”, but I do. I’m a little twisted.

8. My friend Harlekwin at BohoRhap wanted to win this prize, but didn’t. Personally, I would have thought that not winning it was a good thing, but she wanted it.

I’m in the process of making one for her, with the help of my engineer husband. From the pictures she has been showing on her blog, I may have to drive out there and personally deliver it! Oregon is beautiful.

9. Matty at Running on Empty sent me some yarn for Share A Square with this stuffed Moose as a Canadian souvenir. Thank you Matty.

10. Have you ever checked out Top Blog Magazine? I’ve been accepted as a writer with them, and am looking forward to the opportunity. Visit to read some pretty interesting and thought provoking articles. If ah’mona write fer them, does ‘at mean I mona have to quit tawkin’ lak a Texan?

11. Rosemarie at Miscellaneous Matters got herself a fortune cookie, so I decided I needed one, too. It’s one of those that you can keep trying until you get the one you want. I’m not sure I wanted this one, but I stopped with it.
My Fortune Cookie told me: Never try to tapdance with parrots on a shrub.

I believe I won’t have any problem at all never doing that.

12. You’ve been reading long enough. You need to get up from the chair and get some exercise. Let’s get you dancing. I promise your feet will be tapping.

There’s a local band here in Denton, Texas called “Brave Combo.” Here’s how they are described on YouTube:

The Grammy Award-winning band Brave Combo specializes in a unique brand of domestic and exotic dance rhythms that fuel what Billboard calls, “world-wise, unclassifiable music.”

Brave Combo is sometimes called a “polka band,” and they do play a lot of polkas. Hey, don’t knock it, they had about 6 seconds of fame on an episode of the Simpsons. Here is The Hokey Pokey like you have never heard it before. Go ahead. You know you want to.

13. I found these stress mints at my local coffee shop. I know they are “homeopathic,” because it says so on the box (and I believe everything I read). They may be the answer to all my prayers. Good thing I’m not homeopathophobic.

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