{"id":3352,"date":"2010-07-07T19:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:17:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:17:31","slug":"im-going-to-lose-all-my-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100707-3352.htm","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to lose all my followers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>if I don&#8217;t give you something a bit lighter than all this theological fare (Sorry, I&#8217;m currently living a boring life.  Thesis, thesis, and more thesis with the occasional craft project or backed up sink thrown in.)<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, whenever I see a nice little meme that someone else has done, I&#8217;ll copy it and keep it in reserve for one of those days when I really don&#8217;t have much to say (but haven&#8217;t the discipline to just ignore the lure of the gray and white WordPress screen!)<\/p>\n<p>This meme, held in reserve for a week and a half, is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplewife.typepad.com\/the_simple_wife\/2010\/06\/copying-meredith.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joanne of The Simple Wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What color are your socks right now? <\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not wearing socks.  It&#8217;s summer and I&#8217;m not working.  Instead of my work-day loafers or pumps, I&#8217;m wearing slip-ons without socks.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are you listening to right now? <\/em><br \/>\nThe ceiling fan and my computer humming.<\/p>\n<p><em>What was the last thing you ate? <\/em><br \/>\nGrapes and a bing cherry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can you drive a stick?<\/em><br \/>\nNope.  Never learned.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nLast person you spoke to on the phone? <\/em><br \/>\nMy landlady&#8217;s machine :-)<\/p>\n<p><em>How old are you today?<\/em><br \/>\n25<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?<\/em><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t do tv.  Or sports.  But when I have access to a tv, I enjoy watching figure skating (if that can be considered a sport).  And watching a Nebraska football game with a whole crew of family and friends at my folks&#8217; house is always nice.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your favorite drink? <\/em><br \/>\nWater<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you ever dyed your hair?<\/em><br \/>\nOnce, in order to be &#8220;Posh Spice&#8221; for a costume party.  I dyed it a darker version of itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100707-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rebekah with dyed hair\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Favorite food?<\/em><br \/>\nOh my.  Too many to count.  My mom&#8217;s Swedish meatballs.  Lasagna.  Spaghetti with Mom&#8217;s sauce.  Cornbread and Chip-beef gravy.  Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.  Anna&#8217;s BBQ pizza.  Green beans fresh from the garden.  Sweet potatoes, baked with nothing on them.  Homegrown tomatoes, sliced and eaten plain.  I love food in general&#8211;and all of it in particular :-) <\/p>\n<p><em>What is the last movie you watched? <\/em><br \/>\nGood question.  Whatever it was, I didn&#8217;t so much WATCH it as I crocheted through it.  (It was on Saturday the third.  We pretty much had a marathon of movie watching.  I can&#8217;t remember what any of the 3? movies we watched were.  But I got a washcloth crocheted and half of a tea towel embroidered!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Favorite day of the year?<\/em><br \/>\nChristmas<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you vent anger?<\/em><br \/>\nDunno.  It&#8217;s been a while since I got to the &#8220;need-a-vent&#8221; point with anger. (Knock on wood :-P)  I find it much easier to experience provocation, pray, and let God release the anger. <\/p>\n<p><em>What was your favorite toy as a child?<\/em><br \/>\nMy little siblings. Books.  My bicycle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Favorite Season?<\/em><br \/>\nSpring, when the green grass pokes through the winter-moistened earth with stunning contrast.  And when I can put my bare feet in said earth as I plant a vegetable garden.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cherries or Blueberries? <\/em><br \/>\nCherries if it&#8217;s in homemade (Mom-made) cherry pie using cherries from her tree.<br \/>\nBlueberries if I&#8217;m not footing the bill.<br \/>\nBing cherries when I&#8217;m feeling like luxury.<\/p>\n<p><em>Living situation?<\/em><br \/>\nRent a townhouse.  Have a roommate.  Am hoping the landlord&#8217;s jimmying managed to get the kitchen sink draining properly.<\/p>\n<p><em>When was the last time you cried?<\/em><br \/>\nYesterday.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is on the floor of your closet right now?<\/em><br \/>\nA crate of professional paperwork.<br \/>\nA shelf of shoes.  A laundry basket.<br \/>\nSame as always.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are you most afraid of?<\/em><br \/>\nBeing hung by my belly-button :-P<br \/>\nAnd other things I can&#8217;t mention so glibly.  My brothers dying.  That I&#8217;ll mope and pout my way through God&#8217;s plan instead of trusting and enjoying His provision. That I&#8217;ll squander my life on the temporal instead of investing in the eternal. <\/p>\n<p><em>Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers?<\/em><br \/>\nNot a big burger fan, but I guess I like many things spicy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Favorite dog breed?<\/em><br \/>\nBig.  And outdoor, if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Favorite day of the week?<\/em><br \/>\nDo people really have favorite days of the week?<\/p>\n<p><em>How many states have you lived in?<\/em><br \/>\nOne.<\/p>\n<p><em>Diamonds or pearls?<\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;d love for that to be my dilemma, but I don&#8217;t have high hopes of it being so anytime soon (or anytime ever, for that matter.)<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your favorite flower?<\/em><br \/>\nWell, ranunculus is my favorite flower NAME<br \/>\nAnd TULIPs are John Calvin approved :-)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t really say.  I like flowers, period, but don&#8217;t have a favorite.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Did you get an H1N1 vaccine?<\/em><br \/>\nNope.  I was poor and busy.  But I do try to get the seasonal flu vaccine every year.  Flu is nasty stuff, and since I have been known to work in institutions (hospitals and residence halls) and among immuno-compromised individuals (hospitals and nursing homes), I don&#8217;t like to risk it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Please play along with one or all of the questions in the comments.  I&#8217;d love to learn more about you!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if I don&#8217;t give you something a bit lighter than all this theological fare (Sorry, I&#8217;m currently living a boring life. Thesis, thesis, and more thesis with the occasional craft project or backed up sink thrown in.) Thankfully, whenever I see a nice little meme that someone else has done, I&#8217;ll copy it and keep &#8230; <a title=\"I&#8217;m going to lose all my followers&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100707-3352.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m going to lose all my followers&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}