Category Archives: My Life, Family & Friends
Far Back Friday – The Days of Plaid & Music.
FAR BACK FRIDAY! Enjoy.
~Thanks!
My husband (left) and brother-in-law, late 1970s: rocking the plaid at violin lessons.
Look Up!
One of my many upshots – this one was taken on a field trip with my younger daughter a few years ago.
It seems like every time I’m out in nature and carrying my camera, I take a few “up-shots.” I can’t help it. I love them. I love looking up at trees, leaves, clouds, and sky. Perhaps there’s a lesson here. If life is getting you down, look up. I tell my daughters that so much of our life is how we choose to perceive and handle things, rather than just wallowing in what’s happening to us. It’s a variation on the glass half empty versus half full scenario.
Don’t mire yourself in the mud and dust, look up, look heavenward.
~Thanks!
From the theater days.
This is the 1991 set of the Marietta College’s theatrical production of The Foreigner. I was the sultry looking girl being squeezed by the fellow on the couch. I can’t tell you how many happy memories I have of this time in my life.
I’ve been unbelievably blog-negligent. But since I’m in the process of moving our household and working on scads of other projects, my poor little RebeccaOfTomorrow blog has fallen by the wayside.
So, instead of letting it get moldy and stale, I thought I’d go with easy blog posts for the time being. I’m going to try to post something light and fun and quick, at least three times a week. I’ll probably go with photos of something meaningful to me, but I might also link to some other people’s writings that speak to me. If any of you have anything you’d like me to re-post, please let me know!
Today I’m going with a photo from my theater days. I hope you enjoy it. I love how so many of these people are still in touch with me, mostly via Facebook. I miss one of them terribly, however. We all miss you, Brett. It’s a “frog-strangler” down here on Earth without you.
~Thanks!
What makes me squee.
I’ve noticed that the word “squee” is all the rage on Twitter now. (Or perhaps I’m already behind, and it’s no longer the rage, and I’m terribly out of vogue to even talk about squee . . . regardless . . . )
Definition of SQUEE: The cry of the overexcited fan girl. (My addition: Fan “girl” can also be a fan “boy,” but is still called a fan girl because the people who came up with the term “fan girl” are sexist.)
So what makes Rebecca Of Tomorrow squee, you ask? Well, I like to group my squeedom into four separate squeeheadings.
#1: New books coming out by authors I love
From the Charlaine Harris official website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/
For example, the FINAL Sookie Stackhouse installment by the fabulous Charlaine Harris: Dead Ever After (May 7,2013). In this instance, my squee is a bit bittersweet because this beautiful and amazing series is ending, however.
#2: Movies coming out with actors I love OR in a series I love (or both)
From the official Star Trek Into Darkness website: http://www.startrekmovie.com/
For example: Star Trek Into Darkness, releases May 17, 2013. Not going to lie, I’m a huge, no-holds-barred Star Trek fan. I’m a fan of the original series and all of its progeny, and all of the movies, and most of the books. Plus, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH is in this one, and there appears to be a whole lot of people jumping off of really high places — so what’s not to squee about?
#3: New television episodes coming out with actors I love OR in a series I love (or again, both)
From the Sherlockology website: http://www.sherlockology.com/news/2013/3/11/read-through-roundup-110313
For example: Thank goodness BBC is finally getting around to filming Sherlock: Season 3! I mean, COME ON! You simply cannot leave Sherlock dead. You. Just. Can’t. (Chill: I didn’t spoil it for those of you who haven’t watched Season 2. Anyone who knows anything about Sherlock Holmes knows he “dies” at Reichenbach….and comes back.)
Oh, and lookie there! That’s BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH again. (Yes, I kinda squee every time I see a picture of him.)
#4: Awesome things that happen to me
Check it out on Kiersi’s website: http://typewriterstories.tumblr.com/post/45070282204/rebecca-and-the-girl-scout-cookies
For example: My writer friend, the exquisitely talented Kiersi Burkhart, wrote and mailed me my very own personalized typewriter story, called “Rebecca and the Girl Scout Cookies.” I squeed when I got it out of the mail on Saturday, and my family thought I had gone a bit loopy. But it was even better than ACTUAL Girl Scout Cookies – just sayin’.
So, on this Monday-after-daylight-savings-time-makes-you-really-sad-about-losing-an-hour-of-sleep-over-the-weekend, look for the things in life that will make YOU squee.
Thanks!
Book Love.
Okay, so we’re packing up our house to sell and move. I took 12 – TWELVE – boxes full of books to donate to our local library – good quality kids and adult fiction. Our local library will shelf those donations that are appropriate for the lending area, and sell the rest for fundraising efforts. It’s nice to know that others will love them as much as we have. These twelve books barely scratched the surface of our book holdings, but we can’t part with the rest. Plus, I have new books coming that I ordered online.
Thankfully, our new house has several built in bookshelves.
Is there anything better than the feeling of opening a new book?
I think the only thing better will be opening a new book in a nice book-reading spot in our new house.
Once I get a picture of said spot, I’ll share it with you; so stay posted!
~Thanks!
Ideas Wanted!
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Cement Shoes. -
Would you shop in a store called Cement Shoes? Maybe…. -
What service does the store provide? -
Karma Kafe -
“Re-prize-all Used Toy Store”. Where all toys are a prize to be re used. -
I didn’t read your post correctly. I thought you said it was a toy store.
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never-the-less, I like reprisal
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outwardly it sells one-of-a-kind items, but it’s really a Twilight-Zone kinda store that dishes out what people deserve – for good or bad.
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IforNI, Something Karma
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Karma Kitch
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Does the winner get royalties?
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or an honorable mention on the acknowledgment page????
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Retailiation. No? -
Okay, if it gives out good as well as bad… The Winnowing Fork.
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you might check anagram web sites to for some of these words. Or mythological sites. -
Dang it! I was just typing “Retailiation.” Great minds and all that. -
Too funny! Great minds, indeed.
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If it’s an ice cream shop… “A Dish Best Served Cold.”
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The Sauce and Gander. Although that sounds like a pub. -
Teak Jar Music. Anagram of justice and karma
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Themis Retail Tea. Or Old Bailey’s Retail Tea.
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I4NI -
Comuppins
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U Hadit Comin
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In Greek mythology, judges were called “servants of Themis” or themistopóloi. Using “themistopoloi” at Wordsmith, you get this list:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=themistopoloi&language=english&t=1000&d=&include=&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&a=n&l=n&q=n&k=1 -
Reciprocity. Strangely I just took a Stanford course at work this week called “managing without authority” and reciprocity is one tool to use! -
You Asked for It.
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You guys ALL rock. I’ll let you know what I go with soon. And the Moirae are going to play a big part in this store.
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And thanks so much for the Chicago earworm. “He had it comin’….He had it comin’….”
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That was sort of the idea.
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Ack, get it out of my ears!!!
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I like his suggestion. It works for the one-of-a-kind-items shop as well as for the actual purpose of the shop. You Asked For It seems like the perfect name. And, btw, I LOVE the Cell Block Tango. -
If it is a fabric store it could be Reap what You Sewed
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Keep ‘em comin’…you’re on a roll, sir.
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“Eye for an Eye” or “Serve the Same Sauce” -
Ooh, I’ve never heard of the “serve the same sauce” expression before.
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Or it could just be “The Same Sauce”….
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Thai Restaurant.
Pai Bach Sab Ich -
That took me a moment. Geesh!
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Tee hee
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It’s a bit of a stretch but you could do Zeke’s 25/17. Referencing Ezekiel 25:17 better known from the Sam Jackson’s speech from pulp fiction
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Lemme go look it up….
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Oh, wow. That’s heavy. But I really like the Bible verse idea. There’s a religious element in the story and the store, actually.
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I’m also thinking of R&P….which stands for “rewards and punishments” but could be an innocent-sounding name of a store on any main street in America.
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Not Your Girl Next Door……. -
Oh a dessert shop. Karmeringue
Bring it ON, Christmas. BRING IT ON!
Because nothin’ says Christmas like a REINDEER CONGA LINE!
We did our 2nd Annual Christmas Variety Show at church the other day. This is how it all ended.
You’re welcome!
O come, o come, Emmanuel . . . ready or not.
Welcome to December, my friends.
A month of both solemnity and joy. On a secular note, I’m pretty much finished my Christmas shopping, gotten the outdoor decorations up (although not the tree yet; my little helper is feeling sick this evening) and already nearly downed an entire port wine cheese ball on my own. On a spiritual note, I have to remember to clear my heart and mind to remember the true joy of the season. I like Advent. I really do. A couple of years ago I had a whole Facebook album dedicated to pictures of nativity scenes/creches, that I’d asked my friends to send me to share.
Our stained glass nativity
I love the holidays. Though I celebrate the Christian one, I’m so excited that this is also a month of great light and great joy for those of other faiths, as well. So get ready for all the glorious, winter-brightening celebrations, folks . . . ’cause here they come!
~Thanks!
Thank you, post-Black-Friday-Monday!
The mall was quite pretty….especially since I didn’t have to view it through crowds of people.
I am thankful — truly, completely, and totally thankful — that I did not need to brave Black Friday shopping crowds and the post-Thanksgiving weekend shopping crowds in order to do holiday shopping for my family and friends. I am thankful that I was able to drop my children off at school on Monday morning after such a hubbub, and take myself to a very uncrowded mall, shop, and not even have to wait in order to check out. I am thankful that if indeed I did spend more today than I might have at 4:00 a.m. on Friday (or worse, 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Thursday) I could afford to do so – for the sake of my own sanity and comfort.
I even enjoyed my Philly cheese steak and regular fries at the mall’s food court, where I ate, not rushed, and in peace.
It’s the little things in life . . .
~Thanks!
Thanksgiving for family fun!
I love Thanksgiving. I had the best time at my brother-in-law’s house. What’s so awesomely cool about my bro-in-law, is that I knew him even before I met his brother….my husband. Our hilarity goes way back.
Our combined families, and father-in-law, and sister-in-law’s family, and friends had a hilarious and gustatorily satisfying couple of days!
Brother-in-law…with Father-in-law sous-chefing in the background.
- Husband. See the family resemblance?
~Thanks!
