Share Your world, August 31, 2020 (yes I am late!)

 Roger Shipp and Melanie B Cee have partnered for the next few weeks to ask the Share Your World Challenge questions. Roger's take is from the Harry Potter series of books..Mel's are from the mind of Mel.

Check out BOTH of these intrepid writers through the klinks above.

Mel's questions: 

• What is the last song you sang along to?
• What was your scariest nightmare about?
• What food do you crave most often?
• What’s your grossest bug story?

Roger's questions:

1. Many local regions, especially rural areas where I live, have haunted houses. Have you ever spent the night in a house that was supposedly haunted? Anything ‘strange” happen?
   
   
2. The Quidditch Cup (riding broomsticks while chasing a small ball) was a huge sporting event in the land of Hogwarts. What is the largest sporting event (or concert, etc.) that you have ever attended?
   
   
3. When you go for a swim, do you prefer an ocean, the seaside lakes, or a pool?
   
   
4. Ron Weasley received a horrid robe to wear as formal wear to the Christmas dance at Hogwarts. Tell about the most ‘ghastly’ fashion statement that you have ever made.

 and my answers to the above....

"this is how you Burlesque" while shimmying around the living room with a paintbrush in my hands. Yes, I was painting as well.

Scariest nightmare? Walking through a forest with my tiny sons, and suddenly realizing I was no longer holding their hands, nor could I see them anywhere. I awoke screaming their names and frightening the dogs half to death.

food cravings? Ummmmmm, jammie dodgers. Doesn't help that I am American, and these biscuits are British and no store carries them.

Nope..sorry, not going there. I'll have nightmares again.

Yes, my best friend's home is haunted. We are pretty sure it's her great grandmother from the clothing we've seen the lady wear. She simply walks through a room into the kitchen.

Elton John, Greensboro North Carolina..his first American tour (rocketman tour)

Pool. I can't walk in sand anymore.

I haven't worn anything ghastly, actually. ever. 

Share Your World challenge, August 24, 2020

 Melanie B Cee of Sparksfromacombustiblemind hosts the Share your World challenge every Monday. She has teamed up with Roger Shipp (known for watching all the Harry Potter movies during quarantine) in the questions posed.

Mel's "rules"

I’m reiterating last week’s ‘disclaimer’:  Now I realize some folks have never seen nor read a single book or seen any movie about Harry Potter.   Therefore I’m going to do three or four ‘regular’ questions for folks who aren’t Harry fans.  It’s cool to do both sets OR just one or the other, as you wish.  

“Instructions“

1. Create a Share Your World post.  Then post the link to that blog post or leave your answers in the comments box of my blog.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Share Your World”  and link it to this post.
3.  Ping-backs are activated, but how efficiently varies.  For instructions on how ping-backs work, in case you weren’t certain, please click here.  You may wish to leave a link to your blog post in the comments just to be sure.  Thanks!
   

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Roger's questions: Share Your World Meets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

1. One of my favorite gifts that Harry Potter received came from the Weasley Twins; and was “Mrs. Mooney’s Marauder’s Map”. This magical document showed every classroom, hallway and secret corner in all of Hogwarts. It also showed you the location- by name- of every person in Hogwarts.  If you had such a magical map of your town, what would you use it for? If you would not use it, is there another person to whom you would gift it?

I use Google Earth.  it seems pretty danged magical to me.

2. When was the last time you made a snowball? Were in a snowball fight?

3 years ago..in my front yard with my "grand daughter' and her dozen or more friends.

3. Many cultures set great value in each child of the family having godparents. Did you have godparents? Are you a godparent yourself?

I had god-parents but have zero clue who they were..as I was a baby at the time.

4. You have found a secret tunnel under your house. Where does it go?

Heck if I know..let me go ask the dog and see what he has to say for himself first.

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Muggle Questions (of a more philosophical bent this week):

Is intelligence or wisdom more useful?  Considering the quite obvious lack of brain-power amongst the average American public, I'd be wishing for more intelligence to spread around. It is rather desperately needed.

How important is play in living a healthy and fulfilling life? extremely. do I really need to explain?

Is happiness just chemicals flowing through your brain or something more?well first, chemicals don't exactly "flow" through a brain....but rather than go into an annoying amount of scientific information that will eventually put everyone to sleep.......let me say this. ...it's more.

repost: following along behind the crowd.

 I originally posted this back in 2018...but I found it again while downloading my prior blog posts, it amused me to the point of snorting.........so I thought I'd share it again.

following along behind the crowd…..

october 26, 2018by suze, posted in babbling

Barbara over at teleportingweena answered these, then sparky (melanie) at sparks from a combustible Mind did them…I forget who all they stole these from, but I am so highly medicated on pain killers for a muscle tear of the shoulder that I can not concentrate on a post of my own so I stole them. OMG, that was a horrible run-on sentence. Okay, trying to keep a focus on something….here are the questions. I hope I manage to add some answers.

1. Dogs/cats/both/other?  I love dogs. cats seem to tolerate me. I have both, am owned by two and own the other two. It’s a mess really. I’d much rather just have two total creatures living here with me and George, but they keep multiplying and I haven’t figured out how to stop it yet.
   
   
2. Favorite holiday? Why? I have decided this means vacation instead of holiday…so it would be the first trip to Israel. Incredible journey for me. check out the post.
     
   
3. A fun or funny word you like to use. plexiotomy, a word I made up to denote a special surgical procedure installing plexiglass into the abdomen whereby someone may see where they are going while having their head up there ass.
   
4. Writing in pen or pencil, or would you rather type? I’d rather just lounge around on a ‘fainting sofa”, eating chocolates and drinking some dr pepper while a manly secretary (preferably Scottish and looking like Sean Connery) writes down every word I say.
   
   
5. Tell about a strange/weird experience you’ve had. nope. I don’t want to. but thanks for trying to get me to. Shows initiative. 
   
6. Do you do any crafts? yes. I quilt, paint stuff, refurbish furniture, sew……..and I love glitter glue.
   
   
7. What tip would you give to new bloggers? don’t plagiarize. 
   
   
8. What special talent do you have? Being totally obnoxious while maintaining my innate southern gentility
   
9. Fabric ribbons or plastic bows on gifts, which do you like better? I’d much rather someone do something for me than wrap up a purchase and pretend they really are happy giving it to me. Want to give me something meaningful? Try washing out my bathtub for me? Do a load or ten of laundry. cook a meal so i don’t have to. Vacuum my floors, or fog for bugs. It’s too difficult for me to do any of the above now even though I do them every blasted day. Screw ribbons.
    
   
10. Favorite school subject.  .Comparative Religions
    
    
11. Just for fun question… Who ya gonna call? Probably Pizza Hut.
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