In honor of trinity sunday this weekend…
Thanks to jo(e) for this (link above)
Three names you go by:
Mommy? (inquisitive)
Mommy! (petulant scream)
Mommy… (murmured when I open her door first thing in the morning)
Three screen names you’ve had:
When you’re reverendmother, you only need one.
Oh wait, I was also “midnight wonder” on Ebay… which refers to my late night bowling skills.
Three physical things you like about yourself:
I’m tall.
I have eyes of varied and indeterminate color.
I’m reasonably well-proportioned.
Three physical things you dislike about yourself:
I get dreadful motion sickness.
I would love to have perfect vision.
I am in dire need of a pedicure.
Three parts of your heritage:
Swedish
Scotch/Irish
Texan
Three things you are wearing right now:
This pendant (silver)
Khakis with a newly-repaired hem that a lovely octogenarian in the church did for me
Black leather slip-on shoes that, tragically, reveal dire need for pedicure
Three favorite bands/musical artists:
I’ll name three I haven’t blogged about:
Dar Williams
Bernadette Peters (that woman has a voice as big as God)
REM (since I disparaged them in recent comments)
The last three songs you listened to:
The nonsense song that C sang this morning
U2’s “Yahweh”
“Take My Life,” #391 in the hymnal
(the latter two comprised my staff devotional today)
Three things you want in a relationship:
Intelligent conversation
Unconditional love
The reminder to play
Three physical things about the preferred sex that appeals to you:
Nice smile
Toned legs
Elegant hands
Three of your favorite hobbies:
Knitting
Blogging
Sleeping
Three things you want to do really badly right now:
Go see a movie
Get a pedicure (theme?)
Sleep
Three things that scare you:
C in danger
R in danger
Many types of bugs (I know, idiotic, but I grew up in Houston with its Texas-sized roaches, and that’s a special level of psyche-scarring horror)
Three of your everyday essentials:
Origins Checks and Balances facial cleanser
Lots of water (it’s basically all I drink)
A good conversation with R
Three careers you have considered or are considering:
Actor in Broadway musicals
College professor
Bookstore owner
Three places you want to go on vacation:
New Zealand
Iona/Scotland in general
Costa Rica
Three kids’ names you like:
Margaret, because I love the nickname Meg
Jane. I adore Jane. But if you know my last name you know, we will never have a child named Jane.
Henry. It’s old-fashioned.
Three things you want to do before you die:
Climb a really tall mountain
Travel extensively
See an end to world poverty
Three ways you are stereotypically a boy:
(A problematic question, but let’s all just relax and go with it, OK? Don’t send me letters.)
I have short hair.
I am generally ambitious and career-driven.
I am good at math.
Three ways you are stereotypically a girl:
(See above)
I always overpack clothes and shoes.
I want people to like me.
I get pedicures. (OK I’ll stop)
Three celebrity crushes:
Jude Law
Matthew McConaughey
Ewan McGregor
Three people I would like to see take this quiz:
Meh. Whoever. Go crazy.
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I would have figured you for long brown hair. Dunno why. I enjoyed your list - especially the careers you have considered.
Come on over and I will give you a pedicure. Right now my toes are painted OPI’s *I’m not really a waitress*. For reals…I will do it!
I love a good pedicure.
In Houston, there was this amazing woman where I got my hair cut….She had every ‘mo in Montrose lining up to be turned into a puddle with her foot massage, and a foot model with her clear polish manly pedicures.
See my place for my responses…including some inspired by yours!
OK, I’ll bite…
In honor of trinity sunday this weekend… and BTW, my UU bumper sticker on my car says “A Different Trinity: Respect. Freedom. Justice.”
Three names you go by:
Jill/Mamala/MaDear
Three screen names you’ve had:
jillsusan, jillsusanmck, jillsusa (when they make you have only 8 characters)
Three physical things you like about yourself:
Ooh, this is a hard one. I could have answered this better in my 40s (early 40s)
Three physical things you dislike about yourself:
My fat butt, thighs and now my fat midsection (thank you menopause!)
Three parts of your heritage:
Swedish
German
WASP
Three things you are wearing right now:
A ClubCorp golf shirt
Khaki Lucky Jeans that I’m hoping look ‘business casual’
Headphones listening to XM radio
Three favorite bands/musical artists:
U2
Metallica
The Beatles
The last three songs you listened to:
U2s Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own, Crumbs from Your Table
Three things you want in a relationship:
Intelligent conversation
Unconditional love
Surprises
Three physical things about the preferred sex that appeals to you:
Soulful eyes
Broad shoulders
No gut
Three of your favorite hobbies:
Reading
Needlework (crochet/knitting/needlepoint/etc.
Anything web related
Three things you want to do really badly right now:
Pay off my credit cards
Get caught up at work and home
Spend more time relaxing
Three things that scare you:
Any or all of my family members being:
in bad health
in danger
hurting
Three of your everyday essentials:
Mascara
Lipstick
Coffee (usually decaf)
Three careers you have considered or are considering:
Travelling food critic
Nanny to my grandkids
I can only think of 2…I’m tired of working so much
Three places you want to go on vacation:
New Zealand
Australia
Great Britain
Three kids’ names you like:
J, J, C, M, K, M, L (sorry, you know me)
Three things you want to do before you die:
Go to Australia, New Zealand, GB
Three ways you are stereotypically a boy:
Don’t think I can think of anything on this one
Three ways you are stereotypically a girl:
I always overpack everything.
I want people to like me.
No matter how thin I’ve been, I’ve always felt fat.
Three celebrity crushes:
Johnny Depp
William Hurt
Edward Norton
Three people I would like to see take this quiz:
Luke, Katie, Matthew
three names i go by: once upon a time one of our daughters (who is now 24) wrote me a mother’s day poem. she said she thought of me as 3 different people: mommy, mom, and mother. each of these had different characteristics and was perfect for different situations. i framed it and still have it in my home office. right now i’m out of state visiting our other daughter or i might have quoted it here.
three things i’m wearing: my wedding band—which was originally my husband’s grandmother’s wedding band—i outgrew mine and hers fits perfectly; my magnetic bracelet which has really helped my knees work better; and a white tee shirt that’s spattered with red bell pepper juice. we’re having bell pepper, carrots, and roasted garlic hummus with dinner tonight.
three books i’ve loved reading in the last month:
plan b: further thoughts on faith by anne lamott; the mermaid chair by sue monk kidd (and i heard her speak about the black madonna at the washington cathedral last month), and garden voices: stories of women and thier gardens by carolyn freas rapp (and i heard her speak at a life with cancer spirituality quest group at green springs garden recently).
three things that make me feel young: puppies, johnny jump-ups, and scout in to kill a mockingbird
three things i do that i don’t want anyone to know about: ARE YOU NUTS, I’M NOT PUTTING THAT HERE!!!
Which Dar Williams cd would you recommend?
Friday Mom, I really like The Honesty Room, for four of my favorite Dar songs: The Babysitter’s Here, You’re Aging Well (don’t we ALL need to hear that), Flinty Kind of Woman, and When I Was a Boy (which will break your heart and make you go ‘oh, yeah.’)
I don’t have the most recent, The Beauty of the Rain yet. In fact, I’m missing several, but we used to go to Kerrville Folk Festival every year and so we have some of her songs on their compilation CDs.
I wouldn’t start with Beauty of the Rain. There are a few songs on it that I like, but it’s not vintage dar. Any of the earlier albums are good. I love You’re Aging Well, and Better Things is my favorite track. The side effect of an ipod is I don’t remember which songs come from which CDs.
Better Things is on End of the Summer, which I also like but it seems not as peppy of an album overall. I do like the song Teenagers Kick Our Butts though; it’s just cute and funny.
Thanks, RM and PPB. So when are we going to Iona?
I’ve never had a pedicure. In fact, I’ve never met anyone in real life who has had one. But I keep hearing about them on blogs.
I too would love perfect vision — and no motion sickness! I should have thought of that when I did the meme.
What is funny is that so many women have said they were good at math. Clearly, the stereotype is wrong!
I’ve never had a pedicure either. You’re not alone, jo(e). But I totally suck at math!
Hey, wait a minute–I want to go to Iona also, especially with you three. Don’t leave without me!
Three movies in a trilogy.
First of all, Mamala, I love that bumper sticker!
Second, I’ve had pedicures, and I really enjoy them, but I’ve had to face up to the fact that they are now on the list of things outside a small church pastor’s budget. (Unless you go to the cosmetology school and have the students do it. Hmmm. Where was that number?)
Also, I too suck at math. My arithmetic skills are great, but on the abstract front I am equal to pre-algebra, and that’s about it.
It’s official–Iona or bust.
For me, the beauty of the pedicure is not the immaculately-applied toenail polish–although I do LOVE that (and princess I have worn that exact shade of OPI!). It is the smoothed-down heels. Sloughing off all those miles traveled, making your feet like new. Ah…
I’m having a pedicure as soon as I get back to my real life on Friday. And “I’m not really a waitress” is also my favorite red in all the OPI universe! (plus, its really fun to say!)
Can we go to Iona tomorrow?
I have a dentist appointment tomorrow, and graduation this weekend. How about next Wednesday? I’m free next Wednesday. et tu?
Wednesday’s will work…. You may have to talk me down from the ledge a time or two between now and then, but I think I can wait.
I feel humbled to be in such great OPI company. ~pouts~ Rach and I wanna go to Iona too. We feel like we are missing something! I do my own toe nails but I do my Mom’s and Baby Gators. I would LOVE for someone to do mine. Kinda like salad. I love salad but it is so much better if someone else makes it instead of yourself.
you can come, too–how’s Wednesday next for you?
Princess, I am totally basking in the deep wisdom of that salad comment. It is SO TRUE. I also want to add the sandwich corollary, which basically says the same thing. I have no patience to make a truly good sandwich, so I end up making some half-hearted attempt that does not satisfy.
Now my husband? Maybe it’s time for a guest blog, so that he can share his Principles of Sandwich Making(tm).
My responses appear under “These Three Things,” the latest entry at my blog.
Can I go to Iona with you even though I’m chromasomally diverse and the only thing I’m mother to is dust bunnies?
Pedicure is like a salad…I love that…I’ll steal it…with attribution of course…:-)
I can think of few ‘girl excursions’ that are not enriched by a chromosomally-diverse individual who gets pedicures and shares an infatuation with Jude Law.
Of course some of us don’t go for Jude Law. And anyway, at Iona we would need to be all spiritual and stuff. No pedicures. So there you go. The more the merrier.
People, I’m kidding about the Iona trip, but only about 75% kidding.
No worries, notshyChicagoRev,
I’m nobody’s mother either.
I can’t claim the dust bunnies as children because, well, because,
and the cats have made it clear that I am not their mother. I am their staff.
If you’re free next Wednesday, bring your chromosones and your passport. Are we going to be back in time for the Indigo Girls concert? I have tickets for June 12.
Ok. Time to admit ignorance. What is Iona?
ooohhh….so right about the sandwich! Can use the exact same ingredients but it just taste so much better when someone else makes it.
And I would go anywhere with you people.
I’ve never been there, but it’s an island in Scotland. There is an ecumenical community that lives there, and they let wayfaring strangers with and without extra chromosones come visit. They’re very peace and justice oriented and have created some really neat liturgies and music. Someone who has been there can give more detail. I’m actually very excited that we’ve gotten the numbers up to 29 comments on RevMother’s meme!
Oh my gosh! How have I missed out on this Iona stuff?!! Never heard of this nirvahna before. Sounds wonderful!
I think the sandwich and salad thing is pure gospel.
- Comment #31! yay!
Just look at the picture of the Abbey…
And these are lovely too
“Iona has been described as a “thin place” - only a tissue paper separating the material from the spiritual.”
Oooohhhhhh wwwoooooow. Those photos are incredible. Thanks for the information. Wouldn’t you love to wash dishes there!?
The pastor at my church went for a couple of weeks two summers ago as part of his sabbatical. All he’s talked about is how lonely he was. I seriously want to shake the dude and tell him to get a grip. He was in IONA for crying out loud. He can look at his family almost any day. How often do you get to be in such an incredible place? [I’m really more sympathetic about the loneliness thing than I’m admitting here. It was an important learning experience for him, but really, I want to hear about the place some! :-)]
We love the name Jane, too, and got to use it!
RM — Certainly better than the old adage: Bad things happen in threes… I wish good things happened in dozens…