5 Post Meme

Candid Karina tagged me to do the 5 post meme.  She also gave me some helpful guidance on how to link back to older posts.  I must sincerely thank her.  I used to have the old type blogger and one day the new type blogger magically appeared.  Now I actually see the little world linky button that everyone was talking about.  "Oh, the things you will see." (Dr. Suess)

The rules are:  Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts.  The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given below (family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like).  Tag 5 other friends to do this meme.  Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better:

1. Family:  This is a history that I have begun telling and will continue in the future.
2. Friend:  I have found only one post that I did on friends and they just happen to be blogger friends.  
3. Yourself:  My favorite post about myself would probably the first post I ever did to explain my blog name.  
4. Your love:  This post would have to be the one and it is titled "My Dearest."
5. Anything you like:  I wonder if this means anything I "like" or "anything" I like?  Oh well, I really liked this post the first time and since I had posted twice this day I felt like it didn't get much airtime because the first post was a Fun Monday.  So here it is again.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
   

Tagged for 5 Post Meme

I am going to tag two new friends:

Jeanette

Kitten

I might be able to explain the links 

to you if you need it. :D

Paul McCartney - Hey Jude

Royal Albert Hall:
Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Carl Perkins, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Buffet,
Phil Palmer and more.....

If I Could Talk to the Animals

Franklin: "I may be saying 'pretty bird' but I'm thinking
'crazy as a loon'.  You give me a mirror and I'm in love. 

Now just how do I get into that cage?"

"Hello, my name is Jasper. I've been lost several years now.
I'm a friendly guy despite my reputation."

"I'm Spunky, yes, I am! You can't do anything without
my approval. I will find you no matter where you go.
I'm hot on your trail, which would have a lot to with a
lovely odour that I've left on your tires. I'm just sharing
the love. Faithfully, every day."

Minnie: "My life is soooo boring! Yawn......"

"Hey, you there with the camera, no press please!
I don't get no respect!"

Calf: "What she doin' mom?"
Mom: "Just smile and she'll go away."

Mr. Bengal: "I know I'm good-looking but I think
you're overdoing it with the camera. I'm not going
to stand here much longer."

Pleicosty:  "God, I love these wafers.  They seem to just

descend from heaven.  I wonder if they're manna?"

Kissa:  "Well, I'm just keeping them company.  You 

know "bad company", ah ah ah!"

Kissa:  "I bet you didn't know I was in here."

Mr. Bengal:  "Can't a man get a little privacy around 

here?"

Marzipan:  "So, what do I do now?  Are you

guys laughing?"

Angel:  "I want candy." 

Marzipan:  "Thanks for blocking that sun from my 

eyes."  

Hobbes:  "I'm innocent as can be."

Minnie:  "Well, if you're not going to rub my belly, then

just what are you out here for?"

Possum:  "Every night, the same old food.  Nobody knows

the trouble I've seen.  Why I once even got my ear bit 

off! And why is she always tapping on that darn glass?"

Chip:  'Well, we both know I'm cute, but I tell you sister

I can bite the crap out of you."

Hippy:  "Oh, the bother of being so beautiful....they say

I'm bootylicious. Look out Britney!" 

Gory:  "Let's see, 555-5555, yeah, that's sounds about 

right.  Why didn't I write that number down?"

Fauna:  "If I don't look, she can't see me.  That flash

reminds me of headlights.  I just freeze up!"

Cardin:  "Red is my color."

Mona:  "Are you lookin' at me, pal?" 

Tiny:  "Stop that!  Wait, don't go!"

Sam:  "Oot-fray oops-lay.  Follow your nose...wherever

it goes."

Cocky:  "I'm from the land down under."

Leo:  "Don't make me come back there!"

Gerry:  "I could've had a v8."

"Sweet dreams are made of this.  Who am I to disagree?"

Bongo:  "Dont fence me in!"   

Manny:  "I'm a little peaved."

Peater:  "If you've got it, flaunt it"  

Scruffy:  "I got my hair cut a little shorter than I wanted."

Ebert:  "Where's Siskel when you need him?"

Herd:  "We play."

Hobbes:  "Where's that sound coming from?

Oh, it's just you."

December Pay It Forward Book Exchange- 6 books up for grabs!

Overwhelmed with joy is having another Pay It Forward book exchange for December.  She will be giving away on December 15th, so head over and sign up for the drawing.  Books given are:  The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and Kissing Adrien by Siri L. Mitchell.

Something Told the Wild Geese

Something told the wild geese
It was time to go
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered--"Snow."
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something whispered-"Frost."
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly,--
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
~Rachel Field~

The hardest part - Coldplay

I love the song but what a video!

Can you guess?

Can you guess what the green and yellow items are? Frigga asked in the Wordless Wednesday post what they were. I am thinking that Tiggerlane the Dino or Lotus could guess it quickly. :D

Wordless Wednesday-Extra-Ordinary Things

Fun Monday

Robinella is our hostess with the mostest this week. What's funny about this saying is my dad would always say "the hostess with the mostest", for some reason he and I thought this was the most hilarious thing to say! Which brings me to this week's challenge, Robinella
wants us to search through our extensive posts and choose "one" that is what we would consider best. I have only been a blogger since September this year so I did not have a lot of searching to do. My most precious post was easy to pick having been the most heartfelt and dramatic thing that has ever happened to me. My dad passed away on July 27, 2007 and I found blogging shortly thereafter. I think it has been a God-send because I needed somewhere to post my thoughts and feelings even if no one but me ever read them. It has been helpful to my grieving process to have a place to post my dad's pictures and talk about his life and mine. So this post on October 27, 2007 says it all:

My Dad, My Hero


After being in the hospital six weeks my dad passed away early one morning after he started bleeding internally and receiving and losing blood as fast as they could give it to him. He finally stopped bleeding, but his heart rate and blood pressure went down to something like 20/30 and his heart finally stopped. We had made the decision that they were to do everything to save him except if his heart stopped, they were not to resusitate. You should have seen the condition he was in, he had a surgery that wouldn't heal. He was cut open from his sternum down to his belly button. He had to have part of his stomach removed to stop the bleeding that an ulcer was causing. He'd had these ulcers for years. He had been being treated for a malignant melanoma on his arm before he ever went to the emergency room with his bleeding ulcers. He couldn't keep anything down in his stomach. He was losing weight. His wife (my step-mom) had passed away less than a year ago. He had so many machines and tubes hooked up to him. I left the hospital once to go get something to eat and came back and they said, "where were you? We were looking for you. We had to put your dad on a ventilator." At least I wasn't there to make that decision, it was made for me. They started asking several times after this, "How much farther do you want to go?" They had to put my dad into a drug induced coma because he was in such pain. I wondered as he lay there just how bad it was for him to be absolutely out of control. I wondered if he was still in pain, if he was crying out to be released, to be taken home. I wondered if he could hear us as we were talking in his room, joining hands around him and praying for him. I wondered if he wanted us to continue or let him go. I told him it was alright if he went. The last thing he said to me before he went into his coma was, "You know that I love you." And I said, "Yes, Daddy, I know that you love me and I love you." At the end when they took him off his pain medications to see if he could wake up and function again because this was an up and down process where they thought one day he was 10% chance of survival to maybe he's gonna make it, don't give up! We lived 5 hours away from him so I couldn't be there all the time, but I came every week for a few days and nights. But at the last one nurse told me that he was getting a response out of him, he would open his mouth to let him swab it out. I wanted to be there to see this and I got to. The nurse said, "Claude, open your mouth so I can clean it." He opened his mouth. Now the most excellent thing about this is that means that he could hear everything that was being said.