Judy Dykstra-Brown over at lifelessons usually participates in Cee Neuner’s widely popular Share Your World weekly prompt at Cee’s Photography. I haven’t ventured that far afield, but Cee isn’t available this week, so Melanie from Sparks From a Combustible Mind is filling in. Her questions caught my attention. Thought I’d horn in and post my answers to them on here!
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Have you ever been in a food fight?
Good Lord no! The food would never get past my mouth to be hurled at someone!
How do you deliver bad news?
If the person is close, I go see them. If not, usually I call. On occasion I’ve written a letter.
What (if anything) do you think is beyond the stars?
I would like to think there are other critters like us out there somewhere (though I’m particularly fascinated with worm holes…)
What unsophisticated activity do you like to do?
I don’t know if this fits the description, but every now and then I get a craving for broccoli. So I’ll cook an entire bag of frozen broc, add butter and salt and pepper to it, and eat the whole thing… My mother always said that meant I was lacking in something! (Now THAT’S a loaded comment!)
Is there a scary scene from a movie (or book) you viewed as a child that still haunts you?
Yes! Hitchcock’s “The Birds” scared the bloody tar out of me. Saw it at the downtown movie theater with a friend then we walked a block to the library. We were going to ride the bus home, but when we came out it was getting dark and the library grounds (covered in BIG maple trees) were covered with magpies and crows. We went back inside, called my dad, and when we got there we ran like hell for the car! 😀
Seal’s ‘Kiss From A Rose’ was the theme from which film?
One of the Batman movies (none of which I ever saw). I’m not familiar with the song.
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What about you? Care to take a stab at them???
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Picture Source: Caledon Public Library
Impromptu Promptlings 
Have you ever been in a food fight?
I cannot and will not. There are people starving out there !
How do you deliver bad news?
In person if at all possible
What (if anything) do you think is beyond the stars?
Worlds beyond worlds of wonder. I like the notion of being able to travel instantly from one to another via a wormhole.
What unsophisticated activity do you like to do?
Unsophisticated? There is nothing unsophisticated about anything I do 🙂
Is there a scary scene from a movie (or book) you viewed as a child that still haunts you?
Not as a child – a fully fledged grown up. The scene in Deliverance where the hand rises out of the lake.
Seal’s ‘Kiss From A Rose’ was the theme from which film?
You don’t know it?! Shame on you. I would happily let Seal put his slippers under my bed with or without serenading me with Kiss From A Rose 🙂
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There is nothing unsophisticated about anything I do 🙂… LOL That answer is SO you!!!
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You know me well 🙂
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I get mad whenever I see a food fight scene in a movie. My parents taught me that food shouldn’t be wasted, and I live by that rule to this day;)
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Me, too, so I tend to eat EVERYTHING in sight! ;D
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I picked up the nickname “Gannet” when I was young. I had a live-in job in a hotel and we ate our meals together. The rest of the staff would pile whatever they didn’t want onto my plate, and I’d eat it. l 🙂 but lately I’m not that interested in food.
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I’ll take a go at it:
Food fight – never. sounds gross.
Bad news: In person. Or by phone if they live far away.
Beyond the stars: Lately I’ve been seeing the validation that perhaps it is us (humans) coming back from the future. Far into the future and doing time travel. The so called aliens are really us. If that makes any sense.
Unsophisticated activity I like to do: That’s easy. Laundry. The whiter I can get the whites, the happier I am. Sometimes I see Mr. Doodle wearing an old, but glowing white tee shirt and I have to chuckle.
Scary movie: As kids, my friend and I went to see “The Haunting”. Terrifying! Still to this day.
Seal’s Kiss from a Rose: Don’t know the song. Will have to check on that one.
Thanks!
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The Haunting? Is that the remake or the old one The Haunting of Hill House. There’s another one that scared the tar out of me along with the old Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invaders from Mars, Alien (I was eight months pregnant when I saw that one and even Brandon had a panic attack!)…
Loved your answer about the aliens. I think you may be right!!!
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When I was pregnant with my first baby, my doctor said “If you crave something, eat it. It’s your body’s way of telling you that that food contains something you need.” Sage advice, but I still haven’t worked out exactly what it is in chocolate that’s needed so desperately.
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It’s not just plain old chocolate. It’s DARK chocolate. It’s good for your heart, vascular tone, and insulin sensitivity believe it or not! 😀 That’s the unsweetened stuff, not the sugary kind…
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I was a child when “Birds” came out, but yes, I remember eyeing them warily for a long long time. Where I live there are a LOT of crows and magpies. Thank goodness for Huny (my dog) who loves to chase those awful birds. Up here they are mostly all bullies and will even hop towards humans cawing and flapping their wings…hm. Maybe Hitchcock was onto something?
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I read recently that Tippi Hedren was scared to death of birds and Hitchcock told her the ones they were going to use for the scene where she went upstairs into the bedroom were mechanical. But when they shot the scene they were REAL. And he made her do the scene several times till she was so terrified — which is probably what he wanted. He was kind of a jerk.
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HA! I am phobic about birds to this day — stupid Hitchcock!
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I think it must have had that affect on a lot of people. (effect?) Our yard is always full of crows and some ravens — at least I think they’re ravens. They’re bigger than the crows. We had a hawk once that had a nest in a tree across the road from us. One spring after she’d laid her eggs his nibs had gone outside to get up on the roof and hook up the swamp cooler. He had a hat on that mama bird took exception to for some reason. Every time he’d go outside wearing it she’d dive bomb him. He couldn’t get up there to hook up the cooler and we were roasting in the house.We finally called the Nature Center to see what could be done. Nothing. They are protected in this area. They just told him to COVER UP. So there he was in 90 degree weather with a big old winter coat and his hat on. Pert near killed him gettin’ that sucker hooked up that year!
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Ha.. Love your food fight answer!!!
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Besides, I don’t like to get hit in the face with anything. Even water!
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