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Yup, that’s right! This is my 87th post! I can’t believe it. Who would have ever thought I’d get this
far?
What!!
87 isn’t a milestone?
Well I’ve been trying to hang on until my 100th…
but it’s taking WAY TOO LONG!
So in honour of my 87th post, I’ve decided to post 87 random thoughts.
Put on your seatbelts and hang on!
87 RANDOM THOUGHTS
1. Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?
2. If certain convenience stores are open 24/7, why do they have locks on their doors?
3. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do own the sidewalk!
4. I’m so hungry right now I could eat the arse off a skunk! (chicken soup is heating on the stove)
5. uh oh, I’m running out of thoughts…
6. Wazza matta you HEY! you gotta no respect HEY! whadda ya tryin’ ta do HEY!
7. I miss my daughter.
8. I want summer back!
9. I like Australian Shiraz.
10. I’m reading the final book in the Clan of the Cave bear series.
11. It’s called the Land of Painted Caves.
12. I just hiccupped.
13. I just realized my zipper is down.
14. I have a collection of pens that don’t write anymore…why do I keep them?
15. I like peanut butter
16. I like bubble baths.
17. My hairdresser says that bangs on 40-year-old women are called BOTOX.
18. My hairdresser is funny 😉
19. My co-worker gave me tomatoes from her garden – mmmmmmm
20. Only 67 more random thoughts to go
21. Yawning….
22. I should have thought through this 87 random thought thing…
23. WordPress is suggesting Lurpak as a tag.
24. What the heck is Lurpak?
25. I like red.
26. My dream kitchen would have a black and white checkered floor and red would accent cupboards and appliances.
27. Only 60 random thoughts to go!
28. WordPress is suggesting Tesco as a tag for this post.
29. What is Tesco?
30. My daughter had all four wisdom teeth removed on the 14th.
31. When does Once Upon a Time start again?
32. Is it true that more people are alive than dead?
33. Only 34 more to go!
34. haha gotcha 54 more to go!
35. 52 now.
36. Now WordPress is suggesting I tag barcode…so I will!
37. They say a 65-year-old woman has more testosterone that a 65-year-old man.
38. Once I posed for a photo as a hitch hiker by Stud Creek Road.
Told ya it was real!!
39. Stud Creed Road is so a real road!
40. Only 47 to go!
41. Song lyrics: I don’t like spiders and snakes, and that ain’t what it takes to love me… well duh!
42. WordPress wants me to tag WordPress.
43. Okey Dokey.
44. I’ve never been to a High School Reunion. Nobody’s!
45. Ever hear Sister Mary Elephant?
46. Put lemon in the tidy bowl?
47. Did you know that the saying “Rule of Thumb” originated as a suggestion not to beat your wife with a stick bigger than your thumb?
48. Just tagged Rule of Thumb!
49. Always be yourself! Unless you can be a Unicorn, then always be a Unicorn.
50. Only 27 more random thoughts!!!
51. You can’t have the cake and eat it too.
52. Gimme dat! Gobble, gobble…
53. Use Lurpak in a sentence…I dare ya!
54. Quick! A word that rhymes with eighty-seven!
55. I wish I thought of this random thought post on my 11th post!
56. Quick! Somebody check what my 11th post was!
57. I like when I notice my digital clock at 11:11!
58. I think Mr. Rogers was scary as hell!
59. Who are the people in your neighbourhood?
60. I’m no stalker, I just know stuff. By the way, you’re out of milk. 🙂
61. I make really good home-made soup!
62. Quick! What colour are my blue eyes?
63. I can’t remember if the first boy who kissed me was Peter Stevenson or Steven Peterson…
64. Only 23 to go!!
65. Only solicitors and survey people call my land line.
66. Why do I keep my land line?
67. I just burped.
68. Pardon me…
69. My computer just completed a scheduled scan.
70. Only 17 more random thoughts!!
71. The top 5 all-time visitors to my blog come from: United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and India.
72. The most commonly searched word that leads people to my blog is community.
73. The second most common is alone.
74. 13 more!!
75. 12 more!!!
76. Today is the youngest I’ll be for the rest of my life!
77. Ha! WordPress wants me to tag Peter Stevenson!
78. Who the heck is Peter Stevenson?
79. What?
80. Hang on, I’ll be right back 😉
81. I’m back!! Did you miss me?
82. LOL
83. This is hard!
84. 3 more!
85. I’m out of Windex and every time I go out to get supplies I forget the Windex!
86. 1 more!!!!!!!
87. Please share a random thought in the comment section.
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talktodiana 
Funny post, haha, mine is 81st. Six more post and I’ll get that lovely cake. LOL
Subhan Zein
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(smiling) There’s nothing like the 87th!
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I can tell! 😉
That’s why ou’re special.
Subhan Zein
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Diana,
That was fun. I, too, want to know when Once Upon a Time is going to air again. I almost mentioned it in my most recent post where I nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. Check it out. All seven things about me are really about television. http://humaninrecovery.wordpress.com/
Be well,
Kina
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Congratulation! Funny Post.
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So glad you enjoyed it and took the time to comment!
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Congratulations and in honor of your 87th…I nominate you for the Super Sweet Blogger Award…click on this link for the details ~ http://thoughtsfromanamericanwoman.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/super-sweet-blogging-award/
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Thank you so much!
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woohoo for you! yep….I’m an 11:11 wisher also….loving the above suggestions of 9:11 emergency wish too! ♥ I am now exhausted. Random…..at 9:49 a.m. it will be fall!!!! I like candy corn!
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It is a cool idea. Wishing for the safety of someone we don’t know who is in an emergency we don’t know about. I will look out for it for sure!
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🙂
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if you look at your stats or dashboard it just tells ya! I wanted to stop at around 5 random thoughts! The reason I did this post is I couldn’t think of anything to write and was running out of time, so it was something I planned for my 100th and I thought, meh…do it now and I didn’t have to think of 13 more!
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You did good to come up with as many random thoughts as you did as I would have just given up after maybe 10 or 15…………….lol Anyway congrats on 87 posts I wonder how many post I have done………….ok my wordpress posts would be a lot less then my blogspot posts…………but hell I still wonder how many I have done………..I should check that out……yes I know I am rambling now…….
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i ❤ random thoughts/facts:)
Until the age of five I believed that my last name was "Banana" – my Grandma called me Lorri Anna Banana. It was my kindergarten teacher that broke the terrible news to me that I had been misinformed.
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To artsifrtsy. Do you have an active blog? If you click on your name it brings you to a site with nothing on it.
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Yes I do! http://www.theeffstop.com
I started my blog to comment on my brother’s blog. He kept leaving snarky comments on my empty blog so I dove in – unfortunately I have not figured out how to make my empty blog go away:)
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My daugher is Michaela and she couldn’t say that very well and anyway I started calling her kayler butt (a variation of the end of her name and I say butt or a variation of it a lot, i.e., eat the arse off a skunk…but one day someone asked her what her name was and she said kaler butt and they said … what!! So I stopped doing that (I think she was 3 or 4 at the time)
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How cute! My Grandma was an Anna too so I wonder if I inherited my nickname from her. I was the first of 3 kids. My mom was 19 when I was born and by the time I started school she was still knee deep in diapers. She just never got around to telling me my name.
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(smiling) Yeah sometimes we forget to tell some important stuff!
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LOL – the firstborn is always the one you learn on – BTW – “skunk arse” best. fake. cussing. substitute. ever. My Gran gave up cussing when I was born and filled in the expletives with things like “turkey breath” or “buffalo butts” – skunk arse sounds like a perfect addition:)
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It’s a term I first heard from a Newfoundlander! Newfies by the way, have to be the friendliest and funniest group of Canadians ever!
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Aren’t they pretty remote? They have those amazing dogs we yanks think are so exotic:)
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On the Atlantic coast, I’ve never been that far east but hope to go one day.
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I have always wanted to visit the east coast – or actually anywhere in Canada. Next year I hope to hit the west coast for a couple of days.
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I live in the west! If you come out Calgary way or Banff or something, let me know!
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Sweet. I’m planning on taking a train trip from Chicago to Seattle and doing a road trip in Washington and Oregon. It’s so close we have to make it to Canada.
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I will take you out to dinner if you do!
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How cool – It would be great to meet up!
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I think so too and then we could take pictures of each other and post them on our own blogs and your pictures of me would look great and mine of you…well….sawry… 😉
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LOL – I actually like to do photo walks with someone and see how differently we see the same things.
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haha that would be fun and I could give you mine and you could post them side by side using mine as an example of what not to do! You truly capture beauty in your photos. You are gifted and I love when I see a new post from you in my inbox!
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Haha – Awe shucks – I feel exactly the same. I love the encouraging and thoughtful things you say. A deep well.
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Hi, Diana.
1. I would love to have a black and white tiled floor in my kitchen too, but I already have the red accents.
2. Nope, I’m not out of milk, so brush up on those stalking skills!
3. I’ve never been to a high school reunion either, but I would like to.
4. I knew about the Rule of Thumb thing, and it makes me shudder.
5. Looks like we both have a thing for bubble baths.
6. Love your blog. 😉
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Yes, I’m not a very good stalker (I have a short attention span) Thanks for weighing in and for loving my blog! ❤ xo
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I was beaten to the Tesco question.
It is estimated about 6% of people who have ever been alive are alive today.
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Does that mean more people are dead than alive then?
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I always make a wish at 11:11 and at 9:11 I make an emergency wish.
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What a neat idea! Especially the 9:11 one.
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At first I was thinking, “Gee, if she’s really 87, she needs to update her pictures!” Someone already stole my, “You don’t look a post over 62 joke,” but I’m using it anyway.
13. Did you leave your zipper down?
15. I don’t, you can have mine!
29. British Department store.
32. No (by a long shot).
44. Me, either.
45. Yes. (Is that you, Dave?)
53. I’m outta milk and outta Lurpak!
54. Seventy-seven! Sounds like heaven!
57. Eleven:Eleven!
62. Brown!
81. Oh,… were you gone? 😉
There are 2,743,632,000 seconds in 87 years (give or take a few leap days).
CONGRATS!!
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yes, what the heck, I was at home by the time I noticed. Is it smooth peanut butter? Oh thanks. unbelieveable huh? Interesting, why is that? George Carlin was funny eh? I didn’t notice because I use real butter. Do you know him? yes 11. Um no, I provided the answer withing the question….for a sec yeah. Love your random thought!
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Bummer! Sure. You’re welcome! I know, right?! Just ’cause. He was the greatest of them all (RIP),.. but S.M.E. was Cheech & Chong. Yum! Who?? 11-11-2011! D’oh! Yeah, I was just teasing. Muchas Danke!
🙂
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Ok you win because I will get dizzy if I have to keep referring back to the post and then my responses and then….Geesch I have to lay down. 😉
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“I’m so-oh dizzy, my head is spinning! Like a whirlpool, it never ends…”
(No winning; let’s call it a tie!)
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Mighty generous of you but I don’t mind acknowledging a master 😉
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you don’t like a digit over 29.
I’m glad you post, but always brush your teeth after a skunk….
happy 87th
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Shucks – thank you! Brush my teeth after skunk…right! Writing that down…
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It was the most random thing I could think of
I look forward to many more posts!
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Random yes, but practical advice too!
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that’s me !
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that’s me !
I just realized — I am practically random!
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and clever! Don’t forget clever!
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probably silly is more apropos.
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witty…let’s compromise on witty. 😉
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yikes, you have me in a compromising position!
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hahaha…I guess you know yourself better than I do!
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to know oneself.. hard to do
where is your daughter?
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she lives 3 hours north with her dad…I’ve been missing her a lot lately. Thanks for asking about her. 🙂
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that must be hard for you.
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Well I’m pretty busy with work and other things…but those times I am alone my thoughts center on family scattered about…
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I bet, sometimes I wish they were four years old forever
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really? I loved it the older she got but then again I was never one of those really maternal mothers. Don’t get me wrong I loved the different stages of growth but relating to her as an adult is mighty special to me.
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mine are great fun as adults, but I really liked putting them to bed at night….
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A father and his girls, that is a very special relationship for both parties I think…
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yes, but I understand that as they age the mother daughter bond becomes better throughout life.
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yes later as it has with my mom who said to me a while back that she liked how we are friends now…and I like it too! that’s so true!
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they only get to know how grumpy I get 😦
can you find 5 words for a story if I tag you ?
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sounds intriguing – I’m game!
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ha ha… your 88th post cometh
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a 5-word one? Looking forward to what your sharp mind is creating!
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I just sent a comment!
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ok!
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🙂
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I won’t be able to do this today but from the little I read I have to wait for your 5 words? Is that right?
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I have no idea, but if you read my post on bwfiction.wordpress.com you can see them, deep and subtle though they seem… ( laughing )
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what’s the link? Do you have it on this blog?
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http://resamcconaghy.com/2012/09/19/toothsome-story-game/
http://allaboutlemon.com/2012/09/17/toothsome-story-game/
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71. Yay it could be me
46. What is a tidy bowl?
random fact – I ate too much chocolate tonight
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Tidy bowl…from an old George Carlin album I had where he sang you put lemon in the tidy bowl…a commericial he put together for cleaning the toilet 🙂 I’m glad you’re one of my visitors and is it really possible to eat too much chocolate?
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oh this occasion…let me assure you…it is possible
blech!
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I think if you enjoyed it, it’s a good thing!
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ha ha I enjoyed it at the time Diana but I’m rethinking it now!!! 🙂 but you’re right – today it was a good thing x
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You think Mr. Rogers is scary? Your 87 random thoughts… now that’s scary! 🙂 Just kidding. But seriously… what is Lurpak. What is Tesco? and why does WordPress care? LOL — why do you care that wordpress cares? oh no, I’m starting my own 87! gotta go. it’s contagious! 🙂
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(smiling) All very good questions…thank you.
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Thought I’d help you out, Lurpack is a kind of margarine/butter sort of thing and Tesco is pretty much the biggest supermarket chain here in the UK (literally you’re never more than 10 mins from a Tesco!)
But yes, they are a whole load of random thoughts, though when I reached the end I did question to myself why I was still reading :-p
Loved the little glimpse into your head though Diana,
Much love to you both x
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haha! Somehow I couldn’t picture anyone reading to the end! I had nothing, zilch – and recently read a similar post on someone’s 100th post and out of a powerful need to post on Wednesday I chose to write this post. Thanks for reading anyway…much appreciated. xo
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Congratulations!
I keep pens that don’t work too – I feel like it’s an accomplishment to use them all up, because usually I lose them way before that 😛 And I don’t know when Once Upon a Time starts again, but I hope it’s soon!
As for my random thought: “I should really stop holding my pen in my mouth because it makes me drool on myself.”
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Ha! I love that random thought! Thanks for stopping by Andrea. 😉
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Oh, and I just found out last night – Once Upon A Time Starts on the 30th! 🙂
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Yay – I can’t wait! They sure ended with a cliff hanger last season!
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They really did! This season is going to be fun 🙂
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Happy Birthday! congrats!
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Thanks! But Ummmm it’s not my birthday…and if it was…you would believe I’m 87?? 😉 Have an awesome Wednesday!
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