Middle name game-- Thanks Mo!

THE RULES
1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
2. Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of their middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.
3. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog-post containing your own middle name game facts.
4. At the end of your blog-post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
5. Don’t forget to link back to the person that tagged you in the beginning

Okay…so, my middle name is Lynn.

L: "loquacious" very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language . I talk--a lot. I could quite possibly carry on a conversation with a cantaloupe.

Y: "Youthful" young-- I try to stay young. I do fun things, with and without my kids. I like to act goofy and make people laugh, just because.

N:" Naive ", immature in a way. I would prefer to call it inexperienced or un-worldly. Growing up on military bases, and in a very sheltered family, I really didn't' have the experiences that some kids did growing up. I never drank, or snuck out. I rarely got into trouble in school, didn't' go to parties or have a crap-ton of boyfriends. So I never had those "teenage" experiences.

N: "Nutopian" Nutopia is a conceptual country created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on April Fool's Day 1973. This country (or nation) was supposed to live up to the standards set by the song "Imagine".-- I try to live up to this song. I want there to be " no heaven, no hell, no war, no hunger".

Wow! That was way harder than I thought it would be.

Tagging~~

Devon:

Kat:

Chris:

Michelle and Peter

Muffins

I am trying to re-create the Pumpkin Muffin from Dunkin Donuts that my husband fell in love with when he was back in Boston recently for his brothers wedding, and I must say: THIS SUCKS!

Having never had the actual muffin myself makes it really hard to try to copy. All I have to go on is " really light and fluffy", really pumpkin-y" and "crumble-y on top like a coffee-cake" Do you know how dense actual pumpkin is? I have no idea how they made it "light and fluffy" unless they aren't using real pumpkin. I've tried a few recipes from All Recipes, and while they've turned out "good" and "ok", they aren't what I am looking for. Any East-coasters want to send me a muffin, lol?

Creativity

Mine has left the building, I think. I used to bead and make jewelry. I used to write.

Now, when I start a project, "IT"s just not there . There's no spark, no "yep, this is gonna be good".

Blah.

.... That's where I was. This is where I am at now:

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9/11

"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

 

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

 

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

 

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

 

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"

 

-----John Lennon 1971

“I came here looking to see a good leader, I don’t,”

"...student then asked McCain a question about what he would do for “LGBT” rights – the initials stand for Lesbian, Gay, Bi Sexual, and Transgender people. McCain was confused by the question and admitted to the audience that he did not know what the initials meant. Once it was clarified, McCain told sophomore William Sleaster that he was opposed to any form of discrimination, but he supported the military’s current “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and that he opposed gay marriage.

“I believe that the sanctity of marriage between man and woman is unique and should be preserved, and I understand the controversy that swirls around that issue, and that debate needs to be continued to be held, but I support that position,” McCain said.

“You want to take away someone’s rights because you believe it’s wrong,” Sleaster followed up.

“I don’t put that interpretation on my position, but I understand yours,” McCain responded, seeming to enjoy the back and forth.

“I came here looking to see a good leader, I don’t,” Sleaster said before leaving the microphone to some boos and gasps from the audience and an eventual scolding by a school administrator. **see rest of the article here **

Why on earth would the student have been scolded? He was stating an opinion, and was well with in his first amendment rights, he wasn't "disrespectful". He clearly stated why he had come, and what he found wasn't what he was looking for. I applaud him for having the courage to stand up and say what he was thinking, and for the fact that he was following a major political topic unlike many of his peers.

Kudos to you, Mr. Sleaster!

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“Give it a rest, Patti. She run away and she ain’t never coming back, you need to move on. That girl’s been a problem since the day she came here, always fighting with me and telling lies.”

Patti pulls away from the shop window, where she had been taping up a missing sign, and whirls around to face Edward.

“She wouldn’t run away Ed, I just know it. She’s out there somewhere and she needs me to keep looking for her, she needs someone to still care about her. Most people ‘round here just gave up and tossed her away like she was some sort of trash, just because her momma was a floozy and a drunk. Now get away from me… You can’t come near me anymore, the judge said so.”