Thursday Thirteen – The Letter V

It’s Thursday.

And you know what ‘It’s Thursday” means.

Another lively edition of  “Thursday Thirteen!” This thing is winding down one week at a time – each week bringing usme one week closer to my sweet McDaddy returning home from a L-O-N-G-B-O-R-I-N-G deployment.

In the meantime, I fill my days as full as I can in an attempt to pass the time.

At this very moment, I’m sitting in my big, blue, bloggy chair with my laptop, a bag of gummy bears, DVR remote and my list of “V” words. In my purse, I keep a little notebook with a running list of more things than you would want to know about words for each letter of the week. Some weeks I have only three or four words on my list. This week, I have 15 words on my “V” list so I will need to trim it down as we go.

Enough rambling.

1. VEIL – Eleven years ago, I made a vow to love, honor and cherish McDaddy as long as we both shall live.  Unfortunately, I had no idea that in a few short years, women the world over would be wearing tiaras on their wedding day. Back in the day, this is the closest thing I could find to a tiara. I loved my veil.

2. VAN – My daily driver happens to be a Dodge Caravan. While it may not be the coolest ride in town, you cannot beat its versatility or the room that it affords. This is what my van looks like when someone accidentally leaves the key in the ignition in the engaged position (ahem!)

3. VEGETABLE – I love vegetables. My favorite vegetable would be mashed potatoes, but most of you would argue that mashed potatoes do not qualify as vegetables. I do love a good FRESH green salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons, boiled eggs, shredded cheese, shredded carrots and creamy blue cheese.

4. VISION – I have better than perfect vision thanks to LASEK surgery in 2007. It is the best money I’ve ever spent. Over the past three days, I have threatened to poke my eyeballs out with forks because OHMYGOSHTHEYITCH! I’ll be thrilled when the pollen GETSTHEHECKOUTOFDODGE!

5. VIRGINIA – Back in the day when McDaddy and I were dating, we loved getting in the car and driving aimlessly until we found a great mall some new place to visit. More than once, we ended up in Virginia because it had a great mall we enjoyed the drive.

6. VISA – During our tour through Europe, I was surprised that no matter what country we were visiting or what the language was, there was always one word that knew no borders or language barriers. Visa was understood in every. single. store. we. visited.

7. VALENTINE – I love Valentine’s Day. There’s something about the red and the pink and the hearts and even the sappy cards, too!

8. VIOLIN – I think the violin is one of the worst sounding instruments on the planet EXCEPT when it is used in the country music industry.

9. VOICE – I come from a long line of loud. I talk loud. I laugh loud. I sing loud. Not that I can actually sing, but I enjoy singing. I happen to sing in Open Letter. As in OPEN up and LETTER fly!

10. VOLUNTEER – I spent many hours during high school volunteering for the American Red Cross. In 1991, I was a representative from the WV chapter to American Red Cross Leadership Camp. It was a great week and I met a lot of really cool people. I have stayed in contact with two of my friends from that year. (Hi Sara! – tell Tim I said, “Hi Howdy!”)

11. VACATION – As soon as McDaddy gets himself back to the great state of West Virginia, we will hit the road and spend some time in our Summer Home which happens to be sitting in my granny’s backyard as I type this post.

12. VANILLA - I think the vanilla scent should be outlawed. Vanilla candles, vanilla body spray and vanilla milkshakes. Um, no thank you.

13. VEHICLE – (You knew this was coming!) – My favorite vehicle is the Saturn Sky.

And, just because I like to shake things up a bit, take a look at this tough ride.

Notice, I said tough.

Not sexy.

The Saturn Sky is still the sexiest ride on the road.

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And, for those of you who have waited patiently about a question I posed to you last week regarding the name of this utensil.

I call this thing a turner.

McDaddy calls it a spatula.

A spatula looks like this

If you Googlize the word spatula and the word turner, you will undoubtedly find both of these items listed under both names.

Who knew?

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Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your week!

Tagged as: Because I Like To Ramble, Deployment, Lists, The Saturn Sky, Thirteen Things, TiVo