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inbow sunshine and the needles of doom fiber craft life and random silliness pollyanna rainbow sunshine and the needles of doom fiber craft life and random silliness menu skip to content home about the pollyannas pollyanna s bucket list and half bucket list pollyanna s reading in wonderland challenge pollyanna s reading on discworld challenge pollyanna ponders leave a reply lyda here i was obviously off perfecting my hermit impression yeah let s go with that moving on i found these 100 questions to ask each other on half a 1000 miles and i thought answering some might be a fun kick starter for getting back into the blog habit here goes name something that sounds like it should be fun but it s really not going to a club see this post on wait but why for a great explanation if you went to a party where half the guests were bikers and half the groups were doctors who do you think you would talk to most the cat when you tell someone to make themselves at home what do you actually mean help yourself to a drink take your shoes off put your feet up get a snack if you want one i tell close friends and family welcome to your home which means they are welcome any time and can stay as long as they like and pretty much do anything they want is it fair to get mad at someone for something they almost did y es attempted murder is still bad have you ever made a cake and not tasted the batter that would never happen do you know someone who could make being stuck in a traffic jam fun oh yes in fact that could be one of my definitions of people i want to spend time with would you consider it negative or positive if someone told you that you had really tight control over your emotions ah the old question vulcan or klingon no one would ever tell me that anyway does a critic s review of a movie make any difference on whether you see it or not no unless i m not sure if i want to see it then a good review might convince me to give it a try if someone tells you that you are too good for them should you believe them yes yes yes yes believe them and walk away quickly oh how i wish i d known that earlier in life who is the most famous person you ever met dawn wells who played mary ann on gilligan s island she was lovely and very talented if you had to pick between the two would you rather your partner have a habit of silent gratitude or silent anger gratitude absolutely is there any circumstance where you would speak up at a wedding when they asked if anyone knows why the couple should not get married don t marry him he killed his other 3 wives i just found their bodies do you undervalue what you are and overvalue what you are not get out of my mind if you owned the restaurant who would eat for free other than very close friends family the homeless police officers firefighters hungry children and teachers and military about to go overseas or coming back and oh i think i see why i don t have a restaurant have you ever been mad at someone for something they did in a dream yes isn t it weird would you rather have someone very smart extremely mad at you or someone very stupid extremely mad at you the smart person because they will probably just quietly poison me the stupid kill in a messy and painful way i may be watching too many murder mysteries name three things worth waiting in line for voting voting voting have you ever googled yourself yes it s a weird experience i recommend it do you think positive or negative consequences would more likely motivate someone to lose 50 pounds would they be more determined to do so if they were given 50 000 if they succeeded or if there would be a large nude billboard of them all over their hometown if they didn t oh gosh i think they would be motivated by the negative who wouldn t be but i also think that positive consequences would give them a better shot at success i am willing to try this if someone gives me 50 000 what do you spend too much time perfecting when it doesn t require perfection blog posts this entry was posted in around the blogiverse on june 14 2016 by lyda lyda here things have been well ugh yeah for most of the year let s just not go there n kay so i ll write a post about happy things shiny things couldn t hurt might help so here we go shiny 1 the bloggess new book furiously happy by jenny lawson is here well practically anyway i already pre ordered a copy and requested a signed bookplate shiny 2 3 4 yesterday i got a box of books in the mail among them were three terry pratchett books that i ve read but didn t own you re mine now my pretties shiny 5 i also got this book the life changing magic of tidying up the japanese art of decluttering and organizing by marie kond o as those who know me would suspect i have already almost finished reading this one she has a practical and proven method for getting rid of clutter not just once but for good but the most important point in the book is that every object in your home should spark joy which resonates with me as does this have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful william morris shiny 6 another new book steal like an artist 10 things nobody told you about being creative by austin kleon have barely opened it but already love it shiny 7 hector and the search for happiness starring simon pegg love this movie highly highly recommend it it s funny and deep and silly and touching all at once see it shiny 8 to the 3rd power my furry roommates who make me feel loved and who make me laugh every day shiny 9 and the biggest shiny of 2015 the sith master graduated from college he has a shiny new degree in computer science and a mom as proud as the universe is big shiny 10 and the biggest shiny in my life is the sith master himself i love that boy young man hey it did help i m smiling now what s shiny for you august 20 2015 leave a reply pollyanna tries to be shiny part deux 1 reply lyda here so this is me tryin to be shiny some of our beloved readers might not know what i mean when i say shiny to which i say get thee to netflix and watch firefly and then serenity y all are in for some fantastic viewing here is just a taste of the shiny that is firefly not safe for work in that verse universe shiny awesomeness see bottom of post for more shiny fun but i digress you know when you are trolling the web and you keep coming across all these lists of cleaning rituals clutter busting rules and organization plans it s especially bad at the beginning of the year and then bad again when everyone is telling you it s time for spring cleaning like the seasons need cleaning please seasons are self cleaning that is what rain is for people but i digress you read things like 2 million things you should do every morning before anyone else is awake or you are a failure as a human being or 1001 clutter busting tasks that you must do immediately unless you want to continue living in filthy squalor you lazy bitch or your new simple task list two hours a day is all it takes or you can continue to live like a sewer rat you disgusting whore wow those subtitles escalated fast calm down internet and then you have to go lie down because you feel faint and you are certain that you will drown in your own clutter if you don t die first from the filth but before that happens you will be evicted because you are just too hopelessly disorganized to find your bills much less pay them and then they will drag you off to debtor s prison and your daughter will have to support you and your granddaughter will die in the street and it will be all your fault you never want to live out a dickens novel okay calm down a few deep breaths think about kittens and wine think about watching adorable kittens while drinking wine that s better i think i can help anna liza is laughing now because she knows i have a bit of a cleaning thing and she thinks my rules are going to be just as bad as martha s really martha 4 minutes and 15 seconds on how to fold a fitted sheet really someone get that woman some better drugs let s just say that i can relate to monk a bit more than i d like i ve never been that obsessive or that funny but still hours of cleaning but i digress i can no longer spend hours obsessively cleaning my place as i was wont to do back in the old days about housework my mother used to say make a shiny spot each day oh wow i just realized that joss whedon stole shiny from my mom i think i m due some royalties now or free dvds mom also used to say you missed a spot but i m much better after the therapy but i digress again so i recently came up with my own plan the five minute shiny i decided to see what i could do in 5 minutes anything that i could call progress around the place anything at all for five minutes put a few clean dishes away take out the kitchen trash no not go through the frig and toss everything that needs to be tossed and then clean the frig since it s now empty and defrost the freezer and just take out the bag of trash already in the bin the five minute shiny is a tiny bit extra beyond my everyday tasks like feeding and watering the livestock my three cats and cleaning the litter box and uh yeah that s about it the first week i came up with this i timed myself because i happened to be microwaving my dinner for five minutes not because i was being all scientific i was amazed at what i can do in five minutes so now i try to do a five minute shiny every day some days i might do one in the morning and one at night and some days even 5 minutes is too much to think about let alone accomplish and that s okay too this is the great thing even done semi regularly the five minute shiny has really helped keep the place tidier and more organized of course i could use the five minutes to fold a fitted sheet but let s not get silly super shiny bonus fun go here let s do the thing this entry was posted in cleaning the shiny and tagged alan tudek bbc charles dickens cleaning obsession firefly joss whedon martha stewart monk nathan fillion serenity shiny spring on march 14 2015 by lyda pollyanna tries to be shiny leave a reply lyda here again at last so having gone so often without posting and for such long periods i kept thinking that i needed to do something huge and epic for my next post but that is so scary that it is paralyzing me into hiding under the blankets with cats on top to hold the blanket down so i decided i m just going to jump in and post something every day or two and not think it has to be epic okay here goes this entry was posted in writing and tagged blogging on february 24 2015 by lyda pollyanna and the lost weekend leave a reply lyda here i wasn t actually lost this weekend just misplaced but only slightly it was not at all like this lost weekend i was in la visiting friends one of the things we did was go to a fabulous restaurant in santa monica called the lobster it s right at the entrance to the pier with an 180 degree view of the ocean and the pier the whole evening was amazing incredible food excellent mixed drinks i wasn t driving and an elegantly casual atmosphere elegantly casual is hard to pull off if you aren t audrey hepburn but they do it well if you go ask if patrick can be your waiter he was terrific listen to his recommendations on the food and you can t go wrong and also best oysters ever this entry was posted in california food drink movies pollyanna eats drinks is merry reviews and tagged audrey hepburn oysters santa monica the lobster the lost weekend on january 22 2015 by lyda pollyanna gets bogged down leave a reply lyda here i have all kinds of plans to write posts about stuff my new apartment my new cats my new furnishings my new projects reading but most of these posts cry out for photos and i haven t downloaded them actually those first three are not really new they are used and or old i ve now been in my new apartment for 13 months or so the apartment was built in the 50s i m guessing i moved in just in time to view my neighbors butchering a cow in the driveway the shared driveway i have a picture of the butchery but i hesitate to share it the cow arrived in the driveway already dead and the neighbor plopped it on a tarp on the driveway and cut it into parts i tried not to watch i did see the blood pouring down the driveway and the neighbor s kids running barefoot through it and that s how we do thanksgiving in my hood those people have since moved out and the new neighbors in that unit are quiet polite and have yet to pour blood down the driveway it s early days though but i digress my furnishings are old i got almost everything at either salvation army or goodwill i made curtains and have a lot of painting furniture sewing pillows other projects on my list of course posts and pictures will be forthcoming but i digress the cats are also used ahem pre owned by one of my coworkers the big black cat is jinx and she is calm sweet and loving the reddish yellow cat came in as the boss of the massive climbing structure that came with the cats don t all cats move in with their own furniture she is the red queen as she often yowled off with their heads at least i assume that s what she was saying and then there is the kitten originally my coworker was going to keep the kitten but he left her with me while he went on a long vacation and when he came back she wasn t having anything to do with him i think she decided i was easier to manipulate the kitten was such a pale striped yellow as to be almost white and she had a habit of hiding and then attacking passing cats feet and random bits of paper she was also easily spooked often breaking high jump records in her startlement startlement is too a word spellcheck so the kitten s name is spook she has grown and calmed down a bit and now her fur has darkened into a pale gold but still no paper is safe as the kitten grew they will do that she began a systematic campaign to take over the world starting with the climbing structure she and the queen had some epic battles but in the end the queen abdicated and the kitten was triumphant so spook rules and still attacks the others my feet and anything made of paper without warning i almost named her cato the queen has become a lap cat and jinx is still mellow and yes i think this does qualify me as a crazy cat lady cow butchering neighbors an optional extra this entry was posted in cats home and tagged alice in wonderland bloody neighbors cato crazy cat lady new old things pinky and the brain the pink panther the red queen on january 16 2015 by lyda pollyanna wishes you a happy 2015 1 reply i can think of no better way to ring in the new year than to quote the new year wish of the always brilliant neil gaiman i hope that in this year to come you make mistakes because if you are making mistakes then you are making new things trying new things learning living pushing yourself changing yourself changing your world you re doing things you ve never done before and more importantly you re doing something so that s my wish 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