Friday Fives

1. When you hear the word “Dandelion” what comes to mind? Yellow weedish flower in a lawn or the grey, snowlike puffball, perched to explode into the air?
I think of the puffy one – and see a field full of them. I guess it is the influence of Bloom County.

2. Any New Year’s resolutions? Do you keep resolutions or routinely break them like a child’s Christmas toy the day after the holiday?
Same as every year, exercise more, eat less, get in shape. And focus on the guitar, a resolution from a few years back that I broke and am trying to put back together (the resolution, not the guitar.)

3. Do you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. How do you cope with all the darkness and cabin fever?
This year I have really noticed all the darkness. It is so dark when I go to work (6:30 a.m.) and is starting to get dark when I am driving home – it is unsettling.

4. Merle Haggard asks the question: “Are the good times really over for good?”
I am a pretty Pollyanna. Ed tells me that my favorite book should be Candide. I can’t really believe the good times are really over for good.

5. You’ve rented a sky-writer to propose to your significant other, but it’s completely overcast. What will you do? (thank you, Blogger.)
I would probably realize that using a sky writer to propose is lame and would instead do something quiet and intimate and hopefully tie it all together as a reminder of our first date.

4 Replies to “Friday Fives”

  1. 1. Dandelions
    Yellow, ubiquitous, troublesome.

    2. New Year’s Resolutions
    Achieve more balance in my life (which is actually a resolution with a lot of nuances. Find some other forms of exercise.

    3. R U SAD?
    I have had very severe SAD the past two years. It’s actually been worse in the summer, where my mania reaches extremes. As for coping, an array of pharmaceutical options are good, as is good old fashioned “chill time”.

    4. “Are the good times really over for good?”
    ItÂ’s rather presumptuous of us to think that weÂ’re forever changing the course of human history. So are the good times really over? Maybe for some of us, but not for all of us.

    5. Sky-writer
    Put it off till the weather clears. Sheesh—if I had my heart set on a sky writer, then I could definitely wait till all everything clicked.

  2. 1. Dandelions
    Yellow, ubiquitous, troublesome.

    2. New Year’s Resolutions
    Achieve more balance in my life (which is actually a resolution with a lot of nuances. Find some other forms of exercise.

    3. R U SAD?
    I have had very severe SAD the past two years. It’s actually been worse in the summer, where my mania reaches extremes. As for coping, an array of pharmaceutical options are good, as is good old fashioned “chill time”.

    4. “Are the good times really over for good?”
    ItÂ’s rather presumptuous of us to think that weÂ’re forever changing the course of human history. So are the good times really over? Maybe for some of us, but not for all of us.

    5. Sky-writer
    Put it off till the weather clears. Sheesh—if I had my heart set on a sky writer, then I could definitely wait till all everything clicked.

  3. 1. Yellow. Fragrant. Edible.

    2. I haven’t made a NYR in years, as I usually don’t keep them. I’m satisfied with making positive changes as necessary throughout the year. Also, I’m satisfied with the fact that I’m a sot and like to eat bacon.

    3. I haven’t noticed any major SAD effects, other than the obvious desire to have more of a favorable light-to-dark ratio. But, again, it’s all about balance. Being born on the longest night of the year and getting married on the longest day of the year may have something to do with that. Or, I’m just talking out my ass.

    4. Good times are only over when you decide to stop having them. So let them roll. Let them knock you around. Let the good times roll. Let them make you a clown.

    5. I don’t think I would have picked the sky writer in the first place, so I would have happily gone with my second choice – in a gondola.

  4. 1. Yellow. Fragrant. Edible.

    2. I haven’t made a NYR in years, as I usually don’t keep them. I’m satisfied with making positive changes as necessary throughout the year. Also, I’m satisfied with the fact that I’m a sot and like to eat bacon.

    3. I haven’t noticed any major SAD effects, other than the obvious desire to have more of a favorable light-to-dark ratio. But, again, it’s all about balance. Being born on the longest night of the year and getting married on the longest day of the year may have something to do with that. Or, I’m just talking out my ass.

    4. Good times are only over when you decide to stop having them. So let them roll. Let them knock you around. Let the good times roll. Let them make you a clown.

    5. I don’t think I would have picked the sky writer in the first place, so I would have happily gone with my second choice – in a gondola.

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