One to Ten Sunday Stealing

This week’s Sunday Stealing is One to Ten.

One song that describes my life.

I’m trying to pick a song I haven’t discussed recently. From Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years album is a tune called Have A Good Time, which I used to play every March 8 for about two decades. The lyrics begin:

Yesterday, it was my birthdayI hung one more year on the lineI should be depressedMy life’s a messBut I’m having a good time

Two things I wish I had more of in my life

Money, though I’d give most of it away, and time.

Three ways I relax

Getting a massage, listening to music, taking a nap

Four of my best accomplishments

Blogging for nearly 18 years, winning on JEOPARDY, figuring out some genealogical puzzles, and working long enough so that my wife’s health insurance is paid for until she’s 65 and my daughter’s until she’s 26

Five things I am looking forward to

Visiting Vermont again, reading several books, attending Jagged Little Pill, attending Ain’t Too Proud, going to a concert

Six things I am grateful for

My wife, my daughter, my sisters, my friends, living in a walkable neighborhood, and my house (despite its flaws, but don’t tell it I said so)

Seven Deadly Sins

Seven facts about me

I met former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1973, I introduced Rod Serling at a high school assembly in 1970, I’m much more likely to remember numbers than words, I was born on a Saturday, I’ve never been off North America, I’m the oldest of three children, and I know all of the two-letter postal abbreviations for the 50 states

Eight things I can see from where I am sitting

Lots of books, several Hess trucks, photos of my wife and daughter, my inhaler (which I haven’t needed lately), an empty diet cherry Pepsi bottle, a file cabinet that had been spray-painted blue, the radiator, a lamp

Nine words I would use to describe myself

Intelligent, cautious, opinionated, political, musical, curious, melancholy, considerate, observant

Ten little things that make me happy

Watching kids read, barbershop quartet harmony, people holding the door for others, kittens, missing all of the red lights when going to church, getting JEOPARDY questions correct when all three players fail to ring in, fixing something mechanical (not generally my strong suit), people shoveling their walks after a snowstorm, listening to Italian even though I do not understand it, a clean kitchen counter

Author: Roger

I'm a librarian. I hear music, even when it's not being played. I used to work at a comic book store, and it still informs my life. I won once on JEOPARDY! - ditto. View all posts by Roger

9 thoughts on “One to Ten Sunday Stealing”

Yes! I LOVE a clean kitchen counter!! That is pretty cool that you know all of the two letter state abbreviations!

I would use “cautious” to describe me, not “political” though (even though I am really). I hate politicians generally so I try my best to avoid talking about them.

:o)

Cheers

Jeopardy AND Rod Serling! You, sir, are my hero!

I have inhalers in every room of the house. Some of them are out of date but I keep them until I can get them replaced, just in case. And one in my purse for when I am out of the house. I try not to use the inhalers, though, because they make me feel weird.

Your list of 10 made me so happy! What fun answers.

Nice to meet you! I know all the postal state abbreviations too. I am a retired postal worker. Congratulations on your Jeopardy win!

So fun to learn a lot of new things about you! I agree…seeing kids read (because so few of them seem to enjoy it these days) is something to be happy about.