Red Wine Served In The Wrong Glass

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After a rainy Monday our weather this week has turned sunny and unseasonably cool– cold even.  I’m rather torn about this.  While my spirit likes sunny days, my body prefers gray days.  I always have more energy on gray days than on sunny ones.

I know, it’s backwards from how most people operate.  But that’s how I roll, so I’ve been in low gear all week.

Unique.

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I attribute this weirdness to my childhood.  For me, grays days were in the fall + winter + spring when I was in school and involved in all sorts of extracurricular & church activities.  If it was gray outside, I was busy.

But sunny days were summer days when I was free to do nothing.  I learned to relax during the summer when the sun was out.

Mellow.

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Earlier this year I bought some cut crystal glasses.  I thought the small size was about right for one healthy serving of red wine.  Plus serving red wine like this makes it easy to hold & pretty to look through.

Unexpected.

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I told a friend that I was drinking wine from the wrong glass.  She was not enthused.  She explained to me all the different types of wine glasses that she has, and how she keeps track of them in her home.  She reminded me that the shapes of the wine glasses were for a definite purpose– to enhance the wine.

She shook her head from side-to-side about my lapse in proper wine glass procurement & management.

Concerned.

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It’s not as if I go out of my way to do things in an unusual fashion.  I just do my thing– and somehow it often seems to be the odd thing to do.

It’s not a bad way to live your life.  But it does, from time-to-time, give me pause as I wonder how it is that I naturally end up doing things differently from everyone else.

Unconventional.

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What Do You Value Right Now?

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I.  While researching the concept of “values” I found this Checklist for Personal Values.  The checklist intrigued me so I did what the author suggested and picked the 10 values that mean the most to me [in alpha order].  Then I chose which 5 values were most important to me [in bold].

  1. change & variety
  2. economic security
  3. effectiveness
  4. freedom
  5. friendships
  6. good health
  7. inner harmony
  8. nature
  9. respect
  10. wisdom

II.  I then ranked these 5 values in order of importance to me until I had the following list.

  1. good health
  2. inner harmony
  3. economic security
  4. change & variety
  5. respect 

III.  Then I sat here and thought about what I’d learned about who I am today.  I realized that:

  • I no longer care as much about being right as I once did.  Whatever, people.
  • I no longer care at all about status.  If I ever did.
  • I no longer believe in as many abstract principles as I did when I was younger.  What is, is.

IV.  I did this simple little exercise in self-awareness just to see what would evolve from it.  I don’t know that these results surprise me as much as they confirm what I already suspected about my middle-aged self.  Which is that I’m pragmatic, well-balanced & curious as ever.

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If you enjoy learning a little bit about what makes you tick and you have the time [5 minutes max], give this exercise a go.  It was rather fun, I thought.

A Question. An Answer. An Insight.

When queried about her choice of Newtons, she said:

I like my Newtons figgy and original.  

Proving once again that she is a woman who does, indeed, live by her stated motto:

IF SOMETHING WORKS, STICK WITH IT.

[Hello FTC!  Just to be clear, you do realize that I’m not being paid for my opinion here, right? That I’m just babbling without any compensation whatsoever.  OK then.  We’re good.]  

The “Ten Things You May Not Know About Me” Meme

I may not be the fastest when it comes to doing things, but I am one of the most sincere– which must count for something.  Sorry that it took me so long, Polly….

Last June, Polly at caughtwriting gave me the Beautiful Blogger Award.  I knew that I wanted to participate, but just didn’t feel motivated to think about it until this week.

So without further delay, and only a few months late, please allow me to:

  • thank Polly for thinking of me;
  • tell you, my gentle readers, what I’m supposed to tell you about myself;  &
  • suggest that six of you bloggers out there do this meme, so that I might pass this award on to you, too.

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1.  I minored in Political Science in college.

2.  I’m a fan of The Big Bang Theory.  But then, who isn’t?

3.  My current favorite lip color is Spicy Honey Almost Lipstick by Clinque.

4.  I like Zagnut candy bars.  [If you only click on one link here, this is the one to pick.  Funny old commercial.]

5.  I use our Kindle more for playing games than for reading books.

6.  I don’t suffer liars easily.  [Good information here about “the most reliable indicators of lying.”]

7.  I don’t like the current trend of wearing lots of bracelets on your wrist.

8.  I’ve managed to keep the Christmas poinsettia that I bought late last November alive all year.

9.  I’m not now, nor have I ever been, a floozy.

10.  I am learning how to make origami cranes.  So far, not so good.