Daily Archives: Wednesday, May 18, 2005

If I Could Be …

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I found this on Lucy’s Livejournal …

Here’s a game…

How to play:I have to pick 5 occupations out of the list below and post my answers. Then I tag 3 other people to post their answers on their blog. If I tag you, and you don’t want to be a part of this, then that is okay. Just let me know and I’ll tag someone else.

The Questions: If I could be a scientist…If I could be a farmer…If I could be a musician…If I could be a doctor…If I could be a painter…If I could be a gardener…If I could be a missionary…If I could be a chef…If I could be an architect…If I could be a linguist…If I could be a psychologist…If I could be a librarian…If I could be an athlete…If I could be a lawyer…If I could be an inn-keeper…If I could be a professor…If I could be a writer…If I could be a llama-rider…If I could be a bonnie pirate…If I could be an astronaut…If I could be a world famous blogger…If I could be a justice on any one court in the world…If I could be married to any current famous political figure…

Lucy didn’t “tag” anyone. I won’t either. But you can join in and let me know in a comment or trackback that you are hitting the ‘tag’ button yourself. Let me know!

Me:

I’ll be particular towards the things I like in the list, some I piddle at, non-professionally of course.

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1. If I could be a farmer … I’d have 20 acres of pasture, fenced and cross-fenced, with hedgerows in-side to further crossfencing, and a creek running through, a pond somewhere on the acreage, 20 or so acres of forested land surrounding the pasture, managed nicely by me, a river close by, maybe bordering the back side of the property in some fashion. More acreage for my diversified veggy garden, a couple of acres only, and a few small herb gardens closer to the large old-fashioned farm house. The pasture would be accessible near the house. There would be a few Jersey and Guernsey milk cows, grass-fed and milked every 18 hours, on the grass year round. Laying hens would be free-ranged with a movable structure with roosting and laying nest areas. It’d get moved every other day with the golf cart I’d have to rove around the property. The house itself would sit back way off the road, a winding loose pebble road would come through an acre or more of trees and perennial flowers of every season to meet the house.

Also on the pasture would be a small flock of sheep, for wool and milk.

I’d make cow and sheep cheeses. Butter. Sell that, and milk and cream and not for an arm and leg as Dairy Mofia Price Structures are followed today on most farms. Things wouldn’t be cheap, they’d cost what they SHOULD cost.

It’s silly, I can buy butter for cheeper than I can buy raw cream. I mean that the prices don’t make sense out there. I’d make sense on my farm. :)

I do have farming of a small scale now though. 15 hens in the backyard, a pathetic herb garden, and a more pathetic veggy garden most growing seasons. We do hope to get some acreage and implement some sort of version of the above.

My Visionary Farm would also have caretakers that live in a cottage there and help out with all the work.

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2. If I could be a musician… I can sing, and have sung in educational settings and church settings, and concert settings, and outdoor festival settings, and at home, and in the vehicle, and still do the vehicle and home versions. Our dream is also for me to do more with my singing, and this is it:

I would, if I could, record many old songs, redo them, I’m an ‘arranger’.

I want to write, and given the right setting I know I could write lyrics and maybe music as well. I just haven’t set down to do it. I know I could, so I just leave it at that. Dumb.

I want to have a band, and sing and play music and lyrics written by friends. I have friends IRL and online that have said they can and will and are working on that.

Style? Current, really edgy, punkyish, deep brooding, but positive and upbeat as well.

I want my music to be who I am, I am in Christ, and that is where my message flows from. I really like many kinds of music, but particularly see a need in this “alternative” side of it for my take on music, with my crazy outlook ;)

I don’t want to “make it big” per se, I want to have my own label and recording studio someday.

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3. If I could be a chef… I’d open a Natural Real Organic restaraunt and sell really good food. I’d create specialty dishes and make comfort farmy foods as well. I’d get my goods from regional farms, beef, lamb, cheese, dairy, eggs, veggies, herbs … ah.

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4. If I could be an inn-keeper… I’d have a Bed and Breakfast, on a small farm, and serve Quiche and other nice breakfast items, freshly made from my farm produce, and the house would be a Late Victorian or Arts & Crafts style. I’d furnish it as Country taking cues from the Arts & Crafts movement. Simple elegance, country charm. Shabby chic maybe though as well.

There would be things for guest to do, croquet, badmitton, nature walks, animals to help feed, and stuff, maybe horses to ride. Dogs to play with. Cats to play with.

OR:

I’d go to England and buy a big house or inn on the moors of Yorkshire and open for business, with copies of Daphne du Maurier books available in each room, and a bar with good spirits and great local and regional and foreign brews. The dining room would have good hefty meals available. Imagine a dark brooding inn.

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5. If I could be a bonnie pirate… I’d be a boy with long dark curly hair and dress foppishly elegant as a Bonnie Pirate would. I’d be dashing and handsome and have a lady in every port. But then I wouldn’t be a nice Christian either, so … I’d just be a bad boy for awhile if God made me that, then I’d convert and become a great man of God and do the same things, just not be a bonnie pirate but a Bonnie Christian Pirate and be a nice guy and marry a nice lady and not pirate people, but learn to ship goods and trade and maybe just settle down on some tropical island with my lady and have a brood of children and hunting dogs.

But I’m a girl and happy to be me.

I can be four of the above choices, not #5. I pray that God will bring the opportunities our way to farm and sing and such. :)

I have to have a 6th choice too though.

6. If I could be a scientist… I’d be mad one too, just like Lucy! :) heheheheee

2005 Sandal Journey

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We’ve been looking in stores for sandals for me to wear. I had an idea in my mind, actually a picture, of course, seeing as I’m “Visual-Spatial” ;) and of course, weary me, weary us, no store had anything remotely like I wanted.

I have a pair of red Janzen flip flops we got on Tybee Island the other week, but there they had nothing remotely like I wanted either.

We were at the mall last week, one last try, trying the big retail mall. We went into all the shoe shops, departments stores, and any retailer that had sandals.

The sandal style out there for 2005 seems to be really flip-floppy and ugly, with big thick soles. Man-made materials 100% or made out of cotton upper thong stuff, and man-made-bottoms.

I had in my mind the style I last purchased. Long ago, in like 1988. They serviced me well. Actually I think I got a different pair after that, but they fell apart and the older pair didn’t. So it’s like this: My 1988/89 sandals were my favorite by far, and the pedestal on which to measure everything else up to.

I saw something in Amercian Eagle though. It was the closest to my vision at that point in our 2005 Sandal Journey. We kept looking elsewhere though. That store I had never “really” been in. I realized finally, after several more futile looking at myriads of shoes, we had to go back to American Eagle.

The sandals there were displayed in the back on the wall, and nearer to the front on a turning rack. What was I looking for:

Leather, white, thong or strap between toe, strap in back. Leather upper and lower, wood heel, but very flat so not much heel.

The AE sandal was white and leather. It had silver stuff on it and no back strap. But looking at it again, it was made how I wanted, just not decorated how I was hoping to find. But, they didn’t have my size (6). They checked in the back. None. They did have the same sort of style in a different look, but not in white. So we were able to order it through the store and have it shipped to us for no extra charge that way.

The sandals came via USPS today finally (it seems such a long wait! Over a full week.) So I have them on now, “breaking them in”. They are comfy, just the left one needs to give a bit, and will with time worn.

[insert photo of new sandals here -- later]

I like them alot. They can’t measure up to my ideal though. My beloved sandals were different, and decor was thick metal stuff. They were just scrumptious. I might actually have them somewhere in a pile, I know they encountered trouble in the last few years and something could have been fixed, but wasn’t and so I don’t know anymore what the trouble was. In any case, something new was in order.

I have some new skirts and for summer I really needed white sandals to go with them. So now I’m good to go. :)

Here’s a link to the sandals on the American Eagle site.

I did like some of the stuff they had in the store too. A few cute skirts.

That’s the thing about everywhere though, I’ve been looking for dresses and skirts in main stream shops and WOW the styles are finally here! Prarie and just great flouncy skirts and dresses and it’s rather nice for a change. Great Spring, Summer, Autumn styles for feminine comfort and charm. It’s only here for this 2005 season, and will be out of style by next year, but who cares. I don’t. I’ll wear it in 2006, 2007, 2008, etc. It’s been dry as a bone otherwise. Frank tells me “We’ll go out and get a dress for you”. Wearysome words. I rarely find anything good, and nothing to bring home but rayon stuff that I really don’t like that much. $ is an issue, so I can’t just go find stuff just anywhere. I wish I could sew stuff, but I just don’t have the motivation to get back into that anymore.

So for now, it’s a fun time. Actually nice feminine modest stuff out there, mixed in with the mini scrunchy tiny things of course. ;)