Thankful Thursday: Phones, MeMes, Memories, White Vans, Vanna White, and Such...

Good Morning, and it's another Thankful Thursday at Rhondi's Rose Colored Glasses. The only thing is, you're going to have to excuse me today. I know that the sign says I'm on the phone to Paris, but I'm actually on the road to exhausted! It's finally caught up with me... the late night blogger burnout. Not only that, but I have to travel over the next couple of days and serve at a bridal tea on Saturday. So while I will definitely come to visit you, it may take me longer than usual. But please know I will persevere and be there. I thoroughly enjoy visiting you. Wouldn't miss a day's visiting for all the tea in China! And I also hate not to return a call paid here because I appreciate ALL of your visits to me. :-)

One of the key things I'm very thankful for right now is my cell phone. When I'm traveling, I like knowing it's in the car with me. I can remember pre-cell phone days of driving alone, and it wasn't fun. At least this way if you break down on the road, you're covered! Anyone else know that feeling?

Another thing I'm thankful for is blogging friends, and sometimes those friends tag you with MeMes. That's what Judi of Cranberry Blossom did to me recently, and I'm passing this along to any of you who want to play. If you want to play, you have to link back to me and tag someone else to keep the ball rolling. :-)

After the tag, I started thinking about the MeMe in addition to all of that talk about Cecelia wanting to be Vanna White, and it got me thinking about memories. To be specific, it's important to make memories each day... whether it's with a young child, a neighbor, your friend, or your family (fur or human). Memories are a big part of who we are, and I am very thankful for mine. I am particularly thankful for the quirky ones. They are particularly "shiny" and fun for the baby bird in me to take out and examine. So here are "Seven Things People May Not Know About Me" (depending on who's reading)...


1) Knock-Knock... Practical jokes (harmless ones) have always amused me, whether I was the joker or the jokee. To that end, I can make a noise with my tongue like someone knocking. And I'm not just talking about clucking my tongue. I mean knocking and LOUDLY! I can make (and have made) people think someone is actually at the door -- Now QUICK! Go answer it! ;-)

2)The Unmade Bed aka Mrs. Magpie Tackles City Hall... Years ago, I appeared at City Hall for a meeting, wearing my cute new black sweater with a white lace collar, a white and black tattersall plaid skirt, and a great pair of black shoes. (Mama bought the outfit for me!) I rushed to make it to the meeting because my alarm didn't go off, and Mr. Magpie was not in town to wake me. When I got to the top step of the building, I saw two friends outside smoking cigars. One of them looked at me sorta funny, and I said jokingly, "What's wrong? Do I have my clothes on inside out or something?" To which he replied, "Yes, unless those are supposed to be there." And with that, he pointed. My sweater was turned inside out with the shoulder pads on top, like epaulets!

Hey, at least it was a cute outfit. ;-)

3) Needed: Guidance Counselor... Aside from having a burning desire to be Miss Kitty or a teacher when I was little, I also had visions of becoming a chemist or a Rockette like the ones at Radio City Music Hall. Guess that means I could work teaching chemistry at the local Dodge City One-Room Schoolhouse by day and high kick my way across the Longbranch stage by night in between romancing Matt Dillon and putting on big fake beauty marks.

4) Hystertic Preservation... My father, the history buff, used to take us on Sunday afternoon "hysterical" tours when I was young. That's what my mother called them because we would ply ourselves with Cokes on hot summer days and end up millions of miles from the nearest restroom and/or end up car sick and always hysterical. Daddy would invariably stop to get directions and get us even more lost. He blamed it on Mama's inability to read a map. Typical man. ;-)

5) Baby Love... My parents were old enough to be my grandparents. My father used to say, "Baby, don't ever let anyone tell you that you weren't wanted because you were wanted more than any child on this earth!" I was clueless what he was talking about (grownups always talked in riddles), but I accepted what he said as fact. Still do. :-)

6) Going to The Chapel... Mr. Magpie and I eloped. My oldest sister and her husband eloped. My parents eloped.

7) Wheel of Fortune... Vanna White came to our wedding reception, and none of us knew who she was but her date! ;-)

a) After we eloped, Mr. Magpie and I were given a large reception by my mother (my father was deceased). One of the guests at the party (the date of Mr. Magpie's former college roommate) was none other than Vanna White. Yes, THE Vanna White. We had no clue who she was. We'd been so busy studying our way through college, grad school, and law school that we didn't have time to watch "Wheel of Fortune." No, we watched more uplifting and highly educational programs like "Guiding Light" (daytime soap) and "Dallas" (nighttime soap). ;-)

b) I have a white GMC cargo van like Larry the Cable Guy drives (two seats, open back) for ferrying all of my stuff around. It's probably the only cargo van in existence that consistently plays hits from the likes of Mozart and Mussorgsky. I drive it everywhere from flea markets to country clubs. Mr. Magpie dubbed it Vanna White as in white van or Vanna for short. My friends often hear, "I took Vanna to Savannah," or "Vanna and I went to the antique mall." After mentioning this to Mr. Magpie's mother, she asked if we remembered when none of us knew who Vanna White was when she came to our reception. And we had FORGOTTEN Vanna White had even come to the reception! LOL! That's really sad, folks. Really, really sad. I could remember that Mr. Magpie's great aunts came through the receiving line THREE times and could quote you verbatim what they said, but not poor Vanna. Hopefully, the rolling homage to Vanna will make up for it. ;-)

And on that note, I'll call it a day. Thanks so much for visiting, and I look forward to visiting each of you. Please join me in visiting the other participants at Rhondi's for more Thankful Thursday posts. You can get there by clicking here. And if you want to do the MeMe, don't forget to link back because I'd love to read it. If you don't, that's fine, too. No taking off points here on Thankful Thursday! :-)



Quintessentially,


Mrs. Magpie (Sheila)

P.S. It rained, and I'm still here! So I turned to Psalm 118:24 and my emphasis added through itallics... This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. A little rain never kept a magpie down! :-)