The Queen's Meme #48 ~ The First Thought Picture Meme

Here are the guidelines:




I will give you a picture. You will give me the first word that pops into your head upon seeing the image. It doesn't have to be just one word. It can be a sentence, a question, a joke, a caption, an explanation or whatEVER your gray matter conjures.

Scary. No? Don't cheat!



Just relax on Mimi's couch and do what the good Doctor Pencil Skirt says. Ready?

1.

The number of people in Bloggingham's dungeon!

2.

OMG! The shoes that the maid filched!

3.

"I will Not give you back the damn jug! I gotta pee!"

4.

Silhouette of {a} Queen Witch

5.

"Leave It To Beaver" rerun

6.

SomeBODY has too much time on her hands!

7.

The Queen's Waiting Room...

8.

"Psst! Don't look, but he's in drag!"

9.

School daze

10.

"I will not join your Mile-High club!

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The Gratitude Meme
1. What are you most grateful for when you first wake up in the morning?
My daughter, Gracie.
2. What are you most grateful for when you go to bed at night?
My daughter, Gracie.
3. Who is the person who has had the most influence on your life?
My husband, Ron, who is on the Other side.
4. Is there someone you'd like to thank for something special they did for you but haven't yet? Take the time to do it in this meme.
After almost dying in January from a massive heart attack, I'd like to thank my cardiologist, Dr. Joseph Doucette, for saving my life.
5. Who was your favorite or least favorite teacher?
My favorite teacher is Conrad Floridia. He taught Physics and Chemistry. He is 30 years older than I am but he kissed me at my graduation party. My parents always said that we would end up together if it were not for the age difference. He is still alive and kicking in Ohio.
If you could talk to them now, what would you say?
I would thank him for taking a depressed and shy student under his wing and helping her fly!
6. Do you say grace at mealtime?
No, but my whole life is a prayer of thanksgiving.
7. Name one thing you take for granted everyday.
Believe it or not, I still take my life for granted.
8. Have you ever looked back at your life and realized that something you thought was a bad thing was actually a blessing in disguise?
Oh, yes! The fact that my husband was an alchohol binger and would disappear for weeks or months at a time, taught me to love unconditionally.
9. What are the top five things you are most grateful for in your life?
My daughter, my church, my friends and family, the beauty all around me, and my God.

The Queen's Meme-HOSPITAL ZONE

Let's get institutionalized, shall we?

The Crazy Hospital Meme

1. What is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you in a hospital (besides your illness)? Not enough towels? No condiments? Can't get your favorite channels? Come on, you can tell me. **Or....maybe this answer doesn't involve you being the patient.**

OK! I wasn't the patient. My boyfriend at the time was in and had just had hernia surgery. And I mean that day! He wasn't supposed to move let alone get up. He wanted to make whoopee in the bathroom. When the surgeon checked on him several hours later, that darn doctor KNEW!

2. If you had your choice of IV cocktails, what would you choose?

Dextrose-neat. This meme is all of a sudden making me ill. Too much remembering of my last stay in the hospital last summer-that lasted ALL SUMMER.

3. Tell us your funniest hospital story.

This wasn't so funny for me at the time, but the nurses laughed their bloomers off. Last summer, the first 11 days of my stay, I was in a coma. The only thing I can remember is that I constantly had very strange dreams with one section of the wall prominent in all my dreams. The one dream I can remember vividly is this-I dreamed that I had been captured by an Arabian shiek. The colors were vivid and intense, almost hurting my eyes. I was added to the shiek's harem. I remember thinking that the other women would at least be friendly. Wrong! I remember a group of women standing around me, laughing and joking. All those harem gals were, well, let's just say I was in an X-rated movie. When I just couldn't stand it anymore, I remember laying there, scared, trying to figure out what I could say to them to make them stop. I said, "All right, ladies, I think that's just about enough!" in my sternest teacher voice. I heard laughter. And that's all.

Backstory: I WAS surrounded by women, laughing and joking. But it had been the nurses stripping the skin off my legs.

4. Do you have any hospital phobias?

I am terrified of oxygen on in my room.

5. Imagine you are in bed trying to get some sleep after a long night of interruptions by the nurse on duty who would NOT stop waking you up to see if you were asleep...It is 3am. You finally get to sleep. She comes in at 3:15 and wakes you up again. What happens next?

I ask for a sleeping pill.

6. You are stuck in the elevator with an attractive person of the opposite sex. You notice there is no wedding band. Do you strike up a conversation? If so, what is the first thing you would say?

Yes, I strike up a conversation, but not because he is a man and not because he is attractive. That's just how I am. I'd talk and be friends with an unattractive toad-of-a man.

7. A very odd patient wanders into your room from the upstairs psychiatric ward. What do you do?
Talk to make that person comfortable while I'm buzzing the nurse.

The Queen's Meme-RHYME, SCHYME

The Queen's Tuesday Meme #11 ~ The Loud and Raucous Poetry Meme (Not)

Welcome to The Queen's Meme #11.

A Tuesday meme

Sometimes silly. Sometimes serious. Always fun!

Step out of the box. Be creative. Use your imagination.

No one's answers are quite like yours.

And please, stay out of the dungeon.

You don't want to go there.

This week the questions are sheer poetry. Nonsensical. Cerebral. Challenging. The answers should be too.

I have given you seven familiar limericks. Your job is to change them by filling in the blanks. Here's an example of a limerick.

There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
He replied, 'Yes, it does!'
'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'

Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme. Lines 3 & 4 rhyme. You can use more than one word to fill the blank but the end words must rhyme appropriately. Now fill in the blanks with the limericks I've given you. Don't think about them too much. Usually the first word that pops in your head can be used to make a very funny poem. Try it!

1.There was an Old Man of Bloggingham______,
Who lived upon a crumbling old dam____________;
When that did not hold______,
He took all the Queen's gold__________,
That nasty Old Man of The Sham_______.

2. There was a Young Lady whose eyes_____,
Were unique as to color and__size_________;
When she opened them _wide_____,
People all turned _to hide______,
And started away in _surprise.________

3. There was a Young Lady of _Yore_____,
Who casually sat on a _floor_______;
When the door squeezed her _aft_____,
She exclaimed, '__Are you daft______?'
This courageous Young Lady of _Yore_______.

4.There was an Old Man with a _cane____,
Who bumped at it _time & again_______;
But they called out, '_stop, sir_____!
You're a horrid old cur_____!'
So they smashed that Old Man with that cane______.

5. There was a Young Lady whose bonnet______,
Came untied when the birds sate upon it_______;
But she said: 'I don't care!
All the birds in the _air_____
Are welcome to sit on my _bonnet______!'


6. There was an Old Man of the Dungeon______,
Who never knew what he should bludgeon _____;
So he tore off his chest hair_____,
And behaved like a wild bear______,
That intrinsic Old Man of _the Dungeon____.

7. There was an Old Man of Peru_______,
Who had the most curious hue________;
For while he was __blue____,
He slept on a _loo______.
That funny Old Man of _Peru______.

THE QUEEN"S MEME: Now is the Time of Our Discontent...

The Queen's Meme #10 ~ The Tick-Tock Meme

Welcome to The Queen's Meme #10.

A Tuesday meme posted early this week

Sometimes silly. Sometimes serious. Always fun!

Step out of the box. Be creative. Use your imagination. No one's answers are quite like yours.

And please, stay out of the dungeon.

You don't want to go there.

The Tick-Tock Meme

1. Are you a Rolex watch, a Mickey Mouse watch, or a pocket watch?

A mouse called Mickey hath a watch? How absurd! And who tis this Rolex? These questions, my Queen! I am quite worried about thee! Since I hath seen a pocket watch I must answer thus but I have no need for such things. I listen to the frogs croaking, the stars and moon traveling cross the sky and the Royal Sundial doth a splendid job!

2. Can you think of a time when you couldn't see the forest for the trees?

I am beginning to think that ye hath  been in the sun far too long. Thou hath quite a beauteous Royal Forest and I do enjoy walking in the break of day. To see the sun rising over the hill is a glorious vision. I must asketh Picard to accompany me... 

3. Can you think of a time when you were on the outside looking in?

My Queen, thou knowest that as the Outcast Queen of the SkyRealm, I am always on the outside looking in.

What did you see?

I truly see the joy your Bloggingham bringeth ye. My heart grows heavy as I remember my people hiding in the shadows, longing for the times of health and bounty. Picard saith that he t'would help me. Doth thou think his word is true?

4. Go back in time. Maybe a long time ago, maybe today. Pick an hour you'd like to freeze frame forever and tell us why. It doesn't have to be THE most important hour of your life, but make it a good one.

The last time I gazed upon Hightower before he left to fight his dragons. The memory tis emblazoned in my heart and soul; tis locked in the very marrow of my bones; tis entrapped in the last smallest droplet of blood that floweth through my veins. My mind's eye vieweth it over and over as a tiny stone thrown into the lake creates a ripple that never ends. My lips remembereth the last soft kiss, my body, love's last embrace...

5. If you were a cuckoo clock, what would others say about you?

She doth not speak upon the hour. Tis always early. Her "cucko" soundeth much like "Jean-Luc! Jean-Luc!"

6. Can you think of a time when time stood still?

T'would be summer last when the sun struck me down. One minute I remembereth being feverish, the next I awoke 11 days later to a lady in white hovering over me.

7. Watch this! You are a stopwatch. What would you stop?

WAR.

November 5, 2009

The Peace Globe Gallery

8. Imagine you were just born and have infinite wisdom. After the doctor smacks your newborn dust ruffle you look around and say to the Universe: "Give me a whole lifetime to do "this" and I will bless the day I was born." What did you choose?

Giveth me a lifetime to help mankind, as a whole or individually, soul by soul, in whatever capacity that I canst.

THE QUEEN'S MEME=WWWWW

The Who, What, When, Where, Why Would You Meme

Who ....
...is easy to love?

A newborn babe or a man, asleep.
do you just wanna smack?
Picard! He taketh all the straw for himself! I am so cold, my teeth chattereth!
do you trust? 

I only trust myself, and Bart, the watchdragon.

...do you talk to when you're alone?

I am n'er alone! The Great Wizard gave my parents that wish ere I was borne.

What....

...dangerous things do you do while driving?
Driving, my Queen? Uh, perchance I allowed George, that old grey gander to peck at mean Mr. Lance's shin whilst shooing the gaggle to the Royal Lake?

...are you allergic to?
Oh, forsooth, poorly written sonnets for the Bard promised me I deserveth only the best! And pickles in the cheese!


...is Satan's last name? Twill be "Picard" if he dost not leave the serving wench alone! Canst thou please send a manservant next time? I'm begging thee!

...is the last thing that moved you?Begging the Queen's pardon, but it brought my very soul to tears reading thy missive to thy own father, Sir Dad.

"Dignity"

...is the freakiest thing in your house?

The meme, Web Crawling!

   

When.....

...is it time to turn over a new leaf?

After the second time in the earth's journey 'round the sun that life tries to leave you.

    .
...will you be all that you can be?
When thou taketh thy last breath...
...is enough enough?
When thou enjoyeth thine own company more than any one else's.

                               ...do you go to the dark side?                                                                                 N'er again. Tis far worse than Hades...Far worse than the black hole of Picard's Beyond...                 

Where....

                                                                                ...are your pants?                                                                                       First of all, for shame, Your Majesty! Why doth thou asketh such a thing? Thou knowest a LADY dost not wear p..a..n..t..s! And are you insinuating that...No..NO you couldst not !                                                                                                                                           

                                                     ...where is your last will and testament?                                                      Safely locked away with The Great Wizard!   

...is your junk food stash? 

                    I hast no need of a "stash"!( Such a common word, my Queen.)I come and go as I will and partake when I desire! At least I did until this trumped-up imprisonment!                                                                        ...is Carmen Sandiego?                                                                                         Dost thou have Carmen Sandiego hidden in thy dungeon? OMG! Dost not thou tell me you have thrown Sir Matthew Lauer in this dank place also. How could thee! Everyone willst be searching!

Why.....                                  ...was the Lone Ranger alone?                                                                                                                                                              No other man would befriend Tonto. Together they righted the wrongs of The Wild West! Or so I've foreseen been told t'will happen! 

                            

...was The Scarlet Letter scarlet? 

                                            If t'was written today, t'would be an everyday story!                                                                                                           ....are musicians sexy and plumbers not?                   Who sayeth thus! Have you not seen Mike, the plumber on "Desperate Housewives?" Just waiteth! I have foreseen been told...                                                                                                                     

...are there no seat belts on school buses?

My Queen! Thou hast not spoken of such before. Are thee fey as well as I as the Great Wizard? Thy subjects will think thee mad if thou continueth such thoughts.Thou knowest that the dunderheads that rule that world think children are expendable!                                                                               

...swim the English Channel for a doughnut and coffee? If not that, what?
Are thou daft? If my own sweet daughter could live her life in peace, health, and happiness..Ah, then.

...forgive someone who deliberately hurt you?
Been there, donst that, far too many times.

...rather believe a lie if it hurt you less than the truth?
The truth willst always out and the pain runneth that much deeper.

...you still be alive if you were sucked out of an airplane window? Would you just float around in space for while?
My Queen! STOPPETH right now! An airplane? Floating in space? Be Careful or thou will be the lady in the dungeon with Picard and I shall be QUEEN...er, free!