{"id":1557,"date":"2011-06-06T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2011-06-05T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:30:21","slug":"monday-monday-cant-trust-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"Monday Monday, Can&#8217;t trust that day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ha, now you&#8217;ll be humming The Mamas and The Papas all day. There are worse ear worms. I&#8217;m still contemplating revenge on Roger Ebert for his final comment in\u00a0reviewing\u00a0the latest Pirates of the Caribbean\u00a0movie: &#8220;The whole series was inspired by a ride at Disneyland. There&#8217;s a bright side to that. At least no movie has yet been inspired by &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World.&#8221; \u00a0I read that last Friday morning&#8230;it took till Saturday night to stop the dolls singing in my head&#8230;hmmm, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be admitting to that in public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anyway, on to the Monday questions and now it&#8217;s only 4&#8230;but first the icon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nevergrowingold.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Meet%20Me%20On%20Monday\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i1230.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee487\/nevergrowingold\/MeetMonday-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And now the questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><strong>1.\u00a0 What is was the last piece of candy that you ate?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2.\u00a0 Do you &#8220;read&#8221; in the bathroom?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t stand when someone _________?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4.\u00a0 Do you do daily, weekly or monthly grocery shopping?<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And finally, the part we&#8217;ve all been waiting for&#8230;cue the crickets&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1559\" title=\"Christmas lollies \" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lollies-compressed-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>1.\u00a0 What is was the last piece of candy that you ate?<\/strong>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #000080;\">.Last? What do you mean last?&#8230;I&#8217;m currently munching on a jelly bean and, while I know it&#8217;s not considered proper to admit this, I fully plan on continuing to eat candy for many, many, many years to come. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">2.\u00a0 Do you &#8220;read&#8221; in the bathroom? <\/strong><strong style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Let&#8217;s face it, Steve Jobs -ironic choice of names considering this topic &#8212; ha<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">s a lot to answer for in developing Ipods, Iphones and Ipads. He has changed the way people go to the bathroom&#8230;let me rephrase that: while the mechanics haven&#8217;t changed, peripheral bathroom activities, thanks to Steve Jobs, have definitely altered over the last 10 years. At the very least smart devices have given Reader&#8217;s Digest a run for the money in the reading room department. But, yes, I still read,\u00a0occasionally, when I am in the bathroom but I draw the line at texting. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t stand when someone ___? <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8230;.is sitting on my lap&#8230;.?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<strong>4.\u00a0 Do you do daily, weekly or monthly grocery shopping? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1562\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1562\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1562\" title=\"Bd Garibaldi Sunday Market\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1000955-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1000955-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1000955.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-1562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunday street market in Paris  <\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I would say I do shopping whenever the need arises and, if it is also on a payday, I&#8217;ll do more of a monthly shop to lay in the major supplies like sugar, flour and toilet paper. There really isn&#8217;t any other way to dolly up an answer to this question. I guess I could lie and say, <span style=\"color: #993366;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t do grocery shopping, that&#8217;s why the cook has a scullery maid&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">You may now return to your regular Monday drudgery or go to Java&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nevergrowingold.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/meet-me-on-monday.html#links\" target=\"_blank\">Never Growing Old<\/a> blog\u00a0to see who else is hopping today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha, now you&#8217;ll be humming The Mamas and The Papas all day. There are worse ear worms. I&#8217;m still contemplating revenge on Roger Ebert for his final comment in\u00a0reviewing\u00a0the latest Pirates of the Caribbean\u00a0movie: &#8220;The whole series was inspired by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331,240],"tags":[384,381,380,383,379,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}