Sunday stealing…The 17 meme

The Seventeen Meme
Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim’s post. (It’s our way of saying “Thanks!”) We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme’s best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme.
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From For The Adventure

The 17 Meme

1. Do you know triplets? Nope

2. Do you prefer Titanic or The Notebook? Notebook…I like that they ended up together

3. Have you ever eaten Indian food? Yes and did not like it

4. What’s the name of your favorite restaurant? I do not really have one

5. Who’s your favorite person in the world? My kiddo even if I am the bane of her existence at this stage of our relationship

6. Would you rather live in a rural area or in the suburbs? Rural, out in the middle of nowhere

7. Can you whistle? No

8. Do you sleep with a nightlight? Sorta, as provided by the town of where I live

9. Do you eat breakfast every morning? I try to

10. Do you take any pills or medication daily? Yes

11. How many times have you been to the hospital as a patient? Yes

12. Have you ever seen Finding Nemo? Yes

13. Where do you buy your jeans? The Avenue

14. What’s the last compliment you got? Six years

15. Do you usually remember your dreams in the morning? Yes. I write them down

16. What flavor tea do you enjoy? Does Snapple count? I love Snapple apple

17. What social media sites do you use? facebook,meetup

If/Then review…(spoiler if you have seen a movie with a similiar plot)

Today I went with one of my meetup groups to see If/Then musical with Idina Menzel. A great performance by all the actors involved. They are all very talented. My only quip would be that I have seen the storyline before in a little movie called Sliding doors.
It is a musical worth seeing even if the plot is not exactly “fresh”.

Looking through the past…

A couple of weeks ago I signed up on ancestry.com. It is a great website and a time suck as well. I have had the blessing of having met some of my great grandparents and know the names I need to look up and places they might have lived. The downside is that anything that happened in Cuba has stayed in Cuba unless they immigrated to the U.S. or any other country. No records directly from Cuba are available AND many records from NJ are not public either.

What I have learned so far…

On my dad’s side: My great-grandfather married his sister-in-law 20 years after his first wife died in childbirth. He left his son in the care of his wife’s family and found success in Cuba and eventually called for his son to go to Cuba where he met his long-lost sister-in-law, about 20 years his junior. They courted, married and had three children, one of which is my recently departed grandfather. Only one of their children survives, the eldest that lives in my hometown.
It turns out my family surname originated in France and at some point we were apple farmers. My great-grandmother is one of three children and had a brother who was mute. My father and his family immigrated to the U.S. after spending 3 months in Spain and landed in JFK on February 17,1966.

On my mom’s side so far: My great-grandfather is one of nine children. I am not sure how his parents met. There was apparently an inheritance in Spain that no one ever claimed. My mom’s dads family come from a long line of law enforcement. My grandmother’s mother died during childbirth and as a result my grandmother was nursed by one of my grandfathers aunts. I apparently drive by every day to work by where my mom’s mothers dad is buried, he died when I was 4.5 years old. My grandmother has a sister that we are not sure if she is still living but it is believed she settled somewhere in California where if she is still living would be in her late 70’s. It turns out that one of my great grandmothers brothers turned out to be a murderous delinquent in NYC.
My mom and her family immigrated to the U.S. on a freedom flight into Miami, FL but headed to NJ believing it had better opportunities.

There is much more I have learned and still processing. Some of it boggles my mind and reminds of how small the world really is.I am starting to see a pattern of behavior emerging from both sides and look forward to unwrapping more of my family tree.

Advice my mom gave me…

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The Prompts:

1.) Pinterest inspired!
2.) Advice your mother gave you.
3.) A blog post inspired by the word: gold
4.) I love this idea of an art journal, try it (or have your child try it) and share your creation!
5.) 7 things you overheard this week.

5 pieces of advice my mom has given me:

“My mom is full of relationship advice and it all tends to end up the same: Men are not to be trusted.”(I get it considering her experience but I refuse to believe all men suck. I believe for every good woman out there, there is a man to match.)

“Always know the last name of a man you sleep with.”

“No child should have privacy in your house unless they pay rent.”

“Karma is real, just look at your Dad and step-mom. They deserve each other.”

“Get it together.Life is too short to be miserable.”

Something I learned in Feb…(Mama Kat Prompt)

Three things I learned in February:

I learned in February that parenting a teenager is hard. It is not so much that I didn’t already know but more that I finally realized that fighting it is futile. I have to come to it everyday recognizing it is a phase that will hopefully see an end soon. I love my child but the angst? Not so much. Pick your battles otherwise all your days become battles.

During some college visits in February it was pointed out to me that my vocabulary has gone back to my 17 year old self. My ex husband said that no adult pushing 40 should use whatever in a sentence. Perhaps on some degree sure but sometimes “whatever” with appropriate eye roll fits the situation age be damned!

I learned that teenagers are manipulative creatures, however I cannot fight all their battles. They have to learn to deal with difficult situations/people.(Life is full of them). I am working on figuring out when to get involved and when they need to learn a life lesson.