Sunday Stealing: Spooning with Dumplings

This meme was featured on the site meme-stealing site Sunday Stealing today (June 2020).  Here are my original answers from 2009 when it was written.

Welcome back to the 3rd edition of The Queen's Meme. Each week the type of meme will change; sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always fun! Enjoy your time in the castle.
And remember, don't end up in the dungeon.

The Cooking Meme (What Is The Meaning of Thyme and Other Deep Questions) Please join us.

Contrary to popular belief, the Queen has been known to accidentally cook something edible. Although I've given the gift of food poisoning to a boyfriend or two in the past, I actually made the food you see here. Don't ask me how 'cause I could never do it again. I made up the recipe and lived to tell it. Welcome to my Kitchen of Culinary Delights! Dinner is at eight.

1. If you could put thyme in a bottle, what is the first thing that you'd like to do?

Only thyme will tell.

2. Do eggs really crack or do they merely have a nervous breakdown?

I sent mine to the laboratories of Schuster and Scheister for a thorough embryonic cell research analysis. The diagnosis was appalling! They told me that the first six in any dozen are usually crack babies - they, unfortunately, really crack. The others just go to Six-Step Programs
Who knew?!

3. Why are you whipping the butter? What did it ever do to you?

You were sent by the PETA (People For Equal Treament of Margarine and Oleo Association) weren't you?




4. Do your spoons spoon in the drawer? Have you ever noticed? And more importantly, if wooden spoons spoon do they get splinters?


**Mimi girl, you really have an overactive imagination. Maybe you should take a pill for that.** Wait wait......My spoons are special. They met on a dating site. Are they little spoons or big spoons? Size matters in the spoon world. Is this a first date? Is the drawer open or closed? Has there been an exchange of phone numbers? Is alcohol involved?! I need more information if I'm going to counsel my virgin spoons on the fine art of mating. We don't just spoon with anyone here ya know.


5. You hear: "Dumpling, my Dumpling, come hither." The candles are lit, the fondue is dipping, the Godiva is pouring, the scallions are steaming and the music is playing.....but wait, the windows are open.
Why did you close them?

I didn't want the neighbors to see me stir the dumpling.



6. Do you need a recipe to cook or are you a bohemian chef? Show us your reckless and wild side in the kitchen. Don't have one? Here's a recipe I made just for you: You will need a spatula, a whisk, a gallon of Chardonnay, a banana and a rump roast. What is the name of your dish?



Her name was Rhonda Rump. She helped me with my recipe called The Queen's Royal Truffle. After gently seasoning the beef with a Chardonnay-dipped spatula and whisking the banana into a smashed frenzy of mush - I drank the rest of the wine and asked Rhonda if I could borrow her shoes. (If I drank it first I'd pass out and never get any cookin' done ya see)

Am I wearing a cute little chef's hat too?



7. After dinner, the dishes are so dirty that the dishwasher refuses to wash them. What did they say to get in hot water? They cursed the Queen for writing this horrid meme.

8. Is your pot black? My pots are black. My pans are white. We are an interracial kitchen.

9. What is the sexiest spice or condiment in your cabinet?

What makes it so? They're all pretty scandalous but I'm partial to the Virgin Olive Oil. Is that a spice?

I soak my hair in it once a month. Seriously. Want shiny hair? It's fabulous!

10. How much crock is really in your crock pot?

You can never have enough crock when writing a blog.

My crock over-floweth.

See what I mean?

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Sunday Stealing ~ Turtles and Snow Cream

It's the new year and I think I'll do a new thing that's not new at ALL.  A meme! That's right. A meme. Played by Mimi, Queen of Bloggingham, Queen of Peace Globes, and Queen of Memes.

Sunday Stealing stolen from The Queen's Meme (The nerve!!) #67 The Strange January Meme        **dusting off my meme crown**

1. January usually has ample amounts of snowfall in parts of the world. Did you ever make snow cream as a kid?

Yes, we always made snow cream. But not in the cow pasture.

2. January is one of the months with 31 days. What are you going to do with that extra day? 

Ask me on January 30th. 

I'll let you know if I've finished my to-do list.

3.  What is your favorite magazine?

      My mother started sending me magazine subscriptions years ago (even though she denied it was her...)  She died months ago and they keep coming! So, they're all my favorite now...simply because she sent them. There must be something she wants me to read.

4.  If you live to be 99 years old, what would you like your life to be like in that last decade??

I want to be in love with my last and final love. Dancing in the palace and cooking non-healthy recipes. Maybe I'll finally take up smoking and try to look glamorous. 

5. The great world of Wikipedia tells me that scientists claim 99% of all documented species are extinct. Which remaining species in the 1% category would you really like to see extinct.  And which species in the 99% category would you like to bring back?

I would not miss unkind modern Homo 

sapiens. Just be nice.

   Oh, and I never want to see another actual live mouse for the rest of my life.  

THEN I would bring back all 99% of snake varieties to EAT that one pesky 1% of mice that might have escaped. Including Mickey!

6. On January 14, 1986 motorists were required for the first time to wear seat belts?  Do you always buckle up? Why or why not?

While I don't like the government mandating ANYthing about my personal decision-making, this is a good law. I buckle. Because it's safer (most of the time) and I don't want a ticket.

7. Why did the cow jump over the moon?

     To get to the snow cream in the yard

9. Have you said anything in the last 24 hours that you regret?

I've barely said ten words all day. Let me see....nope.

O Meme Queen, you didn't ask what we were THINKING that might be regrettable. Guilty!

10. Have you ever written anything on your blog that you wish you could take back?  

 I paid too much attention to Internet nonsense once upon a time that warranted and deserved no response at all. So, yes...but only in the sense that a blog is not the place to share your silly tantrum. 

11. Are you the blabber or the blabbee? Tell us your most embarrassing blabbermouth moment.

The blabbee.  I was standing in the grocery store listening to a young man complain that his teacher had given him a bad grade. I was the teacher. 

12. How important is a cell phone in your life?

I wish not-so-much. I realized the other day that if you're carrying a handheld mini computer through the house with you all day, you're chained to the machine. 

 I want my landline back.

Mimi's phone from 1930

13. A "cuisine" is typically influenced by and named after geographical regions and cultures. Pretend your blog is a country. What is the name of your cuisine? 

BloggingHAM

14. You are the Blog Paparazzi! Which blogger's real photograph are you most interested in getting?

Most of the bloggers I knew when I first started this blog in 2006 are now on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and I have their faces (or their cat's face) in my little black blogbook, or I've met them in person. All my friends are lovely and decent human beings.  But I'm not really interested in getting anyone's photograph if they want to stay private. 

I thought I was private all these years (notice half-face me) until my grandson peeked over my shoulder and said, "Mimi! What are you doing on the internet??!"   So much for mystery.

15. Are you always on time or just a tad late?

I am never on time. Then I realized it was a control thing and I needed to stop it. Some kind of subconscious rebellion made me want to slide in with 10 seconds to spare on the clock before work. Then I retired.

No more problems.

16. Can you think of a time when you were late for something and it was REALLY a big deal?

Thank goodness I wasn't still in this dress.

Yes. I was a professional church musician for a rather large church in the city and was paid each week to play the Sunday morning worship service. I overslept one Sunday morning, broke all traffic laws, and literally slid onto the piano bench while the entire congregation stood poised and ready to sing - with their hymnals open - waiting on me. Talk about timing!! 

17. If you were on your way to work and had five minutes to get there, would you stop in the road to rescue a crossing turtle?

No. I would stop and wait for the turtle to cross. I would snap a picture of it for evidence to show my boss. And I wouldn't even have to touch the turtle.

18. When you are having a really good day, what usually makes it good?   A good night's sleep the night before

19. What is the most annoying Christmas song?

       All of them. 

20. You are Snow White. Which dwarf is your favorite and why?  
 Bashful. I like to bring people out of their shells.

Just not turtles.

This was fun. Thank you Sunday Stealing for stealing my very own meme.
And good luck in the new year!

I Tried To Be A Cat Person. Once.

Welcome to the Queen's Meme 

7 Royal Questions
The Cat Meme 
(click this link to view questions and play along)

I would like to confess. About the cats.
I know it's un-American and a downright insult to my beloved Cat Blogosphere to not be a cat person but alas, I am not. Do you see the grief I put my poor dog Homer through? And he's just an internet dog!



I tried to be a cat person. Once. But I failed. Cats just don't like me. They hiss and spit and run in the other direction. Is it my perfume? My nails? My politics? Cats do not meow softly at me, they crouch in attack position and prepare the claws. I cannot retaliate because I might break a nail. Hence, I cannot even protect myself from cats. The only cats I get along with are the cats from The Cat Blogosphere. They are wonderful wonderful kitties with hoomans to look after.  Of that I am sure. And none of them - yet - has spit at me.

and they sure fly some marvelous peace globes

We shall talk cats this week. Puuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

1. Do you have  a cat? Would you care to post a pic of your cat?

    Alas, I do not have cats or even a cat. Does it count if you have an Internet gif cat?

    I didn't think so.

2. What is your cat's name?

    Persian Patticakes. She's white and fluffy and very elegant. We share jewelry sometimes.

3.  What makes you love cats?

      Well, I love cats if they're YOUR cats, because I love my friends and their family is my       family. I'm always amazed at the love and care and attention cat owners give their pets. It takes a special kind of soul to care for an animal. I know it's not a good match for me personally, but I see how so many people love and adore their cats. It is very touching. And I'm a little envious.

4.  If you are not a cat person, why not?

     I don't know. My mother was afraid of cats. When I was little she could never be near them.      If a stray cat came in the yard she'd run in the house screaming. A peculiar phobia...but one      I respected and never teased her about. Hence, no cats for me either.

5. What is the funniest thing your cat has ever done?

     My cat Patticakes once strayed off the blog and had a relationship with one of the other cats 

    in the Cat Blogosphere.  It was scandalous!!! I kept getting Valentine cards and mushy love 

     notes in my email box. At first I thought they were for me!  I have to keep an eye on her.... She's not supposed to date until she's sixteen!

6. Do you think you have to have a special gene to be a cat person or can a hooman be trained to love cats?

I didn't get the gene. For sure. It's best that I spare the little kitties my lack of feline understanding. It's best for all of us.

7. Do you think cats have feelings and can talk to their owners?

 I have come to believe this just watching how my friends (some of you) relate to their cats. Of course, I'm no stranger to talking pets on this blog. Homer is always butting in the conversation. He talks so much that Patticakes can't get a purrrrr in edgewise.

8. (BONUS Question)  The Rainbow Bridge is the place where cats go when they pass away. I think it's a lovely idea and because of my Cat Friends, I now believe in it too. If humans could have a bridge of their own in the afterlife, what would you name it?

I believe in the afterlife. I believe in eternity. I hope there is a beautiful long ethereal bridge to help me cross over into the next realm. We'll name it Chapter Two.

This is my Persian Patticakes. She has been sitting on my blog for ten years. I think that's a lot in cat years and blogging years. I've never had to feed her. She's not grumpy or cantankerous like Homer either. Maybe if I had a real cat like Patticakes, I could be a cat person too.

I hope you will play along this week and leave your link in the comment section below. Here's to all the cat owners! Questions at The Queen's Meme. 

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Doing The Hokey Pokey with Abraham Lincoln

Keeping up with the blog makes me feel like my old self again. I've posted more in the past month than I have all year. It feels good. Remembering why I started blogging in the first place and the friends I made along the way is a good place to be.
I'm not sure I'll ever do memes on a regular basis again but this page could definitely use some humor. As of late I've written tooooo many serious posts. I'll take a meme from that silly girl named Mimi Queen of Memes from way back in the day and give it a groovy go.
This one is called The Hokey Pokey Meme. It was written April 29, 2011.

Welcome To The Queen's Meme
7 Royal Questions on a Saturday

Sometimes strange and silly questions run through my pencil brain. Don't try to look for connections. There are none. Just have fun answering a non-serious set of 7 royal questions. We would really appreciate a photograph as evidence for question #6. Please feel free to play this meme on your own blog or social media.

1. Who should run for United States President in 2016?

Abraham Lincoln. He was a lot smarter than either current candidate and we wouldn't have to fact-check everything he said. I'd like a do-over this year. I'm hoping the tide will soon turn. I'm trying to be optimistic but this election season is just dismal.  

2. Have you ever gone to a party and snooped in the medicine cabinet?

No. But I've gone to the medicine cabinet and snooped a party. Does that make sense, Bloggy People? I didn't think so. Good! Eureka! I think I'm getting my meme legs back.

3. Why are Happy Meals Happy?

They're not. The only thing happy about Happy Meals is the chi-ching sound of the cash register as another foolish customer pays a whopper for plastic food. McDonalds gets rich and our kids get sick.

They've eaten so much plastic chemical food over the years we'll soon have to recycle our own children. 

4. Have you ever done the Hokey Pokey?

 I hate the Hokey Pokey. I'm done with the Hokey Pokey. Somebody always gets hurt turning themselves around. Usually me. I forget which direction I'm going and fall down gracefully. 

That's what it's all about.

5. What song sticks in your head and drives you crazy?

"Let It Go" from Frozen. Nobody knows any of the other words when they sing it. Just those three. 

6. Do you dance like a  lunatic around the house when no one is looking?
Does a tree dance in the forest when no one is there?
Here's your sign.

7. Have you ever been involved in a food fight?
Last week with  Baby Beans. He started throwing popcorn at me and it was on.

That's it for my meme today. Have a lovely Saturday.
Be good to each other.


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Some People Need To Lighten Up

I will answer my own Tuesday meme two days late on Thursday. It's called The Better Late Than Never Meme. Appropriate, don't you think?

Warning: There may be sleep-deprived ridiculousness. Take what I blog with a grain of salt today.

On Tuesday I wrote: I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!" Someone important said that once. He had a point. I forgot to write the Queen's meme yesterday. It happens. I shall report to the dungeon immediately for my punishment. 

The Better Late Than Never Meme

1. Are you always on time or just a tad late?

I sometimes wish to make an entrance. Tripping and falling are my specialty.

2. Is there someone in your life that irritates you regularly about not being on time?

Yes. My friends who roll their eyes every time I trip and fall into a room making a late entrance. They really need to lighten up?

True story: Just yesterday I was five minutes late for the official company photograph meeting. I ran in to face forty people standing in perfect alignment in a hot sweaty room under hot lights all trying not to move for the photographer while waiting on ME to join them. The photographer smiled and waved as I buzzed by into place. And then I realized I didn't have on the right shirt. I ran out. Changed. Ran back in. Same forty people glaring. I tried to sing for them to lighten the mood but they were not amused. 
People need to lighten up!

3. Can you think of a time when you were late for something and it was REALLY a big deal?

See #2

4. Do prompt perky people irritate you? (oh, that was a Freudian blog slip)

All perky people irritate me.

5. If you were on your way to work and had five minutes to get there, would you stop in the road to rescue a crossing turtle?

I have done so. What am I supposed to do? Crush a helpless slow-poke just because I'm bigger and have higher order thinking skills? Maybe I was once a turtle too.

6. Have you ever had to actually punch a time clock?

This is generally a non-violent blog. But if the clock went perky on me I might punch it.

7. What is your standard "excuse" when you are tardy? 

I am late because I had to rescue a turtle.

Works every time.

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My Blog Needs An Exorcism

1. If you could have a robot that could perform any task at your disposal for a week, what would you have the robot do for you?
Cook. Of course.

2. As part of your pre-planned funeral arrangement you are asked to name the bronze statue that will represent you for all eternity.
What is your bronze statue's name?

Mimi Pencil Skirt

3. Remember Dolly The (Cloned) Sheep? I found her (her??) to be  totally freakish. Who or what would you like to see cloned?

Eva Cassidy

4. Is is always a good idea to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Tell me one good reason to lie.

 If on trial with one hand raised and one on the Bible, you must tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

But we all have times in our lives when the whole truth is too much for people to hear without hurting them deeply. Out of respect, love and common decency, we withhold the truth until they are stronger.  That could be seen as a good reason, a necessary reason, a kind reason. Some truths, even unspoken ones, take a long time to unravel but they always do sooner or later. I believe in speaking the truth and being very careful that you use that privilege with wisdom.

5.  Who or What would you like to throw into the sea of forgetfulness?

Reille Hunter, in hopes that when she came to the surface there would be no tell-all book for the children to have to endure the embarrassment and hurt of seeing for eternity. Neither is any of this the fault of their 4-year-old daughter, who will now have to pay for her truth.  She could have told her truth in private. Later. Much later.

6. You are with a Tea Leaf Reader. What does he/she tell you about your blog? 

I am currently in the process of deleting, revising, updating, clarifying, purrrrging my blogs of unnecessary posts, pictures, and all things way past relevant. If the guru knows what he's talking about he'd say:

"Your blog needs an exorcism. Advance to the nearest Blurch." That's blog + church for all non-blog speakers.

7. We are halfway through the year 2012 and the world has not ended. What will the Mayan doomsday people be doing in 2013, if the world does not evaporate in December?

Writing a book about why the world did not end in 2012.

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