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And Wen tagged me for this Fiver meme a while back:

• Five favorite days of the year:
  
  As I've mentioned before, I really don't do favorites. I have no favorite color, song (or even musical genre), movie, or... pretty much anything. Well, there's an exception or two, but I won't go there ;). So I'm going to fudge this one:
  
  
  1. Any day spent on an island in the Caribbean
  
  
  2. Any day spent on a cruise ship, at sea, especially if the cruise ship is the Queen Mary 2, and more especially if it's a formal evening and the band will be playing in the Grand Ballroom
  
  
  3. Any day spent in Venice, which surely must be the most magical city on Earth
  
  
  4. Any day I get to stay in bed all day
  
  
  5. Any day I can drive my convertible with the top down


• Five things you watched this week:
  
  I don't watch television, so this is a tough one:
  
  
  1. A squadron of dragonflies swooping and moving in impossible directions -- straight sideways, straight up, and straight backwards -- as they feasted on invisible insects (probably mosquitos) above the green grass
  
  
  2. The sun rise
  
  
  3. An absolutely collosal -- and awe-inspriring -- electrical storm, even by Florida standards (took out the transformer on the pole behind my house -- I was without power from early afternoon until 1:00 am)
  
  
  4. Over the entire week, day by day, a family of five closely-spaced, tiny mushrooms materialize out of the earth, spread their caps, then turn their caps up and dry, then grow old and shrivel back to the Earth, together
  
  
  5. Sweat splash onto the insides of my glasses when I blinked


• Five things you don't want to do, but should:
  
  
  1. Go to the dentist
  
  
  2. Go to the doctor (copied these from Wen, but it's true)
  
  
  3. Clean my house
  
  
  4. Wash the dishes
  
  
  5. Return all that mail-order stuff that didn't work out, that's sitting in the knee-hole under my desk


• Five things you want to learn:
  
  
  1. To dance
  
  
  2. To play the cello
  
  
  3. To speak Spanish
  
  
  4. To commmunicate with animals
  
  
  5. The mystery behind the painting of the large bird that hangs in my living room, that I bought from an estate sale before I knew that the estate was that of the then-recently deceased famous witch, Sybil Leek


• Five animals you've had as pets or who have impacted you:
  
  
  1. First, foremost, and forever, my BJ
  
  
  2. Missy
  
  
  3. Andrea, my current three-legged beagle
  
  
  4. Barkley, my current big boy, who is sweet and loving and at the same time a burden and a responsibility
  
  
  5. I'm going to combine Judi's two beagles, Skye and Princess Sunni, together for my last entry


• Five favorite pieces of clothing:
  
  
  1. Ah, here I have do a favorite, and that's to be unclothed!
  
  
  2. My slippers from the QM2 (they were supposed to be disposable, but we took ours home and I wear mine every day, as raggedy as they've become
  
  
  3. The Birks that Judi gave to me
  
  
  4. Either my robe from the Renaissance Vinoy Hotel in St. Pete (if it's cold out), or the robe that I got on the SS Norway (if it's warm out)
  
  
  5. Um... any of my Hawaiian shirts


• Five things you enjoy in the summer:
  
  
  1. Sun
  
  
  2. Beach
  
  
  3. Top-down convertible (thought I can often do this in the winter, too)
  
  
  4. Bikinis
  
  
  5. Short skirts


• Five foods you don't like:
  
  There aren't a lot of foods I don't like, so this may be tough:
  
  
  1. Chocolate
  
  
  2. Coffee
  
  
  3. Sweetened ice tea (or, as they call it here in the South, "Sweettea" -- all one word)
  
  
  4. Sweetened soy milk (which almost all soy milk is -- I have to search out the unsweetened stuff)
  
  
  5. Artificial cheese
  
  There! I made five! I guess there are more things I don't like than I realized.
  


• You are given $50,000 to pass out to 5 people in $10,000 cash gifts. Who do you give it to, and why?
  
  
  1. My brother, because who couldn't use $10,000?
  
  
  2. My sister, because who couldn't use $10,000?
  
  
  3. The old man that I describe in this story, if I could find him again, because that was, like, 2003 -- and as for why, if you read the story, you'll know
  
  
  4. Judi, because I'm running out of people to name
  
  
  5. The first person to leave a comment on this post :)


• Five things that are not where they belong:
  
  I am sorely tempted to follow Wen's lead and include Dubya in this list, but that's hardly being creative:
  
  
  1. Me (I belong in Venice)
  
  
  2. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes that Judi gave me (it belongs on a podium that I don't have yet)
  
  
  3. The dining room set in my garage (it belongs in someone else's dining room)
  
  
  4. My stories (here, too) (they belong in print)
  
  
  5. You! (because I'm sure you have something better to do than read this blog :)

Five, Ten or Fifteen People you want to complete this:

Sorry, the Meme stops here.

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