On Swimming Upstream

The Sisters often seem to be at 'odds' with modern customs. What we value is rarely 'in'. I think this is mostly because our Daddy taught us that it is better to be 'out' by ourselves than 'in' the wrong. Old sister has answered a series of pop culture questions on her blog. Her answers are not anything like what the majority would give, but probably much like what her sisters would say. Casual acquaintances may look at her answers and think she is just trying to be funny, but I would could have answered the questions for her about her and given much the same answers. Here are my answers to sisters survey. I would be interested to see how others in our family would answer these questions.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
Sceretary / Office Clerk {current job}
Store Clerk {favorite all time job, but lowest paying job I ever had}
Poultry processing line wroker
Electrical motor factory worker

Four movies I would watch over and over:
I do not even have a single movie that I want to watch once, let along over and over. I can sometimes read a book a second time if it has been several years since I read it, but I really hate watching movies I have already seen. To me this is like asking, what day of your life would you want to live over and over. I do not want a do over, I want to move on.

Four places I have lived:
AR
MO
Alaska
TX

Four TV Shows I love/loved to watch:
Cheyene staring Clint Walker, the first TV show I ever watched when I was about 10 years old. We did not have a TV until 1959 or so after Patsy graduated from HS, got a job and bought us one. But, the first time I watched TV was when I slipped off to my neighbor/cousin's house and watched Cheyene. As a young child I loved to watch TV, but Daddy would only let us watch certain shows, and when he decided he did not want to watch TV, we had to turn it off.

Now there is not one TV show I watch and enjoy. At one time, I watched the news each evening, but, now, even that is ruined. I can not watch the news this week without crying. Think of all those mother's of young US men, who sent them off to fight a war in a far off county, full of fear for their lives, but knowing they were under the protecting arm of our government. And now, to have that son sitting in a jail cell in your own country awaiting trial for murder. Speaking of war on terror, I am sure there is now a war of terror ignited in the heart of every mother of a US soilder. And there, but for the grace of God, goes First Sister. No, I do not want to even listen to the news. The evening news should be renamed this days tally of heartaches.

Four places I have b een on vacation:
California
Kentucky
NC
Missouri

Four websites I look at daily.

NONE. I have come to a point in my life that there is ABSOLUTELY nothing that is not essential to my survial that I do daily. Some days I do not even turn on the computer. But, I look at my family's web blogs ALMOST daily.

Four of my favorite foods:
Now you are talking important stuff, and I have answers.
Thick, juicy steaks cooked to order by my husband
Angle Food Cake, cooked to prefection by myself with the help of Betty Crocker
Fresh new potatoes from Daddy's garden, boiled just til barely done, rolled in corn meal and browned to prefection in bacon grease by Mama
Fresh tomatoes from Daddy's garden

Sister Fleta