Forgive me. It’s another list. Work is busy. I’m thinking in short sentences.
- I captured this screen shot the other day. It’s approximately one day of visitors to my blog (not exactly, because the map will only hold a certain number and they were spread over onto a second map) and I thought it was interesting. Of course, most of my visitors come from the United States and that doesn’t surprise me. There are a few visits from other countries that I can pinpoint to friends living there, but most are total mysteries to me. And I rarely get a comment from someone outside the U.S. So if you are visiting today, leave a comment and tell me where you are from. I’d love to know! We’ll make it our own International Delurking Day.
- About to get serious here and somewhat ranty so please listen.
- For the love of…everything, please stop attributing the following quote to St. Augustine.
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
It is not from Augustine. It is from Corelli’s Mandolin a novel by Louis de Bernières. The quote is attributed to Augustine on Goodreads as well and though I have tried to fix it by entering it as a new favorite quote under the author’s name, Goodreads so kindly changes it to Augustine of Hippo for me. Thank you, Goodreads, for nothing. Clearly none of the people who are listing this as a favorite quote by him know what they are doing, but you’d think a clue in the final sentence might make a person who knows anything about Augustine go “Hmm.”
- It’s things like this that make me hate the Internet. When we just had print media you didn’t have every Hanz and Franz in the world attributing quotes to the wrong people.
- About to start season 3 of Sons of Anarchy which is a show you should watch if you like Breaking Bad. I don’t know what the deal is with me and shows about shady people.
- All-day work “retreat” today. I would say that I will let you know how it goes, but I don’t write about work. So this dot on my list was pointless.
- Look for a giveaway in the coming days! You’ll especially be interested if you are a scrapbooker
- I’m looking for a good way to get my very shallow bathroom cabinet organized. Should probably call in the big guns (my Granny) because she was crazy organized before Real Simple made it cool.
Oklahoma girl through-and-through. Writer, aspiring domestic goddess and totalitarian dictator. Taking on the world one carb-induced coma at a time. Co-host of Picture Shows & Petticoats. 
Hello Elizabeth. I’m in the UK, about the middle of England. Don’t know if I’m on that map or not though.
I’m not sure that I have ever looked to see where your city was on a map, but I’m going to do it right now
Did you find it?
I see that you could easily make a day trip out to Anglesey
What’s your regional accent like there? I’ve gotten pretty familiar with the variations and can figure out the general area where most people are from/are acting like they are from if I try. It’s a real accomplishment for an American, I think! Most people assume you guys over there all talk the same and that the only difference is English, Irish, and Scottish variations. You might get some people who know there is a north/south distinction, but that’s about as far as it goes.
How does one describe one’s own accent?? I think it’s a little bit mancunian (from Manchester), maybe, but Potter really is an accent all on it’s own.
This is the best website I have found about it, that explains it much better than I could have done: http://www.thepotteries.org/dialect.html
Although it must be made plain that there are different ‘stengths’ as it were, not everyone speaks as broadly as the webpage indicates, not by half!
Some of the slang comes down from liverpool, I think, but the accent isn’t similar.
Are you on Skype? If I skyped you, you could hear my voice, which isn’t particularly broad, but maybe gives a bit of a clue? It’s so difficult to answer this without having an audio sample to show you… .
I can see me there, that lonely dot, in New Zealand. Hello!
Hi, Laura!
I love your love post. I think that this is not only completely true, but brilliant! Love is so much more than an emotion… its the willingness to work on things that are not pretty together…the willingness to accept the things that are not pretty and still stick by that person.. and even more LOVE is a commitment more than an emotion.. the butterflys are nice… but indeed love is far more ingrained! Thanks for sharing!
I’m likely the South Africa dot, although it’s in the wrong place. I still click thru the occasional longer article from the feedreader
Hello! I’m the dot smack dab in the middle of New Mexico
Howdy!
I’ve often wondered on my far off readers, too!
Sometimes I just wonder how they end up here when they have no referring link. A mystery, for sure!
Congrats on being an auntie again!
I’m the most southern Florida dot
Hola
Hi, Portland Oregon here! Love your Corn-Fed series.
Kathy
Thanks, Kathy! Glad you’re enjoying it! Look for another installment next week.