Here is the latest Tuesday 4 by Annie. This week is 4 very different questions without a real theme, but they were fun to think about.
1. If you had one million dollars to spend only on yourself, what would you spend it on?
I have very small needs and and even smaller wants. I guess I would buy myself a building, then turn around and donate it to Independence Place.
2. You can do it again. What decade are you going back to and why?
No idea. There are moments in each decade I would change if I could, but then it might alter the outcome so maybe I would not choose a redo after all.
What's the attraction?
There were times in my life when a different reaction from me could have prevented anger or hurt feelings.
3.What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
Occasionally I will be wandering around the house and start singing "Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed". I have no idea why I do that!
Alternatively, what's your current favorite song?
I have favorite songs based on the genre. For example jazz is Braggin in Brass. Classical is Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliette "Dance of the Knights". R&B, Sir Duke or Me and Mrs. Jones. Rock, Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath. Broadway musical, Les Mis "Let Him Live". CW is Patsy Cline's Crazy. But honestly I love music and am fickle, so what is my favorite today might not be in a month or even tomorrow.
4. What items do you miss from the past and wish they were still around?
Other than people I love who have transitioned to a different realm, there is not much I miss.
Though my sister and I have said we would love to find some of the awful molded plastic wigs we had as kids, along with a set of Old Maid Cards that used horror movie monsters for the pictures.
And don't even get me started on the carved wooden antique monkey chandelier I saw over 30 years ago. My sister and I still talk about it and if I ever find it again I am going to buy it! (So maybe I would use that million from the first question to buy the stupid fixture I still lust after)
Come on and join in! Let me know what your answers are!
Well the first one is easy, I would pay off all my debt, help my loved ones and then probably travel or donate a lot to charity. I always wanted to be a 50's wife, vacuuming in pearls. You know completely taken care of, just a perfect home body. But then again I would have probably chaffed at the women's rights back then. Let there be Peace on Earth, not my favorite, but my mother's. We had to sing is at almost every function. Too many favorite songs, like what is my favorite book? Wow, other than people, I can't think of anything.
ReplyDeleteI have much more than I need so I can't think of a thing I would spend money on for myself . Nothing about me is/has been perfect and I do not even pretend it was/will ever be.
DeleteOk I had to Google pics ofonley chandeliers, and I think you should get one.
ReplyDeleteMy answers:
I would buy a log cabin big enough for extended family vacations.
I would pick the 90's. Mom and Dad were still alive, and my kids were tiny.
Song recently has been Because He Lives.
I want a VW campervan to travel the country.
Fun questions.
The monkey chandelier I lust after was a one of a kind hand carved number. 30 years ago it was 5k (might as well have been a million dollars) and there was no way I could afford it. But I have never stopped thinking about it.
DeleteI would have a LOT of change if I was to try and spend a million dollar just on myself. I could spend it on others quickly enough but I have everything I need that money can buy. I am a very lucky woman.
ReplyDeleteGoing back in time? Nah. I would like to be able to undo some mistakes I have made but the ripple effect concerns me...
I would be too afraid to go back in time for exactly that reason. There are some things I might like to have avoided, but who knows how one decision would change the trajectory of my life.
DeleteEnjoyed reading your answers. Now I'm going to have that song in my head today! I think we all miss our family member who have gone to Heaven.
ReplyDeleteI think we all miss those we love also!
DeleteIf it makes you feel better I often sing old TV show themes and the Beverly Hillbillies' theme is probably the one I most often come up with...probably because it has the easiest to remember words.
ReplyDeleteI guess that is why I sing it so often while I am piddling around in the house!
DeleteAs often happens when I read your blog, I get a new song for the day. The Ballad of Jed Clampett and that will interchanged with the Green Acres theme. :)
ReplyDeleteI am laughing as I read your comment and now am mentally singing Green Acres!
DeleteSo glad I'm not the only one who gets these olden jingles in her head! I'd enjoy spending my the $ living aboard a Crystal Cruises luxury ocean liner -- for the rest of my life or until the money runs out, whichever comes first.
ReplyDeleteWow now that could be a fun way to spend a million!
DeleteInteresting questions and your answers are even more so.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a million dollars, I'd buy my daughter a larger house, my son a condo, and I'd finish all the needed renovations to this house, and then I'd purchase a smaller place for myself. Maybe on Vancouver Island but may be not.
I'm not sure about the decade but if I had to do something over again, I'd get my degree sooner. Though that might mean either my daughter or son wouldn't be here. The attraction would simply be the ability to provide my children a little more than I did when they were young.
The Brick (furniture) store is currently running an advert with the song, "This is the song that never ends" except they say sale. Favorite song - I'm not a musical person so I don't really have one. I do enjoy country music more than most other styles/
Like you, it's the people from my past (mom and dad especially) that I wish were still around. Things, not so much. The two pieces of furniture I'd hate to give up - my mom's china cabinet and a desk that belonged to my paternal grandmother are still part of my home.
We gave up Mom's China cabinet, but at least it went to my cousin who was close to Mom. The things of Mom's that I kept are smaller sentimental items that I now use every day. And I have my dad's pipe. It is stainless steel with a wooden bowl and bit. Though he quit smoking sometime in his forties, the bowl of the pipe still smells like his tobacco. (To be clear my sister and I called the pipe the intimidator because of the way he would hold and point it when he was "talking" to us.
DeleteGreat questions and answers! I'd want to buy a house closer to my where my daughter is, but, a million dollars won't go far to buy real estate in California, especially in the Bay Area!
ReplyDeleteSon 1 and 2 have houses but Son3 is still in an apartment . I am pretty sure a million would not go far in the city.
DeleteHmm, $1,000,000 is too much to think of. I think if I had to relive a decade, it would be the 2000's. All three kids were still kids, and there's some things I'd have liked a do over. But then again, the butterfly effect might get life wrong.
ReplyDeleteI would be too afraid to relive anything because one different decision might alter my life entirely.
DeleteMy current favorite song has been a favorite song in the past--Annie's Song by John Denver.
ReplyDeleteI am too tired to write more. Later.
Annie's Song is a beautiful song.
DeleteI don't know what I'd do with a windfall of a million, either. Really no wants/needs that are beyond my reach as it is. And I'm not all that interested in my personal past, nor do I want to change things. I certainly do regret some things, and might want to have a do over on some; but I learned lessons from the experiences I regret, so I'm not so sure I'd want to change those.
ReplyDeleteTheHub and I are at a point in life when we don't really want anything and are also understand that anything we acquire requires upkeep or at the least household real estate to store it. I am in the decluttering stage.
DeleteThe only things I would change (if I could )would be my reactions to certain things, but like you said, everything that has happened thus far makes me who I am today.
If I won a million I would set my kids up and other family members. Then my biggest pleasure would be to set up an anonymous account where I could be a Secret Santa (like Nate Etan does from East Idaho News). I have a few favourite charities but I'm thinking maybe €5,000 or €10,000 to help someone/a family going through hard times. To buy hearing aids (€4,000) or a wheelchair, for example! I've got it all worked out - just need to win the money now!
ReplyDeleteGreat plan!
Delete1. Meh. That's really not a lot of money.
ReplyDelete2. Either the '80's, or the early 2000's to be with people who were there then.
3. "Ex Wives" from the musical 6. I have a bad habit of getting songs stuck in my head which is why I cannot bear constant background music. I need silence. My current favorite song? I don't know...."Sounds of Silence?" (Kidding. I need silence.)
4. I miss pen and paper. I also miss the stationery selection that would be in finer departent stores.
Stationery! I had not thought of some of the beautiful papers you used to be able to find.
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