The Great and Random Ramblings of Cannwin

List your top five favorite celebrities and why you like them. It can be someone from the past, present, or anywhere in between. Have fun! Eww, this ones a tough one because I really don't get to interested in celebrities. I can really get into the characters they play but once you learn a little about the person you don't like them so much. But I suppose celebrity can be anyone famous and not limited to actors. In no particular order: 1. Andrean Sudbury Why? I first heard of this man when I was in England and I began to read his blog. I think he had an affect on me because he was my age, even a little younger when the cancer hit him. He really used his last days to do good in the world. He faced death straight in the eyes and walked towards it. I can't imagine how terrifying that would be, but he seemed to handle it well and I really grieved when he died, even though I didn't know him. I still grieve I suppose. He was a very brave man. 2. Abigail Adams Why? ...

Can you feel it? Fall is in the air. What do like about fall and the changing seasons? Is there something you don't like about it? Autumn is definitely my favorite season (well, okay I like spring too) because it has that feel of change in the air, of snow to come and warm nights with fire crackling. It means sweaters, sweatshirts, boots and coats. It means pulling out the clothes you haven't worn in a while and closeting the ones your getting sick of. It's cuddling in bed and enjoying the warmth of newly dried clothes and pulling out all the throws and quilts It's a steaming hot shower then racing to get dressed (lest the cold overcome you). It's sniffles and scarves and frost on the windows. But the sun still shines and the afternoons are still warm (ish). It's Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday) and Halloween (I get so sick of pumpkin smasher's). It's oven baked goodies and thick soups and stews. It's raking leaves of amazing colors! All around you...

Did you guys catch the little update on the tta blogsite? someone has decided to take the project on themselves, their site is the same name but with hyphens (if that's what they're called) tuesday-tell-all.blogspot.com (it's in my following list) Hooray! Okay so here's her (his) topic for today (which happens to be my anniversary btw): Write on natural disasters. Have you ever experienced one? Are you prepared to experience one? If you had to be in a natural disaster is there one you would prefer over another? I've never been involved in one. Living in Idaho, we didn't have much in the way of tornado's, earth quakes, hurricanes, other maybe a forest fire or two. What I remember is being stuck out in a blizzard with my little sister. Let's see we were about 10 and 6 (me the older) and we were on our way home from school. It was really bad out and everyone's parents had come to pick them up except, of course, ours. So the neighbor lady took us, but wh...

It says to tell about your first day of school but honestly does anyone remember that? That was over 20 years ago! I do have a kindergarten memory though (for all you foreigner's Kindergarten is where 5 year olds go in the US it's the first year of school) There was this boy, Robbie Bybee and he was in the terms of a 5 year old 'cute' (my parents were a little worried at how early I started noticing boys, by the way). I remember being in class in a circle with all the other kids and talking to my neighbor/childhood/current/dear friend Rinda (well we were whispering) about how much we liked Robbie. I got in trouble for talking (I always had talking marks on my report cards, it was a constant complaint of my teachers) and was sent to my table to put my head on the desk. I was so embarrassed and angry that I sat at the table thinking of all the horrible things that a 5 year old can wish on an adult. I finally came up with the idea that I would get my teacher, Mrs. Mann...

This topic is supposed to be about what sport you would participate in, but I'm not a competitive person (okay, in sports I hate to be competitive) so I'm going to change the topic a little. My favorite Olympic memory: Gymnastics the American Women's Team is on the brink of taking the Gold and a small little thing goes up to the spring board. She runs, she jumps, she breaks (or twists) her ankle on the landing and crumples to the ground. It seems all hopes are lost, how can she jump again (as she's given two chances). She's crying, time passes, the news is on a feeding frenzy. The girl gets up, limps over to the runway and everything goes silent. (I remember breathlessly watching) She runs, she jumps and twists through the air turning around and around until WHAM she lands perfectly on the mat. Her arms fly into the air and the crowd erupts into glorious cheers. Almost instantly her hurt foot retracts into her body and her coach is right there to carry her over to a...

A pioneer is defined as "one who is the first to do something," or "one who opens up the way for others." Using this definition, tell us about pioneers in your family. When I was a teenager my father used to do work for an organization called VOCA that would send him all over the world, Mongolia, Russia, Azerbaijan, China, as a canning consultant. Then a wonderful and exciting thing happened. Our church closed a large quantity of it's canneries and my dad was able to buy the equipment for an excellent price. This gave him the opportunity to start his own non-profit organization called Worldwide Canneries . It is the culmination of a lifetime's worth of knowledge and a desire to do good in the world. He still works with VOCA and some other large groups, but Worldwide Canneries is his own. So what does my father do? He goes to poor countries and communities and teaches them how to can food. What they do with this food depends largely on them, in Africa he ta...

25 Images that come to mind when I think of America: 1. Fireworks on the 4th (bombs bursting in air). 2. Turkey, cranberry sauce and hot pies at Thanksgiving. 3. Rocky Mountains climbing ever upwards. 4. Windows thrown open to catch a breeze. 5. Planes crashing into the Twin Towers. 6. Basketball games. 7. Bull riding and rodeo's. 8. Cowboy hats and Wranglers. 9. Native American Pow-Wow's (worth going to BTW). 10. Arizona! scorching hot cement and great shopping. 11. Church on Sunday's. 12. Segregation 13. Integration 14. Abraham Lincoln 15. 4th grade State History 16. Lee Greenwood "Proud to be an American" 17. Country music 18. Barbecues on Memorial Day and Labor Day 19. Road trips 20. Those nasty cars that for sure didn't pass inspection and insist on depositing their smog into your car. 21. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. 22. National Treasure (the first one) 23. High School Graduation and that first day of Summer. 24. The American Flag 25. Fre...

This is my first TTA entry. See previous post to learn more, and if you want to join the group it's over in my list of blogs (which you should all go check out... especially Baldy's Blog) Anyway here we go. One of my favorite authors is Brandon Sanderson, he's great and the worlds he creates are amazing. In his book Elantris, he describes a world where the magic has broken and those who once wielded it are now doomed to an eternity of pain. They don't heal from their wounds, they don't die. The first sensations of a stubbed toe, or a sliced finger stays with them forever. Building upon each other until at last the person's mind cracks. The other day I stubbed my toe pretty bad, I though at first that it might be broken (I'm a little more confident today that it's not... but we'll see) and the pain was enough to make me nauseous. It made me remember that book.. What would it be like to feel that immediate pain forever? The power that comes with feelin...