Monday meme

THE 5 THINGS MEME (I was tagged along with the other NE Mamas a while back by the intrepid Whirlwind)

It's true. I have not been a good blogger. No insightful ramblings to see here this post. But you can take a peek and look it all of my shit. C'mon. You know you don't have anything better to do. (Insert heavy drip of sarcasm here).

5 things in your refrigerator.

1. An old but seemingly imperishable jar of capers.
2. a mason jar of dried bonito flakes for the soup base I almost never get around to making.
3. Hershey's chocolate syrup (really, how could anyone not?)
4. Left over Thai take out...(the spicy beefy broth from a vat of boat noodles, and the sweet creamy spicy thick broth from the Kow Soy. I am absolutely convinced I will use it, and that it will not, in a month or so, transform into an actual thing as opposed to food.)
5. A lonely bottle of Sea Dog India Pale Ale. What's wrong with us?

5 things in your closet (The coat closet...it's more interesting than the others)

Yes. We are geeks. Is this REALLY a surprise?

1. An old D & D type game called Battle Masters (Whirlwind's not the only gal with dragons in her closet).
2. An old stiff green canvas bag (once used for carrying coin at a Rockland Trust Company) of glass marbles that belonged to my grandfather.
3. Winnie the Pooh Pez dispensers. Still wrapped.
4. An old straw hat that only fits when my hair is cut very, very short.
5. My old fake leather cello case.

5 things in your purse or backpack

1. The Impling's sippy cup
2. One tiny bottle of ibuprofen
3. wipes
4. an old, freckled roll of sweet tarts (which can't count now...as I just chucked them. Ew.)
5. A small book I made for my bookbinding class in college, only slightly written in (it got tucked away in a safe place for a while and never saw the light of day for some years) A nice gift, finding it again. Particularly with the page of e.e. cummings:

I Thank you God, for this most amazing day

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky, and

for everything

which is natural which is infinite

which is yes.

(I missed this last Random Poetry Friday. This is a good excuse to make it up. Plus, the Impling loves it, and listens to me read it with a huge smile, and asks for me to "Sing it again" as soon as I've finished. Another gift. Yep.)

5 things in your car

1. cookies, in microscopic crumbly form around the base of the Impling's car seat.
2. Kleenex
3. plastic bags
4. extra towel or so
5. an old bottle of water that rolled under the car seat some time during the first year of residency and never rolled out again.

5 things in the world you want to see before you die

1. The northern lights
2. Barack Obama as president
3. the house we live in by the sea
4. a world where secular humanism is the norm and not the exception
5. my daughter's children

Since I have NO idea who hasn't been tagged for this yet...I'll do a little shopping around and get back to you. Or if you know you haven't been, consider yourself tagged.