I’m dedicating this post to my inability to do anything simply.
Honestly, I don’t know exactly what a meme is (or how to pronounce it – it seems like one of those words that could get away from you – "memememememe"), and I’ve been stumped by the word ever since I entered blogland. But I found one that I thought was interesting enough to post – my first attempt ever at a meme – and I broke it. Oh well, right?
So here’s the rule/"mememe": Find the nearest book, open to p. 123, then post lines 6-8. Somewhat of a rule-follower, I picked up the actual nearest book: Good to Great (a business book on J.’s ladder-climbing reading list). But something tells me no one is actually going to find a few lines about the "Abbott system of Responsibility Accounting" very interesting. So then I move to the next nearest book, You’re Wearing THAT? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. This attempt is a little more interesting, but still lacking the creative fiction element (something about the teen years being a hothouse environment where seeds of conflict sprout – surprising).
Anyway, not as fun as everyone else’s. So I move to the nearest 
book on my bookshelf and pick up Ramona the Pest from my "I loved these and (hopefully) she will,too, someday" stash. But, get this – it was published funny and there is no p.123, or p.124, for that matter. I’m defeated. So you’re getting p.122:
"How lonely they looked, two bright spots of red in all that mud. She could not leave her boots behind, not when she had waited so long to get them. Somebody might take them, and she would have to go back to shoving her feet into Howie’s old ugly boots."
I love Ramona. And those illustrations.
thanks, Mom for explaining the Meme definition. I didn’t know either…thought it was Me.Me.Me as in all about Me. Of course that would never fly in blogland…ha!
love Ramona too, and yes, I think E will love her as well.
xoC
I love Ramona too. I anticipate introducing Eve to her- right now we are in the middle of the Little House on the Prairie series- Farmer Boy to be exact. Although, we did take a little break to read Charlotte’s Web. All such great books!
I was SO hoping no one would call me out on that quilt. The farthest I got was cutting out some pieces. I used to make “quilts” and patchwork blankets and I forgot how much time they took! To complicate things more, I don’t really have a plan for how I want it to look (that would be helpful, right?). I think I’m just going to literally wind up sewing a bunch of pieces together and see what happens…
Such cute pics – I remember those books. My favorites all hang out around here too. Luckily my son is old enough to be getting into them now.
On another note – did you finish the V-day quilt? Are we going to get to see pics?
Okay… you SO completely lost me on this one that I had to hunt for a meaning to this “meme” concept. And guess what? I found this (at the Merriam Webster online site):
Main Entry: meme
Pronunciation: ‘mEm
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture [I’m assuming the Blog-culture in this case]