Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fun Monday Assignment for Monday 28th January!

Choosing an assignment for Fun Monday is incredibly difficult!

I'm relatively new to this, having only participated in five Fun Mondays, but my feeling is that Fun Monday satisfies the need in all of us to be incredibly nosy about other people without actually being rude about it! I once had a friend who constantly berated her mother for being nosy and staring out of the window and "spying" on her neighbours. She was unrepentant and said that she was not being nosy, she was just interested in people, and that line has stuck with me over the years!!

I came up wth some humdingers but I wanted to avoid anything that might dredge up unhappy memories for people or anything too serious that wasn't fun to write about. After all, it's not called Glum Monday is it! I also wanted it to be something that was easy to write about. I am incredibly lazy and if an assignment is going to require huge amounts of thought to put it into words, then I probably wouldn't even do it myself!

So if you haven't fallen asleep yet, here's your Fun Monday Assignment for Monday 28th January!

So continuing in the spirit of "being interested in people", I would like to know, or see, what's on, in or under your bedside table! So open those draws and bare your soul to us! Is there anything special there that has a story or a memory that you can tell us about? Books that you keep there to delve into from time to time? Trinkets that you don't know where else to put? Let's see!

Please post to this blog if you wish to participate and I will get a list up in my sidebar.

65 comments:

ChrisB said...

Please count me in but I have so much junk there~ actually it will be a good thing to have a clear out!

Kim said...

I'll play!

Sandy said...

I'll play, too. I'll clean first but then I'll play!

kitten said...

(she was not being nosy, she was just interested in people) I'll have to remember that!
Count me in for next week. Sorry haven't been on line, but been busy.

Patience-please said...

I've seen the Fun Monday on several of my blogs that I regularly visit. I enjoy them, but I assume this is a separately worked out group??? (Don't want to barge in where I'm not asked!)

Patience

Aoj and The Lurchers said...

Patience, not at all. If you want to join in you just visit the blog of whoever is hosting it that week...and this week it's me....and say you'd like to participate and you get added to the list! Very informal! Shall I add you in!?

Andre Veloux said...

OK I'm in, do I list the stuff here in the comments??

Aoj and The Lurchers said...

Andre, that's great! No, you wait until next Monday and write the post on your blog as you would normally. Just title it Fun Monday!

Anonymous said...

me, me, me! I won't even clean it up first, and I'll post a pic to prove it!

Beckie said...

Hey there, count me in for Fun Monday.

http://giveitatry.wordpress.com

Sauntering Soul said...

Count me in please!

thefoodsnob said...

Count me in, too!

laurie said...

oh god a teetering laurie pile, as doug calls them....

count me in.

Celeste said...

Count me in....just checked the table as I couldn't remember what I had there! (Is that cheating?)

Anonymous said...

This should be interesting.
Kathy b
Count it all joy

BS said...

count me in ...

ellen b. said...

I'll have a post up on Monday with a link back to here...

Peter said...

Please include me for Monday 28

my4kids said...

I'll do it. Maybe it will actually be moved in by then so I can post it.

Alison said...

Yea..you are hosting this week!! How fun!! I'm in!

the planet of janet said...

oh lordy, this could be REALLY embarrassing (i'm messy), but count me in....

the planet of janet said...

oh wait. i already rsvp'd. oops. i'm mentally messy, too.

Anonymous said...

I'm in, too. The mind boggles!!

Patience-please said...

OK, count me in! Thanks for the explanation.

all the best-
Patience

Ingrid said...

Oh my, my night table has no drawers ! That's a tragedy but I will find something to make it intersting, lol I am in !(only to see other night tables !!)

Anonymous said...

LOL! I was just looking at mine this morning and going through all the photos and stuff, not only in the drawer, but the cabinet too.

Count me in!

the rotten correspondent said...

I'll play! Thanks!

Faye said...

Count me in, but I'll definitely have to lie--very dull ZZZ..zzzz.zz

Sayre said...

Heck, even I don't know what's under there. Guess I'll find out this weekend, huh? Count me in -

http://sayresmiles.blogspot.com

Jientje said...

Hi!! That will be interesting, looking forward to this one again! You can count me in as well!
http://heaveninbelgium.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

OK, I found it...not your battery charger OR the pacifier, but where to sign up...just needed to scroll down the page.
I am OFFICIALLY requesting to be added to the list of Fun Monday participants.

Kaytabug said...

I am so cleaning up my bedside table. Count me in!

-Ann said...

Great topic - sign me up please.
http://forthelongrun.blogspot.com

Hootin Anni said...

I wanna play!!!! I wanna play!!!
What's in my drawers...hmmmmm....that would just be too rude of me to show THAT on my blog.

But, I do wanna play...I gotta a nighstand by my bed, yes indeedy!!

Courtney said...

I'm a little late but I'm in!

And I'll Raise You 5 said...

Count me in, too!

Anonymous said...

I'd like to play too if that's ok :)

Aoj and The Lurchers said...

Everyone so far has been added!! I'm so pleased so many of you have joined up!

Tiggerlane said...

Thank goodness I am packimg this weekend! But count me in, for sure.

If you don't have a host for next week, let me know - I got an idea from my kid today.

Robinella said...

I keep forgetting to sign up. Please sign me up!!

Too bad I didn't check in sooner. I just posted a picture of my bedside table. I'll have to check my stack of books and rotate.

http://robinellablog.wordpress.com

Jan said...

I'm reposting, because I received an error message. Please sign me up for Fun Monday. I've never offically participated.

Joy T. said...

Phew! I found you! I'd love to sign up for Fun Monday pretty please :o)
http://aspotoft.typepad.com

Aoj and The Lurchers said...

Tigger, you are the first to volunteer so you're "it"! Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Yep, sign me up please.

Mamalang said...

I'm in!

Joanne said...

This will be my first time participating...it looks like fun. I'm enjoying all the photos from the current one. :-)

Here's my blog:
An Unschooling Life

Thanks!!

Anonymous said...

Sign me up too! I had fun so much fun last week! This will be #4 for me!

Anonymous said...

I'll participate this week. Thanks for hosting!!

joker the lurcher said...

i think i can persuade herself to indulge in this. that is so long as nothing goes any more wrong with my shoulder...

Dani said...

I vow to try again at this. I'm ordinarily pretty aawful at taking a picture? but I will do my best.
Dani @ phonemom.wordpress.com

Anonymous said...

Please add us.
:)

Lana G! said...

I would like to partcipate this week as well.

Cynthia said...

I would like to play this week, also. Thanks

Carrie @carrieloves said...

sorry for the late notice, I'm in.

Molly said...

Please add me. I thought that I did sign up earlier. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Huh, I could of sworn I signed up, but I don't see my first comment! Please add me to the Fun Monday list. Thanks!

Baba said...

Yes... sign me up for Fun Monday the 28th of Jan..... Oh my..I have to take pictures now and I hope I don't find any surprises in the drawers..
See you tomorrow., Baba

Linda said...

I was sure I signed up a few days ago, but I don't see me there...darn Blogger Comments...*&%#$^#

Anyway, please add me to the list if you have time! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

I love your books! And you have a nice furniture!

I'm playing!

Joanne said...

I posted mine...

An Unschooling Life

Attie said...

Add me..I know Iam ussually late...I can't seem to get the link thing to work in my posts!! But I can get it to work on the side so I'll try!!

Tanya said...

I have no bedside table. Just a tv tray that I will set my cell phone (alarm clock) on when I go to bed at night.

Your post about watching neighbors reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rear Window. Its an oldie, but good and all about spying on your neighbors.

Anonymous said...

Please add a very belated funny Monday bedside table post: my blog is http://happyathome.homeschooljournal.net/

How do we know who is hosting next and what next week's question is?

best wishes

Aoj and The Lurchers said...

Sally, if you check out my post "Fun Monday Follow-up" the details of next Monday's host are there.

Lynn said...

Hi, came accross this on Sally's blog and had not read the details here first! I have posted a late entry hope that's ok.....