A Bit of Me(me)

Danielle from There's a Book hosts A Bit of Me(me) every Saturday. Each week she asks us to post the answer to a question designed to help us get to know each other better. This week's question: What’s your favorite holiday movie? The one you could watch every year and it would always remind you of that time of year. My favorite holiday movie is Holiday Inn. Bing Crosby plays a performer who is sick of the daily grind and so opens his own exclusive inn in Connecticut where he only performs on holidays. You just can't beat Bing Crosby at Christmas. He's a perfect straight man to Fred Astaire's goofy character. I don't even have to mention his voice, do I? Or Fred's moves? Marjorie Reynolds is the love interest and I like her as well. I love that the movie is about so many different holidays. There are songs for Valentine's Day and Easter and the 4th of July. And, of course, Bing's famous "White Christmas" was written by Irving Berlin for this movie. I'm a sucker for the old musicals anyway though. Park me in front of one and I will watch the whole thing with a giant goofy grin on my face. I will say that there's one scene that in the present comes across as very racist. They perform in blackface and the African-American characters are very stereotyped. It bothers me when I think about it, but the rest of the movie is just so good I try to overlook it as a sign of the times. Is that bad? I don't know. Anyway, what's your favorite holiday movie? Write a post and link up at There's a Book!

Danielle from There's a Book hosts A Bit of Me(me) every Saturday. Each week she asks us to post the answer to a question designed to help us get to know each other better. This week's question: What is your favorite smell and why? Does it bring back memories? I'll admit that I thought this question was a little weird at first. I don't have the greatest sniffer out there, so smells aren't something I pay a whole lot of attention to. Working in health care, this can honestly be a blessing. Is that TMI? Anyway, I thought about it and realized there are a lot of smells that I really like, but there's one that stands out. I ♥ the smell of freshly-cut grass. I smell it and I'm happy. Photo of a "new-mown hayfield by Bickley Hall Farm" taken by Espresso Addict and posted on Wikimedia Commons. I grew up pretty far out in the country. My grandparents have a small family farm and I grew up just a "little piece" down the mountain from them. My uncles have slowly been taking over more and more of the responsibility for things over the years. Anyway, my parents' house is at the edge of all this, in between a big hayfield and the tree line. So every summer, in about June, my uncle would mow the hay for the first time. Oh, it's a heavenly smell. We were fresh out of school for the summer, I had stacks and stacks of books from the library to read, life was simple and life was good. We didn't have air conditioning back then, so we would open the windows in the evening to let the cool air in and that smell would come wafting into the house on a summer breeze. The lightning bugs…

A Bit of Me(me) is hosted every Saturday at There's A Book. Every week, Danielle asks us a question that lets us get to know each other a little better. This week's question is: What is one thing you are really NOT good at? Oh, man, where do I start?  :-) I'll go with the first thing that comes to mind:  singing. (My husband just looked over my shoulder and said I should have gone with "getting up on time." That's true too, but I've already written this post.) Oh my gosh, I can't sing to save my life.  It's odd because I'm really good with instruments (well, I was when I actually played them, but that hasn't happened since high school), but I am tone-deaf when it comes to singing.  I love to sing alone in my car, I love to irritate the heck out of my family by singing "Happy Birthday" to them as loudly and badly as possible (so badly it takes talent to be that bad, I promise you), but to actually sound good?  Not happening. Even if you know what song I'm trying to sing, you still can't recognize it. My husband and I both cringe when I have to attempt a "Humdinger" in the board game, Cranium. We both know he's not guessing the name of any song I try to hum. What's something YOU are not good at?  I shared mine!  Be sure to stop by There's A Book and see how other bloggers answered!