New Word Learned

Going through the different SSD challenges to earn Sweet Rewards Points, I learned a new word: MEME (pronounced meem).

Here are different meanings for Meme:

A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic.

Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leading from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.

A meme survives in the world because people pass it on to other people, either vertically to the next generation, or horizontally to our fellows.

Ok, for my points, I need to answer this meme:

Five in a Row

1. Name one thing you do everyday. Surf the internet.

2. Name two things you wish you could learn.
Learn how to sing, hehehe.
Learn how to play the violin.

3. Name three things that remind you of your childhood.
Barbie Dolls
Hello Kitty, Little Twin Stars and the whole Sanrio gang
Horseback riding and bicycling in the city of Baguio

4. Name four things you love to eat but rarely do.
Turkey
Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Reese's chocolate peanut butter cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory
Homemade hot chocolate

5. Name five things that make you feel good.
Reading
Scrapping
Kisses and Hugs for no reason at all from my kids
Cuddling under the comforter when it's cold outside

There you have it! With this, I should have enough points to get me the coveted 40% off coupon for some Sweet Shoppe Treats!!! Can't wait!! Whoohoo!!!

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Okay, I need to break this text-full posts I've been having....

AMERICAN KIDS
Did this page in honor of Independence Day in the States.

Credits: kit - Starburst by Laura Deceatis at SSD; tags - by Amy Wolff; star template - Fillament by Katie the Scrapbook Lady; painted star doodle - by Lisa Whitney; font - You Are Loved

COUNTING ON YOU
Journaling reads: To my girls: Here is a fervent wish that we will always have a special bond between us --- mother and daughters, sisters, FRIENDS. May this bond never be broken, even when you have your own husband, your own family. My dream? That WE have the same relationsips, the same CLOSENESS that you see and experience with our family now. I am counting on the both of you to keep our family close, together...forever. No matter what it takes. I love you girls!

Credits: kit - Hope Springs Eternal by Rina Kroes at SBE; font - DJB GinaE by Darcy Baldwin at Blue Flombingo; layered sketch - Trying Something New by Janet Phillips

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