Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

yeah, I like the title today. Unfortunately I am neither writer nor gourmand enough to pull off a ‘Grat List’ done with a menu/food item or sandwich theme. (lol… that kinda made me smile, ” WordPress proudly presents their newest blog theme: Open-faced Sandwich.) Yeah, I’m vamping* waiting for whatever it is that happens just before I start to type my way towards ‘The End’.  (oh man!! I just started to write the Post, and you know how sometimes you start to write something, a story or a memory or a Post and you feel like the idea is a good one, but you need to explore it more and then next thing you know you have 789 words and then you’re like,  “shit! I’ll never write my way out of this one!” and you don’t want to delete it ( 789 words!!!) so you decide to keep writing, figuring once the count gets over 1200 then you’ll be able to cut it back and hopefully, like a diamond cutter, you’ll have the gem of something that you won’t mind hitting ‘Publish’ on, you know? I’m kinda at that point.)

(wish me luck)

One: (lets, at least start with a food motif). I am grateful for cooking shows on TV, which might seem odd, seeing how I don’t cook and don’t really have a major interest in fine foods and cuisine..but then, I am, of course, a clark (for new Readers not familiar** with the personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, that just means I enjoy learning new things and watching experts (of any sort) do their thing. A qualifier here: I don’t watch the ‘competition shows’ and I totally don’t watch the shows where the ‘star’ goes in to a restaurant and tells the losers (who apparently are so desperate for attention that they are willing to be abused for the entertainment of the audience) what losers they are and the show ends with them being so grateful. I don’t enjoy the ‘cooking contest’ shows mostly because it seems to me that the emphasis in on the loser and not the winner and not in a good way. Putting the disappointment of the person who tries but  doesn’t win is frickin sick. Anyway. The shows I do like? Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’, Guy Fieri’s ‘Diners, Drive-in and Dives’ and, of course…any show with Giada on it.  There was a cooking show that I don’t see on anymore that you might enjoy, ‘Bitchin Kitchen’  very good show…here’s one of the episodes

Two: I am grateful to the Book of Secret Rules that Lizzi is reputed to have hidden away in a high tower room protected by … er…. Protectors!! yeah. To the best of my understanding, the only (Secret) Rule that is safe to use is Rule 1.3 which allows, under certain conditions, us to count the ‘completion of the Grat List’ as one of the items (on that list). I mention this for the benefit of anyone joining us for the first time or Readers considering joining in on the fun!

Three: Speaking of the awful world we live in… lol  no, really, I am grateful to Joy over at Comfy Town Chronicles for her post, which serves to remind me of the correct decision I made years ago to simply not read, watch, pay attention to, follow-up on or any other way get caught up in how (unpleasantly) strange the world is getting. (Note: cutting yourself off from the world of ‘news and current events’ in not as easy as it sounds…but is totally worth it!  …just not as easy as you might think.)

Four: I am grateful for the Word Count function at the bottom of this dashboard. It is telling me that I better hurry the hell up! I’m at 674 words and only on Number 4

Five: ‘Work the Rules’?  lol  yes, new Reader, there is much for you to be grateful when reading some of our Posts and the masterly ways we have of bending the Rules…(never breaking!!  no!! no frickin way…I would not want to get ‘the email’  from you-know-who)

Six: I am grateful to Christine and Dyanne for having the last Posts (of the day yesterday). I work on Saturday so the time I have available to read and comment on Posts is, shall we say  disjointed. So, when I get to the last third of the Posts, it’s nice to see these  two waiting… as if to say “oh clark! you look so exhausted, reading all those Posts and even though they are so much better than yours…you continue on!  valiantly Reading and Commenting…our Hero!!”

Seven: I am grateful for the ‘not-in-the-same-room nature of the blogosphere, which means I am relatively certain not to receive an unexpected elbow in my ribs due to my literary flights of fancy.

Ate: grateful to Listress Lizzi, for this here bloghop here. I know I’ve said it before, but the longer this weekend bloghop goes on, the more I appreciate the balance of good solid principles (gratitude lists) and creative writing and a certain element of craziness (“no, you’re welcome!).  nice stuff

Nine: grateful to Cyndi and Denise for calling into the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive last night…. a) I learned more about the Doctrine itself from listening to both of them reflect on their recent experiences and 2) I am in increasing awe of the potential of the Doctrine as a tool, a perspective… hearing of their accomplishments is humbling

Tenth: yes, yes I am going to…. (come on! you all saw that coming a country mile away)

* to play short, repeating musical phrases, often associated with a musical group’s warming up  not to be confused with voguing  which is something entirely different…wait a minute, maybe not

** try and come here more than once and get away without learning about our little personality theory