I’m feeling kind of out-of-this-world today

Michael took a pic of me in what I have christened my “interstellar outfit.” Thought I’d share it with you. (The new haircut with bangs is working out nicely for me, by the way. I was afraid with my sensory issues it would drive me nuts, but it hasn’t.)

This is kind of appropriate

I just realized that Memorial Day and National Missing Children’s Day in America both fell on the same date this year: today. Memorial Day is primarily thought of as a day to commemorate deceased loved ones, particularly veterans, but I’m sure it’s very meaningful for families and friends of the missing too. I know that in many cases a family will, after a period of time, hold a memorial service and sometimes even put up a gravestone in the cemetery.

In honor of this day I’d like to bring to your attention the Missing Veterans website, which publicizes the disappearances of veterans who vanished from the United States and other countries too.

Is it just me or…

I was thinking of making Contina Venice Patton tomorrow’s MP of the week. I Googled her name to see if I could find anything new about her and came up with these mug shots for a Contina Venise Patton in Fulton County, Georgia, eight years after Contina Venice Patton disappeared from Flint, Michigan.

It’s really hard to tell with faces, but I think the mouth and the nose are very similar.

[UPDATE: Yeah, I called it in to the Flint Police. Of course I got an answering service cause it’s Memorial Day and all but I left a message explaining that I didn’t think Contina was really missing anymore and they ought to take her case off NamUs.]

Make-a-List Monday: Make-a-List Monday lists

A slight deviation from the program: at the suggestion of Kat, I’ve made a list of all the Make-a-List Monday lists in order of appearance. I started doing the Monday lists two years ago in April.

1. People who were famous or had famous relatives
2. People with botanical names
3. State capitals list #1
4. The suspects committed suicide
5. People missing with their dogs
6. State capitals list #2
7. People named Mohammed
8. People named Jesus
9. People who are on Wikipedia
10. Kidnappings for ransom
11. Border crossers
12. People with rare medical conditions
13. People with rare first names, and a last name beginning with A
14. People with cancer
15. Last seen driving a Buick
16. People with a master’s degree
17. Octogenarians and nonagenarians
18. Pacific Islanders
19. State capitals list #3
20. Caribbean islanders
21. Twins
22. Infants under six months
23. Missing from tiny towns (eastern states)
24. State capitals list #4
25. Last seen driving a motorcycle
26. People carrying Bibles
27. Missing from the hospital
28. Friday the 13th disappearances (1980s on)
29. The deaf
30. Autistic people
31. The blind
32. Either missing or born on February 29
33. People wearing a Rolex watch
34. People wearing a Timex watch
35. People wearing a Casio watch
36. People missing on the day of a lunar eclipse
37. Car left at the airport
38. Eastern Europeans
39. Africans
40. Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese
41. People with two different colored eyes
42. University of California alumni
43. People with surgical plates in them
44. School uniform wearers
45. People named Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel or Seth
46. Medical students and pre-med undergraduates
47. People who are presumed to have committed suicide by jumping off somewhere that was not the Golden Gate Bridge
48. Young people with dentures
49. Babysitters
50. Teens with bipolar disorder
51. Ivy League and Ivy League type school alumni
52. Men and boys with one of the most common names given to baby boys in 2012
53. Women and girls with one of the most common names given to baby girls in 2012
54. Small women
55. Cases where I have photos of the missing person’s tattoos
56. Minors with tattoos
57. Central Americans
58. Car accidents
59. People who changed their names
60. Walpurgis Night disappearances
61. Mothers of many children
62. People with “three dots” tattoos
63. Cases where I have photos of the missing person’s clothes, shoes or jewelry
    
64. People wearing miniskirts
65. Models
66. People with facial piercings
67. State capitals list #5
68. People who disappeared while swimming
69. Sapphire jewelry wearers
70. People whose cars were found burned
71. Pearl jewelry wearers
72. Confirmed child abuse homicides
73. Barefoot people
74. People who spoke limited to no English
75. Multilingual people
76. People with many siblings
77. Birkenstocks wearers
78. Dr. Martens wearers
79. Cases with the word “rat” mentioned somewhere in them
80. En route to Mexico
81. Dog bite scars
82. Community college attendees
83. Flip-flop wearers
84. State capitals list #6
85. People in wheelchairs
86. People in the process of a divorce
87. World War II vets
88. World War I vets
89. Vietnam vets
90. Accidental drownings
91. Homicidal drownings
92. People who went by their middle names
93. Class ring wearers
94. Married minors
95. People who disappeared working at a gas station or convenience store
96. People with really bad photos and last names starting with A through E
97. Transients
98. “Caution advised”
99. Disabled or dependent adult persons
100. Armenian-Americans
101. People carrying at least $500 in cash
102. People with really bad photos and last names starting with F through J
103. People with limbs of unequal length
104. People with Afro hairstyles
105. People wearing sunglasses
106. Asthmatics