July to JeanR - step 1 - Top 10 Jeans

This is only step one. It will reappear once I finish it. I am on my last week in Chicago and woke up to a black-screen-laptop. It was an alarming situation. I the presence of mind to just talk to the laptop and ask it to cooperate with the people who post YouTube videos on how to solve problems. It was not an easy fix. Once I figured out that the touch-pad is not the on-switch, things got better. All the research was done on a phone that is fairly new and I am still in the training wheel stage with that device. 

The only thing about the good-old-days - was that they used to write the word *ON* on a button - so you at least had one thing that made sense. Currently - you have to hold things up to your face - and that's not a habit that's connecting with my personal operating system.

Fingers crossed that I can fill up the next 10 days before I go home - and then take a 2 week break. I'll need 2 weeks to recombobulate to what the plants and weeds have been plotting while I have been gone. 

I have a rough idea for a birthday card for Jean. After I posted that Top Ten Andrew birthday card, I realized that I have never done the Top Ten Jeans.....so that was a lot of fun. Here's my list so far - I'll post an image if I actually get a a card made.

Top Ten Jeans

Jean Claude Van Damme

I dream of Jeannie (song as well as TV program)

Jean Marie River (NW Territories, Canada)

Jeans, the garment

Jean Shrimpton

Petit Jean State Park - first state park in Arkansas

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean Piaget

The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (book as well as movie)

Jean Rothfusz

There are plenty of people named Jean - since it is French for *John*

For me, it is more fun to find things for these lists that are not just people.

Here are numbers 15-11 - all people who did not make the Top Ten List

Jean Renoir

Jean Cocteau

Jean Sibelius

Jean Seberg

Jean Wilson - that person who has literally a million hits on her blog and probably several million pins on Pinterest of envelopes addressed to her - and does anyone ever wonder who she is - after seeing so much mail addressed to her?

Random info:

The term "jeans" originates from the name of a sturdy cotton fabric, likely a fustian, that was produced in Genoa, Italy, and widely used for workwear. The French referred to this fabric as "Gênes," which is the French word for Genoa, and this term was later anglicized to "jean". The modern "jeans" are typically made from denim, a different but related fabric, and the name has stuck, evolving to encompass the popular style of trousers.