On August 31, 1947, my parents were wed. Now we're celebrating their 60th anniversary this weekend with a family/friends celebration. What an accomplishment! "For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, 'til death do us part."
Congratulations, Mom and Dad! Here's to you!!
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Random Post because I've Been Tagged
The Rules:
1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog (about their 8 things) and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
1. I am so old I remember weekly baths. Yep, we'd wash the necessaries more often, but a whole bath and shampoo? Saturday nights.
2. I am so old I remember Easter hats and gloves. Actually they were worn more often than that by my mom and her friends, but my Easter hat and gloves were things in which I gloried. Surely, I was on the brink of adulthood when thus arrayed.
3. I am so old my first radio was a transistor model in a black leather case with a carrying handle. The whole thing probably measured 6"x4", and, boy was I cool! Of course, I didn't listen to rock 'n roll what with being a Christian and all, so it was mostly Andy Williams, Glen Campbell, easy listening stuff, etc.
4. I didn't own a pair of jeans until my senior year of high school. Yes, that all-purpose piece of clothing was only for boys! I finally convinced my mom to get me a pair because I was in rehearsal for the choir musical, and we spent a lot of time sitting on the stage floor waiting for directions from the teacher. Of course, the jeans went to college with me, were worn constantly (even on the short trip to the campus bookstore where I purchased my first deck of playing cards :O), and became faded and comfortable that first semester.
5. I also didn't own a record player until college. For some reason, my mom thought it was a necessary piece of dorm equipment. But it wasn't until I met my roommate my sophomore year that my record collection blossomed. She liked everything! So I began collecting LP's which were sadly disposed of some 25 years later in a garage sale.
6. I snore when I sleep. Not just a light, lady-like snuffle, but a full-blown, train-track-rattlin' rumble! So I got tested for sleep apnea, got the CPAP machine installed in my bedroom, and now I sleep as quietly as a kitten. However, please don't take my picture during said sleep...I certainly don't look as cute as a kitten with that apparatus on my nose!
7. My first boyfriend broke up with me to date a girl at his college. They married on May 19 exactly one year before I got married on May 19. Weird, huh? I mean, how common is it that an old boyfriend gets married on your date, or, rather that I got married on his date? Our parents were friends but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it...right, Mom?
8. Okay, I've saved the best for last. My husband proposed to me 3 weeks after our first date. Yep...3 weeks! We did wait a considerable time for the actual marriage, and I guess it's worked out okay since we're working on year 33 now. But it was all pretty heady for a 19-year-old girl when my "knight in shining armor" showed up so suddenly in a red '69 Camaro. Ah, love in the pines (SFASU, that is)....those were the years!
Okay, so those are my random eight. Now, I will tag my 3 favorite guys: John, Jon, and Jack.
1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog (about their 8 things) and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
1. I am so old I remember weekly baths. Yep, we'd wash the necessaries more often, but a whole bath and shampoo? Saturday nights.
2. I am so old I remember Easter hats and gloves. Actually they were worn more often than that by my mom and her friends, but my Easter hat and gloves were things in which I gloried. Surely, I was on the brink of adulthood when thus arrayed.
3. I am so old my first radio was a transistor model in a black leather case with a carrying handle. The whole thing probably measured 6"x4", and, boy was I cool! Of course, I didn't listen to rock 'n roll what with being a Christian and all, so it was mostly Andy Williams, Glen Campbell, easy listening stuff, etc.
4. I didn't own a pair of jeans until my senior year of high school. Yes, that all-purpose piece of clothing was only for boys! I finally convinced my mom to get me a pair because I was in rehearsal for the choir musical, and we spent a lot of time sitting on the stage floor waiting for directions from the teacher. Of course, the jeans went to college with me, were worn constantly (even on the short trip to the campus bookstore where I purchased my first deck of playing cards :O), and became faded and comfortable that first semester.
5. I also didn't own a record player until college. For some reason, my mom thought it was a necessary piece of dorm equipment. But it wasn't until I met my roommate my sophomore year that my record collection blossomed. She liked everything! So I began collecting LP's which were sadly disposed of some 25 years later in a garage sale.
6. I snore when I sleep. Not just a light, lady-like snuffle, but a full-blown, train-track-rattlin' rumble! So I got tested for sleep apnea, got the CPAP machine installed in my bedroom, and now I sleep as quietly as a kitten. However, please don't take my picture during said sleep...I certainly don't look as cute as a kitten with that apparatus on my nose!
7. My first boyfriend broke up with me to date a girl at his college. They married on May 19 exactly one year before I got married on May 19. Weird, huh? I mean, how common is it that an old boyfriend gets married on your date, or, rather that I got married on his date? Our parents were friends but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it...right, Mom?
8. Okay, I've saved the best for last. My husband proposed to me 3 weeks after our first date. Yep...3 weeks! We did wait a considerable time for the actual marriage, and I guess it's worked out okay since we're working on year 33 now. But it was all pretty heady for a 19-year-old girl when my "knight in shining armor" showed up so suddenly in a red '69 Camaro. Ah, love in the pines (SFASU, that is)....those were the years!
Okay, so those are my random eight. Now, I will tag my 3 favorite guys: John, Jon, and Jack.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Oldies Music
I love the oldies. Not only because they were the songs of my college years, but also because they were played on the radio I listened to in those years. Songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's appeal to me. I know, I know, I'm old. But somewhere in the 80's I quit listening to much popular music, preferring instead to raise our kids with Christian music in the house.
Now those kids are adults themselves. A recent discussion of "oldies" lyrics made us realize that sometimes the tune overtook the lyrics in those days. Sometimes the lyrics were downright crass (to say the least) and perhaps not understood by those too naive to understand terms of the drug and free sex cultures of the day. We weren't involved in those cultures and therefore didn't know the code words of the time.
When we listen to the oldies now, I'm a little more choosy. I recently downloaded a Barry Manilow album of his renditions of the popular songs of the 60's....and I love it! What the World Needs Now, Cherish, Can't Help Falling in Love, etc. Of course, it's not like having the original singers, but I like Manilow's voice...nice and mellow, easy to listen to. Check out iTunes soon!
Now those kids are adults themselves. A recent discussion of "oldies" lyrics made us realize that sometimes the tune overtook the lyrics in those days. Sometimes the lyrics were downright crass (to say the least) and perhaps not understood by those too naive to understand terms of the drug and free sex cultures of the day. We weren't involved in those cultures and therefore didn't know the code words of the time.
When we listen to the oldies now, I'm a little more choosy. I recently downloaded a Barry Manilow album of his renditions of the popular songs of the 60's....and I love it! What the World Needs Now, Cherish, Can't Help Falling in Love, etc. Of course, it's not like having the original singers, but I like Manilow's voice...nice and mellow, easy to listen to. Check out iTunes soon!
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