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.

5 comments:

KarenD said...

Wow, lots of stuff about being old... is someone having a birthday soon?

:-)

Lydia said...

I like hearing about the college years and growing up! Your first radio, your first record player, jeans, deck of cards.... Daddy's '69 Camaro!

You should post some of your college photos from that album with the big hippie flowers on it.

You know, in honor of your old age and all.

:)

cturkett said...

You know, Lydia got me to thinking about pictures, and on top of that I thought that the 69 camaro was orange, so I got to hunting up old pictures of you, my very special roommate. I assume that I am that roommate who liked all kinds of record albums--that's true, I never thought about it but I do like all kinds of music.
Anyway, I have posted some of my favorites of you and Alan just for the enjoyment of your daughter and because I think it's fun to look at old pictures and remember how great everything was back then in the early 70's.
So, check out my blog for the pics: http://www.cturkett.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

Leanna said...

What great memories!

Carolyn said...

Thanks, Cheryl. Lydia recently went to an "oldies" party...and the costuming was the 80's! haha