IF YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70'S/80's......
You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill". People sometimes thought you were a boy.
You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days. YEAH!
You owned a "Slip-n-Slide", on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once.
You owned "Klick-Klacks" and smacked yourself in the face more than once !
Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.
You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.
You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or the sunshine family
You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color. (Oh yeah!)
You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water sandals.
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Oleson!
You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink!
PONG! ("video tennis" ) was the most remarkable futuristic game you've ever heard of !
Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket. When you walked, the "wings" flapped up and down, looked like you were gonna "take off"
You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic. With the thermos inside some were glass inside and broke the first time you dropped them.
You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.
YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!
You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or David Cassidy?"
You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.
You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!
You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books. (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics. (?? its not??)
You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
You drowned yourself in Love's Baby Soft - which was the first "real" perfume you ever owned.
You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lip-gloss till it almost dripped off.
Oh my word, I did so many of these things!! How about you?
This Too Shall Pass
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.
Helen Steiner Rice
I got this email today from a lady I work with. I'm not a mom, but I know most of my blog readers are. It made me tear up!
BEING A MOTHER...
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, "I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you."
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. "What's wrong, are you well," she asked?My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.
"I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you," I responded. "Just the two of us."She thought about it for a moment, and then said, "I would like that very much."
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel's. "I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed," she said, as she got into the car. "They can't wait to hear about our meeting."
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Half way through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. "It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small," she said. "Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favour," I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation- -nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other's life. We talked so much that we missed the movie.As we arrived at her house later, she said, "I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you." I agreed.
"How was your dinner date?" asked my wife when I got home. "Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined," I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't have a chance to do anything for her.Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place mother and I had dined. An attached note said: "I paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates - one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son."
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: "I LOVE YOU" and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till "some other time."
Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby.... somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "normal" is history.
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct .... somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
Somebody said being a mother is boring .... somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.
Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good"....somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.
Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices .... somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbour's kitchen window.
Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother... somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.
Somebody said you can't love the second child as much as you love the first .... somebody doesn't have two children.
Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books....somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labour and delivery....somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten .... or on a plane headed for military "boot camp."
Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back ....somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married....somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.
Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home....somebody never had grandchildren.
Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her.... somebody isn't a mother.
What a day. I don't think I stopped working for two minutes while I was at work. Our receptionist gave her notice today, so it should be interesting to see how much of her work gets dumped on me when they fail to find someone to replace her...
I went for a therapeutic massage today for the first time. Last week on Wednesday, I woke up and pretty much couldn't move my neck, arms or shoulders without being in horrible pain. I had considered massage therapy before because I get bad neck and shoulder pain and tension headaches, but it's never been bad enough for me to fork out the money. Well, it's bad enough now. My boss recommended a RMT, so the soonest I could get in was today. Erin was great, explained everything very thoroughly to me and made me feel comfortable (I'm not a touchy-feely type). I'm sore now, but that is to be expected. I made another appointment for next Thursday, so hopefully she can help me treat this pain...in the neck, haha.
Speaking of next Thursday, Chris and I have to go to the Hess Wedding Chapel and book our date as well as stop and put down the deposit for the restaurant where the reception dinner will be. It feels so good to have finally set a date!
Countdown: 15 months, 12 days. Christopher would be appalled if he knew I was counting down. He disturbed enough by the "May the 4th be with you" reference (he's not a big geek like me, lol).
I have no idea what I am going to do with myself tonight. I cut back all my satellite channels to save money and I finished reading "Gone with the Wind" and "Scarlett", which have been occupying my evenings lately. I guess I'll move on to another book or start watching "Long Way Round", which Chris got me on DVD.
Hope everyone is having a good week so far!
These two are from her third album "What if It All Means Something". To my knowledge, there were only two videos released, which is a shame because there are some beautiful songs on this album.
From her fourth album, "Ghost Stories", there is only the one video released for "All I Can do" which I posted a while ago, so I won't repost it now but that is a fabulous song.
Great song...was on the "Uptown Girls" soundtrack as well as her 3rd album.
These videos are from Chantal's 2nd album, Colour Moving and Still. I remember buying this album for Chris for Valentine's Day. Quite a bit different from the anger of the first album. Between the first and second album, she had some success with singing the theme to the show "Providence" (a cover of Lennon & McCartney's "In My Life") and "Feels like Home" on the Dawson's Creek soundtrack (that song is what I think of as "our" song for Chris & I).
I hope you enjoy them-both Holli and Neicy have shown interest in her music, so I thought I would share as much as I could (I love promoting good Canadian talent whenever possible!).
I've posted this song before, but this was her big hit off the 2nd album.
Hey, this is my 201st post! Cool. Who knew I had so much useless crap to ramble on about?
This week has started out as hellish as the last. They are dawdling in giving me my pay plan, making excuses, so that is really pissing me off.
I miss Chris. I haven't seen much of him lately since his car became undriveable. I go out to his place as often as I can, but with the price of gas it's hard (he's about 20 minutes away). Heopfully he will find a new car by the weeken-that's his goal, although it's tricky trying to find a manual transmission with air in his price range.
On the good side, I almost have a wedding date pinned down, so cross your fingers for me, gals!
Ha, they finally worked.
So below are 3 tracks from Chantal's first album, Under these Rocks and Stones, which came out in 1997. I love this album, although it is more angry and edgier than her next albums.
I also included "Leaving on a Jetplane" which was her only international success (it was on the Armageddon soundtrack). Horrid movie, great song.
Later, I'll post some videos from her 2nd album (if it doesn't take ten years for them to get from youtube to here, lol).
Oy, Ben Affleck should not sing. ANyway, this was Chantal's first taste of success in the US. Great remake and helped put Chantal on the map outside of Canada.
I adore this song. There's something in the anger in this song that just speaks to me.
This was also off the first album. During the era of "angry" woman vocalists, so it sounds quite different from her current stuff.
Huh. For some reason my posts from youtube are not showing up. I was going to post some of Chantal Kreviazuk's video's from her 1st, 2nd and 3rd albums over the next few days, but alas it is not working. Bastards.
I shall have to investigate. Stay tuned, lol.
You Think English is Easy???
Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse .
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .
13) They were too close to the door to close it
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP .
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so........... Time to shut UP.....! Oh...one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
I wish I knew why Carlton's dance makes me laugh so damn hard, it just does...What a goofball.
It's Friday, it's Friday...la, la, la...(doing the happy Friday dance)
I am so glad this week is over! This new position is a headache and a half and I definitely need a couple days off.
I'm going out tomorrow with Elizabeth for her birthday. She finally turned thirty, so she can't make fun of me anymore. We're going to East Side Mario's for lunch and then shopping.
I hope you all have a great weekend and get some relaxation time in! We all deserve it!
Man, I love this movie. One of the only times you will ever see me on a dance floor is when this song comes on. Let's time warp everyone!
This week cannot go by fast enough, I tell you.
I am still dealing with the aftermath of our Christmas Party Saturday night. Our assistant bodyshop manager from our Honda store got loaded and puked all of the hallway and stairs at the banquet hall. Then one of his drunken coworkers threw a glass at the coat check worker. I am still trying to ID that bastard. I swear, why can't people act like grownups and remember they are representing our company out there? Last year one of the employees threw up in the hallway and then put his head through the bathroom wall. Morons.
I am slowly trying to adjust to the new job position. I am so bloody busy it is unbelievable. The only reason I have time now to post is because the sales manager when out for lunch and I have a few minutes of peace. Now if these guys would just show me my new pay plan, I can decide if it's worth staying here or not...
If I give you any advice this year let it be this: go rent LIttle Miss Sunshine. You won't regret it. Chris bought it for me for Xmas and we watched it Sunday night. This was the movie that inspired me to propose to Chris, so you must watch it.
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack.
"Miss Whack, I'd like to get a £30,000 loan to take a holiday."
Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.
The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.
Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow £30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral."
She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"
(you're gonna love this)
The bank manager looks back at her and says...
"It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."
(You're singing it, aren't you? Yeah, I know you are........)
Now you can groan...
Some fun music for a Friday afternoon from the best Canadian band. These guys are awesome live and absolutely hilarious.
This thing is so awesome. It sits on my desk at work and either keeps my Diet Coke ice cold or my green tea or cuppa soup nice and hot. Chris saw me look at this in a catalogue and mentally filed it away and surprised me with it for Xmas. Very awesome gift, considering how much Diet Coke and tea I put back in a day.
Sorry I have been so delinquent in my posting, but work has been insane...
Well, thankfully the damn holidays are over with. I liked the time off work, but that's about it.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were spent at Chris'. Christmas Eve had his grandmother and uncle there, as well as his dad, sister and her fiance. Christmas Day was just his dad, sister, her fiance and Chris and I. It was surreal for me. I felt lost not being with my family and being surrounded by another family's traditions (or lack thereof). I missed my mom and I missed being alone with Chris, but I survived and I'm sure things will be better next year.
I headed down to Chatham on Boxing Day to see my mom. I went by myself and thoroughly screwed my back by carrying that bloody TV up 3 flights of stairs. Ah, well. I t was worth it for her surprised reaction. I had a nice visit with her and came back the night of the 27th as she had appointments the next day.
Chris and I finally had our Christmas together on the 29th. Chris did a bang-up job on my gifts this, considering I didn't ask for anything. He got me the singing snowman and penguins from Hallmark (for my snowman collection), a cute ornament and keychain, a sun protector for my car's windshield, pajamas, "Little Miss Sunshine" DVD, "Long Way Round" tv series on DVD, slippers, a very cool electrical device that keeps a travel mug warm or a can of pop cold on my desk, and a food processor. He spoiled me, and got me a bunch of things that I had wanted but never asked for.
New Year's was spent at Chris's sister's. I've had a cold since just befor New Year's, so I felt crappy. We mainly ate too much food and played Scene It music edition (I kicked butt).
I came back to work on January 3rd and it has been insane ever since. Today is the first day I have had any time to myself for a bit. The new job is going to be an experience, I'm just not sure if it will be good or bad. Or any more bloody money...
Well, I hope everyone had a joyous holiday. Here's to 2007 being a better year for us all!
