remembering still

so as we begin a new week, accomplishments were completed by Dago. He has become such a handyman. When we purchased the new FULL size washer and dryer a few weeks back, Dago discovered that the dryer vent that went through the walls upstairs and out into the attic was totally clogged and hard as a rock lint. He cut the wall, removed the venting, bought a new venting system. replaced the insulation, put in new sheet rock, blended it into the existing wall and painted. And now we are done and I just have to clean up the DUST. Thank you Dago for doing an awesome job. I celebrated a birthday this past week, thank you Cimi for the great Snoopy t shirt, silver garland and my favorite Mardi Gras Crown candle holders, Mary for the china jewelry basket, Pat for taking me to lunch and Susan for the Anthropologie gift card. The AB cake was great. I guess I continue to look back and just wanted to share some fun stuff that I discovered during the mess in the room that Dago created, now you see how it all comes full circle. Favorite Record-Tea for a Tillerman; Cat Stevens Favorite TV show-Rowan and Martin's Laugh In Favorite Actor-Clint Eastwood Favorite Car-Jag Favorite Colors-Blue, Grey, Green and Yellow Favorite Bands-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Neil Young, Carol King, Janis Joplin Favorite Clothing-Jeans and Halter Tops Oscar Winner-The French Connection-Gene Hackman-Jane Fonda Live band at the Warehouse-Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Who, Allman Brothers, Joe Cocker, Stephen Stills, Jethro Tull, President-Nixon, VP-Agnew How much things cost-Movie $2.00, Football Game $.75, Hamburger $.80, Milkshake $.40, Men's tie 4.00, gallon of Gas $.31, Jeans, $6.00, Socks $.70, Records 45 $1.00-33 1/2 $3.75, Shirt $6.00, Skirt $5.00, Shoes $10.00, Sweater $10.00, Posters $2.00=about $50.00 to have all of the above, of course I was only earning $1.20 an hour. and on the last page of this Senior Year Remembrance Book my saying was "just to keep on truckin' " Hope you enjoyed.

the 70's

So as you can tell from the previous blog my thoughts have been running backwards, is it cause my birthday is near? Most likely, I think most people think of what has happened and what is to come when they are near their birth day. So my thoughts turned to the 70's, so much happened during that decade, I graduated from high school, married for the first time, started a career, even if at the time I did not know that it would be one, saw my family move thousands of miles away from me but did not realize the importance of family at that time, lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans and had some really interesting experiences, strippers on Bourbon Street with your husband playing drums while she dances on an electrical spool in front of him, turning 18 and having my first legal drink at the Warehouse at a Bob Dylan concert, pretty cool getting carded on your B'day, having my first apartment, moving 6 times in 5 years, why?, buying my first house, learning how to drive and buying my first car, it was a van with curtains and a sofa, and collecting money for gas, cause it had gone to $1.00 a gallon during the first gas crisis, voting for President for the first time, learning how to crochet from my mother, learning how to make a roux, loving white platform shoes in my little pink double knit polyester mini skirt suit, it was so professional, never going on a vacation that did not include a visit to family, I guess I did realize how important family was, always planning on partying on the weekends with friends, hating that I had to work on Saturdays cause the career turned out to be retail, loving my life and the no stress that we all seem to have today. So enjoy a couple of Peter Maxx paintings and remember the follies of your youth.

Mother

I know that all of you are aware of the recent activities surrounding Mother. So my thoughts went to things that I did with Mother. One of the best memories I have was the time that I was getting married back in 1972 and she and I went to Canal Street, via the Algiers ferr.We were going to shop for fabric for my wedding dress. It was a great time. We wandered up and down going into every fabric store that were there. We stopped in one and found the perfect material, satin and the overlay, poi di soi and made our choice. It is a good memory. I hope you enjoy the picture from the past.