News with N

WARNING! This test is only for those mature audiences. Baby Boomers please mark the ones you relate too!

[ ] I've been to a drive-in movie theater.
[ ] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.
[ ] I voted for (or could have) Ronald Reagan.
[ ] I was in a Christmas pageant in public school.
[ ] I remember what I was doing when John Kennedy died.
[ ] I used to watch Star Trek during its original run.
[ ] I know what 78, 45 and 33-1/3 describes.
[ ] I've ridden in cars that didn't have seat belts.
[ ] I used to watch Romper Room.
[ ] I belonged to Future Homemakers of America.
[ ] I've gone to an Elvis Presley concert.
[ ] I own/used to own an 8-track player.
[ ] I used to wear a hat, doilie, or handkerchief on my head in church.
[ ] I've bought a McDonald's cheeseburger for 18 cents.
[ ] I I would go to sleep while or just after watching Johnny Carson.
[ ] I have watched a black and white television.
[ ] I have/used to have a leisure suit (and wore it!).
[ ] I've been to a tent revival.
[ ] I attended Woodstock.
[ ] I've been to a state fair and looked at the animal barns.
[ ] I can spin a hula-hoop around my middle.
[ ] I've been spanked at school by a teacher/principal.
[ ] I've been to a Cher concert.
[ ] I watched The Sonny and Cher Show during its original run.
[ ] I looked forward to hearing Guy Lombardo play "Auld Lang Syne."
[ ] I called adults "Sir" or "Ma'am."
[ ] I've had a smallpox vaccination.
[ ] I used to watch Dick Clark on American Bandstand
[ ] I've been to a rodeo.
[ ] I've competed in a rodeo.
[ ] I scheduled my evenings around Dynasty.
[ ] I've sold Girl Scout cookies.
[ ] I am/was in a fraternity/sorority.
[ ] I've eaten breakfast at a Sambo's Restaurant.
[ ] I had a poster of Farrah Faucett on my wall/door.
[ ] I had a crush on Ricky Nelson.
[ ] I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
[ ] I had an aluminum Christmas tree and a color-wheel lamp.
[ ] I have/had a fondue pot and use/used it.
[ ] I've used a rotary phone.
[ ] I remember when African-Americans were called "colored people" in polite company.
[ ] I played with a Water Wiggle.
[ ] I danced all night to Donna Summer and Whitney Houston.
[ ] I've driven/ridden in a Vega.
[ ] I've stayed up all night playing Risk.
[ ] I saw the original Star Wars movie in a theater.
[ ] I remember when HIV was called HTLV-IV.
[ ] I watched The Simpsons when it was a short on The Tracy Ulman Show.
[ ] I had to install MS-DOS on my computer before I installed Windows.
[ ] I have/had a Sony Walkman.
[ ] I've played PacMan.
[ ] I put on a suit and tie/dress to go shop at the downtown department store.
[ ] I saw Top Gun in the theater more than six times.
[ ] I've used a Jane Fonda workout video.
[ ] I remember when Michael Jackson was black.
[ ] I know who shot J.R.
[ ] I owned a pet rock.
[ ] I have/had a Betamax VCR.
[ ] I burned a bra and/or draft card.
[ ] I owned/wore the original mini skirts.
[ ] I've ridden in the back window of my parents' car.
[ ] I've edged the grass in a yard with hand clippers.
[ ] I had a television aerial outside my house.
[ ] I know this well:
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.

Their house is a museum
Where people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Addams Family.

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family.

mmmmmm PeePaw makes great breakfast! mmmmmm

Get this HAT OFF ME!

It's all so much fun!

I love you too Mee Maw!

Ok, I'll leave my tongue in for this shot!

See I can butter my own toast!

My new ride! I plan on traveling to N O in this -It's the new Aspen Chrysler SUV and so far I love it! I've got to read the manual to understand all the bells and whistles before I take off. - My silver Pacifica is going to a new home with in-laws!

Mike loves Alton Brown


Every chance he gets he t-voes the show and comes down afterwards and makes the food that Alton has just demonstrated. He has made some wonderful things - and loves to cook. I love it also! He loves to please his kids - so he decided to make his daughter in law's favorite dish - PIZZA! We had to shoot this many times to get these shots - so appreciate them won't you? There's a shot of the Alton cookbook that he reads (one of the employees got this for him last xmas). He made this specially for his daughters at Thanksgiving time.
The Girls loved it! Thanks Dad! We love your cook N

I'm so thankful to find baby booties on the island in the kitchen - all pink and white and small.....to find a dirty diaper on the coffee table.....and on one couch a bottle of baby lotion (baby perfume as Kimmee calls it)and on the other a bottle lid. Dirty burp rags strewn around the den, with changes of clothes laying in the bathroom floor near where our baby A loves to take a swimming little bath. Bottles on the counter and formula in the fridge. Yes I'm so very thankful today (even though its the day after the "true" thanksgiving day of days) to see all this wonderful baby stuff all over our home. I'm thankful for both my children and their spouses and both my grandchildren, for my wonderful husband and for all of my extended family and friends. I was saying after a long day yesterday just how much I love holidays - I love being surrounded by those who are your family and seeing those who were always in your life and those who helped mold your life.

It was a good eats day with absolutely nothing missing (except maybe cousin Patty's Banana cake)and was just an absolutely joyful day. I've always enjoyed our family traditions and hope my children will continue to uphold the traditions that make us who we are. After all, without those traditions what do you have to pass on and share with your family? I'm glad that my family raised me to appreciate getting together and being with family and that they still hold this as high importance. It says that we love each other and care enough about each other to spend the time and effort. So much in this life to be thankful for. I'm lovin thanksgiv N for sure!

I sit here watching the American County Music Awards and anxiously await the winners of each category. The best singing duo, song of the year, female artist, etc. is to be announced soon. Before the night is over we will all know the winners and it's over until this time next year when a whole new set of artists await the same nerve racking announcements. And yet, live goes on, with it's awards. Receiving awards is what a lot of us want in life. We seek little daily minute by minute gestures of recognition, pats on the back, smiles of acknowledgement, and to be told we're doing a good job.
This week we took our grandkids Halloween pictures to be placed in the newspaper. We did it because we're proud of them and wanted to show them off. We also wanted to surprise their parents with the pics in the paper.(Their first pics in newsprint) And it occurred to me that when they are grown up there may not even be newspapers. They may be obsolete and they can perhaps say that their picture was once in that old medium of communication. Who knows? After it (newspaper) went to print, we discovered that they were having a drawing of all the pictures submitted. We were notified the next day that we won! Yes, we knew our beautiful grandkids were winners! No one had to convince us of that, but we were ecstatic to find out that we had WON something for that selfish submittal of a cute (really really cute) picture. We won a guitar and amplifier for placing those pictures in the paper! Yes, our grandkids are WiNNers ! and we have the prizes to prove it! Make someone a winner today by smiling, acknowledging, thanking, and appreciating someone before the sun goes down. And I'm delighted that "Believe" won tonight! I really love that song!