Flashback Friday

As much as I'd like to stay in the 70's, you gotta move on, right?
So here you go...the most popular TV shows of the 80's!

Airwolf

Alf

Alice

Barney Miller

Chips

Dallas

Diff’rent Strokes

Dynasty

Falcon Crest

Family Ties

Fantasy Island

Happy Days

Hart to Hart

Kate & Allie

Knight Rider

Kojak

Magnum, P.I.

Matt Houston

Miami Vice

Moonlighting

Mork and Mindy

Newhart

Night Court

One Day at a Time

Quincy, M.E.

Remington Steele

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Silver Spoons

Spenser: For Hire

Taxi

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Facts of Life

The Fall Guy

The Greatest American Hero

The Love Boat

Thirtysomething

Three’s Company

Webster

Can you believe that ALF made the list??? Oy. Still, it seems like only yesterday. Look at those shows...very different from the world today wouldn't you say?

ruff!

Dogs are so amazing. Well, all creatures are amazing in their own way…but dogs rule!

They’re capable of such love.

You know I love our dogs. They make us laugh every single day for some reason or another. And they have such expressive little furry faces.

Greta is 9 years old now. For 9 years, I’ve been playing hide and seek with her. Pepper will be 5 this year. She started to join in about 3 years ago. So, here’s what we do. The man keeps them occupied and I go and hide someplace in the house. When I’m out of sight, I knock on the wall and the man says, “where’s da mama?!” And they run off to find me. Sometimes it’s easy – they know most of my hiding places now. Last night was different though. I was putting the laundry away and hanging things up in the new walk-in closet. Greta was laying on the floor in front of the bedroom door. She always guards the door when I'm in the bedroom or the shower. When I was done, I turned out the light and hid behind the tall bar of clothes to the right of the door. I waited for a minute and then I knocked on the wall. Greta came running into the closet, stopped, listened, looked around and ran out. About a 30 seconds later she came back in, sat down just inside the door, staring straight ahead, waited a few seconds, and then let out her biggest bark, sneezed and shook her head. I know what she was thinking…ruff, I KNOW you didn’t leave the bedroom…grrrr…I can smell you…where are you dammit! BARK!!

I just had to laugh. She found me right away then J

Flashback Friday

Today’s flashback Friday is all about the music of the 70’s. I was just going to list the top 10, then the top 50, but...the 70’s were my favorite and it’s MY blog, the list is extra long! I hummed and smiled to every single one when I typed it out :-)

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Let It Be

ABC

American Woman

The Long and Winding Road

Mama Told Me Not to Come

Close to You

War

Cracklin’ Rosie

I Think I Love You

Me and Bobby McGee

Knock Three Times (on the ceiling if you want me…)

Just My Imagination

Joy to the World

Brown Sugar

It’s Too Late

You’ve Got a Friend

Go Away Little girl

Maggie May

Gypsies Tramps and Thieves

American Pie (why does everyone know this song?)

Candy Man

Song Sung Blue (everybody knows one)

Lean On Me

Brandy

Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me (by Mac Davis!)

Ben

My Ding-a-ling

I Am Woman (roar)

You’re So Vain

Superstition

Crocodile rock

Killing Me Softly

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

You Are the Sunshine of My Life

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Brother Louie

Let’s Get It On

We’re an American Band

Half Breed

Angie

Time In A bottle

The Way We Were

Hooked On A Feeling

Bennie and the Jets

Rock the Boat

Annie’s Song

You’re Having My Baby

I Shot the Sheriff

I Honestly Love You (OMG)

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Kung Fu Fighting

Cat’s in the Cradle

Mandy

You’re No good

Best of My Love

Black Water

My Eyes Adored You

Lady Marmalade

Shining Star

Thank God I’m a Country Boy

Love Will Keep Us Together

The Hustle

Jive Talkin’

Get Down Tonight

Rhinestone Cowboy

Fame

I Write the songs

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Let Your Love Flow

Boogie Fever

Afternoon Delight (Puhleez! Best song of the entire 70’s!!)

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

Shake Your Booty

Play That Funky Music

Tonight’s the Night

Car Wash

New Kid in Town

Dancing Queen

Hotel California

You Light Up My Life (Ugh)

How Deep Is Your Love

Stayin’ Alive

Night Fever

You’re the One That I Want

Three Times a Lady

Hot Child in the City

You Don’t Bring Me Flowers

Le Freak

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy

I Will Survive

Heart of Glass

Hot Stuff

Bad Girls

My Sharona

Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough

Still

The Pina Colada Song (lol)

I’ll probably revisit this list whenever I need a smile.

Oh my!

First let me say, get a flu shot people! I missed 3 days of work and an entire weekend because of the flu. It stinks and being sick is a waste of time. I just slept the whole time. I could have watched movies. I could have read one of a couple dozen books that are waiting for me. I could have been quilling. But noooooooo. I couldn't focus on anything. Once, after I had become one with the couch, I was surfing through all the TV channels and I came across a rerun of Hee Haw. When it was on originally, I probably watched a half dozen episodes. I wasn't a fan of country anything back then but they were just so silly, sometimes you had to stop and look. Sooooo, I stopped on Hee Haw. There's just so much I could say about what I saw but instead, I'll simply show you a picture;

 
See what I mean?!

Things you didn't know I loved!

Dreadlocks
On almost anybody. I don't want them but I've always thought they were so cool.

Paisley
Any color or style. I love paisley prints!

Caftans (moo moos)
I don't know why. Maybe it's a leftover hippie thing? I want one.

Lemon cookies
You know the ones with the powdered sugar on them? mmmmmmmm
I hardly ever have them - I forget about them, which is so dumb!

Bird Watching
I could just watch the birds at our feeder for hours. We have a wide variety of them to it's pretty interesting. I also love the eagle cam at Catalina Island.

Crocheted things
Oh, and macrame too! Go figure.

Infomercials
All of them. I want to buy everything I see on infomercials! I'm pretty sure my husband knows that one though. I see him looking at me every once in awhile when there's one on TV. LOL

Cottage Cheese
It doesn't even matter what size curd. I love them big or small.

Purple
I'm sure you ALL know by now that I love lime green but my very first favorite color was purple. I still love purple too :-)

Sweet Tea
I had sweet tea for the first time, last summer. OMG! If it wasn't so bad, I would never drink anything else! As it is, I limit myself to restaurants...so I don't have it very often.

Throws
Yep, those little blankets. I bet I have a dozen of them. I don't even use them! They're just so cute!

Black and White
But not black and white photographs. I have a lot of black and white clothes. Why is that? Maybe it's the patterns. It's definitely NOT because I'm a black and white thinker. Hmmmm.

*sigh* Get a flu shot!

there, I said it...get a flu shot. I concede.

Ugh. I have a little sign in my house that says, "old age ain't for sissies"
No kidding. I'm not nearly as resilient as I used to be! And the flu didn't use to kick my butt the way it does now.

So, get a flu shot!

Flashback Friday

Below is a list of some of the more popular TV shows of the 70’s. Now we’re talkin’… I LOVED the 70’s!!

Adam-12

All In The Family

Barnaby Jones

Bewitched

Eight is Enough

Emergency

Get Smart

Hill Street Blues

I Dream of Jeannie

Kung Fu

Love American Style

Mannix

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Mary Tyler Moore

McCloud

McMillan and Wife

Medical Center

Soap

Starsky and Hutch

That Girl

The A Team

The Courtship of Eddie’s Father

The Magician

The Mod Squad

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Streets of San Francisco

WKRP

JOY

I love pens. Especially fat pens, pens that write nice, blue ink pens and colored pens. I buy pens all the time. I buy pens more now then I used to because of GEL!! The colors got even better! Imagine my delight when I saw this commercial the other day:

inkjoy???? Oh yeah...those were made just for ME!!  It's a brand of pens by Paper Mate. Seriously, ink JOY? Ahhhh. So I bought a couple packs!

And I love this commercial so much - because I'm a doodler - that last night I got on Amazon and bought myself a Spirograph!!

I can't wait to doodle my little heart out!!!

Ooops, I almost forgot - check out THIS fabulous pen!!!

That's right...it will last for SEVEN YEARS! But the best part is the Bee HAPPY...  :-)

HA!!

Growing up I was always told to finish what you start. I hated that! Sometimes I just wanted to color the bunny and not the grass or trees. As I got older, some books took me forever to get through because I didn’t like them. But I felt like I had to finish them.

Now I’m totally a rebel about it. If it doesn’t catch my interest in the first couple of chapters, I bail. Same for a movie. After about a ½ hour, sayonara! I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve have started that aren’t finished. Turns out, it’s OK!!

http://qz.com/172718/if-you-manage-your-time-terribly-youll-get-more-done/

The other thing I was told when I was young was to stop daydreaming so much! I’m still a daydreamer though. And look! Turns out that’s OK too!! It’s a happy Monday!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/mind-wandering_n_4024852.html

The rewards of daydreaming;

“These rewards include self- awareness, creative incubation, improvisation and evaluation, memory consolidation, autobiographical planning, goal driven thought, future planning, retrieval of deeply personal memories, reflective consideration of the meaning of events and experiences, simulating the perspective of another person, evaluating the implications of self and others’ emotional reactions, moral reasoning, and reflective compassion... From this personal perspective, it is much easier to understand why people are drawn to mind wandering and willing to invest nearly 50 percent of their waking hours engaged in it”