flashback Friday

This makes me feel so much better. Is that bad?

Some people don't age well. Some people do! Some people pretend. Some people should stop pretending! 

Robert Plant, from Led Zepplin, looks like he's had a hard life;

I like that he doesn't pretend though.

And look at Rod Stewart!

He's pretended a little, but he looks pretty good for an old guy.

THIS guy, did NOT fare well;

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Neither did this one;

This is Bobby Sherman, the original teen heart throb. I loved him. He grew up to look like a completely different person!

David Lee Roth is a pretender too. But still a far cry from his Van Halen days

Oh, and Neil Diamond! Old but still handsome

I don't want to just pick on the men though...

She should stop pretending now. So should Madonna!

Remember this hot mama!?

Oh! And THIS icon!

Raquel Welch is 77 years old! And have you seen Christie Brinkley lately? Wow! Not Bridget Bardot though;

And whatever happened to the chick from Weird Science??

well, that was fun :-)

Flashback Friday

I'm sure it has something to do with ticking off another year, but I've been thinking a lot about women's history. Well, recent history anyway.

When I was in Jr. high for instance, which really wasn't THAT long ago, my Mom could not buy her own house. A bank would not give her loan because she was a single mother. Now, you get all sorts of breaks if your a single mom! In the 60's, a woman couldn't get a credit card, serve on a jury and earned .59 to the dollar if they worked.  And it wasn't until sometime in the 70's that a woman could keep her job if she was pregnant. Not to mention that sexual harassment wasn't identified as a crime until 1980! That all seems so preposterous now, doesn't it? It wasn't until 1969 that women were allowed at Yale and Harvard didn't accept women until 1970!!! What?!?!

Women's rights, world wide are still lacking. Even in our own country, women only earn .77 cents to a man's dollar, which is just so stupid. But still, we've come a long way. If you're under or around 30, you should think about that every once in awhile.

Flashback Friday

I made a startling realization last night...I've ALWAYS loved lime green. Sure, it's trendy right now, which is splendid for ME - but I've been a lover of lime green since I was a child. How do I know that you ask? Well, it's not because I remember thinking when I was 6 years old, I love lime green. Nope. I know that I loved lime green when I was six because;

Last night, I was doing some needlework (mwahahaha) and Bill was on the computer (probably looking at guns) and he had turned the TV to the 60's music channel. A Herb Alpert song came on - the most famous one - and I looked up to see what the title was (which I've already forgotten) and it had some little ditty on the screen about his iconic album Whipped Cream. So I pipped up and told him, "My Mom had that album. It had a chick covered in whipped cream on it and the back ground was green...(wait for it)...oh! LIME GREEN!! He laughed because he thought I made that up. So I grabbed my tablet and looked it up. 

ta da!

So, proof, that even when I was 6ish years old, I thought lime green was rad. As a matter of fact, this might be my first ever memory of lime green! How awesome is that!?!?!

Flashback Friday

This is sort of a cheat but I’m only going to ‘flashback’ to LAST Friday.

Last Friday was BLACK FRIDAY. Woooooo. I’ve only shopped ONCE the morning of Black Friday. I never did it again. There just isn't anything I want that badly.

But Mom and I look at the ads every year while the turkey is cooking. This year, my man was interested in the Gander Mountain and Dick’s Sporting Goods ads.

At Gander Mountain, they had a 22 rifle and 22 handgun amo for a ridiculous price. He wanted it. Bad. There was a 5 box limit on the amo though. So, being the totally awesome wife that I am, I actually volunteered to get up early Friday and go with him, so I could purchase 5 boxes too. They opened at 5AM. Which meant we would need to get up at 4:00 in the morning! What???!!!???!!! Ugh. But hey, I could always go back to sleep when we got home. He said, that would be great honey! But we don’t have to go early. Just, you know, whenever we get up. HAHHAHAHAHAHA. Obviously he’s had NO Black Friday experience. To his credit though, he caught on quickly and said OK. So, we got up at 4AM and showed up at Gander Mountain at 10 till 5. The parking lot was full of pickup trucks and rednecks. I laughed heartily! Oh, and there was a line. Once inside, he decided against the rifle but we did buy 5 boxes of amo, each. AND he got a free flashlight. He was pretty excited about that. He has a thing for flashlights. (and watches and guns) By the number of people crowded around the amo shelves, I’m guessing that all the 22 was gone by the time we got back out to our pickup truck. We were home by 5:30. Whew. Well, now we can both say we've truly shopped on Black Friday. 

I hope I didn't start something!!

Flashback Friday

On this day in 1991, basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson stuns the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. At the time, many Americans viewed AIDS as a gay white man's disease. Johnson (1959- ), who is African American and heterosexual, was one of the first sports stars to go public about his HIV-positive status.

Revered as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Johnson spent his entire 13-season NBA career with the Lakers, helping them to win five championships in the 1980s. The 6'9" point guard, a native of Lansing, Michigan, was famous for his extraordinary passing skills, contagious smile and love of the game. In 1981, he signed a 25-year deal with the Lakers for $25 million, one of the NBA's first over-the-top contracts.

Johnson, a three-time NBA "Most Valuable Player" and 12-time All-Star team member, didn't completely hang up his basketball shoes after announcing his retirement in 1991.  He was voted most valuable player of the 1992 NBA All-Star Game and played on the Olympic "Dream Team" (alongside Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Patrick Ewing) that won gold for the U.S. in Barcelona that summer. He briefly returned to the Lakers for the 1993-94 season as head coach and made a short-lived comeback as a Lakers player in the 1995-96 season.


Today, Johnson is a prominent spokesman for AIDS awareness and a successful businessman, earning millions from a range of ventures, including movie theaters and restaurants. He serves as an example of how a variety of drug treatments have transformed AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition for many people in the U.S. Still, some 25 years after the first AIDS cases were reported, 25 million people worldwide have died of AIDS and another 40 million have been infected with the virus.

I was a huge basketball/Lakers fan at the time. I remember this day. I was working for an Optometrist in Palm Springs. I cried after the press conference had ended. I was so sad for him. Coincidentally, the OD I worked for was gay, so we had a had a good conversation about the topic of HIV/AIDS, later that day. He was a good OD and person. I really liked him. Wow, I can't believe it's been so long ago already!

Flashback Friday

Houdini died today, in 1926. I probably knew that once - that he died on Halloween. But I had forgotten so I thought it was interesting when I read that this morning.


But this...THIS is fascinating;

On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar, martin Luther, approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.

In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment – called “indulgences” – for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pop Leo X, was in the midst of a major fundraising campaign in Germany to finance the renovation of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins.

Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which were quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German and distributed widely. A Copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a t ask that took 10 years to complete.

The term “Protestant” first appeared in 1529, when Charles V revoked a provision that allowed the ruler of each German state to choose whether they would enforce the Edict of Worms. A number of prices and other supporters of Luther issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their allegiance to the emperor. They became know to their opponents as Protestants; gradually this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even those outside Germany. By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would over the next three centuries revolutionize Western civilization.

Not a Flashback Friday

In case you weren't aware, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

flash back Friday

Go ahead, guess who they were;

give up???

Flashback Friday

50 years ago...

The top movies were;
Goldfinger, Mary Poppins, The Pink Panther, My Fair Lady and Last Man on Earth.

MacArthur, Harpo and Hoover died.

The top songs were;
Baby Love, Chapel of Love, Can't Buy me Love, Pretty Woman and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
the sixties were big on love :-)

The average yearly income was $5880.
A stamp cost .05
Life Magazine was .35 an issue
A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud cost $16,655.00

A bottle of Squibb aspirin of 400 was $1.96

There were 4027 births
Pontiac came out with the first GTO (Goat)
Police caught the Boston Strangler
Ford introduced The Mustang
Hasbro introduces G.I. Joe
60% of the population smokes.
And the Surgeon General says smoking MAY be hazardous to your health.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flipper, Bewitched, Addams Family, Man From UNCLE, The Munsters and Gilligans Island all premiered on television.

what a light hearted year it was!

Flashback Friday

I always think it's so funny how fashion in the 70's is perceived. It seems like most people who didn't live it, think we dressed like this;

That's not entirely accurate! We kind of classed up the 60's hippie thing. We started out with bell bottoms and then switched over to straight legs, both of which were high waisted. Designer jeans weren't really hot until the early 80's;

We wore peasant tops and blouses or tank tops or halter tops. That was pretty much it. We didn't really wear t-shirts, ever! Oh, and we wore short shorts too :-)

I had a halter top just like that, in black. And this pattern below, with the criss cross back? I made that in high school. LOL

I still have a couple things packed away, leftover from high school. One is a pastel tye-dye that closes in the front w/ribbons. My mom HATED that top! And a long denim halter dress. I loved that dress. 

Well, that was fun!