- learning that my address was rural route 3, box 189 d, henderson, kentucky 42420.
- wanting a "which witch?" and a "mouse trap" game for Christmas.
- my first "quick-curl barbie".
- gertie.
- going to florida with mamaw, papaw, and mom.
- ralph and ruth's house with a screened-in pool.
- the kapok tree inn in clear water.
- getting lost in disney world.
- "it's a small world"!!!
- getting to stay with tracy, dean, and dick in the afternoons, after school.
- being one of the names in jeff steele's black book of girlfriends at niagara.
- calling sue at d & m to see if i could spend the night.
- tony and karen coming out to baby-sit me and bringing toby, grandmommie's cocker spaniel puppy.
- the electric organ at grandmommie's house.
- mom and dad operating the checkerboard.
- playing pool with the drunks at the checkerboard.
- mamaw's picnic hams.
- fish fries on friday nights.
- getting to be the flower girl in theresa's wedding.
- catching the bouquet.
- playing kick ball with kim, greg, and cliff in the thompson's back yard.
- getting my tie-dyed, banana-seat bike for Christmas.
- going to ceramics with mom.
- riding ms. christine's bus.
- moving to 1304 south elm street.
- the blizzard of '78.
- building a snoopy snowman with steve and neel in mary ann and steve's front yard.
- toni being born and coming home from the hospital.
- riding in thresa and bobby's jeep renegade without the top.
- going to ben franklin on fridays to buy something with my allowance.
- getting a stereo for Christmas and billy joel, donna summer, saturday night fever, and lou rawls albums.
- staying at mamaw's on snow days playing with my bionic woman and 6 million dollar man dolls.
- the floor furnace popping...
- watching "all my children" with mary ann at lunch.
- moving to 435 norris lane.
- oj being born.
- hanging out next door with jack.
- playing girl's baseball for tapp funeral home.
- decorating theresa's Christmas tree (every year)...
- martha coming to be the nanny.
- riding mom's 3 speed in first Christan church's parking lot.
- amy puttman.
- having the greatest 3rd grade teacher ever... ms. nunley.
- getting to be friends with sue anne bird and elaine eargood (i love those girls).
- going to a st. louis baseball game and getting a cardinals' hard hat.
- playing football with scott farmer on my team.
- frying donuts made from canned biscuits at angie's house.
- my cameo ring (i wore it every day from my 8th Christmas until i got married).
- going to the moose and the "legion" on friday nights.
- t. hall, the bartender.
- learning the gettysburg address.
- bobby getting glass in his eye, and not dressing toni to suit theresa that day. (hell, he couldn't see, and i was just eight! LOL).
- playing barbies at sabrina's.
- delores coming to grandmommie's every friday and saturday night.
- pogie!!! UGH!!!
- donna's and terri's tandem.
- watching the aunts get ready to go to funky's drinking and discoing.
- mandi and josh being born.
- double-cola and ski.
- being in the same class with bo king!
- going to florida and gatlinburg with mary ann, steve, and neel for the first time.
- the donut friar in the village.
- walking across the rocks in the stream.
- being afraid on the tram.
- hitting a baseball through the sliding glass doors and losing my allowance for a year to pay for it to be replaced.
- the smell of the beverage barn.
- going to midwest harness racetrack with papaw and eating hotbrowns.
- my first electric blanket, tv, and tape recorder.
- riding in sue's fire bird listening to earth, wind, and fire and lou rawls.
- cable tv.
- chicago's very own, wgn commercial.
- frasier thomas' saturday afternoon classics.
- frasier being on bozo.
- going to finley baptist church.
- tony and jenny getting married.
- jenny making brownies with home-made icing and playing aggravation with tony.
- going to see superman and grease with jenny and teresa werner.
- my first training bra.
- going to the country store in newburgh.
- the superbuble album that was only available on tv.
- going to barbecues at aunt shirley's and uncle harry's in the fall.
- papaw giving himself insulin shots.
- the icecream truck.
- playing basketball for the jefferson jaguars.
- rick's pizza (the deluxe that used to be called an "around the world").
- going to the drive-in with mom and marcia martin to see rocky.
- my first colonels jacket.
- staying the summer with theresa and having corkscrew deli on fridays. she had pastrami with hot pepper cheese on pumpernickel; i had turkey with hot pepper cheese on a white roll.
- uncle bill's sweet spaghetti.
- pretending to be one of charlie's angels with the neighborhood kids.
- weird sounds at the cemetary house.
- famolare shoes.
- disco.
- john travolta.
- walking home from school with eva lackey, elise gillham, and monique jackson.
- animal erasers.
- cissy's little teacup poodles.
- bray and i setting off firecrackers in the church parking lot under an iron skillet.
- the candy drawer nanny kept for me.
- bo davis.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
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