....just died yesterday at age one hundred.
I remember his presidency well.
I was a child.
After Watergate the American people wanted new people.
They country definitely got it!
Carter was a Libra, same as me.
Only non-living zodiac sign.
Years ago I thought a scale was a dull sign.
Now I realize that it is what it is!
Bringing good cheer!
And the cold weather is here!
But we shall bring good cheer!
Here here!
I am here......
It just goes on too long; so many people already have their outdoor displays.
I really do prefer an earlier Thanksgiving; preferably the twenty-third or twenty-fourth of the month!
Now I can say: "I will be sixty years old in October."
Tuesday Nov. 5 will be the sixth anniversary of my stroke.
That was a Tuesday, too; Election Day 2018!
"Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
I should be one of those people....I would like to be one of those people....
Maybe I need to consider resuming anti-depressants!
It is my month!
October is a month to remember!
Nicer cooler weather, etc.
Bring it on!
Still working on my mood.....
Looks like actor John Corbett!
Here is Paul Snider:
https://louisemcbride.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-year-eve-and-dorothy-stratten.html
....as the bus driver!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105576/
My earlier blog post:
https://louisemcbride.blogspot.com/2024/06/
The star of the movie was the actor playing that nasty Fred Woods:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710417/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2
But the movie does beg the questions of why his two friends always followed his "orders"....Fred even slugged one of them in the abdomen!
Good morning, Everyone!
Today is 8-31-24 and thus constitutes the "Real New Year Eve" since the following commence with September: school year, football season, cars, network television shows!
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I recently viewed the following on You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAlK83ZyRzs
I was fourteen years old at the time of Stratten's murder. She was prominent enough that Newsweek magazine featured her death with the weekly transitions:
"Dorothy Stratten, born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, aged twenty."
I discusses the Newsweek blurb with my university student sister and some of her friends; my attitude at the time being: "How the hell can someone who LOOKS LIKE THAT have problems?"
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Dumb, yes.
Suffice to say I now know better.
At the end of the above documentary Stratten mentioned what she would like to accomplish during her life and how she hoped at age sixty she could look back with satisfaction.....well those of us who are less than a year and half from a fully sixty years of age....maybe we should just be content to be here.
For me viewing the world "sunnily" is a constant struggle.
And my viewpoint predates the peer abuse activities.
I remember negative feelings at age seven and the bullying ordeals commenced at age eight.
I AM I AM I AM
What it means to turn sixty:
Once I thought that age was so old!
My grandparents were in their early sixties when I was born!
It is not "the new fifty" or even "the new forty"....it is the new sixty!
Based on a musical stage play the original release year was 1972.
I was six years old then and I remember my mother stating the movie wasn't "suitable" for a child my age.
July 1976 I was ten and observed the movie via network TV.
I am currently unsure how much dialog the network censored but I just recall the action consisted of a lot of busy gentlemen subsequently singing and arguing AND MORE ARGUING....at that time I didn't understand why at age six it had deemed forbidden viewing.
I watched it yesterday on streaming service; the first blue comment was Richard Henry Lee's "I will go home (to Virginia) and refresh the missus..."
HA HA HA; Lee is also making a rather large assumption by presuming Ms. Lee WANTS REFRESHING.
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When I was a child such comments would have soared directly over my head; even though my mother said in 1976: "John Adams is upset that Thomas Jefferson wants to make love to his wife. Adams feels that Jefferson has lots of better things to do...like writing 'The Declaration Of Independence'."
I do recall wondering why that particular job had been delegated to Jefferson; the documentation chore that is!
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Re Ben Franklin (not the store of course) the TV network must have eliminated the "drinking and whoring" references....but man was Franklin a LOUSY FATHER!
The July 4 Bicentennial Celebration Of The United States Of America....culminating on Saturday July 10 when Big Daddy tripped over a tent post and anointed the entire back of my dress with Schlitz! Luckily no one was hurt; however he did waste a perfectly good brew and I don't remember if there was a blanket in the car to protect the upholstery from the liquid effects of his clumsiness....
The July 15 Chowchilla California school bus kidnapping! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping. There still exists discrepancy who was the "big hero": the now deceased bus driver or the oldest teenager. From Wikipedia: "By 2022 all [three] kidnappers had been paroled." To anyone unfamiliar with this case I encourage to you research it. You will learn exactly how to achieve the status of "stupid criminal."
My family leased a beach house in Ephraim, Door County, Wisconsin for at least a week. We rented a television in order to view the first portion of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. These games began on July 17. Re the vacation itself I specifically recall nightmares about Lake Michigan snakes, the lack of kitchen space, and abundance of breakfast meats from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping.
The property was pretty and located at the bottom of a hill from the main road; I could currently pick out the site but after nearly fifty years I have serious doubts about the building durability.
The July 29-30 Olympic Decathlon! GO, CAITLYN! Of course back then it was not "Caitlyn" but "Bruce!" I explain to young people that if there was a god of 1970s United States track and field it was William Bruce Jenner. He subsequently became a Wheaties man, divorced his first wife and within less than a week married second wife Linda Thompson (an ex girlfriend of Elvis Presley and forever a favorite friend of Lisa Presley) then obtained a second divorce, then in 1991 married the former wife of attorney Robert Kardashian. The entire Jenner/Kardashian clan then obtained a reality television show depicting the self described "Brady Bunch From Hell."
Jenner conceived four children during the first two marriages.
Bruce transitioned to Caitlyn following the demise of the third marriage.
And Caitlyn remains friendly with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Avilov; the defending Olympic champion (from 1972) and the ultimate 1976 bronze medalist. I firmly believe Avilov did not personally desire to repeat the competition; very likely there was active Soviet coercion.
Avilov presented as extremely fatigued during the 1976 medal ceremony!
Yes the proceedings were finalized twenty year ago today!
A lot has happened in those twenty years.
I keep on repeating to myself that it doesn't matter WHY I am here; the important fact is that I AM!
I am still in possession of my 1977 copy of "The Book of Lists" that presents Simpson as number one on the 1976 Ladies' Home Journal Poll of Ten Favorite Heroes And Heroines of American Boys and Girls...
OH HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN!😄
1994 was quite an eventful year! Besides the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman there was the 1994 Winter Olympic Skating Scandal, a total solar eclipse, the deaths of serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer.....
But the OJ Simpson events, in my opinion, really take the proverbial cake.....
And to think that was all thirty years ago.....
My sister is in town and assigned me a shopping list....lots of people shopping for Easter dinner items!
I hope the Eternal Bunny is good to everyone today!
And on we March!
It is getting lighter outside; we have already experienced daylight savings time!
...what will the future bring?
Is people are rewarded for having "faith" why the heck am I here?
I wonder....
But I am here and I know that it is my responsibility to ensure my own happiness.
Sometimes however I feel as though I am my own worst enemy....
I need to think before I act.
I need to remember my long term goals.
I need to formulate plans.....
...I have put all the Christmas holiday decorations away in my "craft closet."
Just winter stuff remaining.
Typical Chicagoland January weather and activities.
I am still consuming the holiday cookies; as an atheist I definitely "celebrate Christmas."
I am now fifty-eight years old and Keith Richards recently turned eighty; who would have thought he would advance to such an age?
Mind boggling....he must have inherited a healthy propensity towards long life.
LONG LIVE KEITH RICHARDS!
The Rolling Stones band's original drummer died of old age; there will be a new drummer playing the upcoming 2024 tour!
