Saturday, November 28, 2015

Saturday Night Dance Party!


This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - take me dancing tonight!


And here is something else (as if George Michael is not enough) to make your yuletide gay (caution: NSFW).

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Saturday Night Dance Party!



This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"You Spin Me Round" - til I puke!  Everyone follow the shiny disco ball...


THEN, courtesy of friend John, tackle some of these moves; now THIS is dancing!


Saturday, November 14, 2015

Saturday Night Dance Party!


This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"Eye of the Tiger" - "MEOW!" says the big kitty!



Je Suis Paris.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

My First Time (for everything)

Just because Spo and Penguin and John and Dodd are doing it...

My earliest memory – cooking with my maternal grandmother in her kitchen, 1959

First airline flight – 1970; high school trip to Europe; JFK to geneva, switzerland

First time "doing it” – 1972, age 19 with my first real boyfriend; awkward

First surgery – tonsils, age 6, 1960

First car – ford pinto; high school graduation gift, 1972; blue and white two-tone; my parents had a death wish for me

First death of someone close – my maternal uncle, 1968, due to cancer; he was only 38.  I didn’t find out until 1988 that he was gay

First drink – my maternal grandmother kept some mogen david concord grape wine (horrible shit) in the dining room sideboard; she “had a snort” when she couldn’t sleep

First regret – not marrying my first real boyfriend in 1973

First pet – Sydney, my first rescue cat, 1991

First presidential election – 1972; george mcgovern

First time you felt you were an adult – when I moved out of the parents’ house in 1977; I was 23

First job – 1970, cashier in a local (small) mom-n-pop variety store; dusting the fucking glass shelves was THE WORST

First realization of the axiom “life is not fair” – being bullied at school and at home

Losing my virginity – 1977, age 23; some unknown guy; never saw him again; I DO remember he was a ginger boy with a beard!

First house – 1985, a one bedroom condo in northern Virginia with my now ex-husband; I held that mortgage until 1999, when I sold the condo to move back to philly

First camera – polaroid swinger, late 1960s

First checkbook – age 23, to pay the rent on my apartment

Passing my driving test at age 18 (1971)

First 45 record – “get off my cloud”, rolling stones

First record album – “rubber soul”, beatles

First cigarettes - in college 1972-1976; never got hooked

First (and only) divorce - 1991; ex-husband went on to remarry and have 6 kids; he's an idiot

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Saturday Night Dance Party!



This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"Now That We Found Love" - why don't we do it in the road? (props if you know the referral).  I choose the japing ape as my first victim...


Friday, November 6, 2015

Signs of a Warm Autumn Week

 
the burning bush (heh heh heh, I said "bush"; and I don't mean JEB!)

 
a black walnut tree

a maple tree

burning bush berries; the birds LOVE these

the bradford pear turning red-orange