Boot Scootin' Boogie

Sitting here drinking my coffee and a song is now stuck in my head. Facebook is jumping with some "Boot scootin' boogie" and I want to crank up the music and get busy. Music always makes me get lots of things done around here. It's nearly a crime to have the music jumping and to just be sitting on my hiney. Although I really do need to dedicate this day to crocheting, I don't see that happening now. So I sit here wondering if I should go with my desire to rock out or calm myself down and find something to squash that jumping song right outta my head.

Oops..I just cranked up the jams! Boot scootin' boogie!!! Got love Brooks and Dunn! Oh crap, I gotta dance! Be back in a moment.

Blood pumping, heart racing...looks like it's going to be a busy day, I need to clean something!

Yall have a GREAT day!

Writer's Workshop: Our wedding song

Hubby and I had our wedding in the park, a low budget affair with not a whole lot of bells and whistles, more like a Sunday bbq where everyone is dressed up.

My mother was the ring leader and I was the 2nd in command. I’m sure your thinking it should have been the other way around, but I really needed someone else to be in control. I did get all things approved by me first and mom was great as long as I kept her in check or she would have went crazy and had me wear a tiara or some other crazy thing like that.

In the plans for the wedding in the park, my mother was to bring a music cd that she had of some real soft classical music. I was supposed to go through the cd to determine which song was going to be used. This was supposed to have happened earlier in the day while everything was getting set up.

As you all know preparing for a wedding is brain frying work and the bride has enough on her plate as is, these little things tend to get lost or forgotten in the frenzy.

Needless to say I never saw the cd or listened to it. As I sit here now, I have no clue what happened to it. I had made arrangements with my BIL to bring his Cher cd for some lively music afterwards, you know while everyone was eating. The main song on that cd that I was most interested in was “It’s in his kiss”, it was one of the songs that was playing on the oldies channel on the radio (well the older version of course), that day hubby and I went for that ride together, the day we meet. In case you missed that post, you can read it here. Although we hadn’t kissed yet, the song lingered in the air that night. Leaving that song with special meaning for me.

Dad and I were all ready to walk down between the chairs to the canopy my mother had pain stakinly labored over. The music was que’d and the boom box was started. I was expecting some unknown soft song that mom had rushed to make a decision on.

Yup you guessed it! Dad and I walked down the isle to the bebop song of “It’s in his kiss”! The small group of family and friends, grinned, laughed and looked puzzling to each other.

I could see mom jump out of her seat to correct the matter, but the mystery cd was not right there and well it was too late now. Dad was up and out of his wheelchair and already walking. She sat back down almost as quickly as she had gotten up; she was mouthing “Sorry” to me.

I could have cared less cause I was already laughing and could see hubby was too!!



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Lawnmower Man, Music and a Storm.

Well yesterday was a really good and productive day with a stormy forecast.

Tuesday I called brother J and found out he was going to be free for the next few days from work. He is starting his own lawn maintenance business on the side and well.....you know just how much I really hate to deal with the yard (like haven't touched it in two or three weeks). One topic lead to another and voila, I have my own personal Lawnmower Man!

I also talked to sister J about the music SonIL downloaded for me to my MP3 player. Next thing I know she is giving me homework to list some of my favorite artists and songs. I emailed her the list several hours later. A looooong list! I really like most all types of music from the 40's to about a decade ago and from rock n roll to country.
It was a very difficult piece of homework... "Oh I like that song!" Now come on brain, who the heck sings it?? What's that song that Cinderella (Not the cartoon) did way back when? Very difficult task indeed!!

From my understanding they were going to leave at noon, so as usual in my mommy mode I called several times, mostly to make sure he was up and on schedule. I know I can be a pain in the rear sometimes, especially with him. What can I say, he was the baby when I was still taking care of the kids and living at home. We were/are tight like that.

On to yesterday's events...

After calling him (and yes he was still asleep), I started to look for something.
I can't remember what that initial item was, cause I got lost in dragging out all of the items in the kitchen closet and tool cabinet. Seriously I had stuff everywhere! Every surface in my kitchen was littered with this and that, from paint supplies to screws and nails and JUNK!

I was sitting here taking a break from my work and checking my pages (which were dead, btw). A knock on the window scares the Cr** out of, Whiskers (who was sitting in that window), made me jump up and cuss and the dogs all start with the barking.
Surprise! It was hubby, who was laughing his head off at all of us fraidy cats!

Two minutes later brother showed up. Okay now..this boy (not a boy anymore, a 30 yr old man) was just too cute being all professional with me like I was a client (well really I was, I did pay him). I was resisting the urge to bust out laughing! Asking questions of what I wanted and not. Just way too cute! I had to leave him to it or I wouldn't have had the heart to let him do it.

Sister downloaded all the songs she had for me from their external hard drive.
4GB!!! YIKES! That is a lot of songs! It is going to take me forever to go through them all and only pick 2GB of them to put on my MP3 player! We had a good time chatting, while I continued on my task of organizing and putting things back in place.

I broke my rule of eating out and sister and I went to Micky D's to get supper.

Speaking of food...Earlier this morning my landlord dropped by and gave me a huge bag of plums. There was no way we was going to be able to eat it all, so I asked brother if he would drop them off at mother's on his way back home. He said yes.
(I'll have to call mom and find out if she got any of them, brother was eating a lot of them)
Good since your going there, you can take this..and this..and that. This is for sister M, this is for Boo and that is for Mom, oh yeah and this is for sister E and go ahead and give this to Dad(just to aggravate Mom)!

Back to the end of my story...

Brother worked his skinny little butt off and at times I was very worried about him. I happened to have looked at him in passing and the veins on the sides of his forehead looked like they were going to burst! It was a little freaky!

But my Yard is done all the way around and with trees trimmed! I have only managed to do that a few times and it takes me all friggin day! AND at least two days to recoop!

They were getting ready to leave and we could tell a storm was rolling in. Loading up the truck with all my offerings for them and other family members, the storm was moving in very fast. It went from calm and a little hazy with noise in the distance, to heavy wind with the storm practically on us. We was rushing back and forth to get all the stuff as quickly as possible.

The peach tree has been so heavy with peaches that the largest branch was laying on top of the house. I went out with arm full of stuff and had no problem walking under the branch. With the wind picking up as harshly as it did, it moved the branch and it was now drooping down on the steps. I had to duck to get under it.

Just after they pulled out and was on their way, I was showing the branch to hubby through the door window. Right before our eyes the wind picked up the branch and broke it, leaving it blocking the steps to the porch.

Brother Come Back!!! I have some more work for you!! LOL!

Spin Cycle: Musical Technology

My pocket is flashing a red light at me.
I have buds in my ears.
Go figure how this Nana has jumped into the 21st century.
I would say the modern age, but I think I am STILL a decade behind.
That is still better than still being stuck in the dark ages! LOL!

I remember when cassettes were the new thing to learn.
Heck daddy still had a Victrola with old 45’s.
The house had a LP record player built into the tv console.
Grampie still played 8 tracks in his car.

A Walkman was the thing to have.
You was a nobody, an ancient relic or an outcast without one.
Oh, and it had to be a yellow one.
Once you got it, you had to figure out how to use it.
Not to mention having to buy cassettes for it.
EXPENSIVE was the thing that hit me the most.

Later on…you finally get your house outfitted with a Stereo /LP turntable and Cassette player.
That was awesome and high class.
Now the learning of dubbing your LP’s to cassette.
Oh my, the awesomeness of that was incredible.
Then you move on to recording your favorite modern songs straight from the radio.
Before you know it your cassette library is just as big as your LP library.
All is well and grand, you feel soo hip.

Then comes along the CD.
WTHeck??
How in the world did they do that?
A whole album on a tiny shiny disc.
I resisted their shininess for a great while.
Their cost was extreme for my pocketbook.
Cassettes were getting harder to find.

Alas the boycott on upgrading to the new fad was deflated by force.
The 45’s had melted, the LP’s were scratched and the cassettes were becoming obsolete.
What is a person to do but conform with the rest of the crowd.
A Walkman CD player was the next thing to have.

I bought my first CD single.
Madonna, of course!
Yes, about a decade after they first came out.
We then upgrade the house to a Radio /CD player with dual Cassette player.
All the lovely little tiny buttons to learn.
Oh yeah, we are styling now!
We finally caught up with the rest of the world.
We buy CD’s like crazy and again another library is born.
For a good long time things were great.

Then the day came when we was informed that we was still behind the times.
When did this happen?
Had it really been that long since the MP3 players had come out?
Yes folks, another near decade of getting too comfortable with the last fad.
When is this going to end???
Just as soon as I master the latest device, a new one is already going out of style.

Yes, I know…MP3 players are soo yesterday, but hey I finally got there!
I finally bought one about a month or so ago.
It’s not the new nice pretty ones, that looks like phones.
Nor is it one that shows me videos.
It is also not one of those teeny tiny microscopic things.

It’s about the size of a fat tube of lipstick, with five of the smallest buttons these fingers can handle.
Small enough for me!
And low and behold it now has about 20 songs on it.
Son in law helped this old lady out and I am now jamming again.
Lynard Skynard anyone? Or maybe some Eagles?
Okay I gottcha, you want some Phil Collins! Right?
I can’t wait to get some Georgie Porgie (aka George Strait) on it!!
I even have a (one song) Michael W. Smith.
My mom, sister, daughters, ect, ect… would be so proud!

So there ya have it,
I will forever be behind in the modern day technology, but I will eventually catch up.
I can hope, can’t I?!