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since you are a country music lover I have to know, do you line dance??? If so, could you give me some lessons? LOL:pepper2: |
Sooo Romantic!
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Oh Bare....I have goosebumps just typing it. Yes, a beautiful classic!! Love George Jones!! :eclipsee_gold_cup: |
Well....I used to lol
I love to line dance, it sure has been awhile tho, but that would be so much fun!! I love doing the boot scootin boogie" :pepper2:
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and you know you have done the same thing
about those linen pants.....I will be wearing them soon and I think they require a heel to dress them up. I have a pair of summer shoes all ready to go. Almost ready to go. Black and white. (Like the jacket I will wear with the new pants.) Open toe. A slide. But even though I bought them last summer, I have not worn them yet.
And so this morning, while doing laundry and a little cleaning, I am wearing my pj's and thick white socks and these rather fancy shoes with the heel. When my daughter was a kid, I used to get her to break in my shoes for me. She loved wearing them around the house and that worked out great. But now she is all grown up and I have to break in my own shoes. So....such a lovely ensemble I am wearing on this sunny Ohio morning. PJ's, high heels, and really thick white ankle socks. (I will try to remember not to wear the socks with the shoes when I leave the house.) Boomer |
Oh Boomer!
I do the same thing. Shoes - other than flip flops - always hurt my feet so the big sock thing really works. I can picture you - someone should write it into a sitcom.
As to country music, I am a rock n' roll kinda gal. (Stones, Clapton, Zeppelin, Doors, early Beatles, etc etc) But I do love "Earl Has To Die" by the Dixie Chicks and "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks. |
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Remember "Put Your Sweet Lips a Little Closer to the Phone"? (Kate and JB, you'd be too young to remember that one!) |
-- remember "80's Ladies"?
A perfect country music singer to bring up in the Girl Talk thread is K. T. Oslin. I don't think she has done anything for a while. If so, I have missed it. She is well known for "80's Ladies." Her lyrics are for women. "Live Close By, Visit Often," "Younger Men," "Do Ya," "Cornell Crawford," "Hey Bobby," and many others. Great lyrics with an attitude that may have made her just a little ahead of the times for the country music crowd when she started. One of her CD's is titled "Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb."
I have not heard much about her lately. I think she is about 67 now and a few years ago had heart problems which may have slowed down her career. If you like lyrics with an empowered woman's twist, you may want to listen to a little K. T. Oslin. Boomer |
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"Friends In Low Places" is hysterical, always gives me a pick me up lol. "Earl Had to Die"....I will never forget the look on my son's face when he heard that one lol.:1rotfl: Speaking of Willie Nelson, he was on the Huckabee show about a month ago with Ray Price. I was speechless, it was fantastic!! :coolsmiley: K.T. Oslin has some really cool songs, would be nice to see her come back again. She had bypass surgery just like you said Boomer after mowing the lawn. :( |
I absolutely LOVE country music.......and the classic "Friends in Low Places" is one of my favorites. I adore Patsy Cline. Cranking up the volume with country playing is the 'bestest'
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Country music is great cleaning music!! My son laughs so hard while I am singing, dancing and cleaning at the same time! :1rotfl: I shouldnt admit this cause you gals will really think I am crazy lol :rolleyes:, but my previous golden retriever would run in the room whenever "Boot Scootin Boogie" came on, and would dance with me on his hind legs...well...with me holding his front paws lol. :pepper2: |
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Did you know she died in 1963 when she was 30 years old? Wowser, so young. Hard to believe we are still talking about her music. |
a play about Patsy Cline
Always...Patsy Cline is a play that makes the rounds of smaller theaters and community theater. I have seen it 3 times. Once at Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati. Once in Tennessee. And once in community theater. Needless to say, I liked it.
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Boomer? You go to Cincinnati Community Theater? You know Jackie Demaline?
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Hi GG, I do not know her. ................................................. The play Always...Patsy Cline has a tiny cast. A woman who tells the story and another woman to play Patsy Cline. Of course, they need someone with a phenomenal voice for that part. But they're out there. Maybe not quite. But almost. And there is a little backup band. Speaking of theater, there is another play with a very small cast that would be a perfect choice for an audience in TV. That play is Sylvia. Sylvia is the name of the dog who is the star of the show. But the dog is played by a woman. (I think Sarah Jessica Parker played the part a long time ago, might have been off-Broadway.) Anyway, the dog comes to live with a couple and soon becomes the light of the husband's life. The play is funny and touching and has so many true things in it for dog lovers. The dog is a stray and so at the beginning, the actress playing the dog is dressed in ragged, dirty clothes. But once she is adopted, she goes to the groomer and she gets to wear a snazzy outfit for the rest of the play. If you are a dog lover and you ever get the chance to see Sylvia, please do not miss it. You will laugh. You will cry. You will laugh and cry at the same time. And you will think it is about your very own dog. In the productions I have seen, they show a picture of a real dog at the end of the show. That part disappointed me because the dog did not look like Annie. In my mind Sylvia was Annie. (But there is no country music in the play Sylvia. Hey. We don't care. This is Girl Talk and we can talk about whatever we want to.) Boomer |
Oh Boomer, I saw the play "Sylvia" about six years ago in a small summer theatre in Prince Edward Island. It was amazing, I just loved it.
Perhaps it has greater appeal for dog lovers. It was so darn cute. :girlneener: |
George Jones!!
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I'd love to see George Jones live singing "He stopped loving her today". I have to make do with Youtube.
I'm still regretting not going to see Elvis live when he was in Buffalo. Back in the day. I don't see any point in going to live performances if you don't have a good seat. But if you have a front row seat, a live performance is awesome. I've had some great seats when I went to see Roy Orbison, Neil Diamond and Tom Jones. Wowser, great memories. |
Great Memories!!
You are so right, live concerts are so much fun. I saw Neil Diamond too! Tom Jones was in our area all the time, my sister in law didnt miss one concert...she was in love with him lol.
I too....regret so much that I didnt go see Elvis, and I had the opportunity when he was in NYC....dumb Jeanne :oops:. I saw Reba years ago at an outdoor concert in Vermont, and we were right up in front...it was great!! I have dragged my son to many a country concert lol, I think I embarass him with my cowboy hat :1rotfl:. Not sure if anyone caught it last night on TV, but Bill O'Reilly had a tribute to Ed Sullivan. It was great, brought back so many memories, he had all the old favorites, Elvis, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, so many big stars started their career on the Ed Sullivan show. They even had a clip on little Topo Gigio lol...remember him? He was my favorite! :) Jeanne |
P.S. I just had another flashback lol, I remember watching Ed Sullivan with my parents on Sundays, and on Saturdays was good ole Mitch Miller lol! Remember him and the little bouncing ping pong ball on the bottom of the screen to sing along to the songs? Shows sure have changed since then.
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Elvis
I did see Elvis in Binghamton in June of 1977. He died that August, so I'm so glad I stayed OVERNIGHT in the arena to get the tickets that went on sale the next morning. He was fantastic. That was toward his end, when he was very overweight but once he started singing, you didn't even notice. My only regret is that I didn't take my daughter who was only 11 at the time. I didn't think she was serious that she wanted to go ( In fact I don't remember that she asked to go). However, she reminds me once in awhile about how I didn't take her and then he died! She is still an "Oldies fan", so now I wish I had taken her. Does anyone else have adult children who love to bring stuff like that up? They also like to tell you all the stuff they did that you never found out about! We actually have a great relationship.
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Yes Kitty,
My daughter who is about the same age as yours loves to throw things up in my face from her chiuldhood. How i didnt take her grocery shopping with me, how I went on a vacation without her, I didnt get her the Christmas gift she wanted :blahblahblah: Just shoot me, I guess I was a terrible mommy! LOL |
Confessions of a really bad mother
Mine, too. Boomette has never let me live down the fact that I would not let her have a Barbie Doll. I thought Barbie Dolls sent the wrong message to little girls. (It was the 70's) She said that she secretly played with Barbie Dolls when she was at her friends' houses. I was, it seems, such a bad mother because of this Barbie Doll thing that I finally gave in and gave her one when she graduated from college. Boomette is now a slave to fashion. (sigh)
Another thing that Boomette torments me over is the cow pitcher. You know those cow pitchers, or I guess more correctly called creamers. You know what I mean. They are white and you pour milk or cream into them and then it comes out the cow's mouth when it's poured out. Exquisitely tacky things. I think I bought it at Stuckey's. Anyway, the little white cow pitcher/creamer held just enough milk for Boomette's cereal when she was little. So I could pour out the cereal the night before. Cover the bowl with something so the cereal did not get stale. Pour the right amount of milk into the cow pitcher. Put it into the refrigerator. And Voilą! You got it. The kid could fix her own cereal on Saturday mornings while she watched cartoons and I snoozed a little. (Boomette was a responsible little girl. Never played with matches or anything like that.) OK! Just say it. Just whisper it behind my back. I know. You are saying, "Boomer was such a bad, bad mother. tsk. tsk." And you will never guess what I gave Boomette as a gift just a few years ago. You're right. A cow pitcher. And she uses it. She puts it on the table for company. And then she tells them the story of her terrible childhood when she had to make her own cereal while her mommy slept in during Saturday morning cartoons. Boomer Dearest |
My daughter had her cereal dry on Saturday mornings...at least you let her have milk with hers! :oops: Guess I'm not the only one!
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Boy oh boy, if that is the only complaint, I'd say your kids had a wonderful childhood! |
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OMG Boomer, We must have been sisters in another life. I did the same thing with Courtney (the milk and cereal). We had a little jug in lieu of the cow pitcher. BTW I LOVE the cow pitchers. I bought my Mother-in-law a kitty cat version for Christmas lst year and she adoreds it. I did allow Barbie. She is also a slave to fashion. So Barbie deprivation is not necessarily causative. I think she is a bit younger than Boomette - - she is an early 80s baby. Kate (dearest) |
Oh Kate (Dearest), isn't the "Girl Talk" thread the most freeing thing. You and Schuler and me. All making our poor little daughters fix their own cereal while we slept in on Saturday mornings. I know there must be more like us out there. This is so freeing. So freeing.
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There is not a kid in the world who is cute before 8 o clock in the morning.
Try this. I caused a lot of problems (so mine say) because I bent over backwards. (It was a case of me being raised without a mother and I tried to do it up brown when it was my turn.) Now I am told that I overdid it and they wished that someone elses Mom had been the room mother and the Brownie leader and that I would never let them pour ANYTHING.....cough....until they went to college and I KNOW they learned to pour there.
Ain't none of us can be perfect Mothers. JUST WAIT, I say. Their kids will tell them the same. (or worse) |
Erma Bombeck
said it best when she wrote Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own. That lady was there, done that. If you haven't read any of her books, do so...you're in for a real treat when you do. I think all of us can very clearly identify with her on a lot of points from husbands, to kids, to whatever. Hilarious!
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Dillywho, I, too, love Erma Bombeck's writing.
Erma Bombeck was a fellow Buckeye and I once had the privilege of hearing her speak. I lived in Dayton soon after she had made her transition from the little local community paper to the Dayton paper. She started out writing for $3.00 a column for the little community paper. (She lived in Centerville, a Dayton suburb. Phil Donahue lived there, too. How weird is that? -- I digress.) Anyway, she said that one of her first columns there had to do with her husband's idea of Christmas lights being to change the porch light's bulb to a colored one. I guess she went on a bit about his lack of Christmas decorating spirit and tendency toward being cheap. When her husband saw her column she said that he asked her how she could exploit his foibles in the newspaper. To which Erma answered, "But they gave me $3.00." And her husband said, "Go for it." Another of her titles that can sum up how motherhood can feel sometimes is "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression." What a wonderful wit she was. She would have been 82 now. I lifted these quotes from Wikipedia, even though I know that Wikipedia is not really a true reference source where the info is checked. But I'm sure all of these are Erma's. I thought you girls might like them: "Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids." "My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." "If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead." "The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again." "Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage." "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely." "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me." "In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV." "When humor goes, there goes civilization." "Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart." "Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth." "The grass is always greener over the septic tank." "A child needs your love most when he deserves it least." "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." ....... (and now I think I will go peruse the bookshelf and see if I can find one of my old Erma Bombeck books. Thanks for the memories, Dillywho.) Boomer |
Love Erma Bombeck! I always think of her when I spy that dark green spot of grass on my front lawn!
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And remember the author from Defiance.
Ah. I love every one of the quotes you quoted. I especially like this one;
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me." Gotta love those Ohio girls Boomer. |
Hi Everyone - I loved Erma Bombeck too. She was such a good person and so humerous.
By the way, can anyone recommend a good pedicure place and person? |
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Thanks Barefoot - I should have known by your user name you would know one.
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Thanks, Boomer
for the info you provided on Erma Bombeck. It's always interesting to hear about first-hand experiences. I have all the books she wrote and still read them. I'm just not allowed to read them in bed because my giggling creates a disturbance and interferes with hubby's TV watching. I just go in the other room...my cat doesn't care.
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Of Oprah and Snake Oil
Just now, when I should have been doing something useful, I got caught up in reading stuff online. (That never happens to any of you does it?)
And I came across this article from Newsweek. It takes a little while to read it. It's a long one. But I found it interesting. It hits Oprah's effect pretty hard. Not too kind. It covers how she has covered hormones and one-hour facelifts and sending energy out into the universe and all that medical and quasi-medical stuff of which the Oprah Hour is so often made. (I still like to watch her sometimes though.) Interesting reading I thought. So I am passing it along here in the "Girl Talk" thread, in case any of you are goofing off and reading stuff online when you should be cooking an elaborate supper or making a dress out of the draperies or whatever. http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025/page/1 Boomer |
Boomer,
We subscribe to Newsweek. I saw the cover - but have not read the article. I have to confess that my first thought was how beautiful she looked - so maybe there is truth to her "remedies." BTW you are far from the only one who gets distracted online. I behave better in the nice weather, but in the winter I hunker down with hot tea, red wine, a good book and a laptop to snuggle with. Thank goodness I am in TV! k |
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