A few weeks ago I saw on the news that Hillary Clinton (who by the way, if you hadn’t guessed already, is my choice for president in this campaign) had just done a campaign rally at Washington-Lee High School, in Arlington, VA.  Good old W-L High School is where both my sisters and I went to High School back in the 70’s, so it was way cool to hear that Hillary had spoken there during the Potomac Preliminaries.

Washington-Lee played a key role in the education of a lot of famous people such as Warren Beatty, his sister who happens to be Shirley McLean and #@$@#$#$ (I can’t for the life of me remember her name, but when I do I will punch the info in this spot) to name a few.  I loved that school and hated to leave it after right after my Junior year was completed to transfer to a school in the neighboring county because my parents moved. That move drastically changed the course of my life and has led me to be right here and now! And that will be a subect for another blog some other time.

I have gone back to my old stomping grounds several times through-out the years and the school always looks different,  it seems that it’s constantly under construction always getting bigger and better as it ages through the years.

I think I’m due for another trip down to that part of the woods, maybe I’ll talk my sister into going with me, that would be fun - just the two us!

It has been a long time since I have heard those words and it puts a grin on my face thinking of the days of the CB radio.  Back when Smokey and the Bandit was playing in the movies and country music pounded out trucking songs hit after hit.

To talk on the CB first you had to give your self a “handle” to go by, my first one was the “Pepsi Queen” and the one after that was “The Virgin Lollipop”.  And I still remember my calling numbers of KATZ 0060, or it was something real close to that anyway.

I met a good amount of good folks on the CB and on certain Saturday nights all the CBer’s would meet at a local nightclub for a night of fun, drinking and dancing away, it was an opportunity for people to see the faces of the folks that they have been talking with when they had their “ears on” jawing on the CB.

I remember when all the 18 wheeler’s went on strike, the CBs were buzzing day and night all 20 and/40 channels constant chatter.  There were 18 wheelers lined up and down Route #95, all at a clean dead stop, what a mess that was, but the truckers meant business and held their ground and by golly they got what they wanted.

CH started to learn how to knit last year from my sister, but by now she has forgotten everything that she had learned, I don’t think she practiced at all when she came home.  I’m thinking this time of asking my sister to teach the both of us how to knit, that way we can learn together and we can have fun making things that are useful when finished.  Arts and crafts are wonderful but you don’t always get a chance to use or properly display the lovely creation and it gets stuffed away somewhere, never to be seen again, at least not until Spring Cleaning comes around, if lucky.

Hats, scarfs, mittens, blankets all those things we could/would use and there are so many other things that you can create by knitting.  I see the coolest things in the crafts section of Wal-Mart that CH and I always love looking at.

Next time I talk to my sis I think I will mention it.  I found a bag of yarn in the basement that I will take down to her and I’m sure she has plenty of knitting needles that we can use.  I’m really looking forward to it.

Christmas is a great time to surprise the ones you love with unique gifts. Frog aquariums would definitely qualify as unique. Halloween costumes aren’t just for Halloween; this Christmas Mom could become Mrs. Claus with womens costumes and a grey wig while Dad puts on the Christmas costumes and practices his best jolly ol belly laugh. The children could find some kids costumes of elves, shepherds, or angels and put on a little play before opening gifts. Get creative with the family any time of year and enjoy the time you can spend together.

Since my kids are not little anymore I have gotten back into reading books again.  I have always loved reading but had to put that on the back burner while trying to raise my children.

I love reading all kinds of books and pick up the most unusual reading material here and there that keep my nose in at least one or two books at a time.  One of my favorites is one that contains hundreds of pages of savvy and intriguing information compiled for the world’s forgotten literary caste - those who read in the privacy of their privies (known as the bathroom for you city folk)  It is a collection of little-known facts that I find very interesting and would love to share on this blog time to time.

The one today that I read was pretty entertaining and I wanted to share it today.

DWARF TOSSING

A dwarf dresses up in body padding, a crash helmet, and a harness.  Then contestants hurl him across the room into a pile of mattresses.  The “winner” is the person who throws the dwarf the farthest.  In some contests, dwarfs have been thrown as much as 30 feet.  Makes you wonder why the dwarfs do it, they can make as much as $2,000 a night, that’s why.

It seems that this game was invented in an Australia bar back in 1985.  It later produced an offshoot of the game known as dwarf bowling.  A helmeted dwarf is strapped to a skateboard or mechanic’s creeper and rolled headfirst into bowling pins, which are made of plastic.

I remember back in 1987, the year our oldest daughter MC was born, a few American bars tried out this “sport” and it was a commercial success.  But the bad publicity - combined with lobbying by groups like the Little People of America-killed the sport.