This Blog was started predominantly by my desire to share my experiences with our 80lbs of fur … otherwise known as Ray. That road ultimately resulted in my book about him “Who Said I was up for Adoption?”
Music is a very strong force in my life and so, inevitably, it crept into this Blog, along with a variety of other topics which I found sufficiently interesting to share. I even posted some of my poetry which also resulted in a book “Just Thinking”
Meandering through the Blogging community resulted in a book writing partnership which created “The Odessa Chronicles” (stories for children of all ages!).
I have many other interests which were now taking a “back seat” to Blogging, and the only way that I could effectively re-focus was to relegate this Blog to a lower priority in my life, which is where I am currently at however, I just thought of a compromise.
How about I create a regular Post with music as its basis? In fact, I could cover all the years from my first attachment to music … being 1956 when I was 10! The beauty of this idea (from my perspective) is that it does not take much time to come up with a song, and as long as I can find it on YouTube, then all is well!
Stay tuned for a 1956 musical memory. Who knows … it might bring back good memories for you!
A New Direction Perhaps? 
Oops, I read your music post before this one, now it explains your music post. LOL! Sounds like a great idea to me. Will be good to see blog posts from you again, even if the 50’s were WAYYY before my time! But after reading the comments between you and Tippy about age, I am not sure how old I am anymore. I just know I am younger than both of you. 🙂
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Yup ……….. a youngster! 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂 You all keep me young!
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Sounds like a good idea to me!
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Hi Ann – You do understand that if you can relate to these initial posts, then you will be dating yourself? I might suggest that if one triggers a happy memory from way back, then a good response could be “Before my time of course, but what a nice song.” (!!!)
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1956, the year I was born, but I am familiar with music before that time so go for it! Hope you are all OK Colin.
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Everything fine here thanks Di, and trust the same at your end. We just play safe and avoid people wherever possible. 🙂
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Likewise.
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🙂
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In a 1994 interview with a California newspaper columnist, Dick Clark said : “Popular music is the soundtrack of our individual lives. Anything that ever happened to you, good or bad, was scored with the music you listened to.” Over the years, though still attributed to Dick Clark, the quote has been simplified by removing two words and changing one word : “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” I will enjoy listening to the soundtracks of your life. Thank-you!
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What an excellent description of music. Thank you Ellen.
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I can’t remember back to 1956. And I hate music. But when blogs become the same stuff all the time, they can get old, some I’m looking forward to your new format.
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You cannot remember because you weren’t born then ………… or you’ve just lost your musical memories of the mid 50’s????
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No, I was born 39 years ago.
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Huh! ……….. A Youngster! 🙂
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Indeed. I’ve been 39 for many years now. Can’t wait to grow up.
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Aha ……a birthday procrastinator!
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Yeah, I’m lazy that way.
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Not wishing to hit the 40’s does seem to be a common goal, but staying at 39 is rather unrealistic. I adopted an alternative philosophy which achieves the same goal and has absolute credibility. After reaching 39, I simply continued with 3010, 3011, 3012 etc. etc. In a few days I will be 3045. I have been retired and living my own life for many years now, and yet I am still in my 30’s! Great eh! 🙂
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I like that system. Just as long as you keep the comma out of the four-digit number, it sounds good. So with this system I’m 3032. That’s young, for sure.
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Spring chicken!
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🐔
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But I thought you were like Peter Pan, why would you want to grow up?
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So I can get out of jury duty.
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I could tell you a winning way to get out of jury duty. It was when a mistake that I made with my choice of words worked in my favor, though embarrassing. ☺
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Sounds intriguing. Let’s hear it.
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Let your imagination go to work! Whats the difference between a defendant and a plaintiff in a court case and which would you rather be?
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There’s not much difference between a defendant and a plaintiff. They both dress well and try to come across like saints. They never seem to be lying, even though they make opposite assertions. Generally, they’re both guilty as hell of something, even though only one of them will be judged. And given that only one will be judged (the defendant), I’d rather be the plaintiff.
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Yeah, but thats not how you get out of jury duty!
Nope, what you do is say Yes, when asked if presently involved in a court case. ( it was a few months before my daughter’s court case) then when asked what kind of case you say, a sex abuse case, like I did, and then when asked if you were defendant or plaintiff you say…..!
And yeah, guess I could have used a ESL course! LOL!
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Please, don’t tell me you said, “defendent.”
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….smacking my head….! ☺
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Well I guessed right. I told my wife this story and she got a good laugh out of it.
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LOL! Glad I could give her something to laugh about.
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In my defense I did know the difference between defendant and plantiff. I just was thinking how I was defending my daughter! The funny thing is I didn’t realize it until we left the courtroom and people were giving me strange looks. Got in the elevator and they kind of all moved to one side of the elevator. Then it hit me what I had said!! And what did I do? I literally laughed the whole way to the car! My sister was waiting for me.for we were going to get lunch and all I could do was laugh and be glad that I would never aee any of those people again!!
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That’s pretty funny. I guess at that point in your life you could use a good laugh. And hey, you got out of jury duty.
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Yes, it was much needed comic relief.
Then there was the time when I was testifying during court and I gave everyone a moment of comic relief. There was a loud pop sound! I had popped the stress ball that my lawyer had given me to help relax me. I popped it by squeezing so hard and a pile of sand came out of the ball onto my lap. I held up the busted ball and everyone started laughing as we took a time out. 🙂 My attorney was shaking his head saying how in all his years he never had that happen before. He joked about how they would send me a bill for the stress ball, after all it was court property.
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Wow, you must have been very stressed out. Good thing you had that stress ball. If you had been wringing your hands, you’d probably have broken all your carpal bones.
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Haha! Didn’t know I was so strong. I am just glad that it was only sand in the stress ball and not water or some gel substance.
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