Category Archives: Random Memories

My Little Tribble

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Remember Star Trek with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy? There was an episode called The Trouble With Tribbles (1967) that I thought was quite amusing as a kid.

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from Wikipedia

I don’t remember how old I was when I first saw the Tribbles episode. I do know that when I was in Junior High School and taking a sewing class I made my own little Tribble!

My little Tribble eventually became a cat toy. BobCat plays with it these days and bunny kicks the shit out of it. I really don’t know why I’ve hung onto it all these years!

My little Tribble doesn’t look anything like it used to. It used to have a nose, ears, and a tail, but now it just looks like a furry, round ball with eyes and a mouth! It’s rather funny and I won’t ever get rid of it because I’m attached to it now.

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My Poor Little Tribble

Stage Fright

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When I was in elementary school, the school decided to have a fashion show. I don’t know whose bright idea it was but it doesn’t make sense. Why would an elementary school have a fashion show? Beats me. Maybe it wasn’t a fashion show. Maybe my memories aren’t as clear as they used to be.

Anyway, my mom was a fantastic seamstress. No, nothing professional but she made some of the clothes my sisters and I wore. So, she made my sisters and me matching dresses and we were entered in the fashion show!

I was scared shitless being only 10 or 11 years old but I was the lead in this model trio and it was my job to make sure my sisters (ages 6 and 2 approximately) did what they were supposed to do on stage. Ugh. My middle sister did pretty well but the littlest wanted to run around like a banshee. I was petrified! I had to hold her hand and keep her under control while we turned and showed our lovely dresses. We were taught to curtsy when we finished, but I don’t remember my sisters doing it. I was too focused on keeping the littlest sister from running right off the edge of the stage!

At the end of our “performance,” the crowd cheered and at that very moment I was in awe of my mother and her mad sewing skills! My mother actually won that fashion show competition!

I know now or think I know, that it wasn’t so much the dresses that won. That was part of it of course, but it was really the whole package. Not just one dress but three dresses. Not just one model but three models. Unique. Plus watching a little rugrat running around on stage and me trying to keep her from killing herself surely added to the entertainment value!

I have what I thought was a photo of us in those dresses, but the dresses don’t match. Maybe mom didn’t make matching dresses after all. As I said, my memories may not be as clear as they used to be. But here’s that faded photo anyway!

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MTV – M = CRAP

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Are you old enough to remember MTV when they showed music videos all day long?

MTV debuted in 1981 and the very first video they played was by the Buggles called “Video Killed The Radio Star.” That was definitely a true statement, wasn’t it? Well, for a while anyway. I’m not sure about now. I listen to most of my music on the radio because videos are a waste of time. I guess it’s because I’m old. But rest assured, if MTV still played music videos like they used to, I’d be tuning in.

In the beginning years of MTV, they had very few videos because it hadn’t caught on yet so they aired the same videos over and over again! To this day, I hear people say they can’t stand so and so because MTV played their video so often…and I get that but the reason was because they didn’t have that many videos to play without repeating them!

As a teenager and young adult, I loved MTV! It gave us all access to our favorite bands and songs. We learned who the band members were individually and heard what they had to say at times. We watched shows like 120 Minutes, Headbanger’s Ball, and Behind The Music.

MTV stopped playing music videos and music-related shows around 2010 or so. Now they cater to the younger crowd who like to watch reality crap – which to me is just people making asses of themselves and getting paid for it. In short, MTV is no longer music oriented. There’s no music, no M and without music they should just change the name of the channel!

Here are some of the first videos I remember seeing on MTV. I hope you enjoy this jump back in time!

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Well, I can’t think of any more of the first videos aired on MTV. Can you remember more? Ah, the good ol’ days…

Have a great day, friends. Thanks for visiting!

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What Major Events Do you Remember?

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Let’s see… I was born in 1962. You do the math but please don’t tell anyone how old I am. Snort! Just kidding. I don’t care.

I remember a lot of events, some vaguely and some very vividly. I had to look up the year of each thing I recalled because that’s my brain for ya. Anyway, here goes:

1968 – Robert F. Kennedy assassination

1969 – The first moonwalk! Some people still don’t believe this happened!

1969 – The Manson murders

1973 – Watergate, no understanding whatsoever at the time!

1978 – Jonestown, where Jim Jones led the mass suicide of hundreds of people

1979 – Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident

1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts

1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female justice on the Supreme Court

1981 – The attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life

1984 – The AIDS virus finally identified

1985 – The Titanic wreckage was discovered

1986 – The Challenger explodes just after lift-off

1989 – Oil tanker Exxon Valdez accident

1989 – Earthquake in San Francisco

1991 – Soviet Union breaks up

1998 – Bill Clinton impeached

1999 – Columbine High School shooting

1999 – Prep for Y2K, people were freaking out!

2000 – The end of Napster

2001 – Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, 9-11

Everything after this point is a blur. Haha.

2009 – Obama elected the first black US President

2017 – Trump elected, nothing will ever be the same!

2019 – Covid-19 Pandemic begins

So, there ya go! What events do you remember? I could remember more if I sat here for a few hours but I just don’t have that kind of time this morning.

Have a super day, friends!

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Caturday

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No matter how hard I try, getting a good face shot never happens. My hands are always in the shot. Whenever I want to take a photo of one of the furbabies, they always look everywhere except my phone. It’s like they know…

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Alice is 10 this year. She came to us when she was teeny-tiny. I looked out my front door and there she was. Poor little thing couldn’t have been more than 2 months old if that. She was skinny, dehydrated, and looked like someone had thrown her out of a car. She had scratches all over and she was sick. I snatched her up and brought her inside. I nursed her back to health, got her spayed and vaccinated when she was well and she is one of the best cats I have ever had. She’s the oldest of the 3 that I have now…and the biggest pig.