 navymomgr
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49/F/Raleigh, North Carolina
Join Date: Jun 2008 |
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Ever have one of those days when everything electric/electronic goes haywire? What's the deal with that? Woke up this morning to find that my cell phone had lost signal during the night- and missed a call from my son in Iraq. Started my coffeepot and came back to find the coffee on the counter- the pot broke! Took a shower and started getting ready for work, hairdryer blew up! Got to work, computer died, then then 4 phones in the call center stopped working! I was afraid to drive my car home-figured it would break down. Luckily, it didn't, but got home and the power was out! (Someone crashed into a powerline pole). The power finally came back on, and the light bulb in the living room blew out! I think I'll just go to bed and hope that my alarm doesn't blow up while I'm sleeping......
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Well, it's my birthday, and here I am one year older. This is my last year before I've lived half a century. So here are some memories.
I remember when the first family in our neighborhood got a color TV. Everyone had to go to their house to see it. I was about 6 years old and it was the first time that I learned that Popeye and Olive Oyl actually wore red and blue clothes. I always thought they wore gray.
I remember buying my first calculator in 1975. It was about 4 by 5 inches and it would add, subtract, multiply, divide and do percentages. I saved for it for months and it cost $160. Now they're 1/4 the size and you get them free when you buy a wallet!
I remember buying gas for 35 cents per gallon and thinking it was terribly expensive.
I remember cars that got 10 miles per gallon and no one cared.
I remember taking computer courses in college. No such thing as windows! If you wanted to run a computer program, you had to write it first. Computer courses consisted of learning computer languages. I took Basic, Cobol, and Fortran. There was one computer game and it was all typed out. It was about an elf making his way throught tunnels and you had to read the actions, like "The elf sees a sword on a rock" and type in what you wanted the elf to do "Pick up sword" Internet? What's that?
I remember when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and my teachers took us to the auditorium so that we could watch it on TV.
I remember getting married at 23 years old and people telling me it was about time. They thought I was going to be an 'old maid' forever.
I remember when the first video game (Pong) came out- it was the hottest thing around!
I remember when waterbeds were an adventure.
I remember when divorce was disgraceful and you stayed married no matter what.
I remember Flash Gordon, I Love Lucy, The Bevely Hillbillies, Leave It To Beaver, and Lawrence Welk (my grandmother's favorite show)
I remember when kids spent their time playing outside. Making string houses and mud pies with my cousin Amy. Taking tobacco sticks into the cornfields in the Fall and knocking the cornstalks down because we were pretending they were Indians.
I remember nucear bomb drills.
I remember crying because I didn't get miniskirt and go-go boots from Santa Claus.
I remember my Grandfather leaving the fields every day at 4:15 so that he could be at the house to greet my Grandmother and give her a kiss when she got home from work. (where are the men like that now?)
I remember my brother's teasing when we were young and his protectiveness when we got older. I still miss him after 30 years.
I remember my Grandmoter's hands, because I see them every time I look at my own hands.
I remember the birth of each of my sons and my wonder the first time I held them in my arms. I stil feel that wonder every time they call me 'Mom'.
I remember happiness, sadness, ectasy, despair, innocence, knowing, loving, hating, laughing, crying, good friends, enemies, family, all the good and bad that goes with 49 years of life. And you know something? Life has been good. Yes, there are some things I would change if I could- my brother's death, the years I spent in depression among others, but for the most part, I wouldn't want to change much of my life. I've learned from my mistakes and from the people in my life.
I wonder what changes the next 49 years hold?
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