
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I like starting a new year. It’s fun, it reminds me of the first day of school. That was always a fun day.
I am tired of daylight savings time. I would rather not go back and forth.
Happy New Year 🎆!
Fireworks are going off like crazy!
I can’t even count how many Mardi Gras parades I’ve been to in my lifetime. Mom was an excellent seamstress and made fabulous costumes for us every year. It was so much fun to design our costumes.
Last year we had a float in the Rose Bowl and won an award for it. ‘Most Outstanding’
We held our first Children’s Hospital Christmas parade this year in New Orleans. The Children’s Hospital float was awesome. It was a cute parade.
I love a parade!
It’s fun to see the stars who were on that show when they were younger. Lots of people did guest appearances on Twilight Zone.
Love Rod Serling!
I was so addicted that I was doing a family tree for anyone who was interested. It was so exciting to find all kinds of interesting items. I even found outlaws; cattle rustlers; one family where the husband, wife, and their three children and grandchildren were all Attorneys.
Even found how women were placed on the back burner when it came to employment long time ago.... one had her Master's degree in Chemistry but the only job opened to her was that of a Home Economics teacher, a good job but it didn't use her background.... yet her brother who also had a Master's degree in Chemistry became VP of Research for a large company where he used his degree.
Also saw where women who were school teachers long time ago, if they got married, they had to leave their job. That happened to my Grandmother. Oh how she missed teaching. But heaven forbid if a married pregnant women was a [gasp] school teacher !!
Yes! Me too. My daughters cracked up at some of the things I uncovered in my tree! My oldest daughter said, “Mom, your mom’s side of the family really got around! LOL 😆 I have relatives in India!
Makes sense, I suppose though. We are predominantly British and India was a British colony.
I tracked my husband’s family back pretty far too. Those beautiful Italian and French names!
Didn’t you love reading the beautiful names of your ancestors? Oh my gosh, gorgeous European names. I loved selecting names for my daughters.
I don’t have any sons but I had a boy’s name picked out in case we would have had a son.
My husband was adamant about not naming a child after him. He doesn’t like ‘junior’ and prefers that a child has their own name. Other people love having a child named after them. To each his own, I suppose.
I made a Saints bandana that my granddog wore today! I love sewing for him. He has a Saints, LSU, Thanksgiving and Christmas bandana that I made for him.
He’s such a sweet dog! Siberian huskies are so beautiful. Those blue eyes of his melt my heart.
And for anyone wondering, I am still loving this heated mattress pad! Worth every dime!
I saw that! Absolutely fantastic news!
This pic is more than a decade old at this point. It just made me smile to remember.
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Barb, for yourself? I hope it's good news. How is DH?
I went to ENT yesterday. Audio test for tinnitus and a sleep study are ordered. I'm happy to be chasing down things related to sleep issues if only to rule them out. I still have more problems with sleep/panic than I'd like, even after my hospitalization and sodium correction.
FF, that's something I remember about you, how you love ancestry chasing, and I think it would be so much fun. And, as you alluded, how many women were lost to history because of their limited choices in society, and also because they took married names, I think.
It is what it is. It would be difficult for anyone, I imagine, to chase down maternal ancestors' families. They weren't documented the same way.