Well friends, today is my 60th birthday - and yet another year older. No special plans, to me it is just another day much like any other. Yesterday morning, I had a dentist appointment for my six month teeth cleaning (or that is what's left of my teeth as I get older) and I need to go back next Thursday to get two of my teeth filled.
Open up and say, "AHHHHH!"
After I got home, I saw that the cat wreath I had ordered about two weeks ago from ETSY arrived ...
It is really cute and I immediately hung it on the front door ...
It came with a string of LED lights to place on the wreath as well ...
I also received a very thoughtful birthday card from a good friend -. many THANKS, JUDY! It was a very nice surprise! ...
My long-time friend, Kiki (my goddaughter's grandmother) called me up this morning to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me! I miss them both soo much ... THANK YOU, my Kiki-girl!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!
My beautiful goddaughter, Kylianna all grown up!!!
While on my way home from all of my necessary running around yesterday, I stopped off a our local Wine and Spirits Shoppe and saw this on sale (I assume it was a leftover from Valentine's Day?) ...
White Chocolate Strawberry Cream Moonshine.
As far as the weekend goes, I will be busy as always these days - very little time to myself anymore, but as my dad always used to say, "It is what it is." ...
If you have been following my blog for any length of time, you already know that I used to sing in a band. Ever since I was a very small child, I have always loved singing. In fact, I loved Tanya's Tucker's voice and songs so much that I used to practice singing her songs all the time. To this day, she remains my favorite country/western singer of all time! ...
American country and pop singer, Tanya Denise Tucker, was on born October 10, 1958. She had her very first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. During her career Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience; she had a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs including 1973's "What's Your Mama'sName?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down", "Texas (When I Die)", "I'm the Singer, You're the Sing," etc.
Tucker made her debut with Mel Tillis, who was so impressed by her talent that he invited her onstage to perform. In 1969, the family moved to Henderson, Nevada, where Tucker regularly performed. Eventually, she recorded a demonstration tape that gained the attention of songwriter Dolores Fuller, who sent it to producer BillySherrill, the head of artists and repertoire at CBS Records. Sherrill was impressed with the demo tape and signed the teenage vocalist to Columbia Records.
One thing worth mentioning is the fact that not only did Tanya have a "mature" voice which made her sound much older than she actually was at the time she established her first hit song, but rather the way she pulled off the amazingly mature themes to these wonderful songs so very well! Here are a few of my personal favorite Tanya Tucker tunes...
"Blood Red and Going Down" - 1974
That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down
Daddy said Now come, girl We headed down the road to Augusta And faintly through his clenched teeth He called Mama's name and Then he cussed her He said Girl, you're young But some dude has come along And stole your mother
But you can't steal no willing mind. 'Cause mama's always looking for a lover
That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down
With dusty teardrops on his face My daddy cried in big steps he was taking Halfway running to keep up My shorter legs were so tired and shaking Where did I go wrong, girl and why would she leave us both this way? At times like these A child of ten never knows exactly what to say
That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down That Georgia sun Was blood red and goin' down
We searched in every bar room And honky-tonk as well And finally, Daddy found them and Lord, you know the rest is hard to tell He sent me out to wait But scared I looked back through the door And Daddy left them both Soaking up the sawdust on the floor.
"What's Your Mama's Name?" - 1973
"Teddy Bear Song" - 1973
"I'm the Singer, You're the Song" - 1978
"Horseshoe Bend" - 1975
It's been a Saturday everyday and a whole month of Sundays And I get sadder every day he's gone.
Horseshoe Bend old friend it's been so long since we saw him When he laid me down upon your banks and made this girl a woman As your Virgin daughter sang us a song, Horseshoe Bend he's just like you old river he'll keep rolling And I'll keep praying someday he'll come home. It's been a Saturday everyday and a whole month of Sunday's and I get sadder every day he's gone.
Here comes spring again old friend and there ain't no sign of him, but just because I can't see him don't mean I forgot him. And I'll keep praying someday he'll come home.
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It's been a Saturday everyday and a whole month of Sunday's and I get sadder every day he's gone ...
Yesterday, after taking care of my usual running around and other responsibilities, I spent a couple of hours with my sister Aurora Skye who picked me up at my house and gave me a much needed little BREAK from my current life struggles ...
We did a bit of shopping at our local shops. One of the shops was "Celtic Myth & Moonlight" where I picked up this pretty little cat locket ...
And another rather cool place in West Reading called, "Muddy Creek Soap Company" where I found a Nag Champa scented body spray & room freshener ...
After that, we had a nice dinner at our local Applebees to round off the day ...
Boneless Buffalo Chicken nuggets with a side of sour cream.
Soft Pretzels with mustard and cheese sauce.
In other news, we had our second round of snow in ONE week on Friday night. As fate would have it, it started at 10:30pm Friday night on my way home from work and stopped sometime during the early morning hours on Saturday - but not before dropping about 2 1/2 inches of the white crap. Fortunately, by the time I got up on Saturday morning it began to melt some because the temperature went up to about 38 degrees.
Long story short, I spent this Valentine's Day taking one of my last few FMLA days (unpaid) in order to be available for numerous phone calls from Reading Hospital where my mom was admitted into last Friday (AND, twice two in weeks before this momentous emergency stay - don't ask it is far too stressful to deal with anymore). My husband is on call after hours all this week until Sunday and he stopped by the house in between assignments in order to gift me with these lovely roses ...
Also, while waiting around for calls, I decided to finally clean up the catio where "Messy Merlin" spends most of his time ...
