1. I’m happy to report I survived my birthday again this year. From swimming in the ocean and hanging at the beach with some fabulous women, lunch and dinner with friends and family, music and the band (Crooked Eye Tommy) singing to me, I’m feeling blessed. I’m overwhelmed by all the Facebook posts, cards, emails, phone calls, and texts, including one husband/wife team sending me a recording of them singing Happy Birthday just before midnight (they wanted to be the last people to wish me a Happy Birthday). I truly felt the love. Thank you!!
Thanks for the photo Maggie! I’m going to work on overcoming my shyness 😉
2. Meanwhile in Portland…
My daughter hosted a High Tea with her roommates on the rooftop of their building. How freakin’ cute is that?
BTW, look closely at the writing on one of those tea pots (hehehe).
3. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the balance of friendships. There are all types of personalities, some you gravitate towards and others that repel you; then, there are those that confuse you, and I find that it’s those that confuse you, are the ones that mess you up the most. Trust your instincts. After talking with someone you should feel better, maybe even stronger, but definitely not weaker.
Surround yourself with people who share your ideals, and don’t suck the energy out of you. If I do this to you, then you should RUN!!!
4. I worked at Claude Hall’s International Radio Report Magazine in the late 70’s as Circulation Ma
nager. This is where I had the epiphany that my radio heroes (from KMET) were just regular folks and as a result I decided to chase my childhood dream of being on the radio playing great music. I returned to college, got a degree and worked fifteen years on air, and just recently returned to producing a weekly show here in Ventura on KPPQ-LP.
Claude Hall passed away this past month. He had fallen down an escalator and never fully recovered. I will always have fond memories of working in the offices on Sunset Blvd with Linda Stein, Victor Bornia, Jeff Salgo and the crew, and especially working with Claude and his wife Barbara and their kids. He never ever lost his love for radio and continued to write a blog: http://www.voxjox.org/
5. Growing up, Saturday mornings were the best. My parents slept in while I had several bowls of cereal (Cocoa Krispies, Froot Loops, Cap’n Crunch) then watching at least 2-3 hours of cartoons. Among my favorites: Bugs Bunny (#1), Pink Panther, The Flintstones, Popeye, Gumby & Pokey, Casper, well, actually all Looney Tune cartoons.
6. Up until about seven years, I never ever took physical fitness seriously. In fact, I use to “pretend” to exercise during gym class in high school. I don’t think I ever broke a sweat until I started jogging around 2015. So when it came to taking a P.E. class in college in the 80s, my choices were limited. I had to take one to get a degree, but of course I knew I couldn’t fake it in college, so I decided to take archery. I actually enjoyed it and became sort of skilled at it, but I’m pretty sure my heart rate never got over 100. This was basically me being “lazy” and of a sloth-like demeanor…that is until Hunger Games came out and then Wonder Woman. Now I say, “Yeah, I’m badass; I can shoot a bow and arrow, I took archery in college!”
7. Last year during the drought when conditions were extremely dire, I was in Lowe’s checking out bathtubs when a salesman encouraged me to look at getting a jacuzzi tub. The water capacity was much higher than a normal tub and I told him water rates would make it too expensive to which he replied, “Boil water and dump it in.”
I just cocked my head to the side and looked at him waiting for him to figure out what was wrong in his strategy, but he never figured it out.
8. I read a story online about body language tricks and one of them was “Mirror the person you’re speaking to. It shows admiration and agreement.”
Of course, only people over 50 ever say that 😉
Thanks for listening!
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