An End of an Era

The soap opera All My Children which started in 1970 is coming to an end. ABC seems to think people no longer want soaps and would prefer a cooking show. Maybe they never heard of food network. Anyway I loved this show so much that I used to skip my high school classes to come home and watch it with my mom if something big was happening. She understood and would write me an excuse. I will never forget some of these characters. Erica was my favorite. I also loved the story line of Jenny and Jesse. I had a crush on Thad. Opal was so much fun to watch. It's too bad that all these characters will be forgotten and that soap operas will soon be a thing of the past.

Older Than Dirt Quiz

It's official. I am older than dirt. I always suspected it.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines5. Newsreels before the movie6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning (There were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = you’re still young

If you remembered 3-6 = you are getting older

If you remembered 7-10 = don’t tell your age,

If you remembered 11-15 = you’re older than dirt!

Almost 50

I am fast approaching 50 and have been feeling so nostalgic for the "good old days". The seventies were such a simpler time. I remember playing outside most days and I lived in my roller skates. I see kids today worrying about social networking, cyber-bullying and how many minutes they have on their cell phone plan. Innocence is no more. I remember looking up the word sex in the school dictionary (and not being enlightened), but children today can see the nastiest pornography on the internet. My mom says the same thing about growing up in the fifties. Maybe the kids growing up today will remember these days as innocent and carefree. Just for fun, here is a blast from the past.