You know just for the heck of it.
Because eagle2 reminded me of something early this morning....
I want to blog about my growing up years!
Cereal for one thing.. Just one of the things from the past that I remember eating.
For instance.. Shredded Wheat.... Not the kind you get now-a-days with the 20 kinds of sugar coating on top. I am talkin' bout plain ole' shredded wheat! The kind that came in a HUGE box and looked like a hay stack in your bowl.. The kind when your mother poured milk on it , it expanded to the size of your bowl. And it took 2 days to eat that hay stack! And God forbid she warmed that milk up before pouring it ontop of the hay stack! INSTANT EXPANSION!
You know these things they came out with several years ago. Animals and Dino's and other creatures. You put them in a gallon or a bucket of water & watch them grow for a week or more.....
REDICULAS WASTE OF MONEY !!!!! ...
Just go out and get a box of plain ole' shredded wheat , hand it to your kids & let them add the water. WITHIN minutes they will be shocked to see how much faster shredded wheat grows than that of the store bought just add water animals. LOL....
SPAM.. My parents hated spam. eagle2 says he doesnt like it very much either , I presume.... I am not sure why I like spam. But I do remember thinking it was a genius idea. A meal complete in a can. no need to add anything. You ( back then ) could eat it right out of the can. I wouldnt try that now of course! I think my dad hated spam because of something to do with being in the Army. I'll have to ask him & get back to you!
My Family was fortunate enough to get our first electric coffee maker with a timer back in 1981 I think it was. We also recieved Cable Television , a microwave and a few years afterwards an ATARI Game system... hahahaha... We never had an answering machine. Maybe because we had a rotary phone up till 1982. And I think we had a black & white television up till 1978.
Thinking about all of this has made me realize how much my kids have recieved. Not to mention what they Grandkids lives will be like. The lil ingrates they are!
I remember watchignh the coffe drip drip drip. In amazement, it was way better than the ole' Perculator. I dont know why.. It just WAS!
Color TV.. WoooHooo At last I could see the Jackson5 , Sonny & Cher, Captian & Teniel , Tony Orlando & the Dawns and even Lawrence Welk & the Grand Ole' Opry in COLOR! I was sooooo and still am soooo thankful for Color TV.
CABLE!!!! Oh My GOSH... for the first time in my life I could watch CARTOONS anytime of the DAY! not just Saturdays and the Sunday evening Disney stuff.... EVERYDAY after School I could turn on the BoobTube And Watch CARTOONS! Even The Three Stooges which I had never seen before and was in total laughter at... Even in black & white , those guys were hillarious!!!! The Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funnicello ( Spell Check AGAIN ). I had never seen them before I often wonder why untill 1981 I had never seen them before. My Parents had seen them , why hadnt I ?????...... I ( when I was 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 you get the picture ) would only watch Saturday Morning Cartoons and Sunday Evening Disney movies ) Ohhhh.. Least I forget PBS... Always had Sesame Street to watch when it was on. I also remember Doctor Creep. We lived right around the corner from that guy and his family for years in Huber Heights. He really did drive around town in a painted up black hurst! * FREAKY *
The Microwave!!! Ok , here's the thing. My mother.. ( God Love Her Heart ).. She really tried to cook. She really did! But it's sort of BAD when a person can BURN WATER! Think about that for a minute!... I swear to you it is NOT impossible for my mother to BURN WATER! And my dad , OH GOSH.. let me tell ya this much " HOCKEY PUCK BISCUITS " With that being said, I was amazed at the microwave and would stand right in front of it to watch hotdogs EXPLODE everday for weeks on end. And they were the best dang hotdogs EVER.....
The Rotary Phone: My kids dont even know what a rotary phone is! I remember having one for so long that when touch dial came out we were scared to use it... EVIL TOUCH DIAL! LOL...... It took us awhile to get use to not hearing ziiip.. click click click click click click click. LOL.. We soon figured out how to make some pretty cool sounds with the new touch dial phone and BOYYYY did we get into trouble.. We had no idea that we were calling CHINA! hahahahaha..........
New Candy Bars!! I remember eating Nekko.. do you remember Nekko's? Chalk flavored with mint..LOL... Yeee Hawww... Sort of like candy cigg's.. Hey it looks like chalk and it tastes like mint! hahahahaaaa.... I was fortunate that I had a grandfather who owned a country grocery store in Somerset Kentucky. When we went to visit him or visa versa we got bag's of candy! I would be sick from candy! I am still a candy addict. And I have NO SHAME about that! LOL...
Atari.... OH MY GOSH! This was ( in my small world at 12 years old ) THE BEST THING EVER IN LIFE!!!!!!! EVER YA HEAR ME EVER!!!!!!!
I am SERIOUS.... I grew up pretty religious and if Angels would have come down and sat beside me while I was playing Atari... I would have never noticed them!!!!! I was totally amazed that I could sit for hours on end hitting a pixelated ball with two small pixelated paddles back and fourth .. back anf fourth.. back and fourth I TELL YA.... BACK & FOURTH!!! Hours on end!!! That was THE only thing in life. And then somehow after a year of back & fourth tennis.. We got ASTROIDS for Christmas! Ohhhh BoYYYY.... Now Astroids was something I totally had to beat! And I eventually did .. Just to start all over again and try to beat it again and again and again. Because those I think were the only two games I ever remember having as a child. * Besides Board Games *
Grandmaw & her Scrabble! Now if I went to Grandmaw's house we played scrabble.. We played Scrabble everday all day long and I would fall asleep with my head on the kitchen table from playing scrabble. Somehow I woke up the next morning in a lovely down filled homemade mattress that was like Heaven!
I will FOREVER miss grandmaw & her Scrabble Games!
Oh yeah when I was little I was pretty spoiled having a rich Grandpaw! ( My mom's dad ) Well at least I thought he was rich. Up untill I was like 20 something yrs old I thought my grandpaw was SANTA CLAUSE! He had the belly & the jolly laughter down pat! And he bought me & my brother & cousins the greatest toys EVER KNOWN TO MANKIND!
I had an Easy Bake Oven which took me a week to bake a cup cake in with a light bulb ! GREAT TOY THAT WAS! A dolly that ate real cereal that I had to make with water. She also Pee'd and Poo'd.. LOL... AMAZING DOLLY SHE WAS! * Think her name was baby alive * I had a whole play kitchen.... My Poor brother !!! If he ever reads this I am a DEAD WOMAN YA HEAR ME... DEAD!!.. I use to dress him up and force him to have tea parties with me & all my doll's. And HE NEVER FUSSED ABOUT IT EITHER! Neener Neener Neener.. LOL.....
My mother , when we bought our brand new house in Huber Heights asked me , MEEEE of all GOOFY people ! What Color carpet I wanted in MY ROOM.... I said RED.. OH MY GOSH.. I had to live with HORRIBLE RED CARPET in my room FOR YEARS! To this day I dont like the color RED.
I remember the ole' phonograph.. The kind ya had to turn the handle and make the records play. Those records if I remember correctly weighed like 10 pounds! It was my grandmothers. I hardly remember that phonograph.
I do however remember very vividly my Dad being a total Rock-n-Roll NUT.. and my Mother always liked Pop & new types of music. So my house was a mad house at times. Mother upstairs listening to her Pop music and Daddy downstairs listening to his Rolling Stones Cranked so high the people 3 miles away could hear it!
I had an 8 track cassette player. And one 8 track tape to go with it that I remember. Beach Boys. This was in 1981. Beach Boys.... BEACH BOYS!... I know that whole tape word for word. And to this day I LOVE THE BEACH BOYS! And they were my mom & dad's time .. not my time at all... But I Still love them!
I remember buying my first Album. I worked hard cutting grass and shoveling snow and babysitting for months on end to save enough money to buy this album. YES I spent some of that money in between because God forbid I run out of CANDY! My First album was Styx. * HUSH , DONT YOU DARE LAUGH AT ME *... LOL.... I think I listenend to " Babe " about a billion or more times!
After that it was all down hill... I started buying Teen magazine and TigerBeat magazine as well as MAD Magazine. And yes I had LEIF GARRET hanging all over my wall. Which included Cha-Chi from Happy Days and several other cutie pie boys that I one day hoped to grow up and marry. LOL...
I bought so many albums that I had quite the collection going on.. And then when my parents divorced I snagged a ton of my dad's stuff.. Not so much my mom's BECAUSE I LOVED ROCK-n-ROLL!
I have a rather huge collection combined with my hubby's collection I bet we'de make a fortune off these ole' Vynals <-- spell check I KNOW! Hubby even has a few signed by the singers and or guitarists or drummers from the band a couple of them are singed from all the band. I wasnt that fortunate. Of course Hubby is 10 yrs older than myself and he basically left Ohio at 15 and went to Florida and finished raising himself from that point. He met and partied with bands like Led Zepplin, Marshall Tucker Band , Allman Brothers and at the very end of his party-ing days, Tom Petty who is from Gainsville Florida.
* SIGH * I have only been to a few concerts myself. The first being Def Leppard in 1983 At Hara Arena. Then in 1989 I went to see Stevie Ray Vaugh at Hara Arena.
( the weird thing about my first two concerts and perhaps the reason I have concert fear is because right after the Def Leppard concert the drummer was in an accident & lost his arms and secondly right after the Stevie ray Vaugh concert Stevie Ray died. So I was scared to go to anymore concerts for along time... )
I seen the Pretenders at Riverbend ( Out doors ) in 1998. And thats about it for my concerts.
Hubby on the other hand.. well lets just say " he grew up in a whole nother generation ". (o_0).. I wont go into details about that..LOL... But I am sure SOME folks here ( GregMcC , McMillin, JohnRooks, TatersMamma etc etc,, just to name a few ...know exactly what I mean about pre- 80's concerts! hahahahaha... Ya'll are BAD.. BAD I tell ya! Hubby even tried to make it to Woodstock. He got 1/2 way there and had to turn around and come back to Ohio due to some car problems.
HELLO...... he told me there was like 10 teenagers in that car & they couldnt have pushed it the rest of the way to NY.. Gimmie a BREAK! I know WHY.. DUhHhhHhH.... hahaha...
Well folks, now you know a little bit more about me than you did before. I hope this was somewhat entertaining for you. Cause I sure loved the reminissing this morning. And it's taken me like 3 hours to write this. I had to copy it and re-log back into iW7 TWICE ...
I figured ya'll might have missed me so much that you might like a really good laugh today!
I hope it lasts awhile cause I have given you just about everything there is about me. * YEAH RIGHT * to be continued...........
Love ya'll !!!!!! ~Meshelle~

Sunday Evening Concert
Sensations Show Choir is a Greeneview High School elective class. The show choir is a small, selected chorus of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices. This group represents the school in many community concerts, learning choreography as well as the music. Selection is by audition and membership in another coir is required of all members. Exceptions are by director approval. Practices are held after school and before homeroom. Members of the choir selected the following officers for 09-10:
President Rachel Walters
Vice President Megan Carr
Secretary Jennifer Benson
Treasurer Rachel Rogers
The 3rd Annual Illumination Festival - A Light In The Darke was held Saturday with Sanctus Real, Phil Wickham, Jason Gray and the Adam Cappa Band.
X-fest 2K9 - Sept.13th 2009
Montgomery County Fairgrounds - Headlined by Alice In Chains & Mudvayne
X-fest 2K9 - Sept.13th 2009
Montgomery County Fairgrounds - Headlined by Alice In Chains & Mudvayne
X-fest 2K9 - Sept.13th 2009
Montgomery County Fairgrounds - Headlined by Alice In Chains & Mudvayne
X-fest 2K9 - Sept.13th 2009
Montgomery County Fairgrounds - Headlined by Alice In Chains & Mudvayne
X-fest 2K9 - Sept.13th 2009
Montgomery County Fairgrounds - Headlined by Alice In Chains & Mudvayne
on the way to xfest in dayton i was listening to the x they were saying there were 45,000 people coming to xfest
Riverbend
Riverbend