We go together… Greece

Picture me as a fourth-grade choir student seeing along with my fellow classmates to this 70s classic. Our choir teacher (her name escapes me) made all of us kids get dressed up in sock hop gear. My grandma McKay made me a yellow poodle skirt with a black poodle on the side, complete with sequins. I think I still have the scanner in my closet. I had the privilege of wearing the poodle skirt one more time. It was in the 10th grade. I think I got extra credit for being the only one of my group members who was willing to dress up. After all that effort, I still got a C for the semester. I guess the presentation was a bigger deal than I thought.

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Celebrity Name Game

When mom met me up this morning, she was asking me which celebrity was my favorite, you know favorite female actress or male actor. It reminds me of a one, of one of those party games that are meant to catch you offguard guard. She asked me a bunch of other questions, I answered accordingly. At the end of the game and after I was done using the toilet and eating breakfast… I wished that I would have been able to come up with better responses. I think I said Jim Carrey and Julia Roberts. Looking back however, I would have changed my answers. Jim Carrey would have been a contender but Matthew McConaughey would have knocked him off of the top spot. As far as favorite actresses go, and still would have been Katherine Hagel, even though her career has been put on hold because of her desire to have a family. Mom then switched to questions that were of a more personal nature. That game reminding me of something I saw on one of my all-time favorite TV shows, Charmed. I think the s...

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