(By the way, my sister wanted to change her blog persona too. She's now Ogre. Don't ask if you don't already know. It's a terrible reflection on how you should never make fun of your younger, more beautiful sister just because she's taller than you. MUCH taller than you.)
(Too bad she doesn't have a blog. She should get one.)
Had a fun email conversation in which a friend signed off as "Unidentified Fruit." I advised her she could be a mango, and she automatically thought I was referring to a Saturday Night Live skit.
I was a little lost. I grew up in a home with no tv. We didn't even have a tv with no channels and a VCR.
No tv whatsoever.
Before you all go into mourning at the loss I suffered from not knowing anything about Saturday Night Live, be assured that my dad on the other hand watched way too much tv as a kid, and could quote every Monty Python skit verbatim.
What did you do all day with no tv, you ask.
Thanks for asking.
We read the gazillion Louis L'Amour books Mom and Dad collected, and all the other obscure books in the house. Ogre and I played Uno so much, we should have bought stock in the company.
'Kip you, back to me. OH! Reverse, back to me. DRAW FOUR!!! HAHAHAHAHA
That's how you play Uno with two people. Heartless, we were heartless.
We made cookies and brownies. We tried to make fudge once, but that didn't work out so good. We were ashamed to show Mom though, so we piled it into some tinfoil and buried it in the backyard.
Like the mound of dirt would raise any less questions than where all the sugar went.
We practiced the piano and all our various instruments, and sewed Barbie clothes, and went to the library. This week is Fair Week in the county I grew up in, and of course we were faithful 4-Hrs. So we lived at the fair during Fair Week.
What did you do all summer long as a kid? Before Al Gore invented the internet?
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Okay, I'm dying at the very last line. Hilarious.
Um...during the summer...I rode my bike all over and went to the candy store where you could get a bag full of candy for a buck.
The good ol' days.
I gorged myself on books. :D We had television (I even had one in my room!) but I was not interested in it until I was well into my teens. I remember going to the library, checking out a bunch of books, and then being disappointed when I finished them all in one night. :P
Ah yes. Two-person Uno. Classic.
I also hear you on the sewing Barbie clothes. Or any doll clothes for that matter. I had a July 4 wedding for one of my dolls one year complete with wedding cake and custom made wedding dress.
Also, lots of weeks of camp during the summer. Lots of toilet-scrubbing. Good times.
Obscure books like: All of Louisa May Alcott's writings; Pride and Prejudice; The Works of Shakespeare; Sense and Sensibility; Jane Eyre. Really obscure books!!!!
You forgot to mention the "lost" saucepan that was found hiding in your playclothes drawer with the remnants of the fudge still stuck to it.
We parents learned to ignore some things simply because they posed questions we did not want answers to! lol
THIS is a classic post. Love, love, love it. Almost every line made me giggle.
My grandma and her cousin once made a double batch of peanut butter fudge, used up all the sugar (this was during Great Depression ration times) and then decided that they needed to EAT it ALL before their parents came home so no one would know where the sugar had gone. Unfortunately, two barfing girls raised some questions. And then they had to uncover the second part of the fudge that they had hidden - in the rafters of the barn! (That's one of my favorite stories ever...)
The uno dialogue is hilarious.
When I was of the younger generation(before even video games), I would lead my multiple battalions of plastic army men & cowboys on exotic wars around the globe (and around the various piles of dirt that always seemed available.
I also read more comic books and watched more tv than is good for a young lad.I only began reading the afore mentioned L. L'amour at the urging of my wife. It was like she had introduced me to crack cocaine. I had to have more.
Bike riding did not come until my "tween" years, and only at the insistance of my older brother with whom several killer game of "Monopoly" & "Stratego" were played.
I read "We were faithful 4-Hrs" and thought to myself, "What are faithful 4 hours?" ROFL I should've been born a blonde!
Yeah, we grew up with no TV too, as you well know....I think we made out just fine...even if we don't get all the comments people make about certain TV shows!
~Debi
ironically, we didn't have a tv in the house until i was 16. until that time, i read everything i could get my hands on. i had a lot of barbie dolls and cabbage patches. i wrote a lot of stupid stories and drew fictional characters that i made up in my head. i was so nerdy!!!
A bookmobile rolled into my neighborhood once a week every summer in the 1960s. All the books we cared to read delived anew every seven days. Almost like a doctor making housecalls. Boy THOSE days are gone.
The neighborhood parks actually hired staff to entertain us kids with swimming, arts and crafts, sand sculpture contests in the sandbox, games...you name it. We took sack lunches and stayed all day. That, also, no longer happens for free or with such great activities!
Little league at night. Big treat was stopping at the 7-11 for Icees after the game.
Who needed TV? (And anyway, at that time we only had 3 channels in Austin!)
I'm so saving my comment for my own blog post, you'll have to read it... whenever I get around to posting it! :D
About teething... talk to the pharmicist about hurricaine gel, it's not prescription but they have to order it. IT ROCKS! The Girl would actually sigh w/ relief. It's the same as baby orajel just a million times stronger and not so bad tasting. ;)
Oh...catching up on your blogging at 7 am (the last hour of my 12 shift) is totally amusing! Laughing so hard I'm crying!! Those were the days...still play Uno like that...and new games like Blink. **K&C's mom...some towns still have Park Programs where they entertain and let kids swim, it only cost $25 for the WHOLE SUMMER for my little one**
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