Hello, hello. Happy Thursday! Once again I am posting my Thursday 13. Just a list of 13 things. It’s my new go-to post for all Thursdays and again, a big thank you to Liz over at Laws of Gravity.
My Thursday 13 today are from the year I turned 13.
It was 1976 and the U.S.A. was poppin’!
1 – It was America’s Bicentennial! The 200th anniversary of the adoption and signing of our Declaration of Independence.
2 – I remember all of the fire hydrants in our town being painted red, white, and blue. (Like this but not my pic.)
All of the rest of these 13 things also happened in 1976.
3 – The #1 pop song –
Loved it.
4 – The #1 country song –
Never heard of it.
5 – The #1 t.v. show –
Whatever happened to the oldest brother?
6 – And the Oscar goes to…
Such a good movie, even today. I watch it every time it comes on. Nurse Ratched was such a bitch.
7 – The #1 fast food restaurant –
I don’t remember it being that popular but we were kids. McDonalds was our #1.
8 – The #1 pop – Bicentennial Pepsi! What else?
I miss pop in glass bottles. It just tasted so much better and I feel like it stayed cold longer.
9 – 1976 Superbowl –
Pittsburgh Steelers 21/Dallas Plowboys 17
10 – The 1976 Kentucky Derby winner.
11 – 1976 baseball World Series – Cincinnati Reds 7/New York Yankees 2
I remember this whole play-off and the World Series. I had such a crush on Johnny Bench and he won the MVP that year.
12 – Annnnnd, even tho I was crushing on Johnny Bench, I was absolutely certain that I was going to marry Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser, the dark-haired one) from Starsky and Hutch.
I remember – because it’s written in my journal – that I had 2,916 pictures of Starsky and 1,671 and a half pictures of Hutch. (My brother ripped it.)
13 – When I was 13 I told my dad that I wanted to be a social worker. My dad who grew up on the streets of Chicago said, that’s a good way to get your throat slit when you go messing around with people’s families. Not sure what experience taught him that but it pretty much put the kibosh on that career choice for me.
My little sister, however, did go on to be a social worker. She didn’t get the same warning that I got. I just tell her, I guess daddy loved me more than you.
So, another Thursday 13 in the books. It’s a little bit challenging. You think you can just rattle off 13 things but it’s not that easy!
I hope you’ve all had a great Thursday. My computer has been lagging today and I have no idea why but it has been frustrating. It’s 8pm and 102 degrees. I seriously thank God every day for blessing us with air conditioning. A lot of people don’t have it and I have no idea how they’re getting thru this heat. There are cooling stations but they close early.
Anyway, so the weekend is coming up, do any of you have plans? My plans until the temps drop back into the low 80s is to stay inside with the AC, my books, and my crafts. It’s okay. I’m not isolated. I have my people. Lol.
MIMI’S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY –
xo mimi xo
Magical Mystical Mimi 