Scaring Cheerleaders and Smokers

Every 16 year old wants to be cool.

Everything is impressionable at that age, negative  or positive. I was no different. I was a watcher, curious of how other teenagers reacted to things. I didn't exactly envy them, just curious. I watched the kids go sneak off and smoke cigarettes, I remember wondering how they got by with it. I would go to the gym's rest room, and they would be in there, looking all cool, I know, cause as I washed my hands (slowly), I watched them. On how, they held their cigarettes, and sometimes if I was

lucky, a girl smoker would do a smoke ring in the air,as the other would (French inhale) Because I was invisible to them, a Nobody, a girl was not cool, I wasn't mad, I excepted it as a non- groovy life.

But the other kind of girls I really watched, it was the CHEERLEADERS. They were the upper crust, lionesses, princess-celebrity-chicks,beautiful Barbi doll gals,





The top cats on the food chain.

Me in the Pep Squad,1975                    

They were always in a Horde, not herd, that would be heifers.They were always graceful, dainty but strong, with all the popular and unpopular football players well, lets face it, it was ALL the boys around them. I didn't envy them either .               I  admired  them, and I  would revere  from afar.         One day my world changed.   The whole class had to write a Scary story. Any kind, no holds bar. So I wrote a story on a crazy Frankenstein cat that killed, can't remember, been a few years.   There were stories that were funny Some threw paper airplanes and gum wrappers, and booed,but some expected it. But when I stood up and read mine, it took awhile but it dawned on me, there was no paper or gum wrappers, I looked up and the tough smoker girls AND the cheerleaders were listening. I read my story, and as the Frankenstein cat round up killing his master.  I took my seat, and a very blond cheerleader turned around and said "that was really good" then some other cheerleaders chimed in as well, (maybe she was the leader, don't know), I remember my heart beating very fast.Then after the class, I was by my locker, and one of the smokers (wearing a cool Bret) and said" that cat story was cool" My whole world and universe tipped on its axis.  I hope that my writing will make a difference in a persons life,  sad or happy(depending on the story).  Hoping someone that reads any of my writing will believe and respond to their own sensibility. Touch some one's heart and soul. If it wasn't for the smokers and cheerleaders, I don't think I'd be writing,thanks girls.                            

Being Different

I wish I could write about one of my loves, my job, but I can't because of privacy issues,since I am a nurse assistant. Seems like a lot of fellow bloggers write on hobbies like photography or sewing,and grandchildren, so they have plenty to blog about. Here I am with my imagination and
some-what coherent ramblings.



All alone, but that's OK. On my island,free-standing,and unaffiliated.And I'm  not apologizing for my writing(never)but kinda giving you, my readers 'heads-up', here
we go on  one of my crazy but happy 'reverie', my

roller coaster

blogging, just saying. I guess i need some cheese with my wine. That's a joke y'all.

 

WARNING WILL ROGERS!!! Writer's Block!!

    Lost In Space isnt the word for it, actually, there were no words at all. Blank, writer's block.






I believe someone when they said 'If you're a writer, write something every day', in my case, I put any writing on hold, cause of a special banquet I had to go to. Yep, writer's block. That may sound crazy, but it was such a big deal to me, that I took three months off of any kind of writing.


And since I'm writing this, I don't have writers block, 'oh, contrare', still feel like I'm stuck, not sure of myself. Just writing this, is therapy,ha.
If writing means as much to you as it does me, it's almost painful to write, to be that passionate about something, at the moment I will call it 'Bleeding out'. And when you sit at a computer, ready to write, to create, to put your dreams and visions on paper (or pc)so that blinking line is a powerful thing, a blank page can intimidate you, it's waiting on You! Pulsing with a life of it's own. (too dramatic, yep)
I've always written, don't know if was any good to anyone besides me oh, I've written plays when I was 10 years old.





                  Oh, they were childish, because I was a child.  So dont do what I did, and take three months off of something that I always thought about, always loved, something that I HAD to do like breathing. Inhale....exhale.... I'm writing again.          

Breakfast!!!

My husband surprised me this morning, he works a 12 hr shift,it was 5:30, and I had the day off. He hollered cheerfully ( that part is foggy, sleepy) "I'm gonna take you to eat breakfast." I was out of bed like lightning! I love eating breakfast, especially if its loud of elderly men talking and laughing at each other jokes, fresh newspapers rattling, silverware and plates pinging, and lets not forget the great smell of old-fashioned food. I think it all goes back to when I was young, my Mom would take my brother and I to old fashioned cafes, but my favorite was the one place all the people would gather and 'catch-up' it was the Clement's Donut Shop in Conway Arkansas.     So the sunrise, fresh coffee, good food, and a great husband, It doesnt get any better than that.  (kudos to I-40 family resturant in Morgan,Arkansas and Tony Wayne Guthrey)

Quotes I love

"Even if you are on the right track,you'll get run over if you just sit there"- Will Rogers "I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill. -Erma Bombeck" "I've
learned that people will forget what you said,people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."- Maya Angelou
"A dream fuelled by purpose, fired by passion and followed with persistence will definitely change the world" -Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian







"“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”-Maya Angelou

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.- Mother Teresa

Pre-Gala

Dress (that's not lint, it's glitter) :)

Jewelry


Hair ( maybe)


Uh! I feel like a fish out of water! I am excited and grateful that I was picked but golly. Need to go to walmart. The funny part( to me) when I tried the dress on I looked like an Opera singer, all I need is that crazy head dress. You know that old saying 'Not till the fat lady sings?'. Well she's a singin'. ( wish me luck, it's next week.)