This week...

Holly took Wayne out for his birthday to Joy Luck.  She included me, Dale, and Wanee.  Holly loves ham fried rice and Orange Chicken, so she was in heaven.  Holly is fun to go out with because she is kind of silly and really positive about everything.  She enjoys the waiter, and the food, and ordering the food and getting a Sprite.  It's childlike joy and it's contagious.   

I had my Girlfriend bgroup Therapy for January.  We gathered at Kathleen's home for a pot luck Salad-- evryone brought the perfect ingredients-- it really was delicious-- and a book exchange.  The task was to bring one of the books you have read to tell about and give away.  We had many wonderful books shared and we all went away with a new book to read.  When I made this group I didn't want another book group-- but occasionally it would be about books.  

front row:  Diane Lake, Bonnie Benedict, Janet Webster, Lesley Leger.  back row: Jan Hedberg, Kathleen Blake, Erin Perkins, Jill Allsop, Myken Shingleton, Jana Uryan, and me.

We went with the Lakes to see Three Dog Night!  It was a riot!  The average age there was probably 65.  It started at 7 cuz we all want to be home in bed by 10.   We love their old tunes… so many familiar ones that have played in the soundtrack of our lives.  “One is the loneliest number, “  “Black and White,” “ Shambala”, “Just an Old fashioned Love song,” " Easy to be Hard, " and  “Jeremiah was a bullfrog.. Joy to the World.”    

I remember so clearly my family singing the “Jeremiah was a bullfrog” song at a Stake Talent show down at the Regional Center (the Valley Music Hall ) when I was about 10.  Mom got us girls all matching dresses and Dad and Adam had matching vests and we had tambourines.  Angela was 3, Liz 5, Adam 7 and Marcie 11…and we were AMAZING.   Mom changed some of the words to be more fitting..and I remember Dad and Adam singing the verse of “You know I love the Ladies…”  Good times.