Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Dancing with Myself (1980)

1) This song is one of Billy Idol's biggest hits. Can you name another? "White Wedding"

2) When is the last time you danced around your home? I don't even recall

3) In this song, Billy says he dances with his own reflection. Is there a mirror in the room you're in right now? Nope

4) Dancing with Myself is also the name of Billy Idol's 2014 autobiography. Let's say you're going to write your life story. What do you title it?  Just Over There. Taken from a funny, savvy Carrie Fisher quote -- "Nothing is ever really over. Just over there."

5) This month, Billy resumes his 2014-15 concert tour in New Orleans. Have you ever been to Louisiana? Nope

6) In 1980, when "Dancing with Myself" was first popular, VHS players were all the rage. Do you still have yours? Yes. It's not connected, but it's right in front of me, beside the TV.

7) In 1980, The Love Boat was getting good ratings. Have you ever taken a cruise? Do daytime booze cruises count?

8) Sally Field won her first Oscar in 1980 for the movie Norma Rae. Five years later she won a second Oscar for Places in the Heart and delivered one of the most quoted acceptance speeches in Academy history. Do you remember what she said?




9) In 1980, People magazine named Stephen King one of the most intriguing people of the year because he had two big paperback bestsellers -- The Dead Zone and The Shining. Do you have a favorite Stephen King book? I've only read two -- Carrie and It. I liked them both.

Trifecta!

Thursday was not a good day for this gal and her resolutions. I didn't work out, I didn't brown bag my lunch and I didn't do anything to improve my home environment.

But today was a new day. I worked out, ate a lunch I'd brought from home, and when I'm done blogging I'm going to pack up this year's Christmas cards and get them out of here and help a good cause.

St. Jude's Ranch for Children* "transforms the lives of at-risk children, young adults and families by empowering them to create new chances, new choices and new hope in a caring community." They support their good work by selling recycled greeting cards. Kids take the fronts of used cards, attach new backs, and sell them at 10/$17.

In addition to the cards people were nice enough to send me in 2014, I'm sending them the fronts from the boxes of unused Christmas cards I received from charities in years gone by. I had collected way, way more than I could use, but it seemed so wrong to just dispose of perfectly good cards. I'm glad that finally they will be put to good use … and finally out of here!

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*Not to be confused with St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, which also does wonderful but very different work.

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the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by empowering them to create  new chances, new choices and new hope in a caring community.  - See more at: https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf

transforming the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by empowering them to create  new chances, new choices and new hope in a caring community.  - See more at: https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf

transforming the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by empowering them to create  new chances, new choices and new hope in a caring community.  - See more at: https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf