My Dear LindaGlad you sent mail was writing earlier must be mood was in went back to sleep so manyplans to do today still in my night clothes have had breakfast sun is streaming in the windows all the windows open am coughing again will be seeing doctor soonAloma called she will make some soup has a long day see her tomorrow after churchYour hair does look nice Amanda does a good cut called Cheryl do not understand thought she had a share in house was told has nothing does have a job in her nursing in nursing homein your old schools in the barracks cheryl has been with dr andagoda for four weeks not to worry she is getting care thanks for letting me know about max just tell me what should do to get along with him i will remember trucks and fire engines bruce and chris was very active kepty forty year old legs moving have just spoken to darlenelots to due try and take it slowly Catch up with you later love to all bye >From: Linda Waldroup >To: "bdaonion1923@hotmail.com" >Subject: my hair>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:42:01 -0500>> Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it>Thursday, November 08, 2007>>>> Good Morning Momma>Just thought I'd show you a picture of my hair. Look how rusty it was in >the summer. I coloured it a couple of weeks ago and it is dried in a pony >tail, no hot dryer, and there is some hair creme on it to give it a shine. >I will have a chance to do your hair and maybe this creme will put shine in >yours too. Plus the dry cold air also helps! They have a lot more to work >with now than they did years back.>>Gene has Max now, I have to be to work for 9 and Amanda and Mike are >working. I don't know how Gene copes. He won't bother me if Gene is around, >but that also means Gene doesn't get a break unless he is able to go and >drive around by himself and leave him with me. I don't think you could >handle him alone. He is all over the place and might sit still to watch a >cartoon if it is one he likes but otherwise he moves all the time. He is >very bright and remembers everything, knows his letters, colours and >numbers but he loses patience quick and his concentration isn't good. I >bought a package of big dominoes with coloured spots, hoping to learn him >how to play, but the concentration isn't there. You won't be able to play >any little games with him that would occupy him. I am just telling you this >because I don't want you to think he doesn't love you if he acts unlovable. >We are used to it but it may upset you so don't worry it's just the way he >is.>>When he is lovable he is very lovable and you can hug him and hold him up. >When he wears himself out he drops off to sleep, no problem. I know he >upset you when you were up here last, I don't want him to upset you this >time. I just take him as he comes. He loves busses and trucks and fire >engines like all boys. Well I won't stop, I need to get ready for >work..........love Linda>

The Songs Of my Life......1969

This was my second year in high school, and I was 14. I wasn't a very outgoing person. I did a lot of reading, studied and did my homework, and listened to the radio. I am not sure, but I think it was this year that they added FM to the radio stations. All music and no announcer and other stupid shit. I had a diary like most other girls my age.And I was still a very dreamy, far away person especially when I thought about "my crush." Anyway, the songs. While I liked almost everything they had on the charts, these are the songs that I considered "my songs of 1969"

AQUARIUS.....5th Dimension
This was a popular song in school that we all knew. When I have nothing else to do, I "play" music in my mind. I did a lot of this in the school bus because my ride was almost an hour long. Needless to say, I day-dreamed a lot as well. This is one of my "in my head" songs

SUGAR SUGAR.........The Archies
This is a fun, fun song. I had a ton of comic books and one of my favourites was "Archie" so it was cute to hear them on Saturday cartoons playing this song.

LOVE THEME FROM ROMEO AND JULIET.........Harry Mancini and his orchestra
This is the one made in 1968 with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. We had to go and see this as a field trip because we were doing "Romeo and Juliet" in English Lit.
I visualized myself as Juliet for a long time. It was nice to be beautiful, even if it was in my imagination.

SWEET CAROLINE.......Neil Diamond
Another catchy song "in my head" for my long bus ride.

GOOD MORNING STARSHINE.....Oliver
I just LOVED this song. The name itself was sparkly and magical and it was another song to add to my "day-dreamy" list.

GALVESTON....... Glen Campbell
I loved Glen Campbell (he was so good-looking!) and all his songs. This was "unrequited love" something I was very used to. This song still touches me today and I like to sing to it if I hear it on the radio.

THIS GIRL'S IN LOVE WITH YOU......Dionne Warwick
Are you seeing a common thread here. I was down with all the drippy love songs and I had plenty of school girl imagining with them. I was very sheltered and had never been out with any boys. Not like the girls today who know more than I ever know by the time they are 12 or 13.....

THIS GIRL IS A WOMAN NOW.........Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
Remember this group from 1968. If only "my crush" would notice me, I could sing this with some conviction *at least that's the way I thought then as I gazed out my window at the full moon*

HOOKED ON A FEELING.........BJ Thomas
Another schoolgirl song that played in my head as I rode the school bus

WEDDING BELL BLUES......5th Dimension
All the girls in my group sang this with some longing because all of us wanted to get the big engagement diamond and have a great big wedding with tons of attendants and take vows with our crush-of-the-moment. Funny how I can still put myself in the moment of those days when I remember these songs.

PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART......Jackie DeShannon
This is a 60's "love can conquer the planet" songs. Also, the one time I was actually in W's (as I will call my 4 year crush now) house this song was playing. It was the Youth Group again, and we were invited there by his mother for supper. Now you have yo understand. I passed this house every day in my bus. It was perched high on a hill and I always looked, just to see if I could see W outside, or even any one of his family. I can't remember much about that afternoon except that I was thrilled to see what W saw everyday in his house, and touch things that he had touched. I had it REALLY BAD I can tell you! I remember peeling the skins off boiled potatoes with everybody else, to be made into potato salad. Somebody should have given me a good shaking in those days. I must have made a real pest of myself.

Well this is enough for now. As I said, there were many good songs that year, but these are the ones that really stuck with me.

The Songs of my life

I have always wanted to make a list of the songs that have made a difference in my life, one way or the other, and things that happened that I associate with these songs. I will start with high school, when I was 13, 1968.
Looking back on the pop charts, I knew, sang or heard of all the songs at one time or the other. The songs that stayed with me the most were the love-type, kind of innocent songs, or the songs we sang in school, among the girls, that kind of thing. I was a very shy person with little esteem, made worse by a very bad case of chicken pox that left marks all over my face. To make it worse, acne also set in and I was plagued with this all thru high school. There was a boy I had the greatest crush on for four years but he hardly paid any attention to me at all. I kinda stalked the poor thing. I watched him where ever he went and wanted to be wherever he was. To show you how bad I had it, I got hold of one of his note-books and a comb of his in my second year. I am embarrassed to say, I slept with this comb and sniffed it, just to smell the stuff he used on his hair. Maybe if he had ever paid attention to me, I might have gone away, who knows. So I stayed in a rosy cloud of "never-never land" and the songs I loved suited how I felt.

Songs I had to know that were popular in school at this time:

SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY.......Otis Redding
HARPER VALLEY PTA.........Jeannie C. Riley
PIECE OF MY HEART.......Big Brother and the Holding Company
I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER.......Aretha Franklin
I WISH IT WOULD RAIN.......Temptations
HEY JUDE......Beatles
DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE........Dionne Warwick
LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU.......Delfonics

Songs I loved for myself:

LITTLE GREEN APPLES.......O.C. Smith ( I used to sing this with my cousins)
YOUNG GIRL........Gary Pucket and the Union Gap (Anything by this group made me
realise just how young I was in the
Great Scheme Of Things)

SPOOKY........Classics 4 (I didn't have much in the way of 45's, this was my very
first one. The "a" side was what I bought it for. Spooky
was the B side. I grew to like this song anyway)

DELIAH.......Tom Jones (This is kinda personal. The kid I had a crush on belonged
to a church where I had gone to Sunday School for a long
time. He and his family moved to this church from one
further away. So I joined Youth Group just to be near him.
One night, his father was driving us home from a church
meeting some way away. Many of us were crushed in the back
seat of the car, sitting in each others laps. Someone
grabbed my left boob and I didn't know who it was but I
was convinced it was this kid. Guess what was playing on
the car radio. DELIAH.

ANGEL OF THE MORNING.........Merrilee Rush (just another crush song)

GOIN' OUT OF MY HEAD/ CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OFF OF YOU........The Lettermen
(self-explanatory!!!!!)