Me-A Stylish Blogger? Seriously?!?

Thursday's Post..

A Day Early..

Just Because~

The dear Jane @

FloraDoora

passed this award on to me.

If you haven't visited her blog..
you need to do so.

She is just a lovely person..

and makes

FloraDooras

(is that the plural, Jane,

or does it become FloraDoori?)

and sells them.

Some are even in..

PARIS...
Yes.They.Are.

Anyway,

I am good at telling other's stories..

and not so good at my own.

You all know

what my

life is like NOW..

Right?

You know I work at a hospital..

at a job I love..

You know about my kids

and grandkids..

and MyHero.

One of the reasons I am doing this

is because my blog

is kind of a

"history"

for my grandkids

"someday"..

And, someday, they will

look at this and go

OMGoodness..

Look at NANA!

And they will laugh and

roll around on the ground..

and wonder

WHAT WAS NANA THINKING?

But, that's okay..

cuz I will be

SOMEWHERE

smiling-

(I hope)

Before I go any further..

I am apologizing in advance

for the quality of the pictures.

We lost a lot of pictures

when our basement flooded

in 1989..

so I only have a few

bits and pieces

of our early years...

including wedding photos..

Anyway..

Here goes...

You know that I am

basically a happy-go-lucky

kinda gal..

that I kind of roll with the punches.

So...

I thought I would take you back.

Like WAY back..

Like back to the beginning.

1~My father was 53 when I was born.

I was his FIRST child.

My Mother was quite a bit younger.

I was the

Apple of his Eye.

My brother was born 4 years later

when he was 57.

I lost my father to

Parkinson's Disease

when I was 21..

and still miss him today.

After going through a couple of bad

relationships,

2~I went to work for

WBBH TV NBC

in Fort Myers, FL.

From there I went to

TVB Advertising school

in NYCity.

I was the 2nd woman

in the Southern USA

to attend that school..

It was basically a

MAN'S WORLD

back then.After that I went back to

work at WBBH

and, besides selling for them,

I did commercials.

3~I was the Lee Carpet girl

for a while...

LOOK AT THAT CARPET!

That was the latest and

greatest in the mid 70's~

'Deed it was!

And ~

4~ I did some modeling

for Lee County College

programs..

This is one of their

shoots using a

candle to make

flames around my head.

That was before

there were any safety factors

built in..

I'm lucky my whole

head didn't go up in flames..

Try taking a lighter and candle

into a classroom today

to use in this manner....

Working in TV is a crazy world.

Too crazy for me..

5~I left there and went to work

for Georgia Pacific.

Another almost first.

I was the first woman

in the

SOUTHERN USA

(there was one in the North)

to be a saleswoman for

Georgia Pacific.

6~It was while working there

that I met

MyHero.

He had left his family business

in Wisconsin

and was working

for

a Fort Myers lumber company.

7~We only dated for

THIRTY days

before we got married

on the bank of the

Caloosahatchee River

in Alva, FL

and moved to Wisconsin.

(Look at that Gunnie Sacks wedding dress)

I bought it when I wasn't dating anyone

Long before I even met

MyHero..because I loved

the dress..

and knew I would

wanted to wear it

one day.

And, Lord love a duck..

he wore a blue leisure suit..

Yes.He.Did!

Thirty Days

does not make for

smooth passages.

It was a lonnng process of adapting..

but..

here we are 35 years later..

and still together...

Whodathunk?So..there you have me..

Young-in-years..

and old-in-soul.

I still feel

young-at-heart

and old-in-soul..

Now.. I need to pass this on..

and I am going to pass it

along to some newer bloggers.

Debbie-

over at

DebbieDoos Blabbing & Blogging..

or is it Blogging and Blabbing.

Whut-evah..

gave me these names.

I am going to go visit them myself too!

Please pop over and give them

a nice big shout~

Welcome to Blogworld

Thanks!

I just grabbed the first 7 people that

asked DebbieDoo to feature them..

so...here they are:

1. Terri @ Beaucoup Joie de Vivre

2. Molly @ Toile In The Family

3. Rondell @ Something Nice & Pretty

4. Ginger @ Savannah Granny

5. Danielle @ My Blessed Serendipity Life

6. Kathy @ Gone North

7. Vicky @ Granny's Attic