I'm a YEAR off.........?

I don't know what year it is, how sad is that. First I write about using subtitles on TV movies, and then, I forget the year.

Karen, thank you for pointing out 2011. I went into the edit file and changed yesterdays blog. Believe it or not, I have mistaken the decade a few times. Occasionally I think it's 1997.

The other day I was trying to remember the date of some event. I heard myself saying, well, Rebecca was born in 1979, so it must have been 1974. I remember listening to family doing that same thing. You know you are old when instead of birthdays you recall dates by deaths. Fortunately, I'm not there yet.

Some of the things I remember from my youth are very strange, indeed. I remember Bobby Levitz telling me wrestling was fake. Here I was, keeping to myself, reading a comic book and he denigrated the reputation of Gorgeous George. How could a wrestler with curly blond hair, who showered the audience with "Georgie" pins be a phony? I was devastated and about five years old at the time.

I learned to read at a very young age. Having two older brothers who needed a third to play Clue was a great learning tool. Although I got bad haircuts having a barber father meant, comic books. Irving would rotate new books in the shop every few weeks. I wish I had many of them now, but, who knew? Lots of free comics, another reason for reading early.

I remember scenes from movies the family would see on Sunday nights. I remember getting my hand scratched so deep I needed stitches. Nancy Torch, if you are around, that was a bad thing you did. All because I made a remark about the Torch Drive (a community chest like federation of social agencies....Google).

I remember my Aunt Lee telling my mother I was too old to be wearing diapers. I think this means I had a well developed mind for one so young, or I was pooping in my pants when I was five years old. Funny, the things I remember and the things I now forget.

I read in our Comcastian news, Hefner and Crystal called off their wedding. I was planning on tuning into the Lifetime Network to watch all the festivities. Sirius -XM radio's Playboy Channel scheduled a week long celebration as well. I can't imagine why these two had any problems or issues. He is eighty five and she is twenty five, a sixty year age difference. Maybe they couldn't agree on apples or applesauce, creamed corn or on the cob, bed times and her allowance.

I saw a small news story yesterday about Suri Cruise. You never really know what to believe when reading "news." It makes me sick to think a five year old kid has over one hundred thousand dollars worth of shoes in her closet. It makes me sick twice to think she was wearing a fifteen hundred dollar coat.

I hope the "stars" that spend obscene amounts of money donate just as much.

Equal time here, headline today, Michelle Obama wears thirty dollar dress.

The 2011 Nevada City "Boa Broads" plus one. Susan asked how the group came to be. In 2004 a few of us went on a cruise to Mexico. The first get together in Nevada City was in 2005, we had seven adults at that one. Over the years more people have cruised together and gone to the Nevada City gathering.

This group photo we took on Saturday. As you can imagine it's difficult getting everyone in the same place at the same time. Many of us post daily on a cruise web site message board. We had so many post reads, over a quarter million, we recently got a new thread. We are all, good friends. As close as we are, everyone is welcome and made to feel it, just as soon as they say, hello.