Bored? Yes quite often and believe it or not it was the best thing that could have happened to me. My 17 year son gets bored all the time. He has internet, cable tv with 300 channels to choose from (I had 3), Xbox and a driver’s license. As a small child in the late 1960’s when I was board my mom would tell me to go outside and play. We built forts, put playing cards in the spokes of our bicycles to make a cool sound like the motor of an engine and dressed up in costumes to put on shows for anyone that would pay a nickel to listen to us sing songs from the Carpenters first album. Don’t laugh. I made 25 cents that day and back then 25 cents meant I could ride my cool sounding bike to the corner store and buy 5 candy bars. I remember my grandmother’s cure for boredom was to pull out the Sears catalogue and we would cut out pictures of models in pretty dresses and glue them to popsicle sticks to make our own paper dolls. Boredom is what fed our imagination; we just need more mentors to show our children the way and less pedophiles so they can go outside and play.

Well said Edith Ann! Let’s hang on to what’s good and forget refills, super size it : P

The Sound of Music, still love it to this day. This world could use more musicals!

Yes, a chemical peal that burned like hell but sure did make my face look bright and shiny. Overcoming my fear of needles I then tried botox to remove the wrinkles that looked like the number 11 between my eyes. It worked quite well but for several weeks I could no longer feel nor could I move the muscles in my forehead. Last and worst was the laser hair removal. I will spare you the details as Miss Manners would not approve but all I can say is OUCH and it was only 50% effective. With the exception of continuing to color my gray hair I am happy with what God gave me and no longer choose pain to achieve what others consider beauty. As for Liz Smith the “drinking lots of Margaritas, using a bit of cocaine for fun and games, taking synthetic marijuana just as an experiment, eating lots of fried food, foregoing vegetables, not getting enough sleep, driving too fast and refusing to exercise” honey that worked for you, you look marvalous, seriously!

Yes I was fired once at age 19 by my FATHER!!! Oh, it was ok, I deserved it. I took complete advatage of being the bosses daughter. He taught me a very valuable lesson that has carried me through to age 47. On Novemebr 26, 2007 I was caught up in a major reorg of a global semiconductor company. I was given 7 weeks sevrance pay, my first granddaughter was born 2 days later and I was able to spend the holidays with her and with pay! I couldn’t have planned it better if I tried. God is good.