Turning 57 is not that special, unless you were born in 1957. On April 9, 2014 I celebrated my Birth-Year-Birthday by starting a NEW LIST! I'm not sure if anyone else in the world celebrates the year their age matches their birth year, but I decided it was a great excuse for fun.
I have always been intrigued with the fifties. I decided my new list should help me spotlight the decade that I only experienced as a baby and toddler. My goal was to have 57 mini celebrations, of the fifties! It gave me an excuse, to step back in time and enjoy a little of the music, foods, art and trends of that era! My special year came and went, but the blog remains to share those silly celebrations! |
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This list started on May 27, 2016. It was the gloomy news of being diagnosed with Breast Cancer that got the list started. But it has become the happiest of my lists. I spent 7 months posting daily photos that made me smile. I loved the distraction of focussing on wonderful places I've visited, or funny happenings in my past. In 2017, I decided to continue posting at the end of each month... sharing the moments that made me happiest, in month before.
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This list started in a notebook, before my cancer was positively diagnosed. It is a list of complaints.
I'm pretty good at keeping things positive, but I'm human. I can't always bottle up the things that make me fret or worry. Sometimes I need to vent about a few things that annoy me. So here it is. This is the not-so- positive list of all lists. After a couple years of cancer complaints, I gave the blog a rest. Then on March 13, 2020 I started up again. Pandemic complaints, this time! |
On April 9, 2017, I found a way to make my landmark 60th birthday, more tolerable. I gave myself permission to remove the zero from my age and embrace the girl I was when I was 6. I also gave myself the challenge of coming up with 60 mini celebrations over 12 months.
This year, I will let the memories of that special age inspire me. I had some fun brainstorming the things that delighted and entertained me back in 1963-64. Yay for a year of making snow angels and doing The Twist! Yay for being 6 again! |
I was kind of joking when I said my New Year's Resolution for 2018 was to "Do More Dancing!" But the more I thought about it, the more eager I became. I had just returned from a trip to Thailand where I'd had a couple of amusing, spontaneous dance moments. I began thinking back to other comical or fun dance memories, I've had over the years. So 2018 will be my Year of Dance! I will take on some new and challenging dance adventures and recall some of the craziest ones from the past! Oh boy for Y.O.D!
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I began the new decade with a new list! For the year of 2020, I am celebrating the state, where I live.
I have not always been a big fan of Texas. But after 20+ years as a Texas resident, I've grown to love and appreciate so many things. Each month I'll focus on one of those special things. Whatever it is... food, people, scenery... I'll create a list of 20 examples to back it up! Yeehaw for these new lists! |