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What were your high school colors? Team names? Clubs you belong too? Did you graduate? What do you remember most about your graduation day?

We are the Bluejays, mighty, mighty Bluejays, every where we gooooooo, people want to know, who are we? We are the! Bluejays

Sorry, the prompt brought back an old cheer we use to do.

Our team colors are royal blue and white and our mascot is the Bluejay. I didn’t belong to any clubs because my band work kept me busy. I was in the musicals every year, sand in a sextet and madrigal group and was a member of the National Honor Society. I worked on the school year book and was in track my Senior year.

I graduated in 1975 with honors from my high school and I just remember thinking what am I going to do now?? I went on to college and graudated but never truely worked with my computer science degree.

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What typical evening meals did you eat as a teenager? Did your mother or father prepare them or did you? What was your favorite? Least favorite?

My mom is a great cook and loves to cook for her family still today. I learned a long time ago, to just let her do it and don’t fuss about her cooking at her age.

My mom always cooked the meals and I can’t recall if I ever cooked anything until I married. I’m sure I made something, but it must have not impressed me or I would’ve remembered.

My favorite thing when I was in High School was pizza and a certain BBQ sandwich (lean BBQ pork with cheese squished and served with french fries and a cherry soda) we could get at a drive in. I still crave that crave that sandwich today.

I wasn’t really big on veggies at that time and now I love them. Strange how our eating habits change.

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Did you listen to a lot of music as a teenager? Did you have a stereo, radio, cd player or reel to reel? Who was your favorite music artist? Favorite song? Which one still moves you today?

I have loved music, I guess, since day one. It all started with Dick Clark and I loved watching him for years until he went off the air. But, when The Monkee”s started their tv show, I fell in love!! To this day I can still tell you their names and all that personal stuff you would read about them in those teen magazines. I was in high school during the 70’s and disco was a big hit, along with what I called “drug music”. I really liked the disco music, but I wasn’t into the other stuff. I loved watching MTV during the 80’s, but when the music made a drastic change in the 90’s, I stopped watching it. Today I still listen to a lot of soft rock music virtually everyday, along with country music. I guess I basically love all music, except for rap.

Since I am a computer nerd, I love my mp3 player and cd’s. My husband though loves his records and will get them out every once in awhile and play them. I constantly have the soft rock channel playing on Direct TV while I am in the house. Great music and no commercials!!

I guess my love for music, I passed on to my son, because he is a music/band teacher and truly loves it as much as I do.

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Television…. Where would we be without television? Seriously though. Did you have a tv set while you were growing up? If not, did your neighbors or friends? If you did, what were some of the shows that were on and what were your favorites?

From the beginning, we always had a tv of some sorts and the 1st show that I adored was the Dick Clark show when I was big enough to dance. I remember that tv being in a metal case.

The next tv I remember was at my great grandmothers and the only thing that came on during the day was As the World Turns during lunch time and then the tv station would go off the air until much later in the day. My mother would come home from work for lunch and they would watch their soap. I still watch Y & R today, have been since the 70’s. Love that show

The shows I mostly watched was Star Trek, Ed Sullivan and I really don’t remember much tv until I got married and was at home more. Of course, after my son was born, it was cartoons and stuff like that.

Now it seems we watch way too much tv and I do have my fav’s that I watch faithfully. I am addicted to reality tv; American Idol, Survivor, Amazing Race and Big Brother. Can’t figure out why I watch Lost, because, well, I’m LOST WATCHING THAT SHOW!! A couple of my favs right now is Boston Legal and House.

I detest watching the news anymore. No one seems to want to report good news, only the bad.

OH, and I must not forget to say my husband and I are football-a-holics and we must watch the Georgia Bulldogs and he watches the Falcons and I watch the Dolphins. WOW, in just a few weeks pre season starts.

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Did you have an after school job as a teenager? What kind of job was it? What were you paid? What is your best and worst memory of the job?

I didn’t have an after school job because of all the activities I did with school and the small town I am from, didn’t have anything like McDonalds or places like that for young people to have jobs.

The summer before I was a Senior I did work in the corn fields detasseling corn. Good pay, hard work and I didn’t enjoy it. During college I was a waitress for awhile.

That was about it until I got out of college and got a “real” job.

I can’t believe that was over 30 years ago and now I am working from home.

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Did you have your own car as a teenager or did you have to use the family car? What kind was it? If a family car, were you responsible to pay for the gas when you used it? How often were you allowed to use it? What restrictions, if any, were on it? If your own, did you purchase it yourself or was it a gift? How much did it cost and who paid the insurance on it?

I drove the family car, the car in my last post, until it finally gave out on my way to take my last test on my last day of college before I graduated. At that time $5.00 of gas in that VW would last me for a very long time and insurance was extreemly cheap. I didn’t start taking care of my own bills on a car until after I married and bought a new car.

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Did you learn to drive when you were a teenager? Who taught you? If at school, what kind of driver’s ed was it? If a friend or parent, where did you go to learn? What was the worse part about learning to drive?

I learned a very valuable lesson when I was being taught by my dad to drive…….NEVER TEACH YOUR CHILD TO DRIVE OR SWIM!!

Where I grew up there were tons of country roads that my dad would take me to learn to drive. I learned to drive a stick shift and didn’t have that much trouble after I got going, it was starting off in 1st gear on a hill!!!!! Those of you who learned with a clutch and shift know what I mean. My dad not having much patience, remember he is a 20 year Navy veteran and wanted everything to run like a clock, and me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. It didn’t take long before I decided to take Driver’s Ed at school and my excuse was that it would make our car insurance cheaper. Thank goodness that worked. And, oh by the way, the Driver’s Ed teacher was a hunk!!! So, I was happy and my parents were happy, but for different reasons.

I do remember on one of my lessons with my dad that we had taken our little poodle with us. He loved to ride in the car. Anyway, we had to stop to let him do his business and when we got back in the car, for some reason we forgot about him. I started up the car and slowly started pulling away when my dad started yelling, “STOP, STOP, PEPE IS RUNNING TO CATCH US!!” To this day we get a big laugh at that poor little dog running his legs off to try and catch us.

And now, almost 36 years later, I HATE TO DRIVE AND WISH I HAD A CHAUFFEUR and at 16 I couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of a car.

This isn’t the actual car we had and that I learned to drive, but its the same kind and I wish I still had today. What a cool car it was!

The VW Karmann Ghia

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Did you have a lot of friends in high school or just one or two very close friends? What did you and your friends do for fun? Are you still in contact with any of them?

I guess I had a lot of friends in high school due to Girl Scouts. The same bunch always hung around. But, my closest friend was a twin and we did most stuff together. I guess you can say we had been friends since 3rd grade. We were in scouts together, band together, a lot of our classes were together, our moms were our leaders our Senior year and hung out together and my mom fixed my friends mom’s hair until the day she moved to Florida. If I wasn’t over at their house, they were over at mine. Many sleep overs, riding around the big block, many trips, doing things we weren’t suppose to and basically just having a good time as kids.

But, as time went by after graduation, we grew further and further apart. I have seen her and her twin sister a few times since then, but we are so far apart in distance now that things are not the same and I hate that.

Just a few months ago, her mother passed away and I wasn’t able to attend the funeral, but my heart ached so badly for the family. Another part of my life was gone.

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Moving on in life, as a teenager what do you feel were your greatest achievements and worse mistakes? Have these achievements and/or mistakes helped to make you a better person? Or did they hinder you as you proceeded into adulthood?

My teenage years were not the worse time of my life, but they weren’t the best either. But, I do remember having fun with my friends, making a terrible choice of boyfriend and going through puberty!!!! Now that I am going through menopause, I feel like I am going through puberty again.

There was a couple of things that happened to me that I feel changed my life a bit. My 8th grade, I tried out to be a majorette with the marching band, and not only did I get the position, I was named Captain and Drum Majorette. The day the posted the list of the ones that made it, I remember all the girls looking at me and wondering why I was chosen for those jobs. Believe me, it wasn’t accepted very well, but it didn’t matter. I learned a lot from that experience and I think I was a good leader. I later became the Drum Majorette for the Senior High School band and loved every minute of that!! Especially the uniform I got to wear.

The other thing in my teen life that I feel was a great accomplishment was making 1st Class in Girl Scouts. It takes many years to finally get to that stage and I am still very proud of that today. Girl Scouts taught me a lot and I still use some of the things I learned from those 12 years today. I wish all girls could experience all the fun I had being a Girl Scout and I am sure a lot of that is due to the fact that we had great leaders. All the trips, camp adventures and still my favorite today was 6 years at Girl Scout Camp in the summer. I loved it!!

Drum Majorette and 1st Class Girl Scout

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