24 hour blog - hour 6 7 8 9 10

#6: Friends (4-5)
#7: Write a review of your favorite movie/book/TV Show/Music (5-6)
#8: Theme Songs for Different Moods/Moments (6-7)
#9: Utopias (7-8)
#10: Where is one place you've always wanted to go, discuss the benefits of this place,

Favorite 3rd son Sam and Jenna are visiting .. so Ive been away from the computer. we went to Iaria's Italian restaurant for pizza and then to the greenwood mall for walkabout.  i bought a great pair of new walking shoes while sam got his boots resoled.  There's a cobbler type store - the guy who did the work grew up working for his dad there...he knows shoes!

anywhoo im back and to catch up im gonna combine 5 topics into one...gonna try anyway...lets see.

friends - my oldest best friend is one i rarely talk to and see even less...Laura Michalik moved into the house behind mine in Mokena when we both were 5.  instant buddies, we had sleep overs, and sat with each other on the bus, and were each others maid of honor.  she's the friend in my life where a year can go by without talking,yet when we do talk, its like we'd just talked yesterday.

music - certain songs mean different times in my life...i grew up listening to show tunes...the king and i, south pacific, mary poppins..and Frank Sinatra, Henson Cargill, and Hern Albert and the Tiajuana Brass...the stuff my parents listened to by playing thick records on this old white and tan record player. 

the first two records of my very own were carole king's Tapestry and Elton John's Caribou.  i still know all the words to all those songs...and when i hear one on the radio, i can smell the warm weird odor of my first record player. 

Songs bring to mind events, people, places...Bruce Springsteen's Born to run will forever mean the first year of my marriage and driving in Dan's VW...Twist and Shout will always mean laughing at the boys as they watched ferris bueller sing "shakin' the baby now", all 3 butts twisting and hands waving.  any elton john song means college and walking down to the record store to hand over my 4 bucks for the latest record.  Harry Chapin means my time in Sacramento...Johnny Cash means my Dad singing along in his low voice and the Beatles?  watching them perform on the Ed Sullivan show at my Grannie's.

Maybe my utopia would be a place where I could visit now and again with all the people of my life who are gone, where i could now and again have dinner with my Grannie or put together a jigsaw with my Dad  or be 14 again, playing cards with my little brother.    Utopia means an ideally perfect place and usually people are living in that type of place, but don't realize it until things change and you think...huh...how wonderful that was.

we've got Some Like it Hot on the tv... a wonderful movie with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, one of my favorites of all time.  Tony and Jack are wanted by the mob..so they go undercover as members of an all girl's band...Tony does a great impression of Cary Grant when he's trying to impress Marilyn by masquerading as a rich yacht owner...and Jack is pursued by a rich playboy who wants to bring him home to meet his mother.  Rent it soon if you've never seen it before!