May 19, 2007

  • Forever in Blue Jeans

    I worked the Knoxville store today so our guy over there could have a whole weekend off. We've been super short handed since we lost our 2nd gal in February, and no one left in the company has had a Saturday off since. The two employees I have left really do deserve a weekend off, so I'm working sales at one or the other store the next couple of weeks to let each of them have a full weekend off.

    Saturday sales in Knoxville are usually pretty slow, so I had the local radio station on. They play what they call "Yesterday's Hits and Today's Favorites" but it's mostly songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s. I was looking over job applications, having a lunch of leftover fajitas, when Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans" came on the radio. I immediately had to call my sister. She and I are the only two girls out of 6 kids, so even though there is nearly 11 years difference between us, we had to share a bedroom for a few years. I had an LP (that's an old-fashioned record for those of you who have know nothing other than the CD) of Neil Diamond, and that was one of the songs on it. Every night, before we'd go to bed, Ann would ask me to play that song for her. I often just played the entire side of the CD and we both went to sleep to it, but "Forever in Blue Jeans" was Ann's song. I'm so glad she was near her phone and answered, because we laughed over that memory. That bedtime song, AND, the 45 of Foreigner's "Urgent" that I would play loudly every morning to get going. At the age of 5, she would groan over that song, but I always made it up for her in the evening with "Forever in Blue Jeans." We both still love Neil Diamond.

    John and I rented a Rototiller this afternoon and got our garden plot dug up. I need to get my veggies out before the end of the month or we aren't going to have any. Gonna plant tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, green onions and radishes.

    Tomorrow after church we'll be cleaning the gutters before it rains again and that rain makes its way down into my basement again.

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