Lists

The majority of the blogs I read has everyone making lists.

I have failed terribly at this task when I tried.

First there was Tammie's, The 10 clothing items that make her cringe.
Her list was interesting and funny.
I made mine and I sounded like a judgemental nut job.
(okay but really Oregon & Washington State must stop wearing socks with sandals!)

Then there was Lindsay's bucket list.
I had done everything on her list except for a mere couple, which I wouldn't want to do.
Gee, I'm not ready to die.
So I made up my own bucket list.
Know what I learned?
I learned that I'm pretty friggin' happy with my life and I have done most everything I have ever wanted to except for 2 things. 
Two whole things really don't make a list now do they?
How lucky am I? Damn lucky and I know it.

Each list I tried made me laugh at myself.
So I scraped the whole list idea.
I guess lists are not my forte.

Last night I completed going through all the boxes of things that I brought home from my trip to my family's. I purged most of it. 
The old 1st marriage wedding dress, my first holy communion dress, my bronze baby shoes. 
I came across some things that made me angry. Really angry. Very angry.
I may write about that soon to purge it.  Gee aren't you glad you'll get to read that!

I came across my high school scrap book in one of these boxes.
This was a hoot. A time capsule for sure.
The things I kept and my notes about these items were a window to this teenager for sure.
A $5.00 ticket stub for a Foreigner concert.
I have stubs to Heart, Doobie Brothers, Seals and Croft, Rush and Jefferson Airplane.
The most expensive was $8.00. 
Can you imagine seeing the double bill of Heart and the Doobie Brothers for only $8.00?

I even had the receipt to my very first car.
My dad gave me $500 for the down payment for a graduation gift.
I know that sounds like a small amount today.
But when you consider the total cost of that car it really wasn't such a small amount.
It was $2,800 brand new.
It was a 1974 bright yellow VW beetle.
It had an add on listed on the bottom of the receipt for a FM radio with 8 track to be added so the grand total was $3,100.
A whole car!

Did you save your high school scrapbook?  Looked at it lately?