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Comments (25)I will join in and agree with what everyone else is saying. You look great!! Funny about your grandmother and the alcohol. My best friend -- who is 48 and has perfect skin -- just told me that she never washes her face at night. I was stunned. Yes, she wears makeup, so she goes to bed with her makeup on, which I've always heard is a no-no. When she gets up in the morning, she washes her face in the shower with SOAP and then uses CLEARASIL on her face!! Now, she has never had one zit in the 10+ years I've known her, but she says it is a habit from high school that she's never dropped. If her skin feels dry, she'll use a moisturizer but otherwise, that is the extent of her skin care regime, and people always compliment her on her perfect skin! I might try the clearasil AND the alcohol... I need all the help I can get!...See MoreFirst Love Reunion
Comments (16)I don't think you should stay in bad marriage. Life is too short. But your hopes of living happily ever after with junior high sweetheart whom you haven't seen since he was 14 are very naive. It is OK to meet him but thinking that he is the solution is naive. It is not a soltuion to live your husband because of 14-year-old boy you used to like. To leave your husband because your marriage is very bad is a different story. You are talking about it like you already got back together, all you did is exchanged emails and photos. It doesn't mean anything. i had high school sweetheart who periodically resurfaced talking about madly being in love wiht me. Once he called in the middle of the night crying how much he loved me and how lonely he is. I was divorced then and although had no interest in high school sweetheart I did have some thoughts, you know like memories come back to you. But I found out from my other former classmates that not only he was married but at the time he called, his wife was pregnant and had a baby about a week after his phone calls to me!!!! I know from friends that he is still married to that some poor woman and they have two almost grown children yet he recently contacted me via email again and started the same talk. I asked him to not email me anymore and luckily he stopped. you do not know what is on this guy's mind, he says his marriage is bad but you never know, he might be in midlife crisis and bored or maybe he shows your emails to his buddies and they laugh. You do not know him and he doesn't know you....See MoreSorority reunion-Need ideas
Comments (14)I had pens made up engraved with the sorority name and date of the party plus note paper as little favors just for fun. I also scanned photos and made a huge collage to put on an easel. I sent out a questionnaire to each one asking about their lives and travels, children etc. and printed a set for each person. Definitely music from the past is essential. We had ours at a private room in a hotel and we all stayed at the hotel. It was so much fun. After we ate dinner I asked people to move to another table for dessert so they would converse with others. Needless to say, we were up until the wee hours of the morning. It was wonderful....See MoreRock Music unexpected reunions/gigs - Last chance, now or never
Comments (13)Last one, I'll keep it short: I think I've mentioned before that the LA-based band Love is also one of my all time favorites. Its popularity in the US was limited a bit because, in a story I've heard from a few sources, it was a band with both Caucasian and African American members and the group's leader, Arthur Lee, was reluctant to go out on the road to visit regions where he thought (whether it was justified or not) some trouble could be encountered. They did tour Europe a number of times and developed more of a following in the UK and Scandinavia than they had in parts of the US. Love was an interesting band, one whose style is hard to categorize. There were two African American band members but none of their songs had much in the way of Blues or R+B influences. Perhaps some could be called folk rock, or soft rock, or psychedelic, or who knows what. Many songs were played using acoustic guitars and not electric ones. The album Forever Changes, released I think around 1967, is considered the high water mark of Love's career. The album is not thematic but there are many beautiful songs in it. Forever Changes ranks highly in lists of the very best albums of its era. If you're unfamiliar with the group, songs that got a fair bit of airplay from the album were Alone Again Or and Andmoreagain. (not a typo) The band fell apart as so many did and Lee continued to perform off and on. He was in and out of trouble with the law. In the 1990s, he was convicted of a gun offense and sentenced to an extended prison term. There were technical errors in the conviction and he was released after a handful of years. In the early 2000s, he was out and broke. He formed a band with younger musicians and went out touring as Arthur Lee and Love. The tour was named The Forever Changes show, and featured playing the album from start to finish and then also other of its well known songs, Little Red Book and others. Not unlike the Rascals story but many years earlier, I was looking at the paper one day and saw a notice of an upcoming Love concert in San Francisco. I think the year was 2004. It took me by surprised. I did some checking, also made a few phone calls, and learned what was going on. We went, it was held at the Fillmore, the historic music venue in San Francisco. Another Oh My, what a show. Lee was in good voice and the band and accompanying orchestral instruments were in good form. He continued to tour in the US and then in Europe. I hoped to be able to see him again. Alas, Lee knew he was dying of leukemia. He didn't tell his band. A tour was cancelled, at first just an unspecified illness was announced for which he would be undergoing treatment. He died in his early 60s a few years later. Do we need to see him this time, or can we wait until next time? There was no next time. I'm so glad we went. A video from a performance as the end of his life and career were approaching, Forever Changes live. Click on the Youtube link to see it full size. There's an index in the description so that you can scroll forward to other songs. Performance at the 2003 Glastonbury festival...See More
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