HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE.....

TODAY IS ........

IVGLDSW DAY...

Today is INTERNATIONAL VERY GOOD LOOKING, DAMN SMART WOMAN'S DAY....

The motto: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming,

'WOO HOO.....WHAT A RIDE !!!"

happy IVGLDSW DAY to all of you !! ;O)

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I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A FABULOUS

NEW YEAR'S EVE...

I sure plan to have a fun one......

'CAUSE....IT'S MY BIRTHDAY.....

how fun is that to have a birthday on

NEW YEAR'S EVE....

everyone celebrates MY birthday.....;o)

I sure hope they don't put CANDLES on my cake...

71 is just gonna set the house on fire !

WHEW !! GOOD GRIEF....GREAT BALLS OF FIRE...GOOD GOLLY, MISS MOLLY...

SEVENTY-ONE..

OOOO, I am so blessed to still be here....

ooo, and I am making my very own birthday cake this year...

JAMACIAN RUM CAKE....

doesn't that sound delicious ..

i'm using THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS recipe and she ALWAYS has magnificent recipes....

I'll let ya know.....

awwwwwwh......
bj in 1937

I was a little roly-poly here, looks like....

and of course, this was into 1938....
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the dress style of '37
and i have ALWAYS loved hats...


OH MY GOSH....
what a PRECIOUS, OLD 1937 CAR....
I WANT ONE !!

" Labor union women on strike against Woolworth Department Stores in 1937. They won a forty-hour work week and a minimum weekly pay of $20.00. (Library of Congress) ""

aren't those waitresses the cutest things you've ever seen!!

YEP.... THE Five and Dimes were all the rage in 1937....
with F.W. WOOLWORTH leading the pack....I can remember, years later, loving to roam the isles of the
FIVE AND DIME STORES ... a lot of the wonderful treasures I have from my mother came from
WOOLWORTH DIME STORE....


SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
was released in 1937.....
How amazing !
and MY grandchildren still love it to this very day....

AWESOME..

Cute little SHIRLY TEMPLE starred in
HEIDI
in 1937

The actor, VAL KILMER, shares my
DECEMBER 31 birthday...(well, NOT the year ...DUH !)

Oh, how great he was as DOC HOLIDAY in TOMBSTONE..one of my favorite movies!!

and, SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS is also a
NEW YEAR'S EVE baby...and he was born in 1937, too....

OH MY..... as HANNIBAL LECTER, he just scared the fire right out of me....whew....
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TONIGHT, WHEREVER YOU GO...WHATEVER YOU DO....BY ALL MEANS...

STAY SAFE.....

remember....

YOU ARE LOVED ....

HAPPIEST NEW YEAR'S EVE...

love, bj

OOO.......

AND remember these ?

The 3 ingredient PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES.. they are STILL good...I just made some for our party tonight...

OH...SHOOT....a few of them BROKE....

WHAT? did someone say that is why you leave them to cool before moving them? That if you DO DARE move them, you just MIGHT get a couple (or 3) broken and have to ..........EAT THEM ? and, where did that ICY COLD GLASS OF MILK in that cute VINTAGE ROOSTER GLASS come from...it's like....well.....like I KNEW those cookies were gonna break....*wink wink

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DON'T forget to eat BLACKEYED PEAS on the 1st...for GOOD LUCK the whole year. Oh, and PICKET says to say RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT and make a wish before getting out of bed on NEW YEARS morning...I never heard of this, Picket, out here in West Texas but you can bet I will do it...'cause....I love WISHES and GOOD LUCK !