(Fine Art Photo by CarlaDyck)
You know...time is going by waaaay too fast! And things are changing so much from when I was a kid that I can't keep up with it!...I thought Carla's beautifully captured photo above showed it perfectly...how life is just speeding by, but some things in it seem to be standing still.
What am I talking about this time...right?! ^_^ Well, two things happened yesterday that made me think about this. One of the things had to do with a sweet and crunchy memory I had as a kid. A sweet and crunchy memory...with a prize in the box!
Do you remember Cracker Jacks?! The box of caramel coated popcorn, with crunchy coated peanuts (If you could find them I mean! There was never enough crunchy coated peanuts!! LOL), and the little prize inside?!
The above photo is NOT a box of Cracker Jacks. It's a check-book custom wallet by RecordWallets!...Yes, really!...But the Cracker Jack box of my childhood looked exactly like that!
And remember all of the things they used to make out of your favorite food and T.V. shows?! There were all kinds of lunch boxes, with their accompanying thermoses. They had all kinds of characters on the side too! There was a 'Knight Rider' lunch box...Charlie's Angels'...'Charlie Brown'...'Barbie'....and all manner of shows and foods! I could be here all day trying to tell you about the marketing industry that was wild, fun and crazy 'back in the day'! :-))
And yes! There was a Cracker Jack lunch box too! :-)
Ohhhh! The memories! :-)...But the other day, when hubby asked if I wanted to share some of his Cracker Jacks, and I was immediately transported back in time mentally to the sight of that little square box, imagine my surprise when he brought this into the room!...
I know I've talked about it before on this blog, but really?.....You're changing something else on me?! O_0
The good thing is that the sweet coated popcorn inside....
.....Ummmmm....Yummy, yummy, yummy!....
...It still tastes exactly as I remember! :-] ....And there still aren't that many peanuts in the box.......Excuse me, 'bag'...*shaking my head*...I'm gonna have to get used to that. O_0
I'm gonna have to get used to 'CHANGE'! I'm gonna have to...because nothing is staying the same! Well, except me! LOL I keep thinking that maybe if I hold on one more day...things will go back to the way they used to be! :-)
Okay, so I'm 'Slightly' delusional. ^_^ But you know what? One day things will change! And won't you be sorry you didn't take my warning?! ^_^ In the meantime....
..."Hello, Mr. 'NEW' Cracker Jack Man, in a bag instead of a box!" :-) And is that a new dog he has?! O_0 ... Oh well....'Change'...I embrace you!....Sorta kinda.
The other thing that happened yesterday was that I saw Chynna Phillips, of the group Wilson Phillips, on 'Dancing With The Stars'! She danced to her song "Hold on"...a song that I LOVED 'back in the day'!!
I was amazed at how good she looks at her age. Even in those skimpy....and I mean SKIMPY...outfits they sometimes have to wear on these dance shows!....But I also got to hear the back story for why she wrote the song. She had a rough childhood, feeling abandoned by her dad, drugs, and a lot of stuff.
But look at her now! She held on 'one more day'...and it worked out pretty good for her! :-]...I'm gonna have to try that...In the meantime, I'm grooving on the video of "Hold On" the way I remember it in my head... :-)
But look at her now! She held on 'one more day'...and it worked out pretty good for her! :-]...I'm gonna have to try that...In the meantime, I'm grooving on the video of "Hold On" the way I remember it in my head... :-)
...and I'm holding on 'one more day' to see if things in this world will go back to the way they're suppose to be!!! LOL.....Have a good day Everybody!! :-)
Dance
Life is a dance, they always say.
It has a rhythm and a rhyme,
It makes you set a pace, while it
flows in the stream of time.
And dancing has expressions
that I think are kinda neat,
like dancing eyes and dance of joy,
happy dance and dancing feet.
Whatever dance you do today,
I hope life pleases you.
It really doesn't matter how.
Just dance! I hope you do!
