The Random Ramblings of a Sassy Redhead

So Rosh Hashanah is upon us and for my non-Jewish friends Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. I'm not Jewish but I have a slight "fascination" with Judaism and this is why: One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1980 classic "The Jazz Singer" starring the ever satin-shirted Neil Diamond. My Dad and I call this our "Christmas Movie" as we used to watch it every Christmas Day. We know this movie by heart. A quick synopsis: Neil plays Yussel Rabinovitch, a cantor in a synagogue in New York. His alter ego is Jess Robin and he yearns to be a musical super star. He and his wife Rivka live with his father played by the legendary Laurence Olivier as Cantor Rabinovitch.  They live a simple life but Yussel wants more and he gets it when his song "Love On The Rocks" (yes; that song! ) is bought by a rock musician. And from there, Yussel's life is changed and Yussel is pretty much no more; he has completely become Jess. Not to giv...

Sometimes I think people think I'm odd. Oh hell, let's be honest; I know they think I'm odd but it's not for the reason(s) you might think. I am 50 years old and never been married and I haven't had a boyfriend in...what year is this again? And I'm okay with all of it. Here's the deal: when I was much younger, of course I thought I'd be married because that's kind of the way girls were programmed in the era in which I grew up. You graduate, maybe go to college, find a man, get married, house, kids, blah blah blah. It was the American Way! When I was really  young, I was sure I was going to get married--at first it was to Donny Osmond, then Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb and, of course, Rick (it all comes back to Rick, people). Then you grow up, become an adult and get real. I did always want to get married; I thought life would be incomplete without a husband. In my family, marriage is a very long term deal. My paternal Grandparents were married for ov...

When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was play with dolls. I looooved playing with dolls. We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up but I always had a few dolls and my Mom made doll clothes for them so my dolls were stylin'! I enjoyed playing "Mommy". What happened, you ask? When I was in my mid 20's, we were having Thanksgiving at my Grandma Ann's house with my Dad's brother, his wife & his kids and their kids. My cousin had a newish baby and she was bouncing him on her lap as we sat chatting after our delicious meal and, out of the blue, I said, "I'm never having children." Sweet Lord. With the way my Dad reacted you would think I had announced that I had murdered 27 men and had them in a freezer in my basement and was eating their body parts for snacks. He lost his damn mind over my announcement. "How can you even say that?! You're not married yet and you'll change your mind!" My Au...

So I TOTALLY forgot the most awesome Rick Springfield story! Did y'all know that Rick performed in a show in Vegas? HE DID! It was at the MGM Grand and ran in 2001 & 2002 and it was called EFX ALIVE and yours truly saw it. TWICE. The more memorable time goes like this: I took my sister on a trip to Vegas and got us tickets for the show (See? I didn't forget him after all!). Let me give you a little background on the sis: it takes a LOT to fluster or excite my sister. I'm the emotional one of us 3 kids and my sister is the rational, calm one in my opinion. She's always had her sh*t together. So we're going to this show and for her, it's no big deal. It's like going to see a movie. We get kinda dressed up and head to the theater. The theater is situated so that there are tables in the audience halfway through the auditorium and the rest is like standard theater seats. I splurged and got us a table which is probably around what would be about 10 ro...

So those who know me know that I like, love, am obsessed with (And if you don't know who this is a picture of  DO YOU EVEN KNOW ME???) My love "affair of the heart" (see what I did there?) started waaaay before "Jessie's Girl". See, when youknowwho first came to America from Oz, he had a cartoon called "Mission:Magic" back in 1973 and I remember watching that cartoon on Saturday mornings. Funny story: in 2017 when we went to see "him"at Treasure Island, I had the DVD set of the cartoon with for him to sign. When I handed it to him, he said, "Where in the world did you get this?" and I replied, "Honey, you can find anything on Amazon. And I actually watched this cartoon on tv when I was a kid!" He looked at me like I was out of my mind and I said, "How old do you think I am?" and he replied, "I'm not touching that." (oh how I wish he would've "touched that" RAWR) and I told him...

MY FIRST POST! I know,  I know; you feel hella special being a part of my FIRST BLOG POST! Party time, excellent! Oh, I probably just dated myself with that phrase. Oh well! So, I'm a sarcastic smart ass--it's in my genes. Pretty much been this way since I forced my way out of the womb FIFTY YEARS AGO! You read that right; I am in my fifth decade of life. Oh aren't you sweet; I don't think I look fifty either! All that good, clean livin' has kept me looking soooo youthful! Stop laughing. It's not nice to laugh at an old woman so stop it before I smack you with my cane. Let's see...what is there to know about me. Born in St. Peter, MN which is home of the ever-popular St. Peter State MENTAL Hospital. Seems fitting. Moved to Hudson, WI when I was a wee lass of one year old and have been in Hudson ever since. Graduated from Hudson High School probably in the middle of my class in 1987 and you couldn't pay me enough money to EVER go back to high school....