Weekend Lounge – last one for 2013

Thanks, Buttons.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930’s, 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and Early 80’s !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van – loose – was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren’t overweight because…… YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

lmao yep so true. i did have videotapes, but that was about it. i did NOT have nintendos, internet, pcs, and i dont remember us texting in high school yet. definately social network days.

in my case, i had to deal with the loss of a father at 16, and a mum with a brain tumor, as well as 2 mentally and not always 100% physically well grandparents. i met my catface at the age of 19, and 12 years this 15 january we r still together despite the bumps and scrapes over the years. life still sucks at times, but i’m proud that i wasn’t a spoilt kid. and my mum now tells me how proud of me she is too…and that is such a compliment. i feel like i finally got my blue ribbon, my goldy star! 🙂

im proud to say i never did drugs, i only smoked ciggies a very short time (a few months, n that was usually one or two cigs a day) n quit, never got drunk (did get tipsy by accident at a special dinner once), and m not into alcohol, and i’ve never been a teen or young mum especially not a single mum (except to catties!)

Good evening all, just back from watching The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug, very enjoyable and the dragon was just awesome.
We’ve had a sunny and then wet day here and Shadz has had to abandon her under shrub sleeping for sleeping on Airy’s bed. She coped.
Just lazing the rest of the evening away here. It’s the 31st Dec tomorrow for us.

Hello Deb, hello MS! 🙂

Hi Deb and Commune.
I must check out Ancestrydotcom some time for the family tree but I’m afraid of becoming consumed by it.
I love National Geographic pics, I would spend hours looking through the magazines when I was a child.

Dad did a lot of family tree investigating before he died, I’d have to go through all of that and Mum’s side of the family have kept records through the years especially since we came to NZ and before that so it shouldn’t be too hard for some of it.
All the family are in bed and it’s time I followed suit.
Deb I hope your shift isn’t too b**y, sweet dreams for later and chin scritches for The Crew.
Commune, have a good day, keep warm and chin scritches for Sophie.
Nighty night.

The lion king….with kittens 🙂