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Grease Quote, Making It Worse, & You're The One That I Want

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Blog City – Day 328

Prompt: Take a quote from your favorite movie. This is the title of your prompt. Write it.

Keeping with the Grease theme for my Soundtracks of Your Life, I am picking quotes from this movie:
“You’re cruisin’ for a bruisin.’” -Kenickie
I have been known to say this line to my husband on occasion. I had forgotten it came from his movie.

“If you can’t be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.” -Principal McGee
This one is just funny. Cracks me up every time.

30 Day Blogging Challenge – Day 25

Write about a time you tried to help and ended up making things worse. What did you do to correct it? What did you learn from the experience?

I find if I blunder then try to fix it, I often make it worse because I am nervous about having messed up in the first place. This happens enough that my husband has named the phenomenon... he calls it the 'Carolyn Effect'.

Welcome To My Reality – Week Sixty – Two

1. Too often we wait until some one has gone from our lives before we think to tell them how we feel about them, or how much we appreciate them. Tell someone (who is still in your life) what you feel. It could be a family member, someone on Writing.com, anyone.

I learned this concept at a pretty young age. My father died when I was twelve. The last time I saw him, he was on the fourth floor of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. This is a hospital that does a lot for cancer and the fourth floor is the terminal patients ward - I did not know that at the time.

When I visited him I remember playing something for him on my tape recorder and sitting by his bed. When we left I only said 'goodbye' maybe even 'see ya' but I did not tell him I loved him. I had never told him that, but I did love him dearly - I was a daddy's girl through and through.

When he died, about a month later on February 3, I was shocked. I had not realized my father would really die. I remember my aunt and uncle told me and my uncle said, "You can cry now." I don't think I really cried for the better part of a week - my parents were separated and my Dad still lived in my old hometown. When I did realize the finality of it all I remember feeling so bad that I had never told him 'I loved him' ever - that is my biggest regret.

Since that time, I tell my family I love them at the end of every phone call. Mom got the hang of it the easiest and started doing the same thing. The first time I told my grandmother she paused, a little baffled, then she told me she loved me too.

My uncle Gordon in BC took the longest to echo it back and now some thirty five years later he usually says it first.

I have also been known to say it to my best friends - Debbie and Michelle. The first time I said it Michele it was a bit of an accident - I was talking to her on the phone and like my relatives I went to end the call with I love you and then after a pause we laughed and she said it back.

Working in classrooms, I find I will often tell a kid how amazing or brilliant their ideas are. One kid I called 'priceless' as his sense of humour was really wonderful. Some of the schools I work in, these kids don't get a lot of compliments - I hope my kind words help lift them even a bit.

Soundtrack of my Life - Day 25

Love Songs – Theme for music blog.

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Your the one that I want – song by John Farrar - sung by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta



This is from the movie Grease. A movie I saw numerous times in the theatre and even better, the drive in. At the drive in you could sing along without anyone getting bent about it.

I summer I was 17, I think, I got to drive my mother’s car up to visit my grandparents. I took my friend, Michelle with me. We had a great time. One of the things we did in New Liskeard, my old hometown, was visit with my friend Sally. We decided that since I had a car and Grease was playing at the drive in we would go and have a night out. I think Sally was well on her way to seeing the movie dozens of times. We had a lot of fun. Singing along to our hearts content.