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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire.  me in my 20's I've got 2 boys who are young adults.  I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: DECEMBER 2025: I participated in:
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| Olympic Highlights - USA Luge Luge? It's where you ride on a sled down an icy course and you gotta be the first one down to get gold. But the course is bumpy and you might flip. Oh and you have to ride with your back on the sled and the first first. Here's some speed for all you lugers out there! Ah man, I tried to share a video but it was disabled. Here's one about Luging. |
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#7 - 1980's Sounds - 2nd British Invasion - Wham! One of those awesome British bands on MTV was Wham! and my girlfriends and I LOVED George Michael.  and Andrew (Ridgeley) but George... ah, we were glued to the TV. Honestly, George Michael was one of the best looking men my friends and I had ever seen in our whole lives. (but then again we were only 14? 15?)And he could write. He was a teen girl's hearthrob. Oh course, we all knew we had no chance with him. That's said, Wham!'s music was infectious. Who didn't want to let go and do the jitterbug? My 9th grade english assignment could wait while I watched "Wake me up before you go-go." And who didn't like the "Choose Life" shirt? We all thought it was cool simply because George and Andy wore it. Heck, 3 Halloweens ago, I found me a Choose Life t-shirt on EBay and went as a Wham! Groupie from the 1980's. Wham! had a serious side, too. There was Everything She Wants and Last Christmas. My girlfriends and I were STUNNED that Last Christmas didn't make it to #1 back in 1984. or was it 85? The musical tones and mood of Wham's music made you listen to lyrics and made you want to understand the lyrics. (in a similar fashion to Simon LeBon's lyrics) This line had me curious: "You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day" and who didn't wonder about the D-H-S-S from Wham! Rap. "With the boys that I meet down on the line I said, D-H-S-S" Wham! made music fun, serious, pouty, and too drool for. Back then, Wham! was let go and enjoy the ride because sometimes you needed that stop with how the seriousness of your life was going. In hindsight, I'm very appreciative of the years I had with Wham! Andrew and George enjoyed the music and that enjoyment came through in every song we heard and every video we watched. Wham! Was a good band to escape to when you wanted to escape your life for a little bit back then. WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO Wham!  I will be publishing an addendum about Wham! a bit later in the blog. George's death hit all of us girls hard and we were very grateful Andy published a book about his time with Wham! |
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The costumes sound like fun. My friend goes to the Highland Games every year in NH and has a blast! 
