July 4th ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA



Jobs ....

I have had 4 jobs over my lifetime...

My very first job was working at First & Merchants Bank

I was fresh out of high school and made $100 per week....and felt

like I was rich! We lived in the suburbs so going into the city each

day, all dressed up felt exciting to me. But I soon learned it wasn't a very

glamarous job at all. I came to hate it! So I quit after only 6 months

But I had enough money saved up to cover me so all was good

Then I landed my job at the airport working for Hertz. I started

out working the counter renting cars then moved down to the office

working car control. I tracked all of our cars, their mileage and maintenance.

And I loved this job. When we had too many of our cars land in other

cities, we would work on the weekends picking them all. A bunch of us

would pile into cars, you know back then cars were big!

and then we would pick up the cars and bring them back to Richmond

It was not unusual to make a couple of trips to DC in one day.

Then the next day a couple of trips to Charlottesville.

we always had fun and we made really good money doing it!

After working there for 4 1/2 years I left to go work for

Va Tool and Equipment. Another office job but in the purchasing department. I worked with some of the best people ever. One person I have remained

friends with for 34 years! When I left there it was to have our first child.

then I started the hardest job ever....stay at home mom!!

But I loved it and did it for 14 years.

Now I work at Capital One as an administrative assistant (fancy for secretary)

I work in the Marketing and Analysis department and love it

and again work with some of the nicest people on earth!!

So there....that's my working career!

how many jobs have you had?

later....

15 Minutes of fame ...

My 15 minutes of fame occurred in 1977

I was working at the Richmond airport at Hertz rental cars

It was one of my favorite jobs because the airport

just has the best people watching ever! You saw so many interesting

people....celebrities, crazy people...all kinds.

They were filming a movie in Richmond ... "Rollercoaster"

It was about a young terrorist who was blackmailing companies

for ransom....and blowing up roller coasters. It starred George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Susan Strasburg and Henry Fonda.

The terrorist would be renting a car from us. So Hertz agreed we could be in

the movie but they wouldn't allow the production company to change our

uniforms...you know Hertz wanted to keep their "brand".

Then they came in and gave us a lot of direction on what we were

supposed to do. I wasn't the one renting the car to Timothy Bottoms (the terrorist)  but I was to just keep busy doing work along side the girl who was.

So the day of filming comes......we get to meet Timothy Bottoms, who was super

nice and cute! They start filming over and over and over.....good grief.

and then that was that...all done.

When the movie came out, we were all excited to see ourselves on

the big screen. My 15 minutes of fame....my back was to the camera!!!

haha.....should call it my 15 seconds of fame!!

later...

Good and bad hair days ...

Right now, I probably have my most favorite haircut ever

I always loved my long hair....and really loved wearing it up

but once I went shorter, the ease in getting ready was so

worth giving up my long hair.

But that's not to say I have a good hair day every day

Some days if I leave it up in the towel too long

after my shower, it really turns out bad.

But it's always guaranteed that once the weekend comes and if

I have no where planned to go, I'll have the best hair day ever!!

Am I the only one like that?

and I really do not know how to take a self portrait.....haha!!

oh well....here's to the good and the bad hair days!!

later....