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Do You remember?

Pamalicious on Mar 26th 2008 07:15 am

 

SOUTHERN GIRL had this wonderful somewhat Meme on her great blog that really brought a smile to my face.  I’d like to carry it on over here and encourage you all to chime in on your blogs :)

 

Pam Fashion The Grown Woman Me Remembers…….

  • Stepping around the cut out floor where my husband had laid
  • Marveling that I was actually walking down the aisle to Michael Jackson
  • Seeing my name up in lights at the Atrium
  • looking at these jet black eyes and thinking - I birthed this
  • standing at the window with tears streaming as my brother drove off
  • grasping the handrail on the 2nd floor because I already could feel my daddy was…gone.
  • Feeling AMAZED as a 80+ year old woman said, "Are you Stormeka?"
  • The look on Caun’s face during our 3rd date
  • Wondering, "Why am I on this Island without a man?"
  • Entering the Theatre to see Purple Rain for the 10am Show, coming back out the theatre at 2:00am the next day.
  • Sitting in the village enjoying swarma, Charlie Chaplain Movies and chalkboards for tables and feeling just fine!
  • Running my hands down my flat stomach
  • Standing on Main Street, Disney bawling and exclaiming, "It looks just like it does on TV"
  • Having to make a choice between Al B Sure! coming one way and my hubby coming another - I chose Al B. Sure!
  • Standing outside the timberland store watching Allen Payne try on some boots - wanting to lick the glass.
  • The Gods in the form of the Jacksons descending to touch my hand!

 

pambackinday The Little Girl Me Remembers….

  • Jumping on the bed as my daddy rained his casino winnings down on us
  • Wearing the pink sweater when I was Kelly from Charlie’s Angels
  • Laying on the ground with a machete to my neck in Nicaragua
  • Sitting at a blackjack table in Atlantic City with my Dad
  • Running naked with Mexican kids underneath the mango trees
  • Kickball tournaments with the opposing block
  • Taking a train and a bus and then hoofing it to spend the afternoon at Lenox Square Mall
  • Having dish water thrown on me while I was making out with my upstairs neighbor.
  • Getting on punishment for wearing the back out dress I was only suppose to wear on special occasions to play in.
  • Getting new Jellys and melting the heel by stopping my big wheel with my feet.
  • Being dropped off at Six Flags at 10am and being picked up at 10pm
  • Sleep Away camp where I didn’t comb my hair for 7 days
  • Writing Michael Jackson weekly to no avail
  • Practicing kissing with the album cover for Destiny
  • Secretly actively playing with Barbies when I was 14
  • Writing a note and spilling asprin out like I had tried to kill myself in Teenage Angst
  • Being able to eat TWO WHOPPERS and a MILKSHAKE and not gaining an ounce
  • Running from the Italians in South Philly

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Wayback Wednesday

Pamalicious on Sep 26th 2007 06:14 am

The Nighttime Soap

This post is dedicated to AR GAL :)

I was laying around watching Entertainment Tonite and they were talking about the reunion and remarriage of one of Televisions most beloved couples Luke and Laura from the daytime soap General Hospital. Back when I was in High School the world started and stopped on the streets of All My Children. Jessie and Angie, Greg and Jennie, Tad and Dixie - Lawd have mercy!! I do remember, however, playing hooky from school to watch the first Luke and Laura coupling. It also reminded me of another guilty pleasure..Nighttime Soaps! There was a period on televison before we became crime fighters, lawyers, and reality stars where we lived in the fantasy world of these folks.

So let’s go back to the catfights, the clothes, the money, the back stabbing of NIGHT TIME TV DRAMAS….ENJOY!


DYNASTY
Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. The series revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado. Dynasty epitomized the style and content of American primetime soap operas in the 1980s, programs in which the characters either had money and power and wanted more, or didn’t have either but wanted both badly.



FALCON CREST
Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera about the feud between the Channings and the Giobertis, two separate rich wine families in West Central California, around San Francisco in a fictional town, Tuscany Valley. It aired on the CBS network from December 4th, 1981 to May 17th, 1990, and 227 episodes were made in total. Reruns of the show aired on SOAPnet, a decade after its demise.


DALLAS
Dallas was a popular, long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a very wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network for 13 seasons, from April 2nd, 1978 to May 3rd, 1991. It was broadcast around the world and is still considered to be the most successful drama series in TV history, in or out of the United States. The Dallas series is probably best-known for the central character of J.R. Ewing, the vain, greedy, scheming, crass oil baron played by Fort Worth native Larry Hagman for the show’s entire run. Ironically, J.R. was only meant to be a supporting character when the show premiered (the show was originally to be based around JR’s brother Bobby and Pam); however, the popularity of J.R. took off and he became the focus of the series.


KNOTS LANDING
Knots Landing was a primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27th, 1979 to May 13th, 1993 on CBS and was at that time the second longest-running primetime drama on U.S. TV, after Gunsmoke.[1] Set in a fictional small beach community on the California coast, the show initially centered around the lives of four married couples residing in a cul-de-sac called Seaview Circle, before the series shifted to corporate intrigue and criminal investigations.



FLAMINGO ROAD

Flamingo Road was NBC’s first attempt to jump into the 1980s primetime soap opera craze. It was first seen as a TV movie on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 29, 1980. The show was based on the 1949 movie starring Joan Crawford, which was, in turn, based on the novel by Robert Wilder. It was created to be NBC’s idea of competition against CBS’s Dallas and Knots Landing, nighttime dramas that were inspired by the daily soap operas that aired in the afternoon.

THE COLBYS

The Colbys (originally titled Dynasty II: The Colbys) was a primetime television soap opera which aired from November 1985 to March 1987. This Aaron Spelling-produced series was spun off from the more successful Dynasty. The series was set in Bel Air, California, and focused on the Colby family, introduced peripherally in Dynasty. Intended to surpass its predecessor in opulence, the series’ producers were handed an immensely high budget, and cast a handful of film actors among its leads, including Charlton Heston, Katharine Ross, Barbara Stanwyck, Ken Howard and Maxwell Caulfield (3 years after Grease 2).


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Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough!

Pamalicious on Aug 29th 2007 07:40 am

I started drinking as soon as I got in the house. I was (and on some level still am) having a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept that I was deemed not qualifed enough to basically do the same fucking job I currently have.  I still have the handprint of that slap on my face.  Anyhoo - it was a turbulant evening and I chose to build me a liquor armour.  I slept peacefully by the time the lights were out.  I awoke this morning, undecided about how I should make my day go, then I heard a word……..

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