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Ten Things in My Car

This week on the Tuesday Ten, Lisa from The Golden Spoons and Rabia from The Liebers want us to tell you 10 things we would find in our cars if we cleaned them!

swagger wagon
This is my ride these days.

 
10. Water bottles: We have a lot of reuseable water bottles and somehow they all end up in the car–empty. So when we are actually driving in the car and are thirsty, we have many water bottles yet no water to drink. Kinda reminds me of the phrase, “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!”

9. Maps of Midwestern states: we love a good road trip! When we stop at a rest area, we always grab a map of that state. Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan….

road trip

8. The latest Walmart Atlas: We love it! I think we are behind though; we have the 2013 edition right now.

7. Candy wrappers: I cannot get those kids to stop throwing wrappers on the floor!

6. Windshield sunshade: It has been several months since I pulled it out, but in the summer months a sunshade is a must have!

5. Crayons: Kids strike again!

4. Dance bags with dance shoes: The girls like to keep their dance shoes in the car so that they don’t forget them on dance day.

3. Rocks from the Upper Peninsula: We drove up to Michigan with my in-laws for a vacation, and my father-in-law picked up some rocks he thought were interesting. He put them in the far back cup holder…and they’ve been there since 2009.

2. Cell Phone charger: a vital piece of equipment, since the outlet charger quit working on me.

1. Empty CD cases: CDs currently in the CD player right now are: Taylor Swift Red (the girls’), The Wailin’ Jennys Firecracker (mine) and of course, the Frozen soundtrack. (Isn’t this in everyone’s car right now?)

The Golden Spoons

What music is playing in your car these days?

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Top Ten of 1969

I was born 45 years ago, in 1969. I know, it’s hard to believe, isn’t it? I look so young! 🙂 This week for the Tuesday Ten, the theme is the year you were born. Here’s some events from 1969:

10. The song “Sugar, Sugar” by The Archies was number 1 on Billboard’s top 100 hits. Hard to believe that this was a band…in a cartoon!

9. I was born at the beginning of February, and my sign is Aquarius. So it’s appropriate that the top 2 song on Billboard’s chart was “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” by The Fifth Dimension.

8. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford was released in theaters.

Butch Cassidy

7. The first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed in Rockville Centre, New York. I use the ATM all the time, and had no idea that ATMs have been around since the year I was born!

6. Some celebrities who are the same age as me are Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Cate Blanchett, and Christian Slater.

5. On June 22, actress Judy Garland died from a drug overdose at the age of 47. She was only two years older than I am now.

4. After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post was published. Famous for covers by Norman Rockwell and other artists as well as publishing authors such as P.G. Wodehouse, The Post was founded back in the day by Benjamin Franklin. The Saturday Evening Post made a comeback in 1971, and is still published today.

3. From August 15 to August 18, the Woodstock Festival was held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

2. The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War. The movie Hamburger Hill is made in the 80’s, and while it is based on this battle, the characters are fictitious.

1. On July 20, when I was 5 months old, my parents watched the lunar module Eagle land on the lunar surface with about 500 million people worldwide. Neil Armstrong took his historic first steps on the Moon at 10:56 pm ET. My mom thought she had the flu; in reality, she was pregnant with my sister.

The Golden Spoons

Tuesday Ten is hosted by Lisa from The Golden Spoons and Rabia from The Liebers.

What happened the year you were born?

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