Saturday 9: (There's) No Gettin' Over Me (1981)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) Ronnie Milsap sings about how worrisome it can be when you realize you forgot to pay a bill. It's happened to all of us, hasn't it? Tell about a time you accidentally missed a payment.
A. We missed an insurance payment back in January. My husband and I both had some kind of virus thing and the bill was overlooked.
2) He also references a dream that keeps him awake. Do you have any recurring dreams?
A. I haven't in a while, but for a long time I used to dream about a bathtub full of blood.
3) He sings about the face you see in the crowd. Tell us about someone you see regularly, but don't really know.
A. The grocery clerks - several of them - all talk to me like I'm a friend (I think because I am always nice to them). I don't know them at all though I know one of them is 38 years old and had a bad car accident and another spent 3 weeks in the Philippines this spring.
4) He mentions the book that you just can't put down. What's the last book that you finished?
A. The Girls of August, by Ann River Siddons
5) Ronnie Milsap is a big fan of new technology, and believes the advancements make both his professional and personal lives easier. What about you? Do you embrace new technology? Or do you long for the good old days, when we weren't so connected to personal devices?
A. I'm conflicted. I like technology and love my gadgets and doodads. But I think the social media aspect of it has created a vacuum that is being filled with garbage.
6) As a child, Ronnie used to surreptitiously listen to late night radio, especially gospel broadcasts. When you were a kid, what rule did you break again and again?
A. We used to slip down to the river when I was at my grandmother's, even though we had been told many times to stay away from it.
7) Country star Blake Shelton says Ronnie Milsap was a big influence on his music. Do you watch Blake on The Voice?
A. I don't watch that show.
8) In May, Ronnie appeared at the Choctaw Casino in Grant, OK. Do you enjoy games of chance?
A. I've never played one for real but I would like to give it a try. Well, we play the lottery sometimes. I suppose that is a game of chance.
9) Random question -- When did you last "do it yourself" and repair something around the house or yard?
A. Does painting count? If so, then just a few weeks ago.
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A bathtub full of blood?! Yikes! I wonder what inspired that?
ReplyDelete"We used to slip down to the river..." I think there's a country song in there.
We all seem to be at least a bit conflicted about technology.
What a horrible dream to have come back to you! I think painting counts and I agree with you about social media. I just do a lot of unfollowing in those bad posts.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little (under 7) my mother used to warn me about the river next to our house and how it would sweep me out to sea. To this day I have a fear of swimming in a river.
ReplyDeletePainting counts! I bet seeing your home all refreshed like that is a great pickmeup.
ReplyDeleteWe thought the same..
Delete#5--I totally agree that social media is all too consuming!
ReplyDelete"social media aspect of it has created a vacuum that is being filled with garbage" Sadly too true. It is depressing to wander through Facebook these days.
ReplyDeleteI had an account there and visited it a couple of times a year. It's now canned...
DeleteI have a bunch of painting to get done around here. I'm starting to wonder if I am not too old for this stuff....
ReplyDeleteHarriet, I once saw a grandmother in her late 60's painting walls with her tiny grand daughter whom she had just adopted. They were using those new sort of applicators and just having a ball. I'm going to paint inside and I'm 75. Go for it!
DeletePainting counts!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, social media is what you say that it is. Some of the sites are so crowded with a billion little bells and whistles that it can drive a person insane. No more Pinterest for me. I like blogs because I've met people here in such a quiet and civilized forum.