Thanks so much, Hekate!

This is going to be MIND-BLOWING! My best friend and I are babbling away about - "remember when they ... " because our daughters are friends, and they've known each other as long as they can remember. We remember when they were babies. Sheesh! Amazing what-all has happened!

Yes he IS, raven mad! And the way he behaves, it appears he knows it.

He kicked off this chapter by asking her dad for permission to marry her. Pretty classy young dude!

Weren't those cute?

Almost didn't want to see them eaten, but then I've gotta stop trying to save everything as a memento! There were plain dipped strawberries in white and dark chocolate for the rest of us and they were great, too! But the bride and groom strawberries were the greatest!

Thank you, magical thyme!

Thanks, pnwmom!

We're all just so tickled! We had this combined family dinner the other night and his parents are just as excited! Probably gonna be a lot of fun on that day, considering the personalities of everybody involved. They started as fraternity/sorority buddies. So guess who-all will be invited!?! (Note: THESE fraternity guys all seemed to be respectful of women. Never saw or heard any bad stories about them - THANK GOODNESS!!!!)

Oh yeah! LOVE IT! They used to play this at the oldies station where I worked.

Invariably, somebody in the building would be boogying to this, and singing along to him/herself.

My dear Peggy! We're pretty doggone STOKED!!!

Thanks so much! I can't wait! Don't know what she wants or how she wants it - or even WHEN they want it (except for sometime next year, after his older sister's had HER wedding). But I still can't wait! I'm actually really interested in how she wants to do it, and the choices she'll make. She has terrific style AND taste! I'm just gonna follow along and try to keep up. And then try hard not to cry too loudly!

Well they certainly could, and they'd love to.

But it's up to her and her fiance. And I don't want to push that, either. They might have something entirely different in mind. She's been mighty supportive of her brother's band. I remember how, when they were both little, she used to refer to him, with disdain, as "my STUPID brother!" But later on, I saw this photo she posted on Facebook of the two of them posing together just after he and the band had finished performing at a local club. Big smiles, and her caption was "My little brother is so much cooler than yours!"

I LOVED playing requests!

Couldn't do it without 'em! Sometimes several of us who had shows would put on a long record and go out through the "prod stud" (production studio) to the outside balcony to listen to our shows reverberating back across campus from the dorms. Sometimes people there would be tuned into the station (because we played requests!) and would turn their dorm room speakers around so they were pointing outward. And we could hear it from where we were, up in the top floor of the Administration building.

Those were FUN days!

Sometimes we'd use all four turntables (two in the production room and two in the on-air booth) and put all four copies of "Layla" on them at the same time, turn BOTH studios on live, and let 'er rip! And Engineer Dave would be seated in one of the rooms, with a dust cloth in hand, just ever so slightly slowing one of the records by the edge. Result was - PHASE DISTORTION!!! The music would take on this hissing sound, up and down - SERIOUSLY trippy effect! You'd listen to it and felt like you were stoned off your ass, whether you'd just smoked or not!

Thank you, MarianJack!

I'm gonna be smiling for weeks! This will get me through the rest of the current Mercury Retrograde mercifully well!