Amy Currioman

A couple of weeks ago my sister and I were going through some sexy costumes that we had come across when we were helping Miss J clear out her house.  Miss J asked for our help because she is moving into an assisted living apartment and can’t take it all with her.  She has living in a five bedroom house (she had five kids!) and had lived there for over fifty years.  Naturally she has a LOT of things!  My sister and I brought all the costumes home with us; we just couldn’t bear to part with them!

She used to be in a local Lions club that held variety shows as fundraisers for their charities.  That was way back in the ’60s.  Miss J and our mother performed in those shows, dancing and singing.  They made a lot of their own costumes back then; they were great seamstresses!  I sure wish that we had videotapes of their shows, but that was before inexpensive video cameras became available to the general public.  We have a few silent home movies of their rehearsals, but that just isn’t the same.  I’m sure that they would have had a great time if the Internet had been invented back then and they could have used it to find discount sexy costumes to buy online instead of spending so many hours sewing!

When my son went back to NJ on Tuesday, he told me he was going to return on Friday for another long weekend visit.  I was supposed to pick him up at the train station late Friday night around 10pm.  Well I decided to run to the grocery store Friday morning to pick up all of the foods that he asked for during the previous visit that I didn’t have on hand – green pepper, onion, granola, plain yogurt, fresh fruit & veggies, brown mustard, peanuts, etc.  I even picked up a couple of ripe papayas and a lemon, thinking that they would be a great breakfast addition for Saturday morning.

Around 5pm I called him to ask him if he was still coming down, and he said that something had come up and he wasn’t coming down until Saturday night around 6pm.  Well, I’m pretty flexible and I was glad I didn’t have to pick him up late at night, but I was a little disappointed because I don’t know if the papayas will stay good another day (they are really ripe) and I wanted him to taste them.  I don’t think he’s ever had fresh papayas before!  And I would have liked to have him here an extra day for visiting too!