~Rainy Day Woman~

I HAVE to show ya'll one of my most favorite things EVER. It's my new record player, and I've been meaning to post it on myspace but haven't had time. I know it's a sin to desire Earthly things, but I have fullfledgedly DESIRED records for as long as I can remember.
Records?? Yup, music records. I have a thing for em. It's a big ol' long story, but I'll just skip ahead and tell ya the conclusion because I'm feeling extremely attention-deficit this morning...as you shall see (as a matter of fact, this is the first true 'rambling' that I've done publicly so it's a kind of a big deal...I usually only let my myspace besties see the extremes of my flightiness).

~The needle is making that lil thunk thunk...thunk thunk...sound because the chunky lady has sung!~

After years of desperate attempts at peeling away from my dearest mom's grasp one of the most awesome country, gospel and oldies record collections in HISTORY, in my opinion, she has finally gifted me with about half of em. They would prolly be worth about $15 at a garage sale, but they're priceless to me. I grew up on them and wore so many of them out, but lots of em are still shiny, great ones like Waylon Jennings, Johnny Horton, & I'll always luv my ol' Hank. :) ~I think I (finally) know what he meant when he sang about the Lost Highway...~

This morning, I woke up, and hoping just like the little wide-eyed eight-year-old beside me that school would get a snow day, I headed to one of the best Christmas gifts, besides my records, that I've ever in my life gotten....a Crossley vintage auto-rama record player/radio. It looks like it came straight from Graceland, or Jerry Lee Lewis' pink house, at the least. Thanks, again, Sis. I LOVE it!!! No snow day, though....it's just a rainy day. (Why, YES! That IS an allsusion to the Waylon Jennings song!)

I've been listening to the greatest songs ever this morning...they are playing one right after another, from Tom T. Hall's "I Love" (which is why I'm in this cheesy mood cuz it does that to me hahaa) to "Fancy Free" by the Oak Ridge Boys, and even a little Charley Pride. OH, and they just played "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down." So true. So true. Thankfully.

I especially love KXSA 103.1 fm because listening to that station stirs my soul and reminds me of the years I've spent at my dad's body shop, ALL my hubby's shops, the race track, weekends and inside jokes with my besties, car trips with my sis, and a decade of listening to Larry Doggett predict the weather as I fried chicken and mashed taters at dinnertime for my hubby.


Larry Doggett, by the way, the longtime local dj for our little area, is a singer on one of my records. Ain't that neat? I worked with him when I did news a while back for the radio stations, and KNEW that I remembered him from somewhere but could never figure out why until my mom gave me the record collection a few weeks ago. His family traveled as a gospel group back in the day, and I even have one of THEIR records! He's my buddy, and I wish him well.


As I conclude, I realize that I MUST compile soon a list of my records so that ya'll can see how fabulous my collection is. It'll make ya just want to go out and drink some Jose Quervo with a lil salt and lime, kiss all the cowboys, and shoot out the lights...ohhh gotta go. "Common Man" by Conley is on and needs some lipsyncing....

~There's some common people that I hang out with....they're my good time buddies. They're my friends....-Conley~