I’ve got a killer head cold, and yesterday evening I felt soooo yucky, and what I really wanted was teevee on the couch. But we don’t have the teevee. Alas! Usually I don’t care, but yesterday I wanted Talk Soup or reruns of Seinfeld or America’s Next Top Model. Quality. Instead I dug out a DVD that my mom had given me for Christmas—9 to 5, you know with Dolly Parton? It was just about right. Late 70s working-lady and boss-guy fashions are so fun and painful. Elie and I had a discussion about this where he wanted to call them 70s fashions and I wanted to call them early 80s fashions, but the movie was made in 1980, so I really think he’s right.
So here’s the deal with why my mom got me this movie: When I was in High School, my mom was into New Country or maybe it was called Modern Country. My sisters and I thought this was hysterical. We lived in New Jersey. There was so much good fodder for mocking sing-alongs. (All My Exes Live in Texas, anyone?) Anyway, one of my mom’s Dolly Parton mix tapes had the song 9 to 5 on it, which is actually a great song to get you going in the morning. (It is in my head while I’m in the shower on more mornings than I care to admit.) We would listen to it in the van on the way to school, and we’d crank it up really loud, and we’d drive by my boyfriend who was smoking with all the aloof smokers just outside school property, and we’d wave. It just cracked me up so much. It probably made me the biggest dork in the world, but we were so entertained.
Up there, that’s my newest border. I went a little lighter.
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I wish I had the time/patience to make a quilt that intricate. Maybe I will have the time once my little ones are in school…
So pretty!
Regarding the 9-5 movie fashions you and Elie ar both correct. It is 1980ish BUT there was a lot of carry over from the 70s!
Looking good, I love your colours.
I have loved watching the progress of your medallion quilt, it is really lovely.