Saturday 9: Time for Livin'

Hello! After a busy week of training on the new job, I'm kicking off the weekend relaxing with the Saturday 9. Thanks, Sam, for the music and questions!

Saturday 9: Time for Livin' (1968)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This song is about taking "time for life." Do you have a busy, highly-scheduled Saturday planned? Or will you have an opportunity to just relax and enjoy?  As mentioned above, after a week that was packed full of online trainings and then my first actual day doing the job today (Friday)...I am ready to relax. My feet hurt from being on them all day, but I have to admit they don't hurt as much as my ankles which are, according to my doctor, loaded with arthritis. I survived and I'm only planning to work 3 days a week for now, so I'll live.

 

2) Lead singer Larry Ramos begins by telling us he likes to kick off his shoes and go barefoot. How about you? Do you like to feel "the good earth under your feet?"  Sometimes, but since I have so much trouble with my feet these days I don't go shoeless too often. I need the support of a good shoe. Now my grandkids? Those two are always barefoot and they walk on rocks, hot pavement, and all kinds of other things that just watching them makes my feet hurt! 

 

3) He sings that once he took off his watch, he found he had all the time in the world. Tell us about your watch.  I haven't worn one since I quit working at a nursing home in 2020. Now that I'm back in that setting I'm thinking I may need to start wearing one again.

4) With lyrics that include words like "grooving" and "hang-ups," this song is very much a product of its time. Share some of the slang you used during your adolescent years.  My friends and I spanned two decades as we grew up. We started in the 70's with things like Up your nose with a rubber hose!, peace out, bummer, take a chill pill, cool beans, and Sit on it. Then in the 80s it was words like dude, nerd, tubular, bogus, gag me with a spoon, bodacious, and radical.

 

5) He sings that his attitude has been rearranged. What is something you have changed your mind about?  I'd have to say that over the past 2 or 3 years it's been that while I believe the Bible is completely true and that it is my commission from Jesus Christ to share the good news of the Gospel with others...I find that I very often don't agree with the methods and tactics of some of my Christian brothers and sisters. I fear many of them have not mastered the balance between preaching truth and doing it with love. Jesus left people feeling loved and better about themselves while at the same time convicted of their sins. Too often Christians leave people feeling judged and condemned.

 
6) This week's group, The Association, was founded in Hawaii. Hawaii produces more pineapple than other state in the union. When did you most recently have pineapple?  Probably a couple of weeks ago. I don't know why I don't eat it more often, it is one of my favorite fruits.

 

7) In 1968, when this song was popular, Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Think about the last wedding you attended. Were you closer to the bride or to the groom, or were you equally close to both?  It was the Irish wedding of my husband's dad's half-sister's son. Does that make him a half-cousin? Is that even a thing? Anyway, we were obviously closer to him. He and his brother are roughly the same ages as my kids and they grew up together and were quite close at one time.

 

8) In 1968, when this song was popular, Laugh In was America's #1 TV show and it made a star of Goldie Hawn. Do you have a favorite Goldie Hawn movie?  Overboard! Though that probably has a lot more to do with a hot, in-his-prime, Kurt Russell being in it than anything to do with her.

 
9) Random question: Who is the most recent person you made smile, and what did you do?  I think it was one of the residents in the memory care unit today. He is new, too, and still finding his way in his new environment. I think he kind of looks like Clint Eastwood. Old Clint Eastwood, but he doesn't need to know that part. Anyway, he lit up like Christmas when I told him and then he launched into telling me about the business he had and his farm. He's such a sweetie! You should have heard him telling me, "Go ahead, make my day."

And now, a bonus for Gal, that I think will make her smile, too. A little "hello" from Jasper (Jazzy) as he has been helping me answer the questions tonight.