Musical memories

When I was younger, I LOVED The Pointer Sisters. Absolutely adored them and thought they were the best musical group on the planet. 

Sophomore year, some friends and I performed one of their songs for our school's lip synch (and I blogged about the dark side of that almost 5 years ago!).

I had a couple of Pointer Sisters albums (on tape) and likely wore them out. 

Yesterday morning, if you'd asked me to name some Pointer Sisters songs, I would likely have listed "Jump," "I'm So Excited," and my favorite, "Neutron Dance." 

However, as Mal and I were sitting in the McDonald's Play Place waiting for his friend to arrive for their weekly meet-up, a very familiar song played on their "oldies" feed. It sounded familiar... was it The Pointer Sisters? Yes, it was!

The song is called "Dare Me." 

When I got home, I decided to look it up. I couldn't have told you that this song existed when I woke up, but as I played the video, I knew every single word!

All of this to say, I'm glad we got there early because this is one throwback I very much needed. I think that The Pointer Sisters' music stands up, and this video is SO 1980s and perfect, I love it with all of my heart. 

I'm doing you a favor here... You're welcome.

Did I mention that we went on vacation?

We took a circuitous road trip to New Orleans at the beginning of the month: Caddo Lake, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lake Charles, home. 

We saw so much cool architecture, a good number of museums, one of the only public plantations dedicated to the lives of enslaved people, and we ate some really good food!

I was going to insert some cool pictures here, but Blogger is being a jerk this morning so here's the link to the album, if you're interested.

Yes, James is still unemployed.

We're trying to walk the line between being frugal to maintain our savings (a lot of which is supposed to be for retirement, so...) and in living our best life while James has time to do things. I'm not sure we're getting it 100%, but we're trying.

Mal has one week left in his classes before they break for the summer. They're having a few "campy" things and he's doing a couple of those, but otherwise I'll be looking for ways to fill Mal's summer downtime. He's not super busy in general, but when the structure of having at least one thing to do most days falls away, he tends to get restless. 

I have a mystery shop today, so I need to get ready to go.

Not much to report, just wanted to throw something up for April!