#january 1st

I wish everyone happiness in 2018, I hope everyone is so deliriously happy, that they forget to document their lives. I hope this year is the beginning of wonderful relationships and new beginnings.

My wish for 2018// Alexandra

Happy 2022!

This paper was an absolute dud. For one, it’s a holiday paper, and two, it’s a Saturday paper. Double ugh.

“A mortuary in Orlando, Florida offered free funerals for drunks who kill themselves while behind the wheel.”

Why do I feel like this was a way for Thalhimers to create a mailing/phone list?

What is your favorite TV show illustration? Mine is the last projection TV, the one that looks like this trench coat guy is sitting in a courtroom, judging people. Ugly projection TV girl up top is my second favorite.

I’m pretty sure this still runs in Daily Press. I always wondered who actually saved these for their Sunday School Scrapbook, and what on earth a Sunday School Scrapbook ever was.

Oh! This was right before Susan Saint James starred in Kate and Allie, a show I’ve been meaning to watch. Charles is some hot shot reality TV producer now, and rescued his dad from a plane crash in 2004. Time to feel old and useless.

I don’t know much about LaWanda Page’s work, but man is this review scathing. I found a copy of the “Watch It, Sucker” album on YouTube.

Here is more information about the fire at Coleman Nursery, which was home to a giant Christmas display until 2004:

On Dec. 31, 1982, local fire departments received a call for help from the Coleman’s property. At approximately 7:20 p.m., fire broke out at the nursery.

Fifty firefighters responded to the scene and combated the blaze, which burned past 9:45 p.m.

While there were no injuries reported, Winter Wonderland did not fair as well. While the Snow Palace and trainland display were spared, four buildings were reported as destroyed with the animatronics that inside, including Junie Lancaster’s original sleeping Santa. All told, the nursery clocked in at $2 million in damages.

While it seemed hopeless, the community showed Twiford and Morgan what Coleman’s Winter Wonderland meant to them. Bennett’s Creek Rescue Squad, who would raise money at the display each year, worked to raise money for the nursery.

Donations flooded in from all over the country, totaling $20,000. At least one of the manufacturers of the original display figures offered to remake many of the pieces, charging less than half the cost for them. Residents donated decorations, plaster snowmen, and even a hand-carved carousel.

Finally, another sleeping Santa was purchased (though the new one was notably absent of its predecessor’s feather).

Morgan said, “If you have a disaster, people will bind together in this country and get you back on your feet. It really makes you humble.

Arson investigators determined that the blaze was intentionally set, though the case remains unsolved. 1

I was the Scrimpalotz family in my 20s and 30s when I was unemployed with no friends. I’ve never been the Whoopitups because I have a ~SeNsItIvE StOmAcH~.

mm! I think I remember this For Better or For Worse storyline from a collection I bought from the thrift store when I was a teenager. John (“daddy”) drank too much on New Years Eve and Lynn (mom) got pissed.

Oh! I was right!

I’m getting big Beavis & Butthead vibes from this, you know like if the boys tried to create their own 1-800 sex line, but since they’re dumb they called women instead of women calling them.

So, there was a comic strip based on the TV show Dallas.There’s a great writeup on this site about how the strip didn’t last very long and how it had rotating illustrators who never seemed to get the characters faces right. The strip ended in 1984.

I wish this was me and my Nordstrom card.

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1. Sheppard, Nancy. ‘Here for the Holidays: A Landmark Lost: Coleman’s Winter Wonderland’. Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, 5 Nov. 2021, https://wydaily.com/here-for-the-holidays/2021/11/05/here-for-the-holidays-a-landmark-lost-colemans-winter-wonderland/.||https://web.archive.org/web/20211225143705/https://wydaily.com/here-for-the-holidays/2021/11/05/here-for-the-holidays-a-landmark-lost-colemans-winter-wonderland/