Wow! I won!!!!!!!!

Well Well, I can't even believe my luck. Well first of all I must forgive myself for taking my own sweet time writing to myself in this new fangled way of journals. I love to write my crazy thoughts, it is very therapeutic, or "therapetic" as Barney(Fife) would say....but I simply don't think anybody cares, including me...sad but true. Days come and go and before you know it a whole season passes, zzzzzzz! So back to my luck, today I found out that I had won a small little contest. On a whim, I decided to write my thoughts on growing up in Murfreesboro, Tn on a Facebook page for which I am a friend, and it was a contest. The winner will receive a $20 gift card from restaurant of choice. So I went ahead because the worst that can happen is that I will get mocked for writing something so lame. Au contrair! (must check spelling?) Apparently the person who read these ramblings of a wannabe blogger has no literary sense at all, but they are in my opinion the smartest person to ever live because....yep, I WON! Yippie! So because I am very humble and not at all prideful I am copy/pasting it here for posterity! Thanks to Mr. Cyberspace who ever you are!

BTW...the question was..
Write about some of your favorite memories and places in Murfreesboro,TN.

I grew up on a farm out off Floration Rd and "coming to town" was the big Saturday adventure. M'boro was as exciting as any little girl could dream about. The way the creaky, worn, wood floor at Woolworth's on the square felt on a little girls feet with the smell of warm nuts and popcorn breezing through the air. Going to Goldstein's, now that was just like Macy's in New York, so fancy and shiny! The Book Rack for the old smelly paperbacks because they were the books my sisters could buy or trade and keep for their very own. For all others we went to Limbaugh Public Library, just off the square, but very impressive. It's where all the smart people were and the basement is where the children's books live; it's where I met Encyclopedia Brown and Charles Shultz and many other equally exciting characters. And when the Princess Theatre was there, wow...Broadway! or so it seemed, watching "Double Trouble" with Elvis, this was the life!
. . . Then we had Penny's at Christmas, and in the basement was the best toy department ever! And never forget the great parades down main street. It was real livin' back then for a scraggly, semi-poor young girl. The coolest thing as I got older was how all the church people(or so I thought) went to Shoney's after church on Sunday. My family didn't attend church much
but I always thought what a treat to eat out at Shoney's. Later on as I got older and we moved to "town" from the farm I would visit church with school friends, First Baptist downtown, and we went one time...it was pure delight! I felt as if I fit in, I was one of the special people....yep, Murfreesboro is a special place, wouldn't have traded growing up here for anything and I
am happy to have moved back close to home after 27 yrs away. A lot haschanged, but the core is still the same!