Davyyyy, get outta the bathroom!

This has been a most pleasant and productive weekend in which I have not been able to accomplish 2 straight hours of TV watching or net surfing.

Saturday I made it out to the Epcot Flower & Garden show with some friends of mine. It was a beautiful day, slightly on the hot side. It was SO NICE to just be outside and have a good time with good people. One of the highlights was seeing one of my school girl crushes live at the Flower Show - Davy Jones. The music brought back many nostalgic memories of hot summers in Illinois watching the MTV reruns of the Monkees. Though history will tell you I was primarily a Peter fan, with occasional interest in Mike, who honestly didn't love Davy?!

As MTV brought Round 2 of success for the Monkees, my sister, my friends Jenne and Shannon and I jumped right on that. We had posters, magazines, original LPs, and taped every episode. I think our favorite was always when Davy's grandfather came to take him back to England. That is until we saw the fairy tale episode where Mike donned a dress to play a princess in distress. His line of "HAROLD, you better get this carriage out of the MUD" is, frankly, one of my favorite moments in television.

So we were living in the sixties and then MTV brought us images of the Monkees "today." That was around 1987...and we were deeply in shock. The cute boys were old haggard looking men. We all got over it, frankly. Now that I'm more sensitive to the aging process, I don't think Davy looks too bad:

















I was disappointed that this picture of Davy con Maracas didn't turn out better but at least I got a couple shots of it in:
















From my past interest (teen idol heart-throbs turned grandparents) to a future one, we went on to explore the Flower & Garden show. Saw a lot of character topiaries but I was chuffed to have taken some floral pictures as well..This is because I'm succumbing to the aging process myself:



































And then today I took my grandmother and her friend Marie to Outback for Mother's Day. And I pursued my interests from yesterday and bought landscaping materials for my yard and downloaded a bunch of Monkee songs from iTunes.

And now I'm eating chocolate cake for dinner and planning to watch the Survivor finale.

Was this post worth waiting for? Prolly not.