Rose Marie
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Retired Housewife AND PROUD OF IT |
| Location | Hudson, New York |
| Introduction | Hudson is a lovely town - don't believe what everybody says! I’ll tell you, it sure was nice before urban redevelopment; my friends all agree with me. The land was bought originally by Dutch settlers in 1662, and settled by respectable New England whalers and merchants hailing primarily from Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Providence. Chartered as a city in 1785, Hudson grew rapidly as a bustling, beautiful port city, frequented by ships carrying sealskins and sperm oil, and various useful industries like cannonballs, cement, lab rats, glue, pocketbooks, matchbooks, and icepicks. That all was driven away by the newcomers, and the only decent business Hudson has left is Section 8 housing. This town got ruined in the 1970s. Urban blight, you know what I’m talking about? Oh my word! But we have some nice stores now, out on Fairview. And we have so many churches here, they call Hudson "the Naples of the Americas." And I won prom queen fair and square Agnes; get over it already. And in the 1800’s Hudson lost by one vote being named the state capital of New York which would have meant that we would've gotten The Egg! So there. Have a nice day everybody! |
| Interests | Serving God With Crazy Abandonment and a Cupcake Tin, World Peace, and, GRANDCHILDREN!, Marriage, Children, ...Great-Grandchildren?, Baking, Bible Study, Bailey’s, Movies, especially anything G-Rated at the Hudson Movieplex you know I love the popcorn there, Scrapbooking, Reading, Sewing, Target, (j'adore Tar-jay!), Saint Mary's Church, Florida, Christians, Betty Crocker, Gimlets, Precious Moments, Wallpaper, Latin Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Italian Cooking, Hawaii, Gordon's Gin, Cake Decorating, Hand Washing, High School Reunions, Columbia County Historical Society, Genealogy, Decorating, Dollar Stores, Old Crow, Weddings, American Cheese, Clean Gutters, Cruises, Blender Drinks, Musicals, Angel Figurines, Spas, Lynne Cheney, Godiva Chocolate, Gardening, Duty-Free, Lucille Drive Crafting Club, Shop Rite, Rosalind Russell, Coffee Mugs, Beefeater Gin, Reader’s Digest, Recipes, Refrigerator Magnets, Flower Arranging, Church Choirs, The Good Old Days, Peach Schnapps, Bridge, Irish Spring, Museum of Firefighting, Quilts, Talk Shows, Tide Detergent, The Hudson Flag Day Parade, Driving, Lisa Whelchel, Paperweights, The Kitchen Planning Department at Home Depot, Focus on the Family, Tanqueray Gin, Polident, Avon, Swiffers, Concerned Women for America, Women Activists Concerned about Kooky Odd Strangers (WACKOS), Seagram's Gin, Knitting, Shopping, Double-Parking, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, David Hasselhoff, Kennedy Fried Chicken, Murphys Oil Soap, Window Boxes, Theater, Price Chopper, Purses, Limoges Boxes, HAVEN (Hudsonians Against Virtually Everything New), Pancakes, Petunias, Needlepoint, Smirnoff Vodka, Amy Grant, Organizing, Martha Stewart, Daughters of the American Revolution - Hendrick Hudson Chapter, Marigolds, Vacuuming, Hummels, Giving Parenting Advice to Strangers, Sherry, Nancy Reagan, Lawn Ornaments, Crafting, Redbook Magazine, Fleischmann Gin, Window Treatments, NIRMBY (Not In Rose Marie's Back Yard!), My Pill Box, Kennebunkport, Being Practically Perfect |
| Favorite Movies | That's Entertainment!, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, South Pacific, The Trouble With Angels, Singing in the Rain, Harriet Craig, The Music Man, Sister Act, The Singing Nun, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Catered Affair, The Sound of Music, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Bad and the Beautiful, Pollyanna |
| Favorite Music | Jackie Gleason, "Champagne Candlelight and Kisses", Jackie Gleason, "Night Winds", Jackie Gleason, "Martini Memories", Jackie Gleason, "Music to Make You Misty" |
| Favorite Books | God's "The Bible", Cassandra Danz' "Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams", Grace Metalious' "Peyton Place", Harold Robbins' "The Lonely Lady", Anything by Ellery Queen or Reader's Digest, Anything with Mary Mother of God or Nancy Drew |