Saturday 9: GET ON YOUR FEET

 

Get on Your Feet

Saturday 9: GET ON YOUR FEET (1989)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Gloria Estefan encourages us to stand up and make it happen. What's something you want to accomplish this fine Saturday?  I'm not sure.  I have officially finished my Letrs training for school (this has taken all year).  It is reading curriculum.  The house is clean and my books are read.  I am going to rest.  If baseball is on, I will watch that (Spring Training).  

2) She sings that we've all been through some nasty weather. How has winter 2021/22 treated you thus far (weather wise)?  I have enjoyed it.  We have had a pattern of days in the 50's and then snow and cold...then repeat.  I like that we can get outside when we are at school.  We have not missed too many recesses.  The snow keeps us home and honestly, I don't mind because of the sickness.  We have a few days to make-up, but we can do it.

3) Best known as a recording artist, Gloria is also a best-selling author of children's books. When you were a kid, were you a big reader?  not really.  I read some ghost story type books when I was in middle school and Judy Blume.  Then in high school I read the classics for classes and same in college.  I did not really read what I wanted until a few years ago.  Many of you remember that.  I am a monster now reading books.  The latest book I enjoyed this past week was The Love Hypothesis.

 
4) In addition to music and writing, she's a linguist. As a college student, she supported herself as an English/French/Spanish translator at Miami International Airport. When were you most recently at an airport? Were you traveling yourself, or picking someone up/dropping them off?  I never have a need to go to the airport, we always drive everywhere, but when I was little we took my Granie to the airport to go to California...someone had died I think.  I have never flown.

5) Gloria made her acting debut in 1999's Music of the Heart, a Meryl Streep movie about music teachers in Harlem. Did you have music classes in school? Have you ever taken private lessons?  I had many music classes.  I was in choir in school, even college.  I took music appreciation in college.  Also, band and choraliers in high school which was song and dance.  I am 5th from the right back row of course.  This was choraliers.  Our canes are in front of the guys.  I have taken private singing lessons.

 
6) Today Gloria is one of the celebrity residents of Star Island, a man-made island in Biscayne Bay. Star Island is connected to the mainland by MacArthur Causeway, named for General Douglas MacArthur. Tell us about a street in your neighborhood, and who it's named for.  Oh the streets here are named after old timers in the town I live in.  I do not know them, just people that live on the road.  I am not from here.

7) 1989, the year "Get on Your Feet" was popular, was the year of the first HDTV broadcast. By 1998, high-def shows and TVs were dominant. How many TVs are in your home? Do you watch shows on your computer or phone?  There are 3 tv's.  One in the living room, one in mine and Karl's bedroom and one in Josh's room.  I watch tv on my phone if it is a ball game and I am out.  Otherwise, we DVR things.  Josh watches almost everything on his phone.  I am old I guess.  I do not see the appeal in watching things on a tiny phone screen.  Gal, his phone is how he watches classic movies or on his computer!  When he watches with me, we watch on my big tv in the living room.

8) Also in 1989, The Simpsons premiered. It's now the longest-running prime-time TV show ever. Are you a fan?  Not at all.

9) Random question: Should husbands wear their wedding rings?  Yes.  My husband works commercial construction and he wears his all of the time.