Saturday 9: Love is All Around

Linking up today with Sam for Saturday 9: Love Is All Around (1970) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This week's song is the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a sitcom that originally aired from 1970 to 1977. Were you a fan? Yes, we loved this show back in the day!

2) The song tells us that Mary Richards can turn the world on with her smile. Yet the real-life Mary Tyler Moore said she was uncomfortable with her "wide mouth." If you could improve on one of your facial features, which would you choose? It would have to be my eyes. My eyelids could use a lift!

3) We also hear that Mary can "take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile." What do you think makes a day "a nothing day?" A nothing day would have to be one in which I felt I wasted time or felt a little off. But really, no day is a nothing day. Every day is a gift and to make a day worthwhile would be to live each day for God and adopt an attitude of gratitude that honors Him. 

4) Mary works in the newsroom at WJM. Her desk is neat as a pin. Are you neat? Or do you lean to the sloppy side? I am fairly neat. When I worked, my desk did not look neat as a pin. It never did. Working on too many projects at one time meant having several things spread across my desk. However, at home, my house is neat with everything in its place … unless the kids are here. Then it is not so neat!

5) Mary's best friend, Rhoda, worked as a window dresser at Hempel's department store. What department store did you most recently shop at? I guess it was Kohl's. What did you buy? A pair of capris and a pair of shorts.

6) Mary Richards lived in Minneapolis. What city is nearest to where you are right now? Dallas

7) Originally the part of Mary Richards was written as a divorcee, but in 1970, there were no TV shows that centered around a divorced woman. Think about the women in your life. Are most of them married, divorced, single or widowed? Most all of my friends are married, although a couple are divorced.

8) The MTM production company logo featured a mewing kitten. The cat was found in a Minneapolis shelter, and, after her sequence was shot, she was adopted by a crew member who named her Mimsie. What's the name of the last cat -- or dog or hamster or rabbit -- that you petted? My dog Annie! There's no avoiding her!!

I think this is the sweetest!

9) Random question -- Would you rather have a job that kept you seated on your fanny or standing on your feet? I worked for 45 years sitting in front of a typewriter, desk, computer! Six months of that time I worked standing as a teller in a bank. Three days of that time I stood on my feet chopping vegetables for a party. I will take sitting any time because you aren't constantly sitting - you do get up and run around a bunch! The three days I stood chopping vegetables made my back feel as though it was going to break.