Saturday, April 29, 2023

Y for...

#AtoZChallenge 2023 letter Y


YES:

The group Yes, that is. When I first heard the song below, I began to like it, and when it replaced "Say, Say, Say" by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson at the top of the charts, I got the tape with my birthday money. I seemed to be the only one at my school who liked the group, even though the album and song were big sellers.

I saw the group in 2002, and again in 2004. It was the classic lineup, pictured below in a concert photo from 1977. Sadly two members have passed and only one of the five remains with the band. It just wouldn't seem the same without them 😢


Around the same time, I learned about Yes, the band, I also learned about a laundry detergent that was called Yes.


  

YEARBOOKS:

I would glance at my mom's high school yearbooks as a little girl. I could not wait to have my own ones. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask to buy one in sixth grade. But I made sure to get one every year after, seventh grade through senior year of high school. Did anyone have yearbooks in college? None of the colleges I attended had them.

Here is the cover of my high school senior class yearbook:

I have not looked at my yearbooks in a long time. At our 30th reunion in 2019, one of our classmates brought all four of his yearbooks. While at the event, I quickly browsed through each of them.


YAHTZEE:

A game I loved playing when we had visitors. I was always in fear of not gaining enough points to make the full scores on both the top and bottom portions. The long straight was a hard one to roll. This was the very box at my house. 



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YAY! One day left! ZOOM on by tomorrow for the finale.


6 comments:

  1. Thank you for this ride through the past. Even if I'm almost 10 yars older and from Denmark, amny of the toys and things are the same as the ones I remember. I have now read and enjoyed all your A-Z posts ;)

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  2. I like playing Yahtzee every once in a while! And yes, yearbooks were big in high school, weren't they? I drew the cover art for our yearbook one year.

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  3. I love Yahtzee! Also Kismet, which is similar 😀 Paula Light

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  4. No yearbooks here but a definite YES to yahtzee. It was another game that we played for household chores...

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  5. Yahtzee is a fun game. One of the few I actually like. I have all but my freshman year yearbook. I didn't realize what a big deal yearbooks were.

    Janet’s Smiles

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  6. Not a big fan of Yes, but I liked that song. So, we are exactly the same age. Not surprising. I'm also a 1989 grad. We did not have elementary yearbooks. I wasn't so keen on getting yearbooks, but my mother insisted, so I have them for 7th through 12th grades. I was so surprised when I started subbing at how many students don't buy them nowadays. Sad. (I did have yearbooks for college. I only got the one in my graduating year.)

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