TGIF.....boy do I miss those days!

You know what takes me back......this!

Every friday was TGIF in our house. We always ordered pizza, wings, breadsticks and a two liter from Pizza Hut....the best part of the week!

YUMMY!!!!!!

This is exactly what was on our living room table Friday night at 8pm. This is making me hungry just looking at it.....mmmmmm! As the pizza guy was arriving at the door, my brother and I were getting the paper plates and cups ready to eat. We all then proceeded to sit down at the table in front of the TV and we turned on ABC to watch the TGIF lineup. That was when I let go of the stress of the school week, relished in the fact that I got to sleep in, and got excited about leftover pizza hut for lunch on Saturday. Now, TGIF had many different shows which included Family Matters, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Boy Meets World, Hangin with Mr. Cooper, Sister Sister, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Mr. Belvedere, and On Our Own. My favorite lineup was Family Matters, Step by Step, Boy Meets World, and Hangin with Mr. Cooper. I have so many fond memories of these wonderful Friday nights that got me through the school week but it is a lot to cover in one post. I think I will do a series on Fridays called bringin back TGIF and talk about each of these great shows and how they will always be a big part of the 90's and my elementary/middle school memories. I think that they should bring TGIF back, not necessarily with new shows but do the old lineups again. It would be a great tradition to start with my family on Friday nights. Maybe I might try to get them on DVD and host my own TGIF what do you think? Would you do it? Should we get together and have TGIF parties? I THINK SO!

Why I have been and always will be CAMOCRAZY!

So, I was looking at my pajama pants today and I thought "I will ALWAYS love camouflage!"

 But, then I thought....where did this mild ;) obsession come from? I thought and I thought and then this popped into my head.....

Ah right! My favorite movie did it! The Pest....it made me CAMOCRAZY...and in love with John Leguizamo :) If you know me you know if I can get it in camo I got it!



I guess my obsession started in 1997 when I was in middle school. I remember when the movie came out and my family talked about going to see it because we thought it reminded us of Shederick (my brother) cuz he was a pest. Ya, I know we were kind of mean but we thought it was endearing lol.



We didn't end up seeing it in the theaters but we rented one night when I was having a sleepover. We watched it and that was all she wrote! I learned every line and every song...especially Voodoo Mamabo. If you have never heard it here you go!



In high school when anyone would buy be anything it would always be camo. All my friends also knew if there was anything with John Leguizamo they would let me know. We even read a short story in my 9 grade english class called "The Most Dangerous Game" which the movie was based off of and I showed this movie to my teacher Ms. Mowery and she thought I was a mess! I loved The Pest! My obsession isn't as bad as it used to be but even though I live in NV now people still know I love camo....they even buy it for my baby!

So, if you haven't seen the movie that changed my life lol, you GOTTA GOTTA GOTTA see The Pest!



And after all.....your my Wonderwall!

I had to blog about this before I forgot about it. Its summer and I love reminicing on the wonderful times I had at Tappan Teen Camp. All the water fights we had, all the dances we danced out (including the Macarena :/) and the wonderful soundtracks of 1996, 1997, and 1998! We were middleschooler and we were the epitomy of ackward as you can see from these pictures:

I loved so many songs but I was introduced to one of my favorite bands of all time....OASIS! If there is one song that will take me back to Teen Camp in an instant it is Wonderwall. It is just a perfect song and it evokes so much emotion. When I hear it everything in my world stops and I cant function until it is over. It reminds me of being on the bus with all of my friends going to Cedar Point for the first time. It reminds me of how all of the "cool kids" claimed the couch in the teen center. It reminds me of my first love.... and you never forget your first love ;) Wonderwall I must say has to be my favorite song of all time! This was definitely one of the most wonderful times in my adolescent years and I am glad I have such a great playlist of songs to take me back. I will be talking a lot about these songs so stay tuned! If you went to teen camp PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and your memories....I can never get enough!

Ya, I know...I missed last week!

Well, I missed last week so I'm going to make up for it :) I have been thinking long and hard about another song I would love to talk about.....and then it HIT me! I was livin' it up in elementary/middle school for the last post and I felt like staying there. I have been singing a lot lately and I have been thinking about some of my most memorable influences. The group I wanted to be in more than anything in the whole world was TLC! I knew every song, every dance move, every trivia fact, everything there was know about the CrazySexyCool T-Boz, Lefteye, and Chili. The song I want to talk about for this throwback thursday post is none other than....WATERFALLS. One of the biggest hits of all time you couldn't help but love that song. Again, I was too young to REALLY know what the song meant but I thought it was just amazing. The video was amazing, the dance moves were amazing and the MTV music video awards performance was the BEST!

All I wanted to do was be like them, I even had oversized overalls that I cut up so I they could look like the outfit the group wore when they performed on All That....anybody remember that....anybody...
Hands down TLC was one of the best girl groups at least of my time and I will forever look up to them. They made being a girl AWESOME and I can't thank them enough.

Oh by the way...I know this whole dance lol. If you see me ask me and I will do it for you :)

I like how there was no irony in the song Ironic....

So, I was driving in my car yesterday and heard Alanis Morrisette's new song Guardian. It was so good and it made me remember how much I LOVED HER!! I was too young to really relate to anything she was singing about but I just admired how awesome she was. I knew every word to every song on my Jagged Little Pill cassette :)

My Favorite song off that album had to be Ironic. I remember it coming out when I was in 5th grade. I lived in Ann Arbor, MI and I went to Pattengil elementary and I had Mr. Hatt as my teacher. We had just moved to Michigan from Pennsylvania and I was not happy about the change. I was on my third elementary school and I just wanted the year to be over. It was pretty cool though because we lived in the Residence Inn hotel because my dad had gotten transfered. We got to eat out everyday and the place was amazing. But...getting back to the song....I remember I couldn't go to sleep without hearing the song on the radio. I would stay up and have my ear right on the speaker of my alarm clock constantly changing the channel trying to hear that song. I was so happy when my parents finally bought me the cassette and I could play the song over and over. As you can see I still have my cassette and I will NEVER let it go!

"Here come the Men in Black..."

So, I am pretty bad at getting these throwback posts in on Thursdays so....I'm going to do it when I can until I can get the hang of it lol. I was driving this afternoon and this song came on during the old school lunch hour on the radio and I felt the smile overtake my face. This song came out in 1997, the summer before I started 7th grade. I was going to Ann Arbor teen camp and it was one of the best summers of my life! I remember watching this video over and over again so I could learn the dance and teach it to anyone who would be willing to learn. Dancing was one of our favorite things to do at camp and when this song came on we broke it down like we were Will's backup dancers! Then, speed forward 5 years and I brought back my knowledge of the dance and I made up some more! It was Mock Rock 2002 and boy did my friends and I rock the black suits (as soon as I get that video uploaded I will post it). I really loved the song and the Men in Black franchise and I cant wait until the movie comes out. If you all have some great memories of the song or what was going on with you during that time period...please share! Until my next random memory......

7/28/12 AND HERE IT IS......MEN IN BLACK MOCK ROCK!

Throwback thursday...a few days off :) Hot in Here By Nelly

So my Throwback Thursday jam today is Hot in Here by Nelly. This song came out 2002 when I was in 11th grade. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. I really don't know many folks that don't love this song. This might just be my summer song of 2002. I remember when my fellow VB'ers and I did an awesome dance to this song that Chris Perino and I choreographed in his parents basement....memories! But...my favorite memory of this song had to when Jimmy Fallon did a parody of this song in the opening act of the 2002 VMA's. That is why I picked this song as my first entry. I play music when I shower and I started my IPod and this song started playing. As I was getting ready I started doing the dance that Jimmy Fallon did and I found my self singing "I'd like an order of the uh uh, with a side of the uh uh" Lol Best VMA opening....but I digress.

Hot in Here...definitely one of my favorite songs of the decade! If you have any great memories of this song please feel free to comment I would love to reminisce.

My Epiphany!

So....i love reading peoples blogs and even tried to blog myself. To my disappointment I was very unsuccessful :( I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to blog about. Did I want to blog about my Sisterlocks...no, EVERYONE blogs about their sisterlocks. Did I want to blog about my baby journey....no because I was just not feeling it during my pregnancy. I just could not figure out what I wanted to talk about that could be my own. Then, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I love my life, and I am very excited about my future but I CAN'T stop thinking about all of the wonderful times I had in my past! I love talking about all the fun times I had at camp and great stories from when I was in high school. I am very influenced by music and it can conjure up amazing times. I want to blog about all of those times and hope that my friends and family will chime in to make all of these memories even greater! Anytime I think about a particularly awesome moment I will blog about it but I will definitely make an entry every Throwback Thursday that will focus on one of my favorite songs from 1990-2003. As time goes on I will extend the time so it is 10 years prior to the current year. I'm doing this so I can always have a wonderful piece of my past but also so I don't end up telling my children crazy, inaccurate stories lol! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you have a fond memory about what I am blogging about whether it was with me or not post it! Thanks to all who read it!