I saw the "sun"

Today's Throwback Thursday hit is....The Sign by Ace of Base! This song came out in 1993 and I was in 3rd grade. I was going to East Bradford Elementary and my best friends were Raquel, Jen, Lali, Patrick, and Will. I remember when the Ace of Base album came out and we ALL had it. Everyone played it on the playground and you couldn't escape it. Once Raquel and I were singing the song at my house and she sang "I saw the sun, and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sun." I then told her they were saying I saw the Sign not Sun. I also remember really wanting to see the video on MTV and when I was in 3rd grade my mom wouldn't let me watch MTV. My friend Caroline told me that it came on everyday at around 3:30. I convinced my mom to let me wait for the video but I NEVER caught it so.....HERE IT IS!

Oh how I miss being a little kid. Anyone else love this song?

The summer The Mask was....SMOKIN!!!

I just finished watching Aladdin on ABC family tonight and then the movie The Mask starts. I can't resist watching either of those movies but it is 12:30am for gods sake! I'm trying to convince myself to only stay up until the Cuban Pete number is over....but I can't guarantee anything. Watching this movie makes me think of a lot of great memories, like when I got the awesome soundtrack for The Mask movie as a family day present. But, the first thing that came to mind was the summer this movie came out and the trailer scared me so bad I stopped watching TV until it stopped showing on TV! It was the summer of '94 and my brother and I stayed the summer at our grandparents. My grandparents had a huge 70 inch projection screen TV and we used to love to sit right up next to it and watch the amazing box in action. Well, one day I was picking something up that had fallen right next to the TV and the trailer for the Mask came on.

In the commercial Stanleys face was swallowed by a mask, he spun around in a huge Tazmanian Devil twister, his eyes popped out of his head and his tongue rolled out of his mouth and it scared the sh*t out of me. Can you imagine being right up next to 70 inches of that right in your face! Needless to say I was shaken up quite a bit by that. I didn't realize how bad it was until we were watching TV and it came on again. I freaked out and then decided I could no longer watch TV. Well, I still wanted to watch TV but didn't want to risk seeing this scary commerical. So, my little 10 year old mind figured I would be safe if all I watched was QVC and thats what I did. I only watched QVC the rest of the summer! It was extreme but I was safe lol. The movie came out in theaters and my Dad and brother (who is 5 years younger than me) saw it and loved it. Then, when the movie came out on VHS my brother had to get it. I think it was more to scare me than anything and it worked. I was terrified to even see the cover and my brother would use it against me any chance he got. I eventually saw it a few months after we got it and I ended up LOVING IT! That is why I cant go to sleep tonight, because I am watching a movie that used to scare the living daylights out of me and now I cant resist it!

So....I did go to bed but I had to watch Cuban Pete.....

Yep, totally worth it!

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!

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!