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Category Archives: Me in 1980’s

Ah, the 80’s.  They were a time in my life that brought so much remembered change. They seemed to last forever. (Insert Bryan Adam’s Summer of 69 here). From 1979 and having braless nub-boobs to 1989 when I was old enough to drink 3.2 beer legally. Good times. 1980-1982: Middle school. Puberty. My last year […]

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Time passes quickly up here at my age. For the younger me’s (I so want to type me’s because I know that’s what you need to see, but I’m fairly certain that mes is correct), though, it passed much more slowly. Perhaps time, in youth, passes more slowly because we change, so much, from one […]

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Remember Simon and Garfunkel?  They were awesome, huh?  Bridge Over Troubled Water was one of my favorites, ever. Here’s a little story for you about two dudes in the 70’s – I imagine they were listening to this song while having the following conversation. “Hey Pal, what’s up?” the guy in the stunning purple bell […]

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Man, the 70’s were like a Petri dish of bad taste.  Seriously, avocado and marigold yellow were the only acceptable modern color choices for the gigantic appliances that dominated an already vomit-ugly kitchen?  What’s up with that?  Plaid high-water pants were in, as were ugly shoes and Winnie-the-Pooh raincoats.  Well, maybe they weren’t actually “in” […]

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Before we begin, I’d like to set the mood for this sad, sad post about failed friendship, death, and nobody noticing with a little music from the 60’s. First, we have Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles.  Eleanor Rigby met a sad and lonely end…one where nobody came and nobody was saved *sniff.* “Eleanor Rigby died […]

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It’s Tuesday and that means that I’m linking up with my pal Jen at My Skewed View (formerly Break the Parenting Mold) for Twisted Mixed Tape Tuesday.  Her subject this week has to do with relationships – specifically getting dumped and wanting to tell the dumper that he’d be so much better off had he’d […]

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