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Unbelievable!

I was completely freaking out, so excited was I that the holiday season is upon us meaning… CRANBERRY SPLASH IS BACK!

Its only the best holiday soda ever invented! I was nervous to have some this year, since I’ve had two UTIs since last February and after the second one my doctor told me to stay away from soda. But, but… my Favorite Beverage On Earth comes but once a year! So when B came home with two bottles of it last night I told myself I’d try to keep my consumption to a respectable level. Moderation, kids! I even waited to have some since it was past 8:30 p.m. when he got home.

I just ate dinner and after drinking 8 oz. of water after work (being kind to my bladder!), I poured myself a small glass of Cranberry Splash to drink with my dinner.

And I don’t believe it! I haven’t had soda of any kind since my last UTI, which was in August. Three months soda free! And guess what? I’m finding Cranberry Splash too sweet! I can’t even finish the small glass I poured. I don’t like it. I don’t like The Best Soda On Earth anymore!

I suppose I should be happy that my body has chosen to prefer healthier things now that I’ve trained it a little. But I’m still sad. Cranberry Splash made me so happy last year! I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. I’m just confused.

Today in… 1986

A follow-up on yesterday’s post. From my 8th Grade English Class Journal, November 18, 1986:

I just got out of gym. I hate volleyball with a passion. After school today. We’re going to my Aunt L’s house for spaghetti with my grandparents. What fun. I’m going to miss Dance Party. Oh well. The Lip Sync wasn’t by Jason and Bob, it was by Pisces. It was stupid. F is absolutely going to kill me. I almost died. Last night Amy came over after we went downtown. I got Superteen’s October issue, and the record “Walk Like An Egyptian” By the Bangles. It was the last one. Amy got “Human” by the Human League, and something else. Gotta go, Bye.

Ah… a little bit more info! My copy of “Walk…” was the last one in stock. This goes along nicely with yesterday’s post indicating that when I purchased it, the song was climbing its way to number 1! Nice! And now we have the added info that Amy bought “Human” by Human League. Let’s see… according to Wiki ”Human” was the band’s first single off their album Crash (which was released in September of 1986) and became Human League’s second number one single in America. And Amy helped!

Hmmph… Dance Party! I had to go and mention it, didn’t I? Yes, 8th grade saw me obsessed with this Philly-based dance show on the USA Network. And this means I subjected Amy to it, and as I recall, Amy HATED Dance Party. My friend “F” and I *loved* it , though! While my friend “F” frothed over the show’s most popular regular, Bob – I spent my evenings staring at his best friend, Jason. I think Lip Syncs were about one of the worst things to come out of the 80s. I think we only cared so much about them because whomever did a lip sync had more “face time” for us to stare at them on tv. Nothing to kill me or die over. I wish I had a quarter for everytime the phrase, “I almost died” shows up in my journals and diaries. I’d be wealthy! Everything is so dramatic when you’re 13!

Incidently, I don’t remember how the spaghetti was, but it makes me wonder… I was absent the next day!

Today In… 1986 AND a note from my 45 collection

From my 8th grade English class journal:

I just got out of health. That class is getting pretty BORING. Oh well. I’m going downtown after school with Amy. I’m going to get a magazine and a record. Grandma & Grandpa got here Saturday from Florida. Yesterday we ordered a 32 slice pizza and watched slides. Karie came too. I’m going to get the record “Walk Like An Egyptian” by the Bangles. Well, gotta stop. Bye.

I guess this is as good a time as any to do another entry in the My 45 Collection category! Not often do I figure out the exact date I purchased one of my records, but there you have it: November 17, 1986 I purchased “Walk Like An Egyptian” by The Bangles! There is more information about this shopping excursion in the next day’s entry, but I’ll save that for tomorrow (hopefully I’ll remember!).

“Walk Like An Egyptian” was released, according to it’s Wiki page, as the third single from The Bangles’ hit album Different Light, in September of 1986, when it also debuted in the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number one on the same chart in the U.S. on December 20th (so I was on board early, then.. I helped!). It stayed at number one for four weeks, carrying it through to January 1987.

What I cannot believe is that according to the Wiki entry, this song is one that was deemed inappropriate by those nerds at Clear Channel after the 9/11 attacks. I guess they didn’t want the terrorists thinking we were making fun of the way they walk?

I bought no less than three 45s from the album Different Light. It dawned on me later that I should have just bought the album. But that’s how it was back then. Not often did you find an entire album to your liking or want to take a chance on it, especially as an 8th grader with no money. You bought what you liked and could afford. Only rarely did it turn out that the album would have been the bargain!

If you’re my age (35) you’ll probably remember everyone and their grandmother walking around imitating ancient hieroglyphs of King Tut during the winter of 1986/1987. Such a clever song! The country couldn’t get enough!

Before I go, I want to give a shout out to the Pudgies 32 slice sheet pizza mentioned in the English class entry. Pudgies is still in my hometown and the pizza and wings still rule. Yes!

 

Flu Shot!&^&*%%!

Why can’t I ever…EVER… get a flu shot without getting sick within the next 3-4 days? It has happened AGAIN. The flu shot can’t make you sick, yeah whatever. Please don’t post what I already know – the gubment tells us it’s dead, if we get sick it’s because we were coming down with it already, blahblahblah. Yeah, sure. I just happen to be coming down with something every freaking year I get a flu shot. I don’t buy it! I’m so ticked! I stopped getting the shot for the last 5 years or so, then of course this past year I got the flu. This scared the crapola out of me and I got a shot this year. I felt FINE when I got it. Best I’ve felt in ages. I should have known better. Now I’m sick with something like a cold, but makes me achy like the flu. Sometimes I really hate my life. (

Heimlich Maneuver Film Review from 12/1986

From my 8th grade English Class notebook, I bring you my review of a Heimlich Maneuver film we viewed in Health Class, circa December 1986. I have left in all crossed-out items and spelling errors for your enjoyment:

yesterday in health In health a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about how to save a choking person from death, After that, we saw a movie. It was disgusting! In the beginning it showed this (inserted here: tall) girl with short, blond hair talking to her boyfriend and eating an apple. her boyfriend turned around, his back to (in margin: get his bike because they were going to race. home), and she she turned blue and choked on a piece of the apple. He did the Heimlich manouvre and the apple flew out of her throat. Then she returned back to her normal color. The next one was about this guy at a barbecue that choked on a piece of meat. A tall, sturdy, black guy gave him the Heimlich and the meat flew out. Again the guy had turned blue. Totally blue. There were other examples. All the people that choked looked like smurfs. I swear, and each time someone choked someone or they would save (them)selves.) Dr. Heimlich was there to tell us what they just did. (How they got saved.) It was so stupid.

(editors note: I did look for this film on Youtube and unfortunately, I cannot find it.)

Felon-in-training

So I’m sitting here at the computer in our apartment after work. We live in a basement apartment in a huge complex. I hear a weird banging noise. I think nothing of it, assuming the cat is up to something out in the kitchen. Ten seconds later I hear it again. Weird, but maybe the maintenance guys are banging around in the hallway again. Ten seconds later I hear another bang and decide to get up to investigate, thinking it’s the cat for sure. The noise sounds like it’s coming from *inside the apartment*! I stand up, turn around to leave the room and it happens again, this time my focus is the window five feet away. I don’t know why I didn’t realize the noise was coming from here before! We have dark blue Martha Stewart for Kmart curtains hanging in here and beyond them I see a shadow. In retrospect, I should have been frightened, grabbed the phone, …something! But I just… wasn’t, and I didn’t. A lot of times maintenance guys are banging around with some piece of apartment building equipment that happens to be lcoated outside our window.. I guess that’s what I was thinking and why I wasn’t scared. Still, as I moved closer it became evident someone was mucking with our window screen (which for some reason was bent and on the outside ever since we moved in). Our window screen was being slid back and forth!!! I fearlessly (stupidly?) whipped the curtain open and came face to face with…

A TODDLER!

I kid you not (haha I said, “kid” you)! This little boy not even old enough to talk was startled but didn’t flee… he just stared at me!!! He looked at me, and I looked at him, and he looked at me… and then I looked past him for an adult, and lo and behold there was some skanky-looking adult male on a cell phone sitting at a picnic table about 25 feet away looking the other way. I looked at the kid who was still staring at me and motioned for him to go away. He stared at me some more. I did it again and yelled “GO!!! Go on!!!” and banged on the window to get the adult’s attention. The kid turned and did that toddler-with-diaper running thing toward the man as he turned, assesed the situation (with me still yelling “go!” and motioning) and yelled something like “Mario!!! Get over here!” at the kid. Oh, how helpful.

I hope he reigns in his little felon-in-training! This kid is at most two years old and already fearless and thinks breaking and entering is a hoot! I’m not saying all parents are bad, but what the hell is WRONG with some of them?! Terrible things can happen in only a second!!! Keep an eye on your kids!

“An Historic Day…”

Ugh, if I hear that phrase one more time! I mean, it’s awesome and everything… I’m just so tired. I’m sitting here listening to CNN and the presidential election returns coming in. I have been an Obama supporter since early in 2007. It’s been a long and winding road. Even though the election hasn’t been called, I’ve been getting “thank you” mesages from myspace friends, thanking me for turning them on to Mr. Obama. it means the world to me. Obama really did put together a truly grassroots campaign. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. I’m optimistic that he will win, but even if he doesn’t I am so proud of what he’s accomplished. And I am so proud to have helped!

Now, I thought I’d amuse myself while I wait by posting a “Today In…” entry from one of my old English class journals… but lo and behold I was absent on November 4th in both 1986 (8th grade) and 1988.  Wow, a historically “sick” day for me! I am getting a flu shot tomorrow… should I be scared? The only other year I have (1987?) it seems November 4 was not a school day. Incidentally, I believe it was 1986 where November 4 was a Tuesday just like this year. ;o)

OBAMA ’08!