It's funny how elusive time is.
How music and smells and tastes and people can erase ten years in ten minutes.
How you think you are over something and then you hear a few songs that tear your being into pieces and take you right back to where you were before you had it all figured out.
How you thought you would grow up to be someone that doesn't even really have a place in pop culture anymore. Holler atcher retro underground.
How funnelcakes and cottoncandy and WD40 and a papermaking plant are the same today as they were a billion years ago.
How you thought you would look when you got 16 but you still can't pull it off at 33. I mean 36. Because I look great for 36. And really skinny and well rested for having three kids. Don't you think?
How you thought that McDonalds' french fries would be the same forever but then the government swept in and took away transfats and now they taste like shit and you feel like you were robbed of your childhood.
How music and smells and tastes and people can erase ten years in ten minutes.
How you think you are over something and then you hear a few songs that tear your being into pieces and take you right back to where you were before you had it all figured out.
How you thought you would grow up to be someone that doesn't even really have a place in pop culture anymore. Holler atcher retro underground.
How funnelcakes and cottoncandy and WD40 and a papermaking plant are the same today as they were a billion years ago.
How you thought you would look when you got 16 but you still can't pull it off at 33. I mean 36. Because I look great for 36. And really skinny and well rested for having three kids. Don't you think?
How you thought that McDonalds' french fries would be the same forever but then the government swept in and took away transfats and now they taste like shit and you feel like you were robbed of your childhood.
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Yesterday my best friend from high school asked me to be in her wedding. One year from yesterday, eleven years one month and ten days from her last one.
I don't talk to her much anymore but I'll probably see her next Friday night.
We will catch up about the boys. Both the big ones and little ones.
And then our old girlios.
And the nineties.
We will talk about our bodies, and how they changed.
And our points of view, and how they changed.
And our hair, and how it changed.
And our clothes, and how they changed.
And our make up, and how it changed.
And then we will move on to our hearts, which haven't.
july 1999
14 degrees {comments}:
Great photo!
Funny how there are some people in our lives that no matter what changes, you feelings for them never, ever do.
Congrats to your friend on her engagement!
:-)
um you have three kids?
"How you think you are over something and then you hear a few songs that tear your being into pieces and take you right back to where you were before you had it all figured out."
Gah - this gets me every time. It's unreal and totally amazing how a song can make you time travel.
You are the only woman I know who lies about being older than her actual age. I love you for it!
I thought that mixtapes would last forever. I would have bought them all had I known that in a few years they would be gone.
Memory of music is the last to go. I'm going to tell Boo to play me my music when I'm old and Alzheimered.
We were going to trade in our '97. I realized I'd lose the tape deck. I almost cried. Decided to keep the car. For other reasons, of course.
Ha! I can date almost any movie, almost any song from late 80s through the 90s according to what boyfriend I was dating at the time! Sickening, cause I really wasn't a Ho! Just everything was connected...
I look JUST like Blondie.
Even better!
It's great to have friends you've known forever. They keep you grounded.
Congrats on your friend's engagement.
I didn't know that about mcdonalds fries.... i haven't had one in years and years.... there was a scene in that movie freaky friday (Jade made me watch it) where the mom, now in her daughters boday, can finally eat whatever she wants and houses a bag of fries. That's me.
I love this post
I love the picture of you and your friend. Best Wishes to her on her engagement!
I would love to still be in touch with old friends. The closest friends I've had over the years are the ones that "come into your life for a reason/season and leave when it is time for one of you to move on." The time spent, however, was golden.
I can totally relate to the time travel thing when hearing certain songs. I fell in love with my husband on early Elton John. I really love going back to that time.
Great post!
Joan Jett, eh? Why not? Though Blondie was (is) way hotter. Where is Joan Jett?
I'm trying to think of who I wanted to be when I was 16. Dwight Yoakam, actually. But then I saw him in Slingblade and realized he was short and bald and nowhere near as cool as those painted on jeans and wicked lid would have indicated.
your relationship with your best friends sounds very familiar to me, and i don't think i'd want it any other way :)
I get this. As I am dealing with my sister my best friend from HS and her Dad who live in south carolina have been in touch daily. I love that.
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