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geekchickMemories triggered by various music today:
"Cold as Ice" by Foreigner - roller skating around and around in my garage, listening to this song on my Barbie record player. My skates were white with metal wheels, and I would get my parents to move the cars out of the garage so that we could have our own little private roller rink. It was the 70s, okay? ;) The song was on a K-Tel compilation (this one, in fact). Even then, if I had a little extra money it was likely to be saved up for a trip to Peaches to buy a record.
"Second Chance" by .38 Special - making out with the guy who worked the next department over from mine at the local Wal-Mart, parked at the airport in his Mustang. I had such I crush on Mark; he was very thin, with curly black hair, gorgeous eyes, and a wonderful sense of humor. He too was an incurable flirt, so we got along well. We only went out the once, generally he was much more into women with a different body type than mine and he started dating the gorgeous redhead he worked with not long afterwards. Thinking of Mark then made me think of Will, my bestest buddy at work. Adorable little redhead with freckles who set off just about everybody's gaydar. I wonder what ever happened to him? I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I can't go Google him, since I can't remember his last name anymore. =/
"Sugar Magnolia" by the Grateful Dead - I played "American Beauty" several times on the drive from Reston to Memphis a few Julys back, flying down 81 towards Tennessee with a month's worth of clothes and bedding and music stuffed in the back of my car, and my cat in his carrier in the front seat. The sunroof was open, the sun was mostly shining on both days of the drive, the cat settled down and quit whining after the first half hour or so, and I had a bunch of music picked out specifically for driving. I drove ten hours or so to Chattanooga the first day, then the remaining six across the state and down into Mississippi the second day. I'd never been through the Great Smoky Mountains before, and I would've been incredibly tempted to stay for a while if I hadn't really needed to get to Memphis in a hurry. I was going home because my mother was finally losing her battle with breast cancer, and I was headed back home to live for a while. Unfortunately that "while" only turned out to be a month, and then I got back just in time to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Tangent brought on by thinking about that trip: I remember very clearly one day on the drive home from work feeling like my dad (who died seven years before) was there in the car with me. It came and went within minutes, and I'd never had that feeling before that I'd noticed. Later that evening, my mom called to tell me that her cancer had come back after an almost five-year remission. It was disconcerting in more ways than one.
"Jamie Across the Water" by Boiled in Lead - I first heard BiL at a house concert at the Virginia branch of LSE (probably not the LSE you're thinking of, unless it is.). I went because I'd heard such good things about them from other people on a mailing list and wanted to check them out for myself, and I became an instant convert. I remember being amazed that I could manage to hold up my end of a conversation with Robin (until my date for one of Those Parties later in the evening came to pick me up) without getting totally tonguetied as, er, he pushes a few of my buttons. *grin* That was a fun evening all around.
"Cold as Ice" by Foreigner - roller skating around and around in my garage, listening to this song on my Barbie record player. My skates were white with metal wheels, and I would get my parents to move the cars out of the garage so that we could have our own little private roller rink. It was the 70s, okay? ;) The song was on a K-Tel compilation (this one, in fact). Even then, if I had a little extra money it was likely to be saved up for a trip to Peaches to buy a record.
"Second Chance" by .38 Special - making out with the guy who worked the next department over from mine at the local Wal-Mart, parked at the airport in his Mustang. I had such I crush on Mark; he was very thin, with curly black hair, gorgeous eyes, and a wonderful sense of humor. He too was an incurable flirt, so we got along well. We only went out the once, generally he was much more into women with a different body type than mine and he started dating the gorgeous redhead he worked with not long afterwards. Thinking of Mark then made me think of Will, my bestest buddy at work. Adorable little redhead with freckles who set off just about everybody's gaydar. I wonder what ever happened to him? I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I can't go Google him, since I can't remember his last name anymore. =/
"Sugar Magnolia" by the Grateful Dead - I played "American Beauty" several times on the drive from Reston to Memphis a few Julys back, flying down 81 towards Tennessee with a month's worth of clothes and bedding and music stuffed in the back of my car, and my cat in his carrier in the front seat. The sunroof was open, the sun was mostly shining on both days of the drive, the cat settled down and quit whining after the first half hour or so, and I had a bunch of music picked out specifically for driving. I drove ten hours or so to Chattanooga the first day, then the remaining six across the state and down into Mississippi the second day. I'd never been through the Great Smoky Mountains before, and I would've been incredibly tempted to stay for a while if I hadn't really needed to get to Memphis in a hurry. I was going home because my mother was finally losing her battle with breast cancer, and I was headed back home to live for a while. Unfortunately that "while" only turned out to be a month, and then I got back just in time to see
mouseman off on his own move up north. Tangent brought on by thinking about that trip: I remember very clearly one day on the drive home from work feeling like my dad (who died seven years before) was there in the car with me. It came and went within minutes, and I'd never had that feeling before that I'd noticed. Later that evening, my mom called to tell me that her cancer had come back after an almost five-year remission. It was disconcerting in more ways than one.
"Jamie Across the Water" by Boiled in Lead - I first heard BiL at a house concert at the Virginia branch of LSE (probably not the LSE you're thinking of, unless it is.). I went because I'd heard such good things about them from other people on a mailing list and wanted to check them out for myself, and I became an instant convert. I remember being amazed that I could manage to hold up my end of a conversation with Robin (until my date for one of Those Parties later in the evening came to pick me up) without getting totally tonguetied as, er, he pushes a few of my buttons. *grin* That was a fun evening all around.
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:19 am (UTC)Make that *did*. Sure, I went skating all the time when I was a kid. I just can't rollerblade yet, and my ice skating skills are also probably nil.
Convertible or hatchback?
Hatchback, mid-80s.
Hmmm... maybe I should be asking you questions instead of
Probably not, at least not if you're looking for recent experience. =)