I am in the Winterville where I have discovered that my Dad and Kim have wireless which was a very nice surprise. I am watching Matt and Haley for the weekend.
Work was amusing today because for about 20 minutes, we had a co-worker convinced that neither one of us (Shawn and me) had ever heard of “Diff’rent Strokes” and she kept explaining it to us. Almost as good as “Goth Day” when only she dressed up. Hey, a great poet once said:
No we’re never gonna survive unless
We are a little
Cray cray crazy
Just kidding. Seal said it.
Kate and I went to the movies and finally saw Wedding Crashers. It was actually as funny as every one told me and I now have a crush on Rachel McAdams which I so didn’t recognize as Regina from Mean Girls until right this second. Hmm.
I am thinking tomorrow we need to have our Childhood Revisited Fest by seeing the Dukes of Hazzard at 5:50 at Carmike and then hitting the Skate Around at 8ish. Come one, come all. Afterwards, we can sneak out of the house and buy Skoal Bandits at the Golden Pantry. (Please note that I never did this but totally went with people who did). The late 70s and early 80s in Athens were indeed the stuff dreams are made of. Maybe we could play some D&D and I could pretend I liked Kiss and Van Halen like I pretended I did back then.
Hey, if we’re gonna go get some bandits I’ll be sure to bring a copy of the Reader’s Digest article Sean Marsee’s Smokeless Death. I don’t think Mrs. Vipperman signed it, but she probably did….
Wow, you private school kids were weird. That is SO not my memory of Dukes of Hazzard days. I remember playing Dukes with friends in the red mud of Cedar Creek and I always got to be Daisy because I was the only girl. I remember lots of skating in circles to the Dukes theme song in iron-on Ts and cutoffs with pompoms on my skates. I remember practicing in the backyard with a compound bow, though not with flaming arrows. But Skoal? Van Halen and Kiss? Huh?
No Van Halen or Kiss for me – I did always like the Twisted Sister videos, but of course wasn’t supposed to watch them. Ahhh…I do however remember many a day being scolded for trying to climb through the window of the car, and that fateful day when I left my General Lee matchbox too close to the path of the car – and alla peanut butter sanwichs! I had a flattened General Lee – I guess that was probably more realistic – but still I was not happy.
Yeah, I was never with anyone who bought Skoal at the Golden Pantry. Nor did I pretend to love Van Halen or Kiss. Well, I actually really did love David Lee Roth, does that count? And I don’t recall ever discussing the Dukes of Hazzard with anyone. It was more of a private thing. I did recently find a letter I wrote to Daisy Duke one time (I must have been about 6) telling her just how great she was…
I hate Rachel McAdams as a blonde, but decided that she is totally hot when I saw her on the MTV Movie Awards with brown hair.
Skatearound still exists? Dang. Have they gone roller-blading now? Do they still have mean employees patrolling the rink who even put nice kids like me in some weird timeout area?
Wow, I’d blocked out that part of my childhood. I remember Putt-Putt and, in later years, the Tate Center. But not Skatearound.
I think I was in Winterville three times in my life. It always amazed me that in a county as small as Clarke County, there’s this second town that seems so far away.