And you know I love a full moon.
It definitely inspired some slightly off the wall moblogging here and here
This is a great time to start a new project, and before my head touches the pillow tonight I will have one.
The Alfred Hitchcock Magazine arrived today, and holding it my hand took me right back to 1980.
I’m going on 19 years. There I am walking through Central Park. My hair is super short, and I’m wearing these amazing earrings. Multi-colored beads, porcupine quills and silver from Mexico. They’re so long they brush my shoulders. I’ve never been much of a jewelry wearer, but when I do wear some I like big pieces.
There are no cell phones, Internet or CDs. I write at least one letter a day in long hand to a Marine stationed in Okinawa. My first semester at college will be starting in a couple of weeks. Pay Phones are a dime, first run movies 5 bucks and cigarettes are 85 cents. I love wearing vintage from Screaming Mimi’s.
What were you doing in 1980?
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September 27, 2007 at 11:07 am
Andrea
Wow, you’re 1980 sounds quite dreamy! I really enjoyed that. Well, since you asked. . . I was in the first grade. And the only memory I have is this: Walking to the bus stop with my purple, rainbow patch book bag. Since my Mom had faught the school system, I didn’t have to walk along the highway. Instead, every morning, I would cross the railroad tracks, follow the dirt road along the woods (behind which lurked a swamp) and then cross a mud-packed man made bridge which arced over the Mississippi tributary creek. THEN–a small driveway up to the highway where I waited for the bus. Whew. But what I remember thinking in 1980, very distinctly, one morning, was that my Mommy was pregnant and that nine whole months to wait for another sibling seemed like forEVER.
September 27, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Mon
I liked this trip down memory lane! in 1980? I was 5. I was in kindergarten. I remember making cookies in class with my mom, and big crayons! lol
September 27, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Mrs Mogul
1980 I was a kid who was in hawaii and got her period while her parents were at Don ho! I was also probably wearing hideous polyester!
September 29, 2007 at 12:43 pm
ed of in
I was recording my best music from the Israeli radio’s hit chart, with my portable “National” tape cassete just by placing it in from of the stereo systems speaker (I was13 year old at the time), and asking anybody whos coming into the livingroom to remain scilent