SCHOOL'S ON: Where did our summers go?
Wisty Readers,
Today in Central Florida 5 counties started school, 2 of which I drive through on my way to work (doesn't it seem early) and I am feeling very nostalgic this morning. Maybe it's the awesome tee that my husband bought me on Saturday that totally makes me think of the Billy Idol "Rock the Cradle of Love" video. Maybe it was the movie I watched Saturday afternoon which although set in present time, focused on a skating rink which was where I had all my fun back in the day. Or maybe it was the 6 hours of "I love the 90s" that I watched in VH1 yesterday (in my defense, it was a lazy Sunday and I was in and out of consciousness while napping on the couch.) Whatever it is, when I saw the kids approaching the school this morning, I just got a warm, rememeber when type of feeling. So here it goes...
Remember...
Today in Central Florida 5 counties started school, 2 of which I drive through on my way to work (doesn't it seem early) and I am feeling very nostalgic this morning. Maybe it's the awesome tee that my husband bought me on Saturday that totally makes me think of the Billy Idol "Rock the Cradle of Love" video. Maybe it was the movie I watched Saturday afternoon which although set in present time, focused on a skating rink which was where I had all my fun back in the day. Or maybe it was the 6 hours of "I love the 90s" that I watched in VH1 yesterday (in my defense, it was a lazy Sunday and I was in and out of consciousness while napping on the couch.) Whatever it is, when I saw the kids approaching the school this morning, I just got a warm, rememeber when type of feeling. So here it goes...
Remember...
- watching hours upon hours of TV during summer break (I lived on MTV and Nickelodeon.)
- wishing school would start because you ran out of stuff to occupy yourself.
- staying up late during summer break to watch Nick at Nite and USA Up all Nite.
- going to the Rapids Waterpark at least once during the summer.
- the first day of school came and you got to see all your friends in person for possibly the first time in 2 months.
- when you had to go shopping for supplies (Trapper Keepers, Lisa Frank, book covers, the Crayola box w/ the built-in sharpener.
- picking out the perfect outfit to wear on the first day of school.
- getting a new Jansport.
- the special way you ate your Fruit Roll-up.
- morning annoucements and saying the Pledge of Allegiance everyday.
- getting dressed out for gym and the creepy gym teacher who might be a lesbian.
- walking/riding your bike to/from school with your friends or maybe you had to take the bus.
- playing Pencils, TAG, Red Rover, Red Light/Green Light, 4 Square, tetherball, kickball, double-dutch, heads up 7-up...
- school pizza (the best sponge with cheese on it you'll ever have.)
- Chip-Wich, Strawberry Shortcake and Chocolate Eclair ice cream.
- school assemblies where you all sat indian style on the gym floor.
- yearning to shave your legs like the other girls (sorry fellas.)
- class trips to museums or better yet, the high school for a drama production.
- field day ( oh I so hope you had one.)
- trying to remember your locker combination.
Ok. So I totally just aged myself there but I don't care. The high I am on will last me the rest of the day and that's not bad for a Monday. Please feel free to let me know what you love and miss most from those wonderful, care-free adolescent years. I would like to leave you with a few choice quotes:
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry (1947 - )
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Enjoy your Mondays.
Will Work For Shoes
posted by Will Work For Shoes @ 5:47 AM
3 Comments:
At 9:22 AM,
Not So Cosmo said…
Will Work For Shows:
You totally rock! I wish I could, in the fashion of "Mother, May I", take 20,000 GIANT steps to give you a big hug. ^_^
I had to go shopping for school supplies with my nieces and nephews, and I was all kinds of nostalgic. First of all, we had waaay better school supplies back in our day; I didn't need a new backpack every year because Jansport lasts. Now, they need a new everything every year because the shit isn't built to last (and kids are quite destructive). I digress...
I have noticed that time itself seems to be quickening, each passing day seems to be flying by. Is that the sign of adulthood? Or is my life just dashing in everyway? I can't tell, but it's so much different from how I used to view time. Summers used to last a lifetime, now, it's over in a flash.
"Don't get old kid; it's for the birds..." ~Evie Jost~
N~S~C
At 10:37 AM,
Rogue Scholar said…
OMG, I was thinking of this as of late too. First of all, at this time next year, I will be taking my baby(not the new one obviously) to HIS first day of SCHOOL!!! I will be a basket case
Secondly, I thought about these things when I was at Target looking at school supplies for no reason last week. I LOVE school supplies!! I can't wait until next year when we can buy them! And I agree with NSC... nothing beats a Jansport. I was thinking that while looking at the backpacks. Although, I must have been rougher on mine than other kids b/c I got a new one every year. The zipper always broke-although I had a tendency to stuff mine past capacity.
At 12:37 PM,
Not So Cosmo said…
Yeah, I still got a new one sometimes, even if I didn't necessarily need it; I'm spoiled like that. School supplies are sooo friggin' awesome. I don't know where the fascination stems from, but I enjoy buying them for others now that I don't need them.
And what is the fascination with Trapper Keepers, the more deluxe the better!!!!
I'll want to know how that young whipper-snapper likes school next year. He is the most down-to-Earth kid ever (way cooler than half the guest at the baby shower). Let me know when he begins school, Rogue Scholar, and I'll buy him cupcakes.
^_^
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