Thursday, June 23, 2011

Currently: Lately I have been remniscing a lot about the fun moments of my childhood. My childhood surely wasn't ideal, but it had it's good moments. As a matter of fact, I had more fun during my elementary school days (namely grades 4-6) than my High School days! It is so weird. Namely, I had a really close friend who ended up becoming a back-stabbing, popularity-starved bitch, but we had our good times. We were practically like sisters. I remember I used to go to her house almost every day after school and we would play outside, order pizza, play video games, watch movies, and re-enact some of the movies that we watched. One of my favorites of our 're-enactments' was when we watched 'Romeo and Juliet' (the 1996 version) and were so upset by the ending that we decided to go up in her room and repeatedly re-enacted the end scene where Juliet discovers Romeo dead and offs herself. Believe it or not, I was really into acting and drama in those days (and still am in a way) and was even in the drama club! So I always thoroughly enjoyed our little re-enactments. But one memory of her and I's friendship that i've been remembering a lot lately is the time I spent Christmas Day with her and her family (because it was surely more fun than Christmas day at my house, that's for sure) and her dad got her this really cool Karaoke kit that came with a casette that included the song "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow. I remember her and I sang a couple songs and then we made her father sing and he chose that song. He sang it so horrendously that we decided to sing along with him and ended up butchering the song even more.Haha So now whenever I randomly hear that song anywhere, I remember Christmas morning at my childhood friend's house and her father completely butchering that song. As a matter of fact, I heard the song about a week ago while I was at a Bar and that exact thought came to mind. It may be a cheesy song, but believe it or not it brings me back to the good 'ole days (damn I feel old saying that). As corny as it sounds, I have also been remniscing about when my brother and I used to watch our "Barney and Friends" VHS and seeing one of the child actors from that show about a year after on the Nickelodeon show "Salute your shorts." It got me kind of wondering whatever happened to that kid and if he ended up making the same decision with his career as the rapper Drake (who started out on the kiddie show 'Degrassi'). Random and corny, I know. But for some reason I find some comfort and fun in nostalgia. Maybe i'll grow out of it once I actually get a life.Haha And speaking of my current life as I know it...it still is what it is. I feel like fieldwork is dragging and it's driving me insane, but of course I continue on anyways. I really wish it were week 11 going into week 12 instead of week 8 going into week 9 though, ugh! ...See what I mean? So unbearable.