Please don’t stop the music.
For nearly every memory I have there is a soundtrack or song to tag it with.
Erasure’s Wonderland CD and music videos were on repeat as I hot waxed my legs with my good friend Janae. It was our first time, I was fifteen. Reading the instructions seemed like a waste of time, so after heating the wax we generously applied it to both our legs. Once the thick layer of wax was nearly dry, we started to upholster our legs with the strips of fabric that came with the wax. once we had the strips on, we started to rip them off, but the wax was too dry. The fabric came off but not the wax. The wax was molded to our legs.
We spent 3 painful hours chipping away at the wax.
Due to the bruising and wax burn, we had no other choice than to wear a pair of opaque tights over our waxed legs. We both wore tights for a week.
Billy Idol’s “Flesh for Fantasy” was blaring from a boombox during my lake Powell tragedy. Lake Powell is a man made lake in southern utah. It is very hot and dry there. Normal temperatures in the summer months average 105 degrees with lake water temperatures around 80. During a 2 week vacation to glorious Lake Powell, I asked my friend Jen to apply Sun In to my dark brown hair. My hair bleached to an orangey flesh tone and from a distance I looked bald.
While swimming at a public pool and listening to the Cocktail soundtrack. I had the nerve to write naughty words on a girl’s back with sunscreen. I have scar tissue in my gut from laughing so hard. Today however, as a grown woman, I know that is not something to laugh about (giggle, giggle).
“She lost that loving feeing” Top Gun style, was what we were singing while babysitting and trying to get little Jordan Brown’s ball out of the big oak tree. Everything we threw up at his ball got caught. His baseball bat, his tennis racket, his hulk hogan doll, his skateboard, his little plastic chair, his plastic wagon, his Big Wheel. No joke, we threw his Big Wheel up there, it too got caught in the big oak tree.
In years to come the song “Everything She Wants” by Wham, will remind me of posting these bits and pieces of grammatically incorrect run-on sentences for my imaginary audience on the internet. Wham’s song is first on my itunes playlist. It proudly sits right above Wang Chung’s “Let’s Go“. Say what you will, it’s not Hootie and the Blowfish. That should count for something.
(Just click on Wang Chung’s “let’s go”, I peed a little)
17 Responses to “Please don’t stop the music.”
April 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I have wanted to leave a comment forever!!!!
I love Erasure. Thank you for the link to the video.
My memory of Erasue was at a Jr. High school dance. I danced with a boy 5 inches shorter than me! I was wearing flats! He was wearing Doc Martins. My sister married him 10 years later! Funny what life brings!
April 13th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I love Wang Chung
April 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
looksy who turned her comments on! You can cook too!
April 13th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Wham! Excellent!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I have been a lurker for a while. I had to thank you for the Wang Chung, it made my night!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I tried emailing you about a month ago. the email wasn’t working?? I am glad to have a chance to tell you how much I enjoy your site. i just started blogging and using a Mac too. i was laughing so hard when I read your mac blogs. I don’t cook but I like to look at the pictures They make me very hungrey!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I mean HUNGRY! oops.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
OH MY! Hot wax! For me it was Nads. I only had to tear one strip of hair from my leg to know that waxing wasn’t going to be good! I did the Sun-In too. I was orange! I used Nair under my arms and broke out into a rash. I was a sight! Orange hair, one red strip on my leg, and a rash coming out my underarms!
My first crush was on Maverick from Top Gun. Never got over the fact that “Goose” was on ER.
The only thing nasty I ever did with sunscreen was get it in my eye! Boy did it burn!
April 14th, 2008 at 6:18 am
The first time I shaved my legs I did so dry, without any cream or soap. Oh, the lessons we learn!
April 14th, 2008 at 7:57 am
The music videos are great. 80’s videos are the best. They don’t make them like that anymore. Now they’re all bumps and grinds. I don’t think Ludacris ever made a video with sushi.
Cyndi Lauper is first on my playlist. I wanted to be her.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am
“I had the nerve to write naughty words on a girl’s back with sunscreen.”
What naughty words did you write? I violently choked on my bagel when I read that at Mighty Girl. Is Maggie going to include your sunscreen incident in her “Worth Its” book? When the sunscreen story caught my eye I came to your site and read the entire thing. But there is no mention of the mean girl or the naughty words until now.
Do I sound like a stalker or what???
April 14th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I was beginning to suspect the “no comments” was your way of being “too cool for school”.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I love Wham!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I waxed my eyebrows once. I thought I only applied the wax under the brow but my whole eyebrow came off!! it was terrible! When my eyebrow started to grow back in I had porcupine brow. Sad days!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I wax my uni!
April 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I’ve never seen that Wang Chung video. I could die tomorrow.
That video is the damn funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I’m an 80’s girl, how did I miss that? I peed my pants when the guys in red stripes wiggle-walked across the screen. LMAO!
April 14th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Sitting on a picnic table at the park, it was dark, I was about to have my first kiss but the park ranger came and told us the park was closing and we needed to leave.. “Queen of Hearts” by Juice Newton was playing on the radio.