Music Meme
Here are the rules:
1. Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/
2. Pick the year you turned 18 (left column)
3. Get yourself nostalgic over the song’s of the year
4. Write something about how the songs affected you
5. Pass it on to 5 more friends
Here are a few of mine:
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
What I remember about this song is that there was a girl on my dorm floor (Hewitt Hall, 16th) that played this ENDLESSLY whenever she was home. Her room was right be the bathroom, so you had to hear it everytime you went over there. It got pretty old after the 50th “you-uuuuuu-uuuuu-uuuuuu” or so.
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Oh, Nirvana. You crazy guys, you. I remember my friend Missy introduced me to Nirvana, and we would listen to it in my 1979 Dodge Colt, full of angst and anger and suburban malaise. It was unlike anything we’d heard before, and it was dark and we loved it.
Caribbean Blue - Enya
I really liked Enya at this time. It was the summer before college, and I was working two jobs to save money, and not doing much else. I remember that I would listen to Enya on the way home from my second gig, windows down, smoking my crazy ultra menthol light 120s, feeling the summer wind, rocking out to Enya.
lol. that sounds hilarious, but I was feeling poetic and hopeful about leaving home soon, and Enya seemed to capture that feeling.
This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna
This song sucked. And it made me sad because I used to love Madonna so much, and I had all her albums and I knew all the words and it all seemed so important…and then suddenly she was pretty much irrelevant to my life. It was weird to let go of one of my biggest icons.
Take A Chance On Me - Erasure
my goodness. I loved this song. And I had no idea it was a cover. Me, totally unaware of such a band as Abba. Crazy. I think there was a whole abba cover album from Erasure. I was madly in love with it. Thankfully, I also discovered Abba not too much later. 
Mango Salsa
One of my favorite summer treats is Mango Salsa. Inspired by some other homeschooling blogs, I thought I’d share my recipe and some (dreary) photos:
For this batch, I used one very ripe mango, most of a medium cuke, 1 small white onion, half a lime, half a seeded jalapeno and a wad of cilantro. First, I peel and seed the cuke, then dice it. Add the diced onion. Then the minced wad of cilantro. Then squeeze half a lime and mix it all up.
The reason you push it all to one side is that all those ingredients should equal the amount of diced mango you add.
Then you add the jalapeno and stir it all up. I let mine hang out in the fridge to get all the flavor melding.
Then I get out a fresh bag of El Milagro corn chips and go to town.
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Here is my latest batch of tie dye efforts. I made 3 tshirts for my FIL for his bday. He got a big kick out of them! I also made 2 shirts for zib, and one dress for her, a t-shirt dress coverup thing for me, plus a silk sarong! Many of the garments I used a technique where you fold the item in half, and then tie it, so that you get mirror images. I tried some diagonals, swirls, and had a lot of fun. I am really pleased with the results on this group. The colors were great, and Zibby helped choose-she picked blue and orange for one of her shirts, and she selected the order I did the pieces in. She even helped squirt dye on a couple things. We did it indoors and we did not make too big a mess
Enjoy!
how to knit legwarmers
http://www.43things.com/
I was googling “how to knit legwarmers” and found this site. awesome. I love the internet.
and I have to go to bed, because I think Zibby has the chicken pox and if so, we have a long week ahead of us.
nighty night.
ps I also found some cool legwarmers to buy. I shall put them on my new wishlist (see sidebar)
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