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things i want to remember | part sixteen

Kari

i’ve had this in the drafts for months! it’s been too long.

if you’re here for the first time, welcome! you’ll be able to find the other parts of this series here.

1-i’m not sure if i’ll ever write another book, but i love the idea of writing about a life story, and i am convinced that everyone has a story to tell, and that even those who aren’t writers can do that. this book is a helpful tool for that.

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2- do you remember the movie valley girl? it is one of my guilty pleasure 80s movies. and there’s a sparks song in it.

3- because of the number of fire and tornado drills we had in elementary school, i was terrified of house fires and tornadoes in the 1970s.

4- it would be nice if veterinarians had on-site pet groomers.

5- when texting on an apple iphone, the word “apple” is automatically capitalized.

6- dyson is overrated.

7- america needs a dental insurance overhaul. it’s on par with “vision insurance.”

8- i don’t have a nightly face washing routine. (i never have)

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9- i wrote about creating a john hughes museum at the old high school where the breakfast club was filmed. that is not logistically feasible as the illinois state police have their headquarters there. but, i have a backup plan- the lake forest oasis.

ps- in chicago, there’s a sock monkey museum, a surgical science museum, and a button museum, but still no john hughes museum.

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10- herbie hancock’s biggest hit wasn’t this song:

it’s this song:

which the following group sampled to make this song:

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39 thoughts on “things i want to remember | part sixteen”

  2. I’d go so far as to say we just need insurance overhaul period– dental, vision, health, mental health… all of it. I have never seen or even heard of Valley Girl!

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  3. Eeeeeee! Kari! Lifetimes ago I made a compilation CD based around US3 Cantaloop! Omg so many memories of that song & group. That comp CD made sooo many road trips extra happy.

    Like I totally remember Valley Girl – mostly bc my lil friend group was obsessed with Raising Arizona and everyone in it. So I discovered VG in the 90s. It felt like discovering buried treasure. This was before the internet made discovering old stuff so easy.

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    1. Do you still have that compilation cd? I’d love to know all of the songs on it! Compilation CDs/mixtapes are wonderful. PURE GLEE. Mike was cleaning out the car the other day and found a compilation cd from a stage show I did many years ago. The producers put together a playlist of songs that had played in the audience before we took the stage. 🖤

      Raising Arizona is such a good movie.

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  4. my WP is acting up again. *sigh* Your recent post isn’t even showing in my Reader. I just happened upon it. anyway, here is the recipe link: https://www.bbonline.com/recipes/garthwoodside-1041.html . i tweak it a bit by only using 1 cup of milk (i don’t like it soggy), and i use Texas Toast Bread instead of french toast bread. i squish my bread slices right up next to each other, but do not overlap the bread in a 9 x 13 dish (i usually only use 1/2 of the loaf of bread because that is all that will fit in the pan i use). let me know if you have questions!

    and now i’m gonna go back to your actual website and have a look around– i had no idea you wrote a book!! and your quotes page is amazing!! (i rarely ever wonder from the WP Reader) <3

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    2. REN!! I’m going to make it this week! I don’t like soggy French toast either, so I will do the same. This looks AMAZING. Thank you so much for coming all the way here to give me the recipe!

      I wrote the book but it was rejected by every publisher I submitted. So I just published it here because I wanted my words to be available to anyone else who was going through the perimenopause transition and felt alone.

      I love that you found me despite the fact that you never wander. 🖤😘

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      1. i hope you enjoy it!! <3 :) … and yes, i enjoyed your entire site so, so much! … and i read parts of your book and loved it as well!!

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  7. I so agree, Kari, I totally convinced that everyone has a story to tell. Which I find utterly fascinating because everyone has a different story. Some may seem similar, but the details are different.

    Love Nicolas Cage. And yes, I saw that movie way back in the 80s! He’s one of my faves. Loved him in Moonstruck too!

    “8- i don’t have a nightly face washing routine. (i never have)”

    OMG, if you could see mine, you would die. Being in the industry, I have a WHOLE routine I do in the evenings and in the morning. However, I do change it seasonally, adjusting it to the weather. I think of my skin routine as a meditation.

    LOVE that first Herbie Hancock song!!!! I totally forgot about the video! Watching all of these brought back such great memories. Cantaloop!!!

    GREAT selection of things you want to remember! Me too!

    Have a superb weekend, my friend! X

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    1. Right? I enjoy hearing other people’s stories!

      I remember watching my childhood best friend wash her face at night during sleepovers and finding it meditative. That’s so cool that you mentioned “meditation.”

      I hadn’t seen Herbie Hancock’s Rockit video in YEARS! It brought me back in time!

      I’m having a good weekend! I hope you are as well, my friend! 😘🖤

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  8. Never heard of the movie, Valley Girl. Will look that one up!

    Confession: I don’t have a nightly face washing routine either! Well, at least not a traditional one. Instead of washing my face, I use witch hazel on a cotton ball to clean my face. Then I use a night time moisturizer. That’s it – quick and simple.

    Yes, Dyson is overrated from what I’ve heard and read. Just paying more for the name. We’ve had a Shark Rocket vacuum for years and it still works just fine.

    Definitely an overhaul on dental and vision insurance. Here my husband works for one of the higher end north shore suburbs, and their vision and dental insurance is crap.

    OK, I *love* that US3 song, Cantaloop. Putting it on my Spotify playlist!

    xoxo

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    1. I don’t remember seeing it in theaters! But I loved watching it when it was on television.

      That is a very simple routine!

      Anna just got a Shark and loves it. When the time comes, I think that will be the vacuum we get.

      My glasses have never been covered by insurance. Dental care is also ridiculous. Cleanings only, but major work is rarely covered.

      I love that song too! 🖤

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  10. Kari, I also am terrified of fire, still. It is burned (heh) into my brain, the fire drills and figuring out how to get out of your house and having a safe meeting spot FROM WHEN I WAS IN FIRST GRADE. My mom was (is) a heavy smoker and I was always terrified the house would go up in flames while I slept. I, um, had a lot of sleeping issues when I was little? No fucking wonder. Those visits from the fire department were frankly terrifying. We never had tornado drills though. I wonder if my kids have feelings about all the school shooter drills they had through their lives (sob, what a world).

    My husband just bought a Shark vacuum, he was looking at the Dyson and saw that the Shark rated way higher for way less money! There’s some kind of Baader-Meinhof thing going on in which I had never heard of a Shark and now it’s all I hear about.

    Every single person has a story, I’m 100% on board with this.

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    1. My parents both smoked when I was a child…I’m curious if that played a role as well. Tornadoes are much more common in the Midwest, which makes sense. BUT, I remember watching The Wizard of Oz and being terrified. I’m sure active shooter drills are terrifying for children. More terrifying than a tornado or a fire. 😒

      I’ve heard really good things about Shark! Anna just bought one and loves it.

      I agree.

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  11. I do not remember a Valley Girl movie. I’m intrigued. OMG how young does Nicholas Cage look? That’s him right? I’m not great with celeb names, or music.

    I love your idea for a John Hughes museum in the Lake Forest oasis. That seems like it would be so fitting.

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  12. I’ll probably see that new movie Nicholas Cage is in just because he’s in it. I like Valley Girl, too–but Peggy Sue Got Married is just all kinds of wrong!

    I don’t wash my face before bed, either. I do brush my teeth every single night and don’t understand how other people I live with can skip that. I’m sure some people feel that way about face washing, but I just can’t.

    As for fire drills and their impact, just think how today’s kids are being impacted by our active shooter drills. Which we call lockdown drills, but we all know what they really are. Gah. I’m sorry those were traumatizing for you.

    Totally agree on both vision and dental “insurance.”

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    1. I used to cry in the movie (Peggy Sue) when she went back and was able to talk to her grandparents again. It was probably the first time I realized people I cared about were going to die.

      It’s funny to me how some humans can live without things while others cannot, and we can’t imagine it. I just think it’s funny how we all become so different.

      YES. I just replied to another comment about it. Do you remember bus drills? Jumping out of the back of buses? Why did we do that? I don’t think they do that anymore. Why did we ever do that?

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      1. Oh, god yes I remember that part of the movie! I guess I should clarify that I thought Nicholas Cage was all kinds of wrong for the part he played. I thought Kathleen Turner was wonderful. And that scene was wrenching.

        I do remember bus drills and jumping out the back window. And I wasn’t even a kid who rode the bus! I think I didn’t mind them so much because I was glad to have a break in the routine. I suppose knowing how to do that might have been helpful if I was ever in a schoolbus that got tipped over? Yeah…

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  13. I love the Cantaloop song!
    John Hughs has been done wrong by the city of Chicago. :(
    Kari, I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Valley Girl. It was and still is one of my favorite movies from that era. I so wanted to find my own Randy (Nick Cage) and convert myself to a full on punk rocker.
    In the 70’s I was terrified of tornados and aliens, but I don’t remember any Alien drills at school. I was so unprepared.

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    1. ME TOO.
      I think it’s his family. They’re the buzz kill. (JK) (Not really)
      I love how we both love THIS MOVIE. Suz, how about we get some popcorn and sit on the floor to watch this together someday? Please? Maybe not the floor. Maybe just a soft couch.
      I remember going through bus drills as well. Why were there BUS DRILLS?
      We were terrified of aliens because of movies. I think we were also afraid of fire because of the movies.

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  14. Over here in the UK, most people are totally freaked out at the idea of shooter drills. Me slightly less so, as when I was a small child, we did drills in case Pakistan bombed India which is something of a permanent state of mutual paranoia over there.

    And yes to Dyson being over-priced and not worth it. His politics also ensure that I’d never buy anything from him again even if the best product ever.

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  15. OMG . . . I am so NOT a movie person, but Valley Girl is on my very short list of favorite movies. So much so that I even have the movie soundtrack on CD! So much to love about that movie. Plus, the girl’s name is Julie!!! I forgot that Sparks has a song in it. I haven’t watched it in a long time or listened to the CD.

    Dyson . . . my parents had one and when I attempted to use it at the condo, it was NOT good. I ended up having to bring my Hoover over to vacuum. I threw the Dyson in the trash.

    Do you not wear any makeup? Is that why you don’t have a face washing routine? Mine is pretty minimal, but I do wear wear a little makeup everyday.

    I definitely thought that Rockit was Hancock’s only hit. But I do know that he’s still touring because my brother-in-law saw him either this year or last year.

    What a great idea you have about a John Hughes museum. Yes, there are plenty of weird museums that can’t possibly have as much interest as a Hughes museum would. Cleveland has a history of contraception museum, which I’ve never heard of anyone visiting. But The Christmas Story House museum is quite popular this time of year. I’ve only seen the outside of it.

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    1. I had no idea there was a soundtrack! A Million Miles Away by The Plimsouls is one of my favorite songs EVER, and it was played in the movie.

      I used to blog for money (and my soul), and I got a free Dyson. I’ll admit that going to the city offices was cool, but the vacuum is only eh. I still have it and use it, but it’s clumsy and just eh. I’m not sure why people pay $400 or more for it.

      I wear makeup occasionally, but not every day. I wore a lot of makeup in high school and never took it off at night, and I never got zits. My friends used to hate me for that. I’m sure they talked behind my back about me. KIDDING. (I’d hate myself a little too)

      I’m glad Herbie Hancock is still touring. 🖤

      History of contraception?? That’s hilarious. Have you been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

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      1. I do remember that the Plimsouls song is the first song on the soundtrack. Yes, I’ve been to the R&R Hall of Fame three times. Once because U2 was the featured artist, and the other times because my nephew was in the Battle of the High School Bands show and they let you walk around the museum during it. It was LOUD!

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