random things i like
thanks to my older siblings
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ME: THE THREE OLDEST IN MY FAMILY WERE TEENAGERS IN THE EARLY to MID 80'S

1- EARTH, WIND AND FIRE-- i LOVE them and could listen all day long and sometimes do. nothing compares to 9 psychedelically clad men dancing around on stage armed with their instruments and falsetto singing classic hits like: SEPTEMBER, REASONS and SUPERSTAR. no joke, i have very vivid memories of being 4 or 5 with my freshly primed side-pony tail (thanks SUE) jogging in place to the album GRATITUDE and watching my reflection in the glass door of our sound system.

2- movies that most people have never heard of.

here's my top 6

* AMERICAN DREAMER (look mom, i caught it!)
* YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (mr. bobsta' you alright sir?)
* XANADU (you... me)
* WINDS OF CHANGE (where are you going, going persius)
* MAME (how old do you think i am? oh, somewhere between 40 and death)
* THE WIZ (ease on down the road)

3- SOBA... not noodles... not raman... SOBA (that ones for you JOHN)

4- GET IN SHAPE GIRL! thanks to my older sisters that actually gave this to me as a joke, i grew up sporting the head and wrist bands that told all who saw me that i LOVED to GET IN SHAPE at the age of 8!

5- HEART. no not the organ... the music group. thanks to CHELLY, who knew how to play the guitar and had a song book of HEART's hits, i grew up singing along to the likes of BARRACUDA, NEVER and THESE DREAMS. i have fond memories of sitting at her feet as she strums away and us singing along.

6- going right along with CHELLY and her guitar skills, i LOVED when she would play the HOT DOG SONG. sing along, everyone!

i know a wiener man
he owns a wiener stand
he sells most anything from hot dogs on down
some day i'll join his life
i'll be his weenie wife
hot dog i love that wiener man
weenie, weenie, weenie... hot dog on a bun
weenie, weenie, weenie... hot dog for TWO!!!

7- THE BANANA CLIP. yes, i said it... the banana clip. you have no idea how many times i would stare at SUSAN with her perfectly permed hair as she flipped her head over, placed the clip at the nape of her neck and as she flipped right side up, would shimmy the clip up to capture all of her perfectly coiled locks and snap the clip in place at the top. then after a bit of teasing and some aquanet... she would have the perfect BANANA CLIP HAIR. oh how i longed for that ability. but the dream was never to be mine... even though i tried and tried. it never quite looked like that!

8- DISNEYLAND. okay, so i realize that it's not random to like disneyland and that everyone and their grandma likes the place. but i have to say that the way i viewed disneyland... and all of their cartoons, was shaped by my brother JOHN. john lived in california, orange county to be exact, for several years and so when he would come to visit he would always bring with him something disney. he talked a lot about disneyland and i would drool at the thought of one day going myself. so when i was, i think 10, i got to go for the very first time. nothing ever prepares a child for their first disneyland experience. i still get that same feeling when i go.

9- MOTORCYCLE RIDES. this is because chelly owned one for a while and on those hot summer nights, just as the sun was setting, she would plop one of us on the back of the honda and we would wiz off up to the copperton park or down to the great salt lake on the old bingham highway. i can still feel the adrenaline as the wind whips at my hair and scrawny legs as i squeeze around chelly. what a rush!

10- SWAN LAKE. john may or may not remember this, but he gave me my very first cassette tape of the swan lake ballet. i was in love. i used to dance around my room for hours, twirling and dipping to each movement. i also choreographed an entire ballet, using my tape and all of the neighbor kids and we actually performed it in front of our parents.