Mork & Mindy

I grew up watching the good stuff: Mork and Mindy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Brady Bunch, etc. Most shows were awesome and most are still considered classics. I can't say the same for the crap our children watch these days; it is ridiculous and we outta be ashamed of ourselves for allowing it.

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Mork and Mindy was one of my absolute favorites. As an adult, I purchased all the seasons and have enjoyed watching them on many occassions. :) Incredible. If you haven't seen it, google it and find an episode. Classic.

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Salute Your Shorts

A big part of Jon and my childhood. True genius. They just don't make shows like this anymore.

It was flippin' hilarious. How I wish this was still being aired... good times, good times.

Oh, Gallagher!

I loved watching his show. I couldn't have been older than 10 when I first saw the show shown above. After that, I stayed up countless nights waiting for Gallagher to come on.

Jon loved it just as much as I did. It was a cool part of our history and it will live in our memories forever. Gallagher, giants couches, and exploding watermelons... nice.

Who Doesn't Remember Laverne & Shirley?

This was one of my favorites as a kid. Mom always watched it and it brings such good memories. It was a neat part of my childhood and there just aren't shows like this anymore. We don't make 'em good like that!

San Marcos Trip Conjures College Memory

I went to San Marcos last week to get my hair cut and I took a little tour afterward. I've visited since we left but haven't done any major site seeing and haven't gone to any of my favorite places in awhile.

It was fantabulous.

This whole college memory thing came about when I saw my early-college coffee shop while driving by Lucy's (the bar where Jon and I had our first date).

Coffee Pot

The Coffee Pot is a hip little coffee house and is such a good memory. My freshman year at Texas State (or then called Southwest Texas), I used to go to The Coffee Pot where there were always moody musicians playing awesome moody songs and where there was always a good cup of coffee.

That made me think of some other awesome college memories, like...

Dorm days on 200 Concho street; Running through Sterry-dorm halls; Playing Nintendo with Nicole and Amy; Hanging out with Bridget; The lack of parking anywhere on campus EVER and the parking tickets that followed; Locking my keys in the car after putting my fish in on dorm move out day; Playing pool at Cats; Being fall-down drunk outside of Cats when I hadn't even packed my stuff the night before I had to be out of my apartment; Living at Le Shit Hole; Eating at Kismet; Going to the Yellow Store; Drinking at The Tavern every other night; Eating at Grins; Meeting Jon in Spanish class; Having a beer with Jon at Showdown; Meeting Jon at Lucy's for our 1st date; Falling in love with Jon; Graduating from college!

Good times.

Save the Earth!

Couple points about this VERY important phrase...

1) I remembered a cool part of my life when I was Google-ing! I found a Google and a memory all in one again! AND it had to do with one of my blogs! That's a triple deluxe!

I was looking through some images for an upcoming blog and I saw one of them that reminded me of a club I used to be in. My best friend Krystina and I had a club when we were in elementary school- it was called SAVE THE EARTH. It was just the two of us and we would walk around with Pickett signs and make plans to save the earth. Maybe we made a difference- it couldn't have hurt!

2) That made me realize that I hadn't pointed out one of my favorite blogs- 41pounds.org.

There's a link above and on the right under AMY LOVE BLOGS. Go check it out! There's a lot of great info on ways we can help save this awesome planet- starting with junk mail. Junk mail- ridiculous, wasteful, sad. Stop it! Be able to say you helped. I can.

3) I'll be adding to SAVE THE EARTH as much as I can. I started at Christmas and plan to continue, so stay tuned! Help the fight- start blogging and spread the word!

A Memory and a Google All In One!

Childhood Memory #1

I found this while Google-ing a picture for one of my other blogs. Hehe. Yippee! Another new way to discover memories... GOOGLE!!! Kinda cool tying my blogs together like that, huh?

I watched these videos when I was itty bitty and still love them so very much.

Mom kept her videos in these cool, brown, leather cases. I can still remember the excitement of getting them out and putting them back. It was great... so many classics!

I have them somewhere and WILL find them soon enough... just gotta go through Dad's attic and storage unit.

Uh oh.

Memory Madness

A scent.

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A song.

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A book.

(Photo: Gerard Jones - www.everyonewhosanyone.com)

Anything can trigger a memory and can take you back to a place you'd long forgotten. Of course, it's never really forgotten... but as time goes by, it sure gets harder to keep 'em in order. =)

I've thought about that for a long time. All those times you remembered something cool that happened when you were a kid, where you had your first kiss, how you felt when you started high school... what if I don't ever remember that again?

Blogging is here to help!

I'm making it a point to blog cool memories from this point on... Just blog it.