As I was trying to fall BACK asleep last night at 11:45 (I was asleep by 8:30 in a post fast haze) and the premature fireworks were going off (or maybe it was just the automatic shotguns in Baltimore City- I don't know) I got to thinking about the first time I stayed up to "ring in the new year".
I realized it was 20 years ago. 1986 going into 1987. I watched the MTV countdown and if memory serves me right, "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was the number 1 video (as opposed to "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangels which was the number one song on the radio- I am doing this from memory- please feel free to research and give me credit for my awesome memory or prove me wrong for my horrible memory).
Anyway, I was in fifth grade. I remember thinking that 1986 was such a good year and how depressing it was that it was over. I felt so nostalgic of 1986- I was 10 years old! It is pretty funny how perspectives change.
I then thought about 10 years ago. Ringing in 1997. I remember being obsessed with the song "Same Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg. I must have heard it once Light 102 (101.9 for you Baltimorons- basically a station that I don't listen to anymore unless I am in an elevator going up to a doctor's office) and fell in love with it immediately. I remember asking all my friends if they knew what this song was and if they had the CD or tape but to no avail.
But luckily I was smart enought to realize that they would probably play it on New Years Eve. So I put a blank tape in my trusted boom box from high school and waited up until midnight. After the countdown they played the traditional "Auld Lang Syne" but that quickly made way for the piano introduction of Dan Fogelberg's tale of love lost and the holiday season.
I must have listened to that tape over and over again. It was great. I don't know what happened to that tape and I don't really care because around two years ago (even before I got my iPod) I downloaded that song on iTunes. I can listen to it (and any other song I was EVER nostalgic about) ANY TIME I want.
Once again, how perspectives change.
I wonder what I will be doing when 2016 turns into 2017.
Posted by peninah at January 1, 2007 08:32 AM | TrackBackDecember 31, 2016...probably agonizing over where Ezra will spend the year after 12th grade!!
Posted by: BubbyT at January 1, 2007 04:03 PMI have the tape. It has that song and the opening song to your favorite 100 sitcoms of the 80's on it. The Silver Spoons song never sounded better. The tape still has some writing on it that I can't really figure out- you wrote your name over and over and it looks like Peninah Ashman. What's that all about??
Please don't give me the silent treatment. I am still upset about the last one.
Posted by: szt at January 1, 2007 07:36 PMI hate you.
Posted by: peninah at January 1, 2007 08:09 PMDecember 31, 2016: Harry Potter becomes the Minister of Magic
Posted by: aishel at January 1, 2007 11:08 PMAishel- You do realize that Harry Potter isn't real, don't you ;) ?
Posted by: peninah at January 2, 2007 06:25 AMNOW you tell me?!?!?!
Posted by: aishel at January 2, 2007 02:11 PMWell I had to let someone else in on that secret. I was very disillusioned when I turned 30 and was told the truth. I wanted to save you the heartache.
Posted by: peninah at January 2, 2007 05:48 PMOh man! Next, you'll probably tell me that Santa isn't real either :rolleyes:
Posted by: aishel at January 2, 2007 08:12 PM