Get a colonoscopy.
Listen to Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears discuss world politics.
Be a contestant on Survivor.
*rings buzzer* What are “Things Liz would rather do than study?”
DING DING DING DING DING! YOU ARE CORRECT!
I’ve never been the “studious” type. In fact, and I’ve never really been a “details” type of girl and well, quite frankly, cramming really cramps my style.
So you may find it funny that I pursued a career in an industry where constant learning in essential and testing your knowledge is a common occurence. But somehow, I always found a way to make it work…Until I had kids.
I had always thought it was a myth that you can’t remember shit after having children. Um, yeah. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Since giving birth to mine, I can barely remember where my keys are each day, let alone memorize the statistical analysis of seven clinical trials. In fact, I spent twenty minutes frantically searching for my bluetooth last week, only to find it…on my ear. And the only thing I seem to be able to remember these day is who won last week’s elimination challenge on Top Chef and the plotline for Grey’s Anatomy.
Not to mention the fact that all this haphazard studying makes me feel like I’ve boarded a time machine and traveled to…1994. Like I’m pulling an all-nighter in the Cal Poly library so I can flirt with that cute boy from Communication 101 (Because really, is there any other reason to pull an all-nighter?) and attempting in vain to figure out how the f*ck to work the Lexis Nexis. Yeah, you heard me right, Lexis Nexis. I’ve just officially admitted that I attended college before internet was available. Back then, we were so looking forward to seeing what that “Information Superhighway” was all about. And the only way to research a paper was to actually open a book. *insert dinosaur jokes here*
Back then, my biggest worry was what I would wear to that night’s sorority mixer or what drink wouldn’t make me throw up on the way home in Marty Mazda . So, because I just can’t get Whatta Man by Salt N Pepa out of my head, I’ve decided to take a break from memorizing P values and take a leisurely stroll down memory lane…Care to join me?
Lisa & Liz, early 90s fashion victim edition
LIZ’S MUST LIST…FROM 1994
1. Brown-braided belt with polo shirt with penny loafers
Why Lisa and I felt the need to deny any and all sex appeal in order to channel our inner-male with this ensemble will always baffle me. And I think we actually put a penny in our loafers. Gag! To this day, I still can’t shake my aversion for collared shirts. NEVUH AGAIN, I SAY!
2. The soundtrack to The Bodyguard
I don’t want to call anyone out(Lisa) but someone(Lisa) REALLY liked this soundtrack. And that someone would sing it very loudly, as if they were channeling Whitney Houston herself. ALOT. Okay, okay, maybe I sang with her. Sometimes.
3. Gas for $1.09 and homes for $119,000
Do you think they’ll let me fill up my time machine before I head home? Or just stay and make an offer on that place I’ve had my eye on? Because I’d be willing to tolerate scrunchies and the rise of the Spice Girls again if it meant I could have affordable housing!
4. Bobby McGee’s
If you needed to find me on any given Thursday, Friday or Saturday, I’d be here in my shortest skort doing the poor-man’s electric slide or shaking my ass to the Macarena. And I used to wonder why I was single?
5. The “Rachel” haircut
Oh, how I wanted this haircut. In fact, “The Rachel” is the whole reason I got off my ass and learned how to straighten my hair. Because although the 80′s were kind to those of us who were follically challenged, the nineties had no such patience. Unfortunately, I never did quite perfect my “Rachel”, prompting others to refer to it as the “Rochelle”, her slightly frizzy second cousin.
What was your Must List in the nineties?
xoxo, Liz
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My must list-
- Kevin Costner
- Bad do it yourself hair dye
- MGD
- jeans tapered at the leg
- Rave hairspray
- Soft musk perfume
- Olive Garden
- Vanilla Ice
- Ugly Rugby shirts
I still have the Rachel haircut. Some things are hard to let go.
Well, I’m a wee bit older than you gals; I was a yuppie in 1994. I dressed exactly like Elaine from Seinfeld. Long patterned skirts, loafer heels (what was THAT all about?), suit jackets with padded shoulders.
I was still in my grunge phase on the weekends, though. Hiking boots and huge flannel shirts over a tucked-in Tee. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots.
The early 90′s was like an 80′s hangover. Here’s my list…
Jazzin hair color. In all colors.
fishnets and pantyhose with that seam in the back.
(why oh why did i think that was cute?)
Use Your Illusion 1 and 2
Salsa (music, not dip)and all things Latin
21 Jumpstreet
You guys are so funny (and Lisa, I totally had that outfit).
My musts…
- body suits (is that 1 word or 2?)
- Guess Shoe Boots
- I did the penny loafer with the penny’s too, however i put a nickel in my black ones to match my silver and black belt ; )
- Bangs!
- Small purse with a really long strab so I could cross it over by body at the bars
- Melrose Place & Friends!
This is hilarious! I seem to remember a lot of Boyz II Men around that time. The rest is blocked out. With good reason.
P.S. I’m finally reading Emily Giffin’s “Love the One You’re With”…LOVE!!!!!!
My must list of the 90′s was farther north which explains a lot of the items on this list.
1. Tie Dye Shirt with jean overalls
2. Hemp necklace
3. Vans (no penny loafers in S.F.)
4. 90210 and Party of Five (we never had classes on Wednesday nights)
5. Days of our Lives (never watched until I met Jenny)
6. Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, and Everclear
7. Red Ford Escort
Crystal,
Yes, Olive Garden really was the place to be! And the fact that I never figured out why a good portion of my “freshman fifteen” weight gain was due to their all you can eat soup, salads and breadsticks! Oh, and too much MGD too! xoxo
Tara, I hear you on the Rachel. I think I still have some sort of variation of it. It’s a classic!
As for your “Elaine” phase, I think Lisa and I were dressing as “Elaine, coed version”, with our loafers and polo shorts. And yes, I loved the grunge bands too! And we did have a roommate that wore hiking boots with every outfit she had, does that count?=)
Lisa,
I. Loved. 21 Jump Street! Why else would I have sat through the movie “If Looks could Kill” with Richard Greico several years later?
And the fact that you just used the word “jazzin” tells me a lot about you!=)
I LOVE the picture. So awesome! You bring up some good stuff here. As I stroll down memory lane these are my early 90′s memories.
1. Semi-mullet haircut (Schmullet)
2. Seinfeld, X-Files, Friends
3. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica
4. $3.99 Keystone Light 12 packs (It’s the same as Coors Light!)
5. Jean Shorts…not the cut-off kind
6. Pulp Fiction and Swingers
Good luck with your studying! Nothing like a cram session!
Sarah, thanks!
Lisa and I ADORED bodysuits! In fact, I have many pics of us sporting them, I”ll have to dig them out! I also had bangs, but they weren’t that cool because I wore them with my big ol’ perm hair
And omg, Guess boots, YES!
Michelle,
I loved Boyz II Men!!! And so glad you are liking her book! I loved it too! xoxo
Carrie,
Too funny! omg, Lisa and I were SO in love with Luke Perry! And I could totally see why you wouldn’t want to wear penny loafers in the SF!
I am not old enough to remeber these things…sorry! =0)
*snicker snicker*
#1 Dancing at Jam Rock, local club (house music all night long!! I’ll house you!” anybody remember that song?) attached to Caribbean restaurant on Long Island every weekend.
#2 Individual hair braids– my hair was ALWAYS braided in the early 90s. And after seeing Janet Jackson’s individual, but HUGE braids in her movie with Tupac Shakur, “Poetic Justice,” I made my braids even bigger! You couldn’t tell me nuthin’!
#3 My dark silver metallic Toyota Corolla- to be a Long Islander meant to speed around in a shiny car. Yeah, maybe it wasn’t a Mustang or a souped up Nissan Maxima with shiny rims (THE cars back in the day), but I was still reppin’- kind of.
#4 Long, airbrushed nails- SO gross now, but the shizzle back then. PLUS, what made my nails extra-special was that my then-boyfriend (who was a notorious flirt/man-whore) was also an artist who airbrushed girls’ nails (and other things probably) on the side. I knew I was ALL THAT when he airbrushed his iniitals onto my ring finger nail! Love!
#5 My Jodeci tape- what??? Nothing makes this complete without blasting the music of the sexiest group alive, Jodeci (now they look like crusty insects to me) IN my shiny Corolla WITH my newly-braided hair AND my airbrushed nails! Those were the days…
LaSundra,
Don’t make me dig out some old photos of you! xoxo
Astra!
You are cracking me up! Where Lisa and I grew up, (What up Vista!) the car of choice was a Nissan Sentra, with the best rims that a part-time job at Round Table Pizza could buy! xoxo
Mike Fenton!
I can attest for your love of the schmullet, although it’s only through photographs that I have seen it in all it’s glory! As for the Jorts, getting rid of them was a top priority as soon as you gave me full access to your closet! xoxo!
now i’m really going to look for my photo album from college years. going to scan pix of four of us plus LA! beware ladies…
btw, I so remember that CAP of mine. =)
Liz, I am so proud of you for exposing all these delicious fashion tidbits! Love it!
Cannot say enough about the bodysuit, especially the fact they had snaps in all the right spots. Ease of restroom use after drinking all that Keystone Light!
Um, I feel like there should be a picture of LaSundra in overalls rockin one strap off the shoulder. Or maybe that was Bel-Biv-Devoe:)
We also can’t forget La’s pleather shiny shirts w zipper she wore to Bobby McGee’s…man, I wanted one of those sooooo bad!
Sally, That’s right, it was your awesome “Stussy” cap! Dude, we were always borrowing your clothes, you had the best stuff!
Lisa J, LaSundra really knew how to fill out a pleather pair of pants, that is for sure! And remember when she would get out on the dance floor and rock out by herself? To that song, what was the name? She ruled that place!
And, yes, maybe the bodysuit will make a comeback? Although I’m not sure I could rock it anymore! xoxo
There’s some love hate for some of these.
Matte lipstick (Coming back in style!)
Colored sneakers (BIG with the teens this season)
T-Shirts with matching scrunchies and leggings
Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock-It takes Two
Vanilla Ice-Ice Ice Baby
TLC-Waterfalls
Ace of Base-The Sign
Celine Dion makes it big
Mike Tyson goes off the deep end
Desert Storm
Laura,
I loved me some Ace of Base…and I just bought Shane some green converse so for sho’ those shoes are coming back…you know what a little trendsetter he is!
-Bon Jovi
-tight/short strechy skirts & loose off the shouler tops
-floral print
-MTV (when they actually played music vids)
-chat rooms (late 90′s)
-Felicity (oh…Scott Speedman!)
I’ve blocked out the rest….
Oh no, that song!
And I miss you…
Where the desert meets the rain
For the love – what were we thinking?
P.s. Your song “The Train”:)
Patrice, I’m so with you on Scott Speedman-he is delish!
Lisa J,
OMG, THE TRAIN! I loved that damn train. okay, I’m going to got download it off iTunes, RIGHT NOW!
My must list of the 90′s–graduating from HIGH SCHOOL.
OK, but really…
“21 Jump Street” (Glad to see so many like-minded women here!)
Wide-leg pants (still sport ‘em)
Grunge music (back when Pearl Jam was the best)
& Ethan Hawke was the hottest!!!
THE CRANBERRIES playing non-stop!
And, uh, getting the heck out of high school! :)
My ultimate 90′s list:
Bongo jeans…and how I used to cut out the ads for the jeans from every magazine and hang them on my closet door
Hypercolor t-shirts. Good God. Who thought of this crap? A shirt that changes colors with your body heat. So wrong on so many levels!
Ear piercing much? Two holes per ear was just a start.
No Keystone Light for this girl. We drank Milwaukee’s Best, otherwise known as “Beast”. For good reason. Terrible!
I totally sported the penny loafers!!! Good times, good times!
How about tight rolling the bottoms of your jeans? As you say, NEVUH again!
Jenn, I LOVED Bongo jeans. I had three pairs that I wore over and over and over again…. And by the grace of God, Hypercolor shirts never caught on where we were! ;)