Hello my Friend! 

Guess who’s BIRTHDAY it is today??  Mama Kays.  Say happy bday to my amazing mom!!!

Some birthdays are just hard when you don’t get to be with that person and Iowa to Florida is not such a simple “hop” to stop by.  I’m super excited that we’re heading back to the good ol Hawkeye state next month for….wait for it….my 20th high school reunion!!!  Whhhhaaaaaa????

Lordy-I do not feel old, but that’ll pretty much put things in perspective.  Wanna see me in high school?  Well thanks to Facebook and scanning, you can.

I loved the big hair craze.  At times I didn’t even brush out my “bangs curl”–just added a half a bottle of hairspray to it and the sides (hee hee).  Man, I loved getting it as big as I could and pretty sure I had a perm at some point to get it bigger.  

I was tagged in this little nugget of the past.  Gotta love the gloves (and posture).  The thing I most remember about this junior prom was that my mom made that dress.  I was dying for a purple dress with layers of black lace.  She was the BEST seamstress (still is).  

My girl Steichen is hiding in the back in the blue dress (think she’s one of the reasons that I continued to be called “Kays” throughout college bc we went to Iowa together).  Seibert (another Sarah that went by her last name) there in the polka dots and Haug (shortened last name–I was not the only with a nickname) with the long blond hair….the 4 of us were besties.  Ahhh…the memories.  Can’t wait for the reunion!!

Oh–and you wonder why I’m called Kays?  My senior class had 104 peeps (I think—somewhere around that number.  It was a Catholic school.  College was my first non-Catholic school and boy can I tell you how crazy excited I was to not HAVE to wear socks and be able to wear baseball caps in college)!  Anyways, in my class there were 10 SARAH’s.  We became known as our last names and on through college and my Chicago years I became a shortened version of it to “Kays”.  

Yep, that would be me in the middle back row–with my eyes closed.  Oh well, you get the point.

So–in honor of my 20th, let’s take a trip down memory lane as to what pop culture was like in 1992:

•   “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred was #1.  Oh-M-G, I mean, who didn’t love that song? 

•   Tiger Woods (age 16-holy crap), becomes the youngest PGA golfer in 35 years.

•   “Silence of the Lambs” wins Academy Award (hello Claaaarice…).

•   The final episodes of “Growing Pains” (had a mad crush on Kirk Cameron), “Who’s the Boss” and “Golden Girls” air.

•   Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafucco (did you watch her on Celebrity Rehab)?

•   Johnny Carson’s final appearance on Tonight Show.

•   Northern Exposure wins the Emmy (remember that show with Dana Delaney)?

•   Bill Clinton wins presidential election over George Bush.

•   C&C Music Factory and Michael Bolton win American Music Awards (haha).

Now, let’s talk fashion.  If you google 1992-it was the era of grunge (hello Doc Marten’s), baggy jeans (better if they were ripped) and overalls (preferably only one shoulder connected).  Birkenstocks became popular.  Wearing leotards as a top with jeans was cool (le’ts be honest, that only worked because we were young and had rockin bodies).  My all-time favorite–the huge slouchy socks we wore over leggings.  Keds were the shoes to have.  Matching jeans and demin jackets in darker shades took over the acid-wash rein of the 80′s.  

Let’s have a 90s party ASAP!!!!

Remember this?  Cindy Crawford’s Pepsi Super Bowl commercial was the hottest thing going.  Go ahead and reminisce here.

I love, love, loved high school.  I’m so grateful that back then we weren’t sucked into the internet, we didn’t have cell phones and I worked at the best place in the world.  Maid-Rite.  The greatest loose meat sandwiches EVA (yes, I said loose meat…you know, kind of a sloppy jo).  

Good thing I was a cheerleader, or I’m sure I would’ve been ha-uge by the amount of free food we got to eat.  The guy who owned the one that I worked at loved to hire cheerleaders from the different high schools in town.  It was awesome…definitely the hot spot for all the boys to come say “hi”.  We met so many people from the other schools (3 out of the 4 of my posse worked there).

You can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be draggin CW to get a few when we’re home.  Hmmm…now I’m craving a tenderloin, pizza burger, sour cream and chive fries and the ultimate…cheese balls.

Not sure what I’ll do if that place ever shuts down.  Well, that and Happy Joe’s pizza!!!!!  The taco pizza is to die for. 

I wish they would ship to Florida =(

Ok-correction, I’ll be draggin CW to TWO places.  

I hope it’s Fall when I get there…I’m over the Summer and wanna wear my boots.