Livin' in the 80s Month: Day One

movies:

• hot pursuit (1987) john cusack tries to find his girlfriend in the caribbean, hi jinks ensue. i'd never seen this before & wish i'd kept it that way. also features jerry stiller playing the exact same character he plays in everything ever.
• star wars episode VI: return of the jedi (1983) finally. years ago, i promised kyle i'd watch the original star wars movies with him (having avoided them all my life). i got through the first two ok a while ago, but couldn't bring myself to watch the last. well, it's done now & may we never speak of this franchise again (though i did like that part where chewy hugged han solo...and those teddy bear things were kind of cute).

tv shows:

• the golden girls (1985-92) season 1, eps 1-2. i forgot how much i loved this show. blanche gets involved with a bigamist! dorothy confronts her cheating ex stan at their daughter's wedding. i was having trouble remembering the gay housekeeper coco while watching the first episode, which makes sense as the character was dumped when the show was picked up.

music:

• various 80s compilations during my shift at lush, inc. dickie wilkins hits of the 80s #1 and #2!

food & drink:

• space food stick on my way to work! plus choc coconut & lemon slices & some fruit salad when i got there courtesy of my workmate whitey.

• kumquat & taro pudding bubble tea. i don't even know what a kumquat is, but the taste was not unlike regurgitated orange juice.

• japanese curry & rice for lunch.

• home time, west coast coolers! this was the only pack at my local bottle-o & i'm pretty sure it's been there since the 80s. later on, i had a bacardi & coke and a cosmopolitan.

• microwave popcorn with the movies.

• shin ramyun noodles (thankfully sold since 1986...i've been going through a phase with these, even though my digestive system is less than keen about it).

• top deck chocolate.

challenges:

i already really, really miss the news. i can't shake this feeling that something really important has happened & I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. in 80s news, there's lots of shit going down in the USSR...

on the bus on my way to work, well, as i put it on my facebook "a posse of newjacks are blasting their boom box on my wheels! i can't tell them to step off, but am saved by the earplugs in my bag! bitchin'!".

watching my slang is proving tricky...going on my lunch break yesterday, i said "BRBBBBBB", as i always do, then had to slap myself hard on the face for doing so. which you can only get away with so many times in public before they put you in the loony bin, but it's THE ONLY WAY I'LL LEARN!