A pointless exercise in nostalgia

[dolorosa_12]

While I was cleaning out the accumulated detritus of the past 23 years, I came upon this gem: my Christmas and birthday lists from 1997 (the year I turned 13). They make me smile and wince at the same time.

My Birthday List
1. Blue tencel jeans.
2. Savage Garden CD.
3. Boxer shorts P.J.s.
4. Poster board for my room.
5. Books.
6. Tamagochi.

My Christmas List:
1. Flares. (I assume I meant super-flared jeans.)
2. Hanson CD (*cringe*)
3. Calendar like the one Lynne gave me last year. (I think this is a 'create a calendar' where you draw your own pictures.)
4. Diary.
5. Books.
6. New Derwents for school.
7. Something from Made In Japan.

Hmmm...

Comments

[cereswunderkind.livejournal.com]

How many of them did you actually get? How many have you got now? How long was it before you jumped up and down on your tamagochi?

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Let me think...The books I still have, I'm sure. The tamagochi I had for a while, but it distressed me too much when it died, so I gave it to a friend about a month later. The tencel jeans went out with the '90s. I've still got flares, but not THE flares. The Derwents I certainly have, also the poster board (which is covered with stuff I'll miss looking at in Cambridge).

The CDs. Ah, the CDs. We were burgled two years after I got all these presents, and all of the CDs were taken. I took this as an opportunity to 'update' my CD collection. I replaced the Savage Garden CD, because I'll never grow out of Savage Garden (which was the first music I decided I liked, independently of my parents), but I replaced Hanson with (*more cringes*) The Living End. I almost wish I had the Hanson CD now, if only to remember my misspent youth...

[ondes-martenot.livejournal.com]

Haha, I had a Hanson CD on my Christmas list that year too, and the video. *shifty eyes* I used to be obsessed with them!

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I had the video too, but it got stolen by the burglars, and I was too embarrassed to ask for a replacement.

[soapyhermit.livejournal.com]

Mmmbop.

That is all.

[anya-1984.livejournal.com]

Hahah I asked for a Tamagochi too for my birthday, and new jeans for Christmas :)