Do you Remember?

Think back.

Before the MySpace frenzy.

Before the Internet & text messaging.

Before Sidekicks & iPods.

Before MIKE JONESSS

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX.

Before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.

When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.

When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.

Way back.

Tag.

Hide-n-Go Seek at dusk.

Red Light, Green Light.

Get Over Here!!!! means something to you.

Heads Up 7 Up.

Playing Kickball & Dodgeball, even Wallball until your porch light came on.

Hopskotch.

Slip-n-Slides.

Tree Houses.

Mother May I?

Red Rover.

Four Square.

Hula Hoops.

The annoying Nano Pets & Furbies.

Reading R.L. Stine's Goose Bumps.

Playing Street Hockey with the neighborhood friends.

Crying when Mufasa died in the Lion King.

Running through the sprinklers.

Happy Meals where you chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car.

Getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the car.

Wait.

Watching Saturday Morning Cartoons in your PJ's still wrapped up in your Garfield comforter.

Hey Arnold.

Doug, Rugrats.

The original Power Rangers

Or what about:

The Secret Life of Alex Mac.

Ren & Stimpy.

Double Dare.

Rocko's Modern Life.

AAAHH!! REAL MONSTERS.

Space Cases

So Weird

Wild & Crazy Kids.

Magic school bus.

Pinky and the Brain.(Animaniacs

Wishbone.

Bill-nye the science guy.

Clarissa Explains it All.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

The original cast members of All That.

Kenan & Kel.

Who could forget Snick? & Nick @ Nite with Bewitched, I Dream of Jenie, The Facts of Life & I Love Lucy.

Where everyone wanted to be in love after watching The Wonder Years.

The adventures of winnie the pooh

NINJA TURTLES

Not finished yet.

Kool-Aid was the drink of choice.

Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school.

Class field trips.

POGS

When Christmas was the most exciting time of year.

When $5 seemed like a million, & another dollar a miracle.

When you begged to go to McDonalds for dinner everyday.

When Toys R Us overuled the mall.

Go back to the time when

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'.

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming 'do over!'

'Race issue' ment arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in 'Monopoly'.

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.

Being old referred to anyone over 20.

A chance to skate as a couple at the local roller rink was like winning the lottery.

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.

Nobody was prettier than Mom.

Nobody was cooler or stronger than Dad.

Scrapes & bruises were kissed & made better.

It was a big deal to finally be tall enought to ride the 'big people' rides at the theme park.

When playing Nintendo was the hardest thing ever.

When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.

When the Spice Girls were who you wanted to grow up to be.

When Lisa Frank was the raddest thing ever.

When a candy bar at the grocery store was the highlight of your day.

When coupons collected all year could get you a prize in your class auction.

When the only thing you cried over was your mom being late to pick you up.

When stress was addition and subtraction.

When friendships were as complicated as who's house to sleep over and who's to TP

When shaving cream was just meant for play.

When valentines day meant cards for all.

When birthdays were a class event.

When a friend moving away was the saddest day of your life.

If you can remember most or all of these
then you have lived in the 90's! ( or at least were young in the 90's)

Mississippi

Ok, so this past week I went to Moss Point, Mississippi as a mission trip with RUF and MTW. We were originally going to go to Biloxi but the plans changed, practically last minute and we ended up at Moss Point instead. It was a great trip. We left Monday at the Butt Crack before dawn time, 5:00 or so, and drove for 14 hours. When we got to the church, some of the ladies had put out sandwich fixin's. Yummy. Tuesday was our first day on the job, We stripped and reroofed a house in a day and a half. It was fun. I think Stripping is my favorite part of the whole process, we get up there and just go at it with abandon. Wednesday night was pot luck at the church. Honestly the food there was amazing. Four of us sang acappella for them. I sang the tenor line in my range, which was fun. After we played a few games, and just relaxed. Thursday we drove down to Biloxi and worked on a old lady's roof there. This old lady is deaf and her name is Ms. Bossy. Honest to God, she was adorable and funny. We weren't able to finish her roof before we had to leave, another team was going to finish it the next day. Friday, the weather was not cooperative, and so we couldn't do any work, instead we went on a tour of the Hurricane devastated areas. We drove through Waveland, there was nothing left of a lot of the houses there. We stopped in Bay Saint Louis and got out and walked around. There had been another team that went down during Thanksgiving break and worked on a house in Bay Saint Louis. Clyde was our expert roofer on the trip and he had been down there a lot so he gave us a quick tour around old town and the church. It had turned sunny by then and we drove back to Moss Point in sunny drowsiness. When we got back, a few people did some work around the Church and the rest packed and generally got ready to go. Around 4 or so some of the girls convinced JR to take us to the beach, so about 10 or so piled into the 15 passenger and we drove out to the beach. Saturday we left at the Butt Crack before dawn time again and drove for about 15 hours to get home at about 9. That was my Mississippi trip in a nut shell. I loved going and working to help those that needed it. The people that we met where very grateful and supportive, and the people that we helped were as eager to help us as we were to help them. Mrs. Josephine, the lady who owned the first roof that we did, was actually going to buy us lunch one day, we had packed our own so she didn't but she wanted to. It was amazing to see how much these people had lost and yet they wanted to give still of the little that was left.