Fri 19 Feb 2010
It’s funny where inspiration comes from. Dwaine met a girl on Valentine’s Day and decided to go old-school wooing style and was going to make her a mixed tape. An actual mixed cassette tape, reminiscent of the 80s and 90s when we grew up and would make mixed tapes on the regular, for ourselves and to show our love for the lucky recipient(s). So I brought him my compact boombox which played CD, radio and cassettes. He’d have to convert his mp3s into an audio format, burn his song selections onto a CD, then play that CD on the boombox while pushing “record” on the cassette. That’s how you get backwards-compatible technology. While I was there on furlough Wednesday working on this project with him (among other stuff), he showed me online photos of this girl. Yesterday, I took a peek online at this girl’s photo album. And then I texted him.
“[Girl]’s profile isn’t private, so I took a peek at her old pix. She is sooooo your type!”
He responded, “LOL…yeah, she seems fun and silly.”
I wrote, “& she looks like she works out. Sorry, I gotta ask…are her boobs real?!”
He responded, “YES! She enjoys working out and they are real! :-D”
I wrote, “omg. omg. U ARE SO LUCKY!!!” and then quickly texted again, “I mean, SHE is so lucky. Yeah.”
Yesterday, I thought about this pretty girl who “ENJOYS WORKING OUT.” I used to enjoy working out. Now I’m a slob at it. I’ve been to the gym like twice in the past 2 months. So I went to the gym at lunch and pushed and pushed and pushed and had a painful but complete workout which left me shaking afterwards for hours. I’m in pain today, but I’m going back to the gym again…RIGHT NOW.
Thanks for all you help Cindy. Check my FB wall. I think you’ll appreciate it. 😀
Haha, I did appreciate it, thanks! =) Loving the name, too.
i’m jealous! nobody has made me a mix tape since the early 90’s. i love them so much that when i bought a car in 1999, i had the choice between a 6-disc changer or a tape deck + single CD player. everyone made fun of me, but i picked the one with the tape deck!!!
I’m still wondering what to do with all my cassette tapes! And my tons of mixes. Those took work! Maybe I can ship ’em to you so you can play them in your car. haha!
(You don’t have that car anymore, do you?)
i don’t have the car anymore, but i put my ooold bookshelf stereo system in kyden’s room. i made sure that it had a tape deck so that the kid can grow up with an appreciation for old skool jamz!
Good idea! I think if/when I have a kid, instead of putting it to sleep with a classical music LP (which my dad did for me), I’m using a cassette with old skool jamz!