A different kind of time warp

I’m running out of blog entries to share on this weekly time warp theme. So I thought I’d add a new twist to it...

I know I’m always talking about how different songs take me back to certain time periods in my life. I thought I’d do posts about this for Time Warp Tuesday, whenever the mood strikes. It will allow me to reach even further back than the five years my blog and livejournal posts encompass.

Today, I heard “I Get Weak” by Belinda Carlisle and I immediately flashed back to the first time I hung out with my BFF after camp season had ended. I don’t know why we waited until the following January (in 1988) to get together, but I guess that’s what happened. Anyway, I remember that we met up at Deerbrook Mall (which is now a run-down mall with maybe one or two shops still open inside) and walked around for a while to do the usual “girlfriend” type of shopping. In 6th grade, we usually spent most of our time in music and accessory stores. At one point during this shopping trip, we ended up at The Flip Side, which was a record store around at the time. I don’t remember what cassette tape she purchased, but I do remember that I bought the Belinda Carlisle album "Heaven on Earth" (yes, I grew up during a time when records still existed) which had "I Get Weak" as one of the songs.

After that point, we continued to get together and usually met up at a hair salon in Buffalo Grove and got hot dogs at a nearby place called Wiener Take All. We still went to the mall a lot, but we also found other fun things to do and had lots of overnighters (or slumber parties, as one would call them). We even saw NKOTB in concert in 1989.

I could turn this into a huge post about my BFF, but I’ll save that for a Friendship Friday sometime. :) I just know that the first mall meet-up was a turning point in our friendship and I appreciate her being there for me when I was an awkward geek in junior high and had barely any friends to hang out with outside of school. She made those 3 years a lot easier!