Reliving the 90's

I have one of those jobs where I'm either slammed with work or bored out of my mind and wanting to claw my eye-balls out. Like so busy that I'll forget to eat lunch or get up from my desk--to the point that my ass literally falls asleep--or that I'm so bored that I stare at my e-mail wishing, praying in fact to get an alert that I'm needed for some sort of project. Both have its perks. Sometimes I like getting pulled in every direction; constantly having something to do or waiting in the pipe line to complete helps the day fly by. But having some down time is also nice; helps me catch up on my celebrity gossip and sometimes even complete my blog entries for the week (SHHHHHHHHH that's our little secret).

The last week has been exactly that.

June has been a pretty hectic month for me, work-wise. Another department was just combind with mine-- because this other department is a group men who really have no sense of organization or keeping up with the basic protocol of the company (basically they didn't have me in their department), but are just into field work/designing aspect of their job--which means double the work for me. I basically had to catch them up with organizing their shit, took over all of their data entry, and cleaned up the basic chaos over there. On top of this, I've still had to deal with my own department's every day needs. AND June seems to be a pretty busy month for the automotive industry--which I guess makes sense because this is when people start to really put some miles on their vehicles--because we just started developing 3 or 4 parts, which I've had to do a lot of research on. I've constantly had 3 or 4 URGENT tasks waiting to be completed every day, and have been pulled off and on projects at a moments notice.

Luckily, everything has seemed to slow down now and I'm getting a bit of a break.

But this break has caused me to become pretty damn bored. And I've been looking for creative ways to keep the days going. Usually I just troll the internet, looking for articles to read or funny Cat videos to watch. At first there was plenty to watch and do, but now on day 10 of my "slow down and breath" pace, I've been kind of stuck. There's only so many articles on the NSA crisis and the KimYe baby.



I have never been so desperate to know the name of a goddamn kid in my entire life!

 I also have a slight form of ADD (self-diagnosed) and really like to have something going on in the background while I'm working. Usually it's music, but I keep forgetting to charge my IPod at night. So I've turned to videos on my IPhone via YouTube. Which you can find just about anything on YouTube. And I mean ANYTHING.

Which led me to finding the 90's Television section of YouTube.

This coming weekend, my friend Matt is throwing a 90's party. Everyone has to come wearing their favorite 90's fashions and we'll indulge in 90's music the entire night. Being a kid of the 90's, I really had a hard time thinking of something to wear, so my boyfriend and I decided we'd go as one of our favorite 90's cartoon couple.

Doug Funny and Patty Mayonaise

Seriously, who didn't love this show!

We knew we'd kill it if we came as them! And in an effort to really get into character--and really nail the costumes--we started watching old episodes on YouTube. I'm not even kidding you, we got the costumes down to the their pink and red shoes!

This little trip down memory lane got me thinking and at work last week--while in the depths of my utter and complete boredom--I decided to start YouTube-ing my favorite 90's shows and really was shocked at all I was able to find. Literally each and every show I loved as a kid was up on YouTube.

Here's a few of the shows I've stumbled across and indulged in this last week:

This foreign import--I'm pretty sure it's from Australia--aired on the Disney Channel and was definitely one of my favs! Basically it was about these 2 boys whose mom is a marine biologist and she moves them to this underwater, futuristic research facility in the middle of the ocean to study the migration patterns of humpback whales. All seems pretty normal until the boys come across a mysterious girl named Neri who lives in the ocean and can talk to Charlie, ones of the whales their mom is studying.

I'm pretty sure I learned how to tell time because of this show. For some reason I think the show got cut short after the 3rd season and I never got to see what happened. And naturally, YouTube only has the first 2 seasons (or I've only been able to find the first 2) so I'm still in the dark!

Which led me to my next show!

All kids of the 90's are sure to remember this show! It aired as part of Nickelodeon's Snick on Saturday nights and thoroughly scared the shit out of it's young veiwers for years to come!

In case you are one of the few who didn't watch, the show is about a group of kids ("The Midnight Society") who gather around a campfire once a week and take turns telling scary stories. The stories are then depicted for us viewers. They were always different, with a new set of characters and freaky themes each week but the point was always the same; to scare the crap out of the viewer.

I remember there was a point that I refused to watch this show, especially at night. And I'm pretty sure it had something to do with a certain character by the name of Zeebo the Clown.

I don't think this needs any further explanation

My cousin still has a very real and paralysing fear of clowns due to this very episode. Thank God I haven't found it on YouTube because I may feel pretty stupid if it isn't as scary as I remember it to be.

Another of Nickelodeon's live-action gems. Animorphs centered around 5 teens who are given the power to morph into any animal by an Andallite alien, who crashed landed onto Earth to warn us of the invasion of Urks--a slug-like alien species that crawls into the ear cavity of a human and takes control of their bodies. The teens are the only ones on earth that know of the invasion and have been given the task of saving the world.

I was pretty obsessed with the show and in fact, remember it aired Sundays at 8:30. But this was another of my shows that fell through the cracks and I never got to see how it was all wrapped up. AND I can also only find up to season 2 Episode 6 on YouTube! DAMN!!!!

It's weird watching these shows and its definitely taken me back to a time when things were a lot simpler. It's also interesting that each of these shows only ran for a half hour, when today these type of shows would have been stretched to an hour and be jammed back with commercials. Definitely a more innocent time, when sex and drugs were never prevalent in children programming. So weird! Really a trip!

These three shows alone and have helped me immensely the last week or so. They've helped the day go by faster and kept my sanity when I'm trudging through endless data sheets and research on mass airflow sensors.

But

Now I'm stuck for another show! I need some suggestions people! I'd like to stay with the whole 90's theme, so anything you can think of please send my way! I feel another week of boredom coming my way and I literally will not survive another week without something to keep me occupied!

PS- The 90's party ended up getting postponed :( No replacement date picked yet, but I'll be sure to upload some pictures of our costumes once it happens! They're awesome, let me tell you!

xoxo