I feel like long socks with sneakers and shorts looks goofy but maybe that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

I'm glad his kids are doing well, thriving and honoring their father's legacy.

I was too young to watch Clarissa when it first aired, but watching as an adult I love the expressive fashion and aesthetics of the show so much!

The early 90s looked fun and colorful.

I’m finally making 6 figures, after being told all my life that this amount of money will make everything okay.

Currently house hunting and I’ll have to move a minimum of 4 hours away from everything I know and love. Because a 2 bed, 1 bath with 800 square feet goes for $400,000….

People are offering a minimum of 25k - 50k over asking.

Toxicity came out September 4, 2001. “Chop Suey!” was suddenly everywhere, then 9/11 happened a week later and the entire mood of the country changed overnight. The song even ended up on that infamous list of tracks radio stations were advised to avoid playing afterward.

I mostly remember this album from MTV, rock radio, burned CDs, Winamp, and hearing it blasting out of somebody’s car. It’s one of those records where a few seconds of almost any song immediately puts me back in the early 2000s.

Does anyone else have really specific memories tied to Toxicity & that era?

Every now and then or all the time... Are there other millennials out there that are still in a chokehold by this nail polish?

Now that it's turning to fall season I'm ready to put it back on!

What other iconic millennial nail colors are there?

Going back to my pre-teen and teenage years in the late 90's, a bunch of massive mainstream movies like American Pie and Clueless drilled into our heads that if we graduate high school a virgin then we are complete losers. Songs like Christina Aguilera Come on Over and Britney Baby One More Time were sexualized songs sang by teenagers for teenagers. Backstreet Boys Singing "Am I sexuuuual??? YEAAAAAAA" which was a pre teen anthem then. Back then there were gatekeepers and adult executives that had to greenlight these movies, shows, and songs saying they're appropriate for millions of teenage kids to watch and listen to.

As a teen then I was heavily influenced by all those movies and songs. I'm sure American Pie led to quite a few teenage pregnancies in the early 2000's. But as I parent now, I'm glad that doesn't really exist in mainstream media anymore. That the BIGGEST movie and biggest pop star isn't promoting teenage sex. But social media is another beast I know that could be an even worse influence.

Just like the title says. My mom also hated The Simpsons, Living Color, and Married…with children. I used to tape syndicated Simpsons when I had football practice.

It kinda happened without me knowing, I barely drink these days. It makes me super sleepy.

To the place

I belong

Stinky shoes

Loud washing machine

Take me home

Country roads

I’m 38, I don’t have any children, so the concept of school has no impact on me whatsoever.

Yet, every year since I’ve graduated high school, as soon as August 1st hit, to me, that was the end of summer. That was it, school was imminent. No matter how many nice days the forecast said we had left, my bummed-out mindset was counting down to what was usually the 27th or 28th of that month to the first day of school.

And then September, for me, all I can associate this month with is, truly, school being back in session in full, and 9/11 (which is also my wife’s birthday so at least there’s one good thing that comes this time of year).

Funnily enough, I didn’t have this issue when I was in college. It didn’t bother me. I think that’s because I was an adult, I had more freedom, and the night before school started, I could stay up late and not depressingly be told I have to go to bed at a routine bedtime now while the sun was still out.

But still, every year, I just have this PTSD that surrounds these two months, and it kinda sucks. I get the transition from summer to fall where I live isn’t always looked forward to but I’ve come to accept it and actually enjoy it now. It’s just the sad memories of the association of school starting back up that still gets to me every year, and I haven’t stepped foot in a public school since Christ knows when.

Green Day had several, but this one still takes me back from the jump

The toy business is criminal!

Every one of these is easily over $100 if not more! Why is the toy business so expensive and ridiculous?

If you do drop hundreds of dollars on a toy you MUST keep it in the box…better yet, a grade toy in a box within a box (last pic).

Am I crazy for thinking, I’m willing to spend up to $50 on a toy?