Sheils Writes
Just an 80's girl in a modern world!
Category: Nostalgia
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I can’t help but think about the feeling I get, yet again, still, every Monday morning…I feel like my 8 year old self, as a ballerina dancer, awkward. Confident as sh*t that all is going to go well & on schedule with my morning routine, but then the awkwardness sets in. 5:30 am alarm, ok,…
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It’s 2024 I know, but in my head I prefer it to be the 1970’s to 1980’s and I consider this perfectly normal behavior for a 58 year old woman. Every day I like to revisit parts of my childhood, in one small way or another. I may pick up an old book I might’ve…
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I’m in a “New York State of Mind”, it might last for a “New York Minute”, “New York, New York, it’s up to you New York”. I call this my love letter to the city that never sleeps, well, because it’s my take on New York City, which was a character in my book of…
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So happy I took photos at my childhood home before it got cleaned out. In this photo, I see walls, but I hear voices. I see appliances, but I smell really good meals. I see empty chairs, but I see my family in them. I see that wine glass cabinet, I can hear the cork…
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In a generation, far, far away, full of bright neon colors & really big hair…lived your grandma & grandpa! It was a time that doesn’t exist anymore, but it was the best! I’m “Gen X” & your grandpa is a “baby boomer”…basically what that means is we were young & cool once, well, or “like,…
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I’m 21 years old. I have a job at a soundproof room (anechoic chamber) company in Connecticut and they are bidding on a government contract to make soundproof rooms for General Dynamics and the Rancho Cucamonga, CA office needed me to operate the CPT word processor for the proposal. Hell yeah! They sent me on…
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I was curious how many signed, not personalized, first edition books I had in my book collection. I have this many (pictured below). Goldie Hawn, Carol Burnett, Buzz Aldrin, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Julie Andrews, to name drop a few! I’m at a point in my life where I’m considering selling these. Need to research their…
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My mom is 90. I just called her. I’m lucky. I told her, “hey, guess what?”, she said, “what, ugh, this phone, can I turn the sound up?” Anyways, I said, “you know, you were 58 when you had your first grandchild, I’ll be 58 when I have my first”. She said, “wow, isn’t that…
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I was first introduced to the material girl in 1983 when her album was laying on the floor in my parents living room. My sister had bought it. We didn’t have a way to pre listen to music. I just found music on the living room floor. I was 18. While Madonna got busy ruling…
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Recently I visited my childhood home. The time has come to say some goodbyes. I’ve been thinking a lot lately of all the memories made here. Many right on the famous back porch, pictured below. Birthday cakes, bbq’s, spontaneous card games, many, many conversations, laughs, loud voices to be heard over the neighbors lawnmower. I…
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