December talking meme - memory lane
lunabee34 asked about a favourite memory.
The one that springs to mind first is of an overnight karaoke session in Ikebukuro (I think) with The Gang, where we sang our hearts out from 11pm to 5am, and at some point
jo_lasalle and I decided that Eastern Wind by Chris de Burgh (!!!) just had to be sung, and if the damn Japanese karaoke database didn't have it, we were bloody well going to do it a capella. Which we did. Badly, IIRC.
and
goss asked about a favourite birthday memory.
Well. :) I don't usually celebrate my birthday in a big way, but when I still lived with my parents and sisters, it was customary that on waking up in the morning and coming out of the children's room for breakfast, the birthday child would get Happy Birthday sung to them and get all their prezzies before school.
So there I was one morning, not quite sure how old I was, maybe 14, 15, 16... and I got up and out to breakfast just in time for everyone starting to sing, and I quickly joined in, racking my brains whose birthday I had forgotten and OMG I didn't get a present for them and why didn't my mom warn me???
And everyone laughed.
In my defense I can only say that Starsky and Hutch were waaayyy more important to me than me randomly getting a year older.
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