Doing Laundry At My Parent's House

Well, it seems that our dryer is on "the fritz" and the unpredictable weather makes it difficult to hang dry our clothes on the clothes line. So I brought three baskets full of dirty laundry over to my parents house with the intent of getting laundry done for the week today. I am not sure when our dryer will be operating again. It's second on the list behind Josh's broken car. Please don't let anything else break in the near future. Maybe I can use this opportunity to be more green, I just like the way my clothes feel after coming out of the dryer.

I figure while I am sitting here waiting for several loads of laundry to be done, I could write a blog entry. I am also armed with A Goofy Movie, Brothers Bloom, Season Two of the Office, and Season Two of Arrested Development. Apparently I think it's going to take 4 days to do three baskets of laundry.

So I was thinking of things that remind me of my very early childhood: Huey Lewis (my mom had the cassette tape!) and other 80s music in my mom's chevy nova but also The Beatles and oldies in my dad's Subaru. An American Tail (was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater). Some kind of stuff animal toy called Popples? Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony. Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, Pound Puppies, Care Bears, Duck Tales, and old school Disney cartoons(no not the movies, the cartoons with Mickey) E.T., Big Business, and apparently Willow was too scary for me to watch. I still haven't seen it. Little Golden Books and Raffi songs.

Anyway, there's probably tons of other pop culture happenings that I'm forgetting and probably some that I presume were part of my life but actually weren't. It just makes me wonder what Oliver will associate with his early childhood. Will he even remember anything up until now? I don't remember much up until my sister was born when I was four. Maybe because that was such a life changing event that I can't remember anything before it. Or probably something to do with early child brain development. So what do kids take away from their first few years? Hopefully Oliver can just know that he was loved and that we brought him pretty much wherever we went. I think most of my earliest memories were around preschool age. A random mix of my parents interests and popular music/films/television/books of the mid to late 80s.