The Soundtrack of Your Life

I went to a retro-dance party last week. They played songs from the '70's, '80's, and 90's. My friend and I decided to go because I was in the mood to dance. I hadn't danced in ages...There's a serious shortage of places to dance if you are over 35.

Oh- how the memories came flooding back! It was fun to try to "name that year" with each song. Soooo many of the songs were directly connected to very specific memories for me.

Stayin' Alive...6th grade...I was so angry that I was the only one in my group of friends that wasn't allowed to see Saturday Night Fever because it was rated "R". We also choreographed a special dance routine to this song that we "spontaneously" performed at our school dance. (Yeah, we thought we were cool!)

Relax...Freshman year college...I'm embarrassed to say I owned a neon orange off the shoulder sweatshirt that said "Relax" in huge letters. The frat-guy DJ at one of our college bars, played the song for me in an effort to get my attention. It worked. His name was Lenny.

We've Got the Beat...Junior Year high school...some of my fellow cheerleaders and I used to crank this song as loud as we could, singing it as if we were the go-go's. This was done at someone's house because we knew it was "so not cool".

I Like Big Butts...I remember that I was living in Daytona Beach, Florida...Shortly after college...I was still very much living the college life, as my long term boyfriend was attending college there. I just remember going out a LOT, dancing a LOT, and getting into a LOT of trouble. Daytona Beach is not a very responsible place to live.

If someone had asked me to name some of the songs that would go on the "soundtrack of my life", I would never have picked any of the above songs. But hearing them just brought back such detailed memories.

So I'm wondering- if you had to pick some of the songs for your soundtrack, what would they be? And what do the songs represent for you?