I think for me I remember the X-Men cartoon most. I just thought that was the coolest thing on the planet.
For the people who were born in the 2000’s you are welcome to comment as well. Whatever criteria you want to use.
At the time I didn’t really like Wolverine. Did not understand what an antihero was. Of course as an adult he’s by far the best character.
Video games and good health.
I remember UC basketball. keith Gregor, Curtis Bostic, nick van exel, lazelle durden, dontonio Wingfield, damon flint, darnell burton, danny fortson, and others. I didn’t become a avid IU fan until I went to college there.
My favourite thing in the 90s was the Super NES and its RPGs, like Chronic Trigger and Final Fantasy 3.
Also, Saturday morning cartoons. I can’t remember any specific ones besides Captain N and Super Mario, they’re a blur now.
And, Pogs.
I got legit upset when Wolverine died in the canon, in the “Logan” movie.
He’s my favourite too, I’d always use him in the Marvel fighting games.
Number one, I got clean and sober in 1990.
It started a chain reaction in which I got a job, I went back to college. (I was in my thirties by the way), I made a friend at the board & care I was in and we ended up having many good times and we were friends for almost 7 years (and incidentally he had paranoid schizophrenia too). I started going to five or six AA, CA, or NA meetings a week. I really got in to AA and I went to functions like picnics, barbeques, dances. I worked the steps and even got into service a couple of times by representing my home group in the monthly service meetings; reporting what went on.
Anyways, the friend I had was really into music and must of had at least a couple of hundred CD’s. He introduced me to artists like Sheryl Crow, The B-52’s, The Indigo Sisters, and he was really into jazz and played it endlessly but I never got into it. Coltraine and “The Bird” etc. weren’t my cup of tea.
I in turn got him interested in the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
The 90’s was my most productive decade. I socialized a lot, traveled with my dad, did so many cool things regularly. I went water-skiing for the first time and jet-skiing. I went camping, went to concerts, parties, hung out with my sister and her husband and her friends. I just did a lot of miscellaneous fun things, so many that I can’t remember them all.
My dad just bought me the Big Book recently but I haven’t read it yet. I also haven’t been going to AA meetings. I miss the AA meetings I used to go to in Los Angeles. They had good speakers. Now I just watch TV at night.
I fear I’m becoming worse with alcohol because I want to drink every day and I keep craving more and more beer. I hope the Big Book can help me like it did for you.
It was a combination of a lot of things that has kept me sober. The Big Book was just one of them. I found it was a good read and I found the stories at the end inspiring. But meeting attendance, getting a sponsor, working the steps and getting into service are the basics and foundation of what a good recovery entails.
This may sound simplistic but you have a problem with alcohol and if you don’t take action to do something about it, there’s a chance the cravings will escalate.
For many people, what you describe is exactly how their alcoholism began.
Sadly enough I remember Kurt Cobains suicide.
I’ll never forget it.
I cried like a baby when I first heard of the news.
Remember vividly where I was and what I was doing at the time.
Whenever a Foo Fighters song comes on the radio I always get this feeling like, oh that’s so nice that Dave’s new band is doing so well. Good for him.
Then it hit me the other day that he’s been playing in the Foo Fighters for OVER TWO DECADES and he’s gonna be just fine lol. It’s hard to believe he was only in Nirvana for like 3 years.
1990 to 1992 I was living in banff and mostly drunk or spaced out on shrooms etc. I have little recollection about those years lol. When I moved back to Manitoba I met my ex husband and we camped out and fished every weekend. I didn’t really watch TV or anything throughout the 90s. I loved playing sonic the hedgehog on the Sega genesis.
I was 20 in 1990 so work, more work a couple of major breakdowns resulting in psychosis in 1999.
Good things. Heaps of really good bands coming through town and I’ve seen a lot of quality alternative rock from the nineties. Friends. Work. I was actually doing ok for most of it with those tiny little cracks which would manifest later with sz.
I was a teenager through the 90’s. Most of what I did was computer games and school/uni. This was all well before I became sick. I remember games and music mostly.
Drinking too much and blacking out, being alone and depressed in college, getting fired from my dream job, hating 90s music, getting my heart broken, burning bridges, getting diagnosed sza.
The crappy fashion
OMG didn’t everyone have the same haircut? The Rachel from Friends hair cut. Even male musicians wore their hair like that. Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20. LOL
working a lot of hours and doing a lot of drugs then in 95 finally quitting everything
I really miss arcades. We had like 4 of them in transit accessible areas and me and my friends would go play every day after school. Our thing was 3rd Strike, I’m still convinced its the deepest fighting game ever made.
All those arcades disappeared, we have a few left but they’re a ways away from where I live and I don’t think any of them have 3rd Strike.
Other than that, my Dad got me into Doom, Quake, Diablo, Warcraft, Red Alert, Starcraft, all the 90’s computer games.
Oh and Seinfeld, I remember waiting every Thursday evening to see a new episode.
Uh… Naruto.
I don’t remember anything other than Naruto or other childhood cartoons…
I remember meeting my husband in 1999 as a freshman in high school, we started dating Feb 18 2000, been together ever since. 90’s was a lot of pain I had double Achilles tendon surgery, didn’t get out of double casts for 9 months, that was 1995. 1996 I was in the hospital for a month with a rare disease called Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, didn’t walk for 2 years. So middle school was hard, I couldn’t get pain meds because family has a addiction problem, and I was on a morphine iv with unlimited amounts for that month in the hospital, they made me do rehab to wean off it, then my mom said she had a pill addiction at my age, so they gave me nothing. I spent my 2 dollars lunch money a day in 7th grade buying a single vicodin from the football players to help get through school. I’m on tramadol and muscle relaxers now. But I may be having a hip replaced because anger nurse blew the cartridge in my right hip in August with an injection. They gave me morphine in the er afterwards but said it was because I bitched so much. I see a sports injury specialist on Oct 1st to determine if it will be a hip replacement or a hard brace for 6-9 months. I’m 34, bedridden because of this. I use a cane to get to the bathroom. I’m hoping for pain meds, cause this is worse than the RSD. But my hubby h as been taking care of me while taking kids to school after working 6pm-6am, then getting up at 2 to get the three teens from school cause I can’t drive. The 90’s gave me true love, but the 2010’s have been hell. Luckily my kids are 15, 14, and 12, but it’s been hard one them. They were born between 2003 and 2006. They were all rainbow babies after3 miscarriages in high school, but I was drinking heavy in high school cause my mom was 30 with a 15 year old me, a drug addicted 11 year old, and then my youngest sister at 7. She had a psychotic break and I took over high school full time and a full time job at mcd’s. I paid our section8, I paid our electric, hubby helped where he could even th though he was only 16/17, he would pick my sister up from police station saying he was her brother, I didn’t drivetill18 cause I never could afford driver’s ed. 90’s early 2000’s, what a ■■■■■■■ great time.