2007 was a magical time. I am a personal believer that it is one of the best years from my childhood for music. This was the year that "Buy U A Drank," "Hate That I Love You," "Ima Flirt," "Kiss Kiss," "Beautiful Girls," "Misery Business," "Happy Ending," "Shawty," AND "Lip Gloss" came out. The amazing music, however, cannot blind me to the average lifestyle of an early teen in 2007. It got me thinking of these 20 things that I did in that year that I will never encounter myself doing again.
1. Wear the ICONIC outfit of a polo shirt (Hollister or Abercrombie), a jean skirt, leggings, and flats.
2. Go to the midnight release of "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows"—the book.
3. Watch the premier of "High School Musical 2."
4. Be shocked/excited when you see that Miley Cyrus has a cameo in "High School Musical 2."
5. Try your hardest to not offend anyone with the order of your top eight, but also try to make it accurate so people know where they stand with you.
6. Make your friends listen to the new pop country singer Taylor Swift and her first few singles "Our Song" and "Teardrops on My Guitar."
7. Put just a simple "</3" in your away messages, text messages, and various profiles to be 'mysterious' and hope people ask you what's wrong. But tell them it's "NBD" when they ask.
8. Go through a scene phase/ say "rawr means I love you in dinosaur."
9. Spend hours learning HTML codes to create the perfect MySpace profile as if you were a master computer programmer.
10. Waste away watching the YouTube viral videos The Mysterious Ticking Noise, Miss South Carolina Answers a Question, or Leave Brittany Alone.
11. Take HIGH QUALITY profile pictures such as these:
12. Love Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" so much that you look up all of the popular "Crank Dat" parodies, such as "Crank Dat Spongebob," "Crank Dat Teletubbies," "Crank Dat Dora the Explorer."
13. Have away messages that consistently end with something along the lines of "text me," "u kno the digits, hmu," or "leave it or dont. w/e."
14. Spend hours being a 'n00b' on Runescape.
15. Send nudes on a flip phone (Just kidding, I didn't, because I was 12, but this was a thing for some of you nastys out there).
16. Always wear a Livestrong yellow rubber bracelet.
17. Watch MTV shows like "Next" and "Parental Control."
18. Have cell phone options such as the Razr (pink, red, silver, etc.), the enV (orange or silver), or the Chocolate (red, white or black.)
19. Change your MySpace song to "When You're Gone" by Avril Lavigne after your first boyfriend (of three days) broke up with you.
20. Share your "Buddy List" on AIM with everyone, and having everyone share theirs with you, despite having no idea who most of the screen names belong to.
