"Everyone's a superhero. Everyone's a Captain Kirk."

Three down. Forty-nine to go. This week I will begin to memorize "99 Luftballons" in the original German (Task #8). Also, since tomorrow is conveniently February 1 and a Monday, I will begin my one month hiatus from fast food (Task #10). I just thought of this, but February is a short month. I didn't plan it that way, but it'll work out nicely.

I guess I need to operationally define "fast food" (Can you tell I'm currently taking a Behavior Modification class?). "Fast food" consists of any restaurant with a drive-thru or drive-in-and-order-in-your-parking-spot (a la Sonic). Sit-down, non-fast-food restaurants, such as McAlisters and Chile's do not constitute "fast-food" (obviously), and are up for grabs within reason. Those restaurants may only be eaten at once every 10 days, unless it is a family dinner that I did not plan myself as a way to cheat.

And now, for fun, here is the English translation of 99 Luftballons (originally sung by Nena)!

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got.
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone.
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, Something's out there.
Floating in the summer sky.
99 red balloons go by.

99 red balloons.
floating in the summer sky.
Panic bells, it's red alert.
There's something here from somewhere else.
The war machine springs to life.
Opens up one eager eye.
Focusing it on the sky.
Where 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street.
99 ministers meet.
To worry, worry, super-scurry.
Call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we've waited for.
This is it boys, this is war.
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Knights of the air
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero.
Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify.
To clarify and classify.
Scramble in the summer sky.
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 dreams I have had.
In every one a red balloon.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty.
In this dust that was a city.
If I could find a souvenier.
Just to prove the world was here.
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.

SO, Creaves, they DO say "Captain Kirk!" Our ears did not deceive us!

99 Luftballons music video