Just a quick note: I hope all of my friends and family are doing well. Blogging is not something I am great at, as you can see I have not posted since January!
Okay, about that addiction. Some of you might have the same secret addiction. I was not a teen of the 80's. I was a child of the 80's. Which means this addiction is not nesessarily about the fashion or the music. My addiction is found in all the wonderful TOYS of the 80's. Oh come on, you know the one's I'm talking about. And these are the vintage versions, the moderen versions are not the same!: Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony. And some maybe not so recognizable: Rose Petal Place Dolls, Charmkins, Herself the Elf, Lady Lovely Locks, Cupcake Dolls, Keypers, Poochy, Hugabunch, Jem, etc.
Right now, my upmost devotion is in the very cute My Child Dolls. Remember those? They had fabric skin and came in different eye and hair colors. I still have my doll from when I was little. A little werid, maybe. But come on, I know some of you out there have the same addiction to toys you played with as a child. Its not like I have a room full of vintage toys or anything. Just mostly stuff I had as a child, and an occasional purchase off of ebay! Anyway, right now I have been buying and restoring these old my Child Dolls to resale off of ebay, I guess they are quite the collectable right now.
So now in dedication to the awesome 80's (I'm a nerd, I know) here is a list of "You know you grew up in the 80's IF".......................
1.You know what "Sike" means.
2.You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
3.You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
4.You can sing the McDonald's Big Mack, Filet-o-Fish, quarter pounder and French fry song.
5.You know who Mr. T is.
6.You know Fat Albert and the man behind his voice.
7.You ever wore fluorescent, neon clothing.
8.You could break-dance, or wish you could.
9.You wanted to be "a punk" for Halloween.
10.You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"
11.Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
12.You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
13.You knew that "knowing is half the battle."
14.You wanted to be on Star Search.
15.You had "big hair" and used AquaNet hairspray.
16.You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.
17.You remember the garbage pail kids, and maybe owned some.
18.You knew what Willis was "talkin'bout."
19.You understood when Scooby Doo said, "Rut row raggy?" and laughed when Shaggy said "Zoinks!"
20.You HAD to have your MTV.
21.You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
22.You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
23.You owned any cassettes.
24.You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
25.You remember and/or owned any of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut or the Muppets glasses from McDonalds.
26.Poltergeist freaked you out.
27."Bueller?"
28.You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ET, Dukes of Hazards, Knight Rider, Strawberry Shortcake or A-Team lunch box.
29.You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
30.You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
31.You heard "I've fallen and I can't get up!" at least 100 times.
32.You wore your Izod shirt with the collar up.
33.You had a Swatch Watch with the Swatch Guard.
34.You loved the "Where's the beef?" Wendy's commercial
34.You loved the "Where's the beef?" Wendy's commercial
35.You remember when Happy Meals came in a box, not a paper bag.
36.You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.
37.You had Wonder Woman or Superman underoos.
38.You know what a "Push Up" ice cream is.
39.You had to come in the house when the street lights came on.
40.You had to change into play clothes after school.
41.You owned, or knew somebody with a Commodore 64.
42.) You hated Scrappy Doo.
43.) You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.
44.) You wish you had a light saber.
45.) Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1
46.) Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.
47.) You have ever said, "Gag me with a spoon."
48.) You have ever wondered what happened to Saturday morning cartoons.
49.) You had to get up to change the channel.
50.) You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine on Sesame Street.
51.) You thought the "Thriller" video was pretty cool.
52.) You remember the first time you went into a video store to rent a movie.
53.) Boys wore those wide, colorful shoelaces, and girls wore "jellies".
54.) You know which movie "I want my two dollars" came from.
55.) You still cannot go in to the water because of that dang movie "Jaws."
56.) El Debarge's "Feel the beat of the Rhythm of the night" plagued the radio every hour.
Okay I know that list was long, but it's all true! I loved reading this list and had to put it on my blog! Funny!
Now I'm off to ebay! :)
