Child of the 80’s

Another trip down memory lane for me. Today I was reading Tanya’s Blog and am once again about to steal material from her. hehe It was such good timing that I saw this after my recent post about The Facts of Life. For some reason I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when I was a kid. The TV shows I watched, the games I played, the kids I knew.. I wonder if it’s just random or if it has something to do with the fact that this is the year I will be turning 30. Either way, I know I’d give damn near anything to be a kid again. Of course, wouldn’t we all?

Anyhow, this is what I swiped from Tanya’s blog. I’ll do like she did and bold the ones that make ME a child of the 80’s.

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You are a child of the 80’s if…

You ever ended your sentence with “psych”

You solved the Rubics cube…..by peeling off the stickers (Yes, I actually have done that as a kid *sigh*)

You watched the pound puppies (I even had a pound puppy doll that had little baby puppies inside it’s belly.)

You can sing the rap to “the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish

You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own

You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls

You know that ‘Whoa’ comes from Blossom

Three words: M.C. Hammer (I wore the M.C Hammer pants.. gah)

You thought it would be great to have a friend named “Boner”

You can sing the entire theme song to “Duck Tales”

If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long

Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics

You ever watched Fraggle Rock (I still know the words to the Theme Song!)

You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike (Strawberry Shortcake bike with a banana seat!)

You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons (A few years ago I asked a friend’s little sister if she watches the smurfs. She didn’t know what they were.)

You wore a pony tail to the side of your head – HOW EMBARASSING!

You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen

You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school

You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side

You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall (Right next to my Michael Jackson poster! Good grief)

You played the game “Mash” with friends at school

You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it

L.A. GEAR

Your mother wouldn’t let you have garbage pail kids (Bolded this, but she did let me have them, I had tons!)

You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten (You mean there were girls who didn’t? Best girlie cartoon EVER!)

You remember reading “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and all the Ramona books

You know the profound meaning of “Wax on,Wax off”

You wanted to be a Goonie

You ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing (Orange shirt, white pants, pink socks, green suspenders, yellow scrunchie!)

You wanted to be on StarSearch

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off

You took Lunch pales to school

You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf

You remember the craze, and then banning of slap bracelets

You still get the urge to use “NOT” at the end of every statement you make (I still DO sometimes!)

You remember Hypercolor T-shirts (Was the first gift I ever gave my first boyfriend)

Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band

You remember Punky Brewster (Just looked up the theme song to this show yesterday!)

You loved Howard the duck

You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up

You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged “friendship bracelets” (AND the safety pins with the beads on them that we used to put all over our clothes and shoes!)

You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes (They went great with my neon clothes!)

After you saw Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure you couldn’t top saying “I know you are but what am I?”* (Still do!)

You remember “I’ve fallen…and I can’t get up!”

You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates (I remember my mother making me wear a big white hockey helmet too!)

You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide

You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!) (This myth was busted on Myth Busters not long ago! Although I busted it when I was like, ten)

You have played with a ‘skip-it’

You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald’s (They always had the best cakes! .. and we got to make our own sundae’s!)

You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks

You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons

You remember dancing along with the Bangles in “Walk Like An Egyptian”

If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat (Always thought he was a terrible Garfield ripoff)

You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special

You’ve gone through this list occasionally saying “That wasn’t from the 80’s”

You remember Popples

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks

You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down

MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK…..

You remember boom boxes instead of CD players

You remember watching both “Gremlins” movies

You remember the Transformers

You know what it meant to say “care bear stare!!” and you had a favorite

You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tale!

You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot!

You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac

You remember the large amounts of hairspray used (I definately made my own dent in the ozone)

You remember those very stylish headbands

You remember Vicky the Robot

You remember Eve Garland from Out of this World and how she could stop time by pressing the tips of her index fingers together and talking to her dad through a glowing cube in her bedroom

You remember the begining of New Kids on the Block

You remember watching The Cosby show

You remember Mr.Belvadere*

You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future

You know all the names of the gang from “Saved by the Bell”

You know all the words to Bon Jovi’s “shot through the heart” song (Great I won’t get that out of my head all day now!)

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Wow, I am truly a child of the 80’s.. there’s no denying it!