And now for something completely different...

Okay, enough serious stuff. Seeing as how my 34th birthday is next week (Friday the 13th... and yes I was born on Friday the 13th... I think that's why my mother named me Angela, which means "angelic", to counter-balance the evil bad luck stigma haha) This and the new movies coming out such as Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (can you believe these have made a comeback? Or did they just never die??) got me to thinking about other nostalgia of growing up in the 80's. So websurfing I came across this site-

You might be a child of the 80's if...
http://www.80scartoons.net/ymbaeci.html

Some excerpts:

• You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
  Everyone wanted one back then, they were so cool...
• You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
  Not to mention "Clap on, Clap off"...
• You know what "psych" means.
  Hey, I STILL say that!
• You fell victim to 80's fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants.
  You will never, I repeat n-e-v-e-r see photos of me from high school...
• You remember when ATARI was a state-of-the-art video gaming system.
  I remember the Christmas we got an Atari... we felt so proud to have this new technology... had Pitfall Harry, Frogger, and of course Pacman and Pong...
• You own any cassettes or albums.
  Still do... the problem is finding a car I can still play them in...
• You inserted the word "like" into, like, every sentence.
  Again, like, I still do...
• You ever had a Swatch Watch.
  OMG, I remember the big fad was to have not just one Swatch, but (like) 8 of them all on your arm at once... and it seemed expensive for a high-schooler to have a $35 watch...
• You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.
  Ah, those were the days... Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, Church Chat, Toonces the Cat, "WE VILL PUMP *clap* YOU UP!"...
• You had Wonder Woman or Superman Underoos.
  I'm not going there...
• You believed that "By the power of GREYSKULL, you HAD the power!"
  Man I hated that show...
• Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
  Yep... and now it is still so far away... the other direction... boy I feel old now...
• 3 words: "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?
  Already mentioned Atari, but friends had the others...
• You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
  And I still watched it up until the early 90's... I couldn't get cable where I lived in the country... but yes I waited up until 1:00am just to watch FNV...
• You were shocked and horrified at the Challenger explosion (which you were probably watching in school at the time).
  As a matter of fact I was...
• You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there."
  Of all the shows in syndication, WHY do they not show Hill Street Blues on Nick at Nite or any other networks??
• You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
  Please... please let us move on from that...

I feel so much older now. So much for the trip down memory lane. I feel about the same as the day I found my first grey hair (why do you think I dye my hair? For Warlock to make me the butt of his blonde jokes?!? NOT!)

But the good news is I still look fairly young... in fact just last year at the local convenience store a little high schooler in a pickup truck asked me to go to a party at the football game across the street... I told him, "Son, I'm TWICE your age!" He got this shocked/confused look on his face and drove off, haha.

Then just TODAY at work, a new guy asked me, "Are you a model?"

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

When I stopped laughing I said, Umm, NO

And yet then I remembered the grey hairs... which brought me back to reality.