" * The "Oldies" station in my area started playing "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys (1988)and "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel (1983) about two years ago...no joke!
* Actually i'm a 30 year old who looks pretty much like a 22 year old, about that I really can't complain, and mentally I still feel and sometimes act like a teen ager, but when younger people call my favorite music retro and say that I Love Rock and Roll is originally from Britney Spears when we all know that was Joan Jett, they think I'm crazy because they never heard that name before....it really sucks not being the hip and pain in the butt teen ager anymore..by the way back then was way cooler...p.s who remember Ricky Martin whe he was one of the members of the group MENUDO...hahahahahah
* Remember the Dr. Seuss cartoons that were played on TV? I had forgotten all about them till I ran into them last Christmas looking for things to buy my (then) one year old. Of course I had to get them and well ended up doing his whole room in the cat in the hat. But now they have out the cat in the hat movie (which isn't really a "kids" movie in my eyes or the eyes of some others) What ever happened to Dr. Seus being about the kids and not the adults?
* Remember when you could watch one episode of a cartoon and understand everthing in it even though you hadn't seen it before? Unlike these cartoons now to where you have to watch the whole series to understand ANY of it. What ever happened to a story in a thirty minute episode? (1982)
* I was extremely excited about an upcoming concert, and I told one of my employees I was going to see Duran Duran! She said, "Who's that?" AARGH!!!
* Speaking of The Care Bears being in CGI, most of all hit animated movies from today ("Finding Nemo", "Shark Tale", "Incredibles", etc.) are all CGI animated. Plus, current non CGI animated films like "Brother Bear" had flopped. Guess that hand drawn animated films are nolonger profitable. And recently knowing that there'll be a new animated Disney Christmas movie out, but in CG1. Atleast most current cartoons on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, & Comedy Central are still hand drawn.
* Watching Little House on the Prarie on DVD and remembering waiting for that episode to come out the following week to see if Laura actually married Almonzo.
* Remembering Mary-Kate and Ashley Oleson as baby Michelle on Full House and seeing clips from their 18th Bday party.
* My kids playing with Barbie on a computer instead of the actual dolls.
* Pulling out my old Atari to see if it still worked and my kids saying "My god mom, you were deprived of a good childhood with these graphics"
* Identifying with a country song called "I Miss Back When". The chorus of that song reminds me of the 80's I grew up in. "Back when a hoe was a hoe and Coke was a Coke. Crack's what you were doing, when you were cracking jokes, back when a screw was a screw and wind was all that blew. And when you said "I'm down with that, you meant you had the flu. I miss back when, I miss back when." The song goes on to talk about the singer reading "Street slang for Dummies".
* I was born in 1975 and I see the kids I baby-sat for back in the 80's now having 1-5 year old children that I baby-sit for.
* Knowing that in a little over a year it will be the 20th anniversary of the Challenger explosion and remembering being home from school due to snow and watching it happen."
I was home sick (there was snow on the ground in NY that day as well) and hearing about the explosion on Z-100, the local top 40 station.
That was the day I got my braces off. We were in a hotel (orthodontist was an overnight trip) and his name was McAullife. I remember I was going to ask him if he was related to Christa, and getting ready to go when I saw the Challenger explode on TV. Seems like yesterday.