Totally Bodacious Day!!!...God, I loved the 80's

'Cause our kids don't think we are old enough...they have 80's day at school. While I'm sure the kids have fun (Hannah was grinning from ear to ear) it just reinforces that we are ancient..."You were really alive in the 80's? WOW you're older than I thought!"...yes she actually said that to me this morning. So, that being said how much fun is it to vicariously relive the 80's through your child? A lot!..No guff!

With all things 80's in my heart...(read-banana clips, Vaurnet, hyper colour and 'the Coreys') I proceeded to make over my daughter. I think the result was great and she was just happy she got to wear lipstick and eyeshadow to school. Anyhow I have now pulled out the retro 80's genre on my list of music and am currently swooning to Please Don't Go Girl from New Kids On The Block...(when they were kids) and can't wait for the Bangles which are comin' up next! In honour of this most special of days I have 10 randoms of why the 80's rocked!

1. Bigger was better. Trying to explain that to Hannah this morning was a bit tough. "Why did you want to have the biggest hair, the biggest hat, the biggest satin bow, the biggest bag Mom?" Well...Cause that was the 80's.

2. Teen Mags were the next best thing to Playgirl for kids. We all drooled all over the pin-ups...Ralph Macchio, John Stamos, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, The NKOTB, River Phoenix, Patrick Dempsey...before he was McDreamy...


3. Happy endings. Everything in the 80's still had a happy ending. The girl got the boy, or viceversa where applicable. The dork usually got friends or laid depending on the movie (Long Duck Dong and the exchange student anyone?) The jerk at the beginning found that true love needed him to be nicer and the hot cheerleader usually ended up filthy and screaming. There was a balance in nature and the good guys always won! Like any of us wouldn't melt if the crowd cleared and the resident hottie was sitting on the roof of his car waiting just for us!

4. Tom Cruise was still hot...and not crazy yet. He was, come on admit it. Think Risky Business in his little tighty whitey's? He was hot. Top Gun? I don't need to say any more.

5. We had a knack for shortening company names to somehow make them our own...and those names for me have stuck. They were Cons not Converse, Docs not Doc Martens and so on.

6. Hammer pants. I had them...you had them...none of us should have. They were wrong even for the 80's.

7. What we were sure musically was cutting edge and rough, is tame by today's standards. If you want proof of this, listen to a song or two from Billy Idol. Madonna was as risque as it got and Paula Abdul in her short skirts got people talking. My mother was disapproving of this stuff then...I don't know how she is still managing to breathe these days...Love you, Mom...

8. Jamaica put the infamous bobsled team in the Calgary Olympics a la Cool Runnings. Anything was possible in the 80's. We all felt it and I think it changed the way we would live our lives out.

9. Video Games took over the brains of the youth turning most of us to mush. What started as something like Pong, turned into Pac Man, turned into today's Wii. I still have never rescued the Princess from the original Mario Bros. for the NES. Sean says he could do it in about 10 minutes...show off.

10. TV was as addictive as ever. Like you couldn't settle in with a pint of Ben and Jerry's Funky Monkey ice cream and watch a solid night of 80's TV... Family Ties, Facts of Life, Growing Pains, Silver Spoons, Punky Brewster, A-Team, Knight Rider, ALF, Cosby Show, Night Court, Cheers, Smurfs, He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Care Bears, Oh...I could go on forever...

So that's it...I thought long and hard about how to sign of...decided this would do the trick.

"Sit Ubu, Sit!

Good Dog!"

"Woof"