You know that you grew up in the 1980's if...

You ever ended your sentence with "psych" (Yup)
You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers
You watched the pound puppies (Yup)
You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (Now this is a story, all about how... (Yup))
You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish (Yup)
You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of
your own. (That was in the 90s)
You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls (Yup)
You know what 'Whoa' comes from Blossom (Yup, and BLossom had a huge nose)
Three words: M.C. Hammer (Yup)
You thought it would be great to have a friend named "Boner"
You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Yup)
If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long! (Yup)
Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics (Yup)
You ever watched Fraggle Rock (Yup)
You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike(Yeah baby)
You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch
cartoons (Cartoons suck now!)
You wore a pony tail to the side of your head (yup)
You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen(yup, and have all 3 movies at home)
You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school (Yup)
You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a
knot on the side (Yup)
You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall
You played the game "Mash" with friends at school (1990s)
You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it
L.A. GEAR (Yeah)
Your mother wouldn't let you have garbage pail kids
You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten (Jem and the Rockers rocked!)
You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona books (yup)
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 (Yup)
You wanted to be on StarSearch
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off (He was still fugly)
You took Lunch pales to school (Yup)
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf (yup)
You remember the craze, and then banning of slap bracelets (Yup)
You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement you make (Yeah)
You remember Hypercolor T-shirts
Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band
You remember Punky Brewster (I wanted to be just like Punky!)
You loved Howard the duck
You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up (They so totally should have! They made a cute couple)
You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged
"friendship bracelets" (I still have most of mine)
You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes (I still have some)
After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you are
but what am I?" (Yeah)
You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!" (Yup)
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates (Learned to skate there)
You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide
You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!)
You have played with a 'skip-it' (I went through a few of them)
You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's (Many of them)
You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks (Yup)
You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons (I think I still have my Glow Worm)
You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An Egyptian" (Yup)
If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat (Yup)
You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special (Yup)
You've gone through this list occasionally saying "That wasn't from the 80's" (Yup)
You remember Popples (Have one)
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yup)
You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks (yup)
You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down (Yup)
MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....>
You remember boom boxes instead of CD players (Yup)
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 (Yup)
You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales (Oh yeah)
You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot! (Mmm yummy)
You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac (Alf is the best!)
You remember the large amounts of hairspray used (That's how the ozone hole got so bad)
You remember those very stylish headbands (Yeah)
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 beggining of New Kids on the Block (Joey McIntyre is hot)
You remember watching The Cosby show (Yup)
You remember Mr.Belvadere
You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future (Mmmmm yeah)
You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell" (I don't remember them right now)
You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "shot through the heart" song (Yup)

Author's notes are in parenthesis

Back to the grind

Well, I successfully got moved back to school. Even if I can't find ANY poster putty in this town to hang my posters up to cover the depressing cinderblocks. Forgot a few important things at home, like my pillow and travel coffee mugs. Ah well, back home this weekend so I'll get that stuff then. Time to run errands. Laters!

My soul

I'm exceptionally artistic!

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Virtues: You look for immense creativity and individuality in people, including yourself. You're not happy with anything less than brilliant, and you focus on being expressive. You value energy, liveliness, and upbeat personalities, but you're not supportive of moodiness when you yourself can be unreliably moody. Seeking activity, you like the bustle of business but need the secluded atmosphere of a studio or private corner.

Aspirations: You feel the need to express your talents, whether it be through writing, drawing, singing, dancing, composing, performing, or photographing. While you strive to ever improve your work, you want to display it as soon as possible when your impatience kicks in. You want to be a prodigy but you might not have the means right at your fingertips. Trust me, do NOT move to New York to do it. Yeesh!

Quirks: Conformists bother you because of their lack of individuality. You're often late or unreliable. You're showy and refuse to share the spotlight. You only tell little white lies. You worm your way into the hearts of others, but be careful; some people despise the show-offs.

Factors: Surround yourself with activity and you'll always have material to work with. Involve friends and family in your projects so they don't feel like envious outsiders.

Future: Show business or not, you'll settle down happily if you're among those who appreciate your natural talents and desire to perform. Don't stay in one place too long, and don't be too hasty in defining your relationships. Who are you to judge what only time will tell?

They don't want to let me go!

Ok, so yesterday was my last day of work. Made it through with no major problems, even though I did have to work with Cita and I ended up snapping at her, oh well. I said good bye to Chris and got a hug from her and she told me that I was a godsend. So all was good, I have a job when I come back home at Christmas.

So anyways, 9am today the phone rings. It's Leia, one of the other department managers. "Chris wants to know if you can work from 3-9 today" I've now realized that "[insert manager's name here] wants to know if you can work..." is just a Penney's ploy because Chris knew that yesterday was my last day because I'm leaving for school tomorrow and Leia didn't know that I was leaving. So, I told her no that I had to pack and she asked where I was going and I said that I was leaving for school tomorrow and she said that she'd wondered why I wasn't on the schedule. They just don't want to get rid of me!

Lift

Managed to get the last copy of Lift in all of Target. It is a totally awesome CD, and shall most likely be my new obsession until OK to GO comes out next month.

Tomorrow's my last day of work. I'm even happier because I don't have to work with Cita, which makes it so enjoyable. Chris told me today that I'm going to be missed and I told her that I'll be back at Christmas, and she told me that she's going to hold me to that and will bug my grandma about it. I don't know if the fact that my manager knows my entire family is always a good thing...

*sniffcry*

My papasan chair is broke. I gotta exchange it tomorrow on my way home from work tomorrow.

OK to Go

Pre-ordered it last night. Was the 79th person to order it so I get the special edition :D Comes out September 21st (Same day as the OT DVDs in fact). Can't wait to get it

Back to School

Yup, it's that time for me again. I move back to Ferris next Friday. And I'll just say it now, I hate packing. I haven't even started yet, but just the thought of packing makes me hate it. I'm ready to go back and see my friends and hang with them and finish up school, but first I've got to get all ready to go back. I've got the address and phone number for my room at school, so if you want it, hit me up

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Holy Touchout

Wow. I'm still amazed by seeing the men's 4x200m freestyle relay last night. Australia has dominated that event for so long, and you could almost feel the tension between the US team and the Aussies. It was just an amazing race. I have this t-shirt by Nike that says "Because 1/100th of a second counts" Last night proved that fact. It was the last 50m of the race and my heart was beating faster because it looked like Australia was going to pull ahead of the US. They were neck and neck, reaching the finish at almost the exact same moment. I wasn't really sure who won until I saw the US team celebrating and the commentators proclaiming victory! It was sweet. The US won by .13 seconds. That's just a handlength. Damn, what a race. Makes me want to compete again...

There is no finish line until we find a cure

Was down at Relay for Life earlier. Haven't been able to go the last 2 years because of being an RA, but I was able to go down tonight for the Luminary Ceremony and then stick around some afterwards. The Luminary Ceremony is probably the most moving part of the entire event besides the survivors walk. Of course, you may be wondering why I was down there at all. My mom is a cancer survivor. She had thyroid cancer years ago (I don't remember how many years ago, but I think that I was in Jr High at the time.) I was thinking tonight that I'm so glad that it was just thyroid cancer because that's easily treatable. She didn't have to go through chemo, instead they just removed her thyroid and she went through radiation therapy. I just realized tonight, how lucky we are that it was such a treatable cancer, and that I still get to have all this time with my mom because it was so treatable and she's a cancer survivor. They showed the names of 3000 people tonight. And that was just the names of the people that had their names in by the August 1st deadline. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of cancer

Conspiracy theory #225A

Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuun...

So I was hanging girl's jeans in the fitting room the other day and I was hanging the girls plus sized jeans and I was thinking that they looked huge, like they'd fit me. So we looked in the size catalog and lo and behold, a girls 18.5 is the same as a size 16 in womens. So last night I saw a pair of jeans that looked really cute and decided to try them on. I thought that I'd grabbed the 18.5 but I'd grabbed a 16.5, but it was a perfect fit. Yay! I know where I'm buying my jeans from now on

Weee

I got my stitches out this morning and I feel SO much better. Yay!

Owwwwwwwwwww

I'm about as drugged up as I can possibly get right now and I still hurt. Something's not right and I'm in a lot of pain. Good thing that I go to the dentist first thing in the morning.

A brief recap

What in the name of the Force ever made me crazy enough to go back into retail (especially the children's department) during back to school? It's worse than Christmas. Renee told me yesterday that back to school is Christmas for the children's department. It's insane. I've rang up $800 worth of merchandise for people. Cleaning out the girls fitting room is near impossible and you just can't stay caught up with it anymore, and what's even better is, we're having a HUGE sale right now and we open early tomorrow and Sunday (and I get to work open to close on Sunday, yar!) Can I just disappear into happy pill land until it's all over and just get a paycheck anyways?

Speaking of happy pills...

Wow. As I said earlier, I got my wisdom teeth pulled earlier this week and it wasn't pretty. I still have a resemblence to a chipmunk but it's going away. My mouth still hurts though because my jaw is still swollen and there was just so much work to get it all out. And for someone who's never been on anything stronger than Motrin 600, Vicodin is just amazing. Takes away the pain and when mixed with motrin (like I'm supposed to, Vicodin for pain and Motrin for swelling) it knocks me out 20 minutes after I take it. Good stuff man.

Yes!

Ok a bit of happy news finally. I was a bit worried about my bill for fall semester but it turns out that I'm only $127 short of what I need for the semester financial aid wise. That'll be no problem to pay. Weeeeeeeeeee!

Wisdom teeth

Got mine pulled today. Am in a drug induced haze right now. Took 2 hours to get the teeth out and a little bit of under his breath swearing by my dentist. Now I'm on happy pills to keep the pain away and can barely stay awake. But at least I feel good.

What is your life rated?

My life is rated R.
What is your life rated?

Double ugh

It wasn't the Chinese. It was the flu.

Ugh

I'm never getting Chinese from the place in the mall here again. Ever.