noodle

I can remember sitting in the tree down the street with my friends "smoking" candy cigarettes... you blew in the end and "smoke" came out. We were cool.

And swinging on our original swingset that was metal and had to be put in the ground with concrete. You were really cool if you could make the entire thing rock. It only had two swings and a slide, connected by monkey bars.

I'm now singing the theme songs to KIDS Incorporated, Knight Rider, and the Slinky commercial... thanks.

Where are the My Little Ponies, Muncheechees, Snorks, original Fraggles? C'mon you guys.

I still have my Puffalump somewhere. And my parents' attic smells like Strawberry Shortcake dolls. It makes me laugh hysterically whenever we open it.
And my family used to go to Cleveland, Georgia to Babyland General when I was a kid and we were on vacation. Know what's "born" there? You can do it....

We actually watched Cabbage Patch Kids born right out of the cabbages in the "garden." It was awful, but we loved it then. I have one of the originals.

I remember te day that MTV started, wearing neon everything, riding cool in a Caprice Classic as big as a house, hiding the Beastie Boys from my parents, those little mice and animal people you played with in dollhouses (I was obsessed), inflatable Barbie furniture, the original Trivial Pursuit, Sweet Valley High books replacing Nancy Drew...

__________________