My apologies....

I totally suck at posting lately....time is not something I have in excess. :0) Besides....we have happened to have a few gorgeous days mixed in with the freaky random hailstorms and so I have lived part of my days outdoors. I'm craving me some more sunshine.
Moving on.....

Can I just tell you how excited I am about girls night for May? Why? Because it's 80s night. "Oh yes it's ladies night,
and the feelings right,
oh yes it's ladies night,
oh what a, OH WHAT A NIGHT."
Oh yeah! I am currently gathering all of the essential 80s fashions so that I can look my 80s best. You know, totally radical stuff. Wanna see one of my best finds so far?....

That's right people.....I'm going Madonna/Cyndi Lauper style. {mine are the pink ones BTW}

What was interesting to me though.....was that these things are actually being sold in stores right now. I mean....seriously. Are these really coming back in style?

Anyway.....now I just need someone to tell me where I can find a radical pair of jelly shoes. Any suggestions?

Flashback Friday: Early Edition, Week 3

Around third grade my mom got this "brilliant" idea of starting up a kids singing/dancing group. We were called the Star Spangled Kids. There were about 10 of us in the group. My mom picked out the songs for each of our "shows" and did all of the choreography. I still remember how to "kick ball change". :0)

Our first performances were done with Christmas songs. I know oodles of Christams carols because of this. We wore little Santa hats along with our signature Star Spangled Kids shirts. And we had to wear our special dancing shoes too. They were white. {Are you cringing at the white?} It was the 80s....so that should explain it for you. :0) My mom had us perform in Retirement Homes and in malls. Yes, I was a mall performer. It was done a lot back in the 80s, remember {Tiffany flashbacks here}.

I really wish I had access to my pictures so that I could share with you. I'm sure my siblings would love that. :0) But at least you'd get a better idea of what we looked like as we danced around the stage. :0)

Anyway, after Christmas we moved onto Vaudeville songs like "If you knew Suzy, like I knew Suzy, Oh, Oh, Oh what a girl!" and "In the Good Old Summertime" good stuff...We had new outfits too. I remember loving my sassy little white pleated skirt. New dance moves were created for the new songs and we went on our little tour again.

Our last tour was of Disney songs. We sang "Candle on the Water" and "Zipadeedooda"....stuff like that. That was my favorite one. I love Disney songs. :0) Good stuff!

Star Spangled Kids ended after that....not sure why. But it was fun. I love music...maybe this had something to do with it. You wouldn't catch me singing and dancing around on a stage right now though. Too much awareness over the audience compared to when I was 8. :0)

The official "New Wave Sissy Boy 80s Hits You Were Afraid To Admit You Liked In High School" playlist

I am sick today. I feel really crappy to be completely honest. I just want to go and lay down on my bed and take a nice snoozer. But, I know as soon as I do, the wee one will wake up from her nap and it will be over. So, I went to check my email instead of napping and came across this playlist and laughed. :0) So, I thought I'd share it.

"This is the ultimate 80's new wave guilty pleasures playlist. All the sissy boy hits we secretly loved in high school, but were never man enough to admit until grunge killed pop metal. "

That is this guy's description of the list. Now, I was not in high school during the 80s. But I love, love LOVE 80s music. Between the hair bands and techno pop stuff, it was just fun stuff. Here's his list:

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Poison Arrow - ABC
Save A Prayer - Duran Duran
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
It's My Life - Talk Talk
More Than This - Roxy Music
I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes
Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Only You - Yaz
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
True - Spandau Ballet

Did you get some flashbacks? I know I did. :0) So, go get out your tape collection and your boombox and have a radical time!

The Flashback continues.....

So, apparently I'm not the only one who loves the 80s because the decade has become so "retro" lately. They're bringing it all back! I'm not complaining in the least bit! I keep seeing commercials, or online ads announcing the return of some of my childhood favorites so I thought I'd share...

First they came out with Transformers The Movie, which was truly amazing. I remember the cartoon from the good old days and to have all the cartoon characters done up this new way was great! I love that my kid gets to enjoy the characters now. Though, all I really remember is Optimus Prime, the big red semi. :0)

One of my favorite shows as a kid was Knight Rider. I was truly jealous as a child because my brother got the Knight Rider Big Wheels for his bday. Lucky! Well, I just saw the commercial tonight that they are doing a tv movie of the 80s series. Look here to check it out. They even have David Hasselhoff doing a guest role in it. Not sure how it will turn out, but I'm looking forward to checking it out. Hopefully they do the series justice!

Check out my previous post about the Smurfs. Loved that cartoon!

GI Joe was another favorite of mine. My brother was Duke, and I was Scarlett. She rocked. Others must have thought so as well, because they are in pre-production for the GI Joe Movie for 2009. Crazy, huh?

My daughter loves her Care Bears. She watches the little cartoon movies, and plays with her Monkey, one of the Care Bear Cousins as well as FunShine Bear. I LOVED the Care Bears. My mom told me that I used to say that I loved the Care Bears because "they care a lot". Get it? Care-A-Lot? Yeah...good times.

On top of that, she is getting to know all about Strawberry Shortcake as well. Good stuff! I haven't seen much of Rainbow Brite, and she was one of my favorites back in the day as well.

Now, I won't say that everything from the 80s was great. The music rocked! The cartoons were better, tv was so much CLEANER and better (remember Growing Pains, the Cosby Show, The Facts of Life, Gimme A Break, Mr. Belvedere, Perfect Strangers, Who's The Boss.....I could go on and on)...but the fashion was definitely interesting. Seriously...acid washed jeans? And you had to wear super BIG shirts, with BIG POOFY hair (Aqua Net hairspray....had to use it to get the big hair right?), and Keds sneakers or Jelly shoes. We were all truly sexy. Remember?

Sigh...anyway...back on track here. It's just amazing to me that all of these things are being re-introduced. Hopefully my kids will enjoy them as much as I did. So far...they have. You can't go wrong with a classic! I'm just waiting for the next commercial announcing the release of the Macgyver movie. Honestly...I'd go see it. I loved Macgyver.

Deep thoughts....by Ashlee. Have a good night!

Movie Flashback!

So, much to Jaysen's frustration I have been on a flashback tour of some of my old favorite movies. With the writers strike going on...there's nothing on tv, and so in the evenings I find myself trying to find things to do (besides the things I SHOULD be doing. There are always PLENTY of things to do, but I take the evenings off. Seriously, you should try it!) Anyway, Netflix has been shipping us some great 80s movies lately. I've been filling my queue with some great movie memories. So, I thought I would share some of my favorites with you for your viewing enjoyment.


16 Candles
Adventures in Babysitting
Back to the Future (Great Scott!)
Beetlejuice
Big
Breakfast Club
The Burbs
D.A.R.Y.L.
Dead Poets Society
Desperately Seeking Susan

Dirty Dancing
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
E.T. (ET phone home!)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller, Bueller...)
Field of Dreams (if you build it, they will come)
Flashdance (what a feeling!)
Flight of the Navigator
Footloose
Ghostbusters (Who you gonna call?)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Goonies
Howard the Duck (I know, I know...but I loved it back then!)
Indiana Jones (any of them!)
Karate Kid
Labyrinth (just rewatched this one and it wasn't as good as I remembered it to be. Sigh)
Ladyhawke
Land Before Time
Lean on Me
Legend of Billy Jean
Mannequin
Man with One Red Shoe
Mask
Never Ending Story
Outsiders
Police Academy (Freeze Dirt Bag!)
Pretty in Pink
Princess Bride (As you wish)
Rain Man (K-mart sucks)
Return to Oz
Romancing the Stone
Short Circuit (#5 is alive!)
Spaceballs
St. Elmo's Fire
Stand by Me
Star Wars (Use the force Luke!)
Superman
Supergirl
Top Gun
Troop Beverly Hills
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Willow

Am I missing your favorite? Let me know!

Happy Smurfday!

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Do you remember the smurfs? I LOVED watching the smurfs. Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Smurfette, and mean old Gargamel...they made my Saturday mornings! Well, apparently they just turned 50! Holy cow! It seems they were actually a comic first before becoming hugely popular in the 80s with their tv series. Because of this, their company has decided it's time to re-introduce them to the world. Late next year a Smurf movie will be released, and then hopefully 26 new 30 minute episodes for our kiddies to watch. The characters will be updated, and more girls added to the little mushroom house community. So, it will be interesting to see what they come up with. But, I think it's just Smurfy! Much better than most of the cartoons that they've got on tv nowadays don't you think?