The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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You know you're a mom when...You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.
You want to take out a contract on the kid who broke your child's favorite toy and made him/her cry.
You have time to shave only one leg at a time.
You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
You child throws up, and you catch it.
Someone else's kid throws up at a party, and you keep eating.
You consider finger paint to be a controlled substance.
You mastered the art of placing large quantities of pancakes and eggs on a plate without anything touching.
Your child insists that you read Once Upon a Potty out loud in the lobby of the doctor's office, or, better yet, in the lobby of a Grand Central Station... and you do it.
You hire a sitter because you haven't been out with your husband in ages, then spend half the night talking about and checking on the kids.
You hope ketchup is a vegetable because it's the only one your child eats.
You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons, while your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.
You can't bear the thought of your son's first girlfriend.
You hate the thought of his wife even more.
You donate to charities in the hope that your child won't get that disease.
You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into unusual shapes.
You fast-forward through the scene when the hunter shoots Bambi's mother.
You use your own saliva to clean your child's face.
You obsess when your child clings to you upon parting during his first month at school, then obsess when he skips in without looking back the second time.
You can't bear to give away baby clothes -- it's so final.
You hear your mother's voice coming out of your mouth when you say, "Not in your good clothes!"
You stop criticizing the way your mother raised you.
You read that the average five year old asks 437 questions a day and feel proud that your kid is above average.
You say at least once a day, "I'm not cut out for this job", but you know you wouldn't trade it for anything in the world...
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You're an 80's child if...You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.
You wanted to be on Star Search. (Come on, we all did)
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
You wore French rolls on the bottom of your splatter painted jeans.
You had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once.
You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt.
You know the profound meaning of ''Wax on, Wax off.''
You can name at least half of the members of the elite ''Brat Pack.''
You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours!!!!!!
You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
You know that another name for a keyboard is a ''Synthesizer.''
You hold a special place in your heart for ''Back to the Future.''
You know where to go if you ''Wanna go where everybody knows your name.''
You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool. (Was there an 80's movie she WASN'T in?)
You know what ''Sike'' means.
You fell victim to 80's fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants
You wanted to be a Goonie - (hey u guyz!!)
You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and trolls.
You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played ''Sam'' to be.
You ever wore fluorescent -neon if you will clothing...(or nail polish)
You could break dance, or wished you could. (I said hip hop....)
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system. (Remember Pong)
You know all the words to ''Ice Ice Baby''.
You remember MC hammer well.
You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
You own any cassettes.
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
You remember and/or own any of the CareBear Glass collection from PizzaHut.
Poltergeist freaked you out.
You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
You wanted to communicate with some being named Cinergy.
You wanted to have an alien like Alf living in your house.
You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
You wore tights under shorts and felt stylish.
You ever had a Swatch Watch.
You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the care-bear stare.
You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.
You had Wonder Woman or Superman underwear.
You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.
You Believed that ''By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power''
You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
Partying ''like it's 1999'' seemed SO far away!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my friend, are a ''Child of the 80's.''
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Good morning everyboomie.
I was off for two days and Friday kinda snuck up on me.
Happy Friday!
I'm back at work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, then when your weekend is over I start another one.
Also I'm back a work at 5 o'clock in the AM, so I gotta get up at 3:30.
My two older brothers are going to be here sometime tonight. I hope they get here before I have to go to bed.
They are going to replace the tub and shower in our front bathroom.
My sister has gone to the Arbuckle Wilderness for the weekend, and her daughter and G'daughter, who live here now, went to Arlington for the weekend.
YEAH!!!!
I spent all day today burning about 6 huge piles of limbs, and a lot of other garbage, and golly gee wiz I am burned out.
I hope Friday is a super day for one and all.
joe