Today is my 41st birthday and I jotted down the following while in a "Rita Rally" meeting here at work  Looks like we will be having a margaRITA party here at work this weekend.  Will be back to check comments later.

I was born in 1964 and this is what I remember from my youth:

• Pong – Two paddles, one ball, no way to unlock hot sex scenes
• Starskey & Hutch poster on my wall
• Every kid on the block had a bike and every kid rode them
• Toy trucks diecast out of metal
• Seatbelts?  Those are to wack your pesky brother with
• Hot wheels and not Grand Theft Auto
• Drinking milk for dinner until your parents considered you old enough to drink Tea
• Chico and the Man and crying when Freddie Prinze committed suicide
• Playing outside until it was too dark to see
• 1 television in the house and not 1 in every room
• Having to taking my turn – turning the handle on the ice cream maker
• Saturday morning cartoons – “Shhhhhh, I’m huntin that pesky wabbit”
• Singing “Horse with No Name”
• “Church” clothes were different from everyday clothes
• French provincial furniture
• Tie-dying T-shirts in Art class
• Strobe lights at the skating rink
• Tony Orlando & Dawn (& Dawn, & Dawn)
• Watermelon seed spitting contest almost every night in the late summer
• Going out to eat was a special treat saved for birthdays.
• My dad building us a tree house and I got to hold the nails
• Hearing “Just you wait until your Dad gets home” meant you were in BIG trouble.
• Vinny Barbarino
• Barbie was still with Ken and didn’t yet realize that she could be with Brenda too
• Rock tumblers
• Dressing up for Halloween with whatever costumes you could make up from items around your house
• Gummy coke bottles that tasted like coke
• Riding down the highway in the back of the pickup with about 10 other kids
• The Carpenters
• Listening to Bill Cosby’s comedy on the record player – sans nasty words
• CB handles
• Koolaid instead of colas
• No one you knew one had a computer and the internet hadn’t been invented yet

BTW - Mr. H is STILL running a fever (20 days now).  Blood work came back fine - had an X-Ray late yesterday afternoon and we are waiting on the Dr. to call us.  He has stopped the Antiboitics because they apparently aren't doing any good - Ya Think?