I have no homework and therefore Emily wanted me to write a blog post.

I'm bored. That's what 16 extra hours at school + 2 homework assignments does to a person. So my dear friend Emily suggested that I blog.... so here I am.

I'm also watching Footloose, and I have decided that I totally should have been a teen in the 80s. I'm going to list my reasons here.

1. Hair. My hair is naturally poofy, and I can tease it like crazy - 80s hair and I were meant for each other. I don't even know how amazingly floofy it would look if I permed it.

2. Clothing. It was comfy, and stylish. Leggings, jeans, and baggy shirts. Baggy shirts are flattering on me - assuming that's the style that's popular at the time, which it isn't exactly at the moment. Heels - for casual wear, AND formal, which you can't really pull off today.

3. Dancing. OBVIOUSLY - every single high school had amazing choreographers who taught all the students to dance... and if they didn't, they got a rebel from 'the city' to come and teach them all to dance.

3. Music. It's still fabulous. Enough said.

4. TV shows. They were totally epic, and still are some of the best things on dvd. Or not on dvd. Like Scarecrow and Mrs. King..... Warner Bros. really needs to get on that.

5. People. People seemed to be more complex and thoughtful, and.... complex. Compare Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off  to High School Musical, or How To Deal. (HSM really isn't that good a comparison... but I couldn't resist)

Also, I think teens had a better grasp on life back then. They had known about the Cold War ever since they were small, and their parents had dealt with the results of WWII. They were seriously worried about the future of the people of their world, because no one knew what the future held. Today the biggest worry of the average 16 year old is what score they'll get on their SATs and what college they can get into.

And can I just say - people danced in the 80s waaay better, and with so much more passion than today. In the movies anyway.

Anyone have a time machine so I can go visit my mom at her high school back in 1986?

~thesingingprincess