5. A brown leather jacket from Dan. This was a score because a) it fit b) I actually loved it c) I still can get away with wearing it even though I've had it for years, because it's classy d) I was stunned he picked it out by himself, I hadn't even realized I wanted a leather jacket.
4. Western Barbie: She didn't just have a cowboy hat and tassles hanging from her shirt, if you pressed her back, she winked and her eyelid was covered in bright blue eyeshadow. She was awesome and inspiring. I couldn't wait to wear turquoise eye shadow because of her.
3. A porcelain China doll that my mom gave me when I was about 9. She was so beautiful. I still have her, pink pantaloons and all, and I'm going to pass her on to my girls when they're older.
2. A Swatch 2-way pink telephone and my own personal phone line when I was 13. This gift brought tears to my eyes and was probably the biggest parenting mistake my parents ever made. I LOVED it, and it was before caller ID so prank calls were a way of life. Ahhh, the glory days.
1. The Ultimate, the microwave that cooks things with light bulbs, come on! Does it get any better than that? I baked cakes in tiny, circular pans by adding water to bags of mysterious batter mixes that came with my u-bake oven, and they took like hours to cook, but at the time I felt like Martha Stewart must feel after she milks her cows and churns her own butter each morning, like one proud little mother hen. Whoever thought of a light bulb cooking things is a genius. They should get a technology award of some sort, forget flip cameras and ipods, light bulbs that bake - you can't put a price on that.
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Never had an easy bake oven. Maybe that's why you can bake and I can just burn!
Ok - your Swatch phone may have also been one of MY all-time favorite gifts. I LOVED that phone. Oh and I don't think we would have had nearly as much fun back then if there was caller ID. Bah Humbug, Caller ID!!
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