Day 14's topic is "Chia Pets". This is yet ANOTHER topic about which I know very little.
Growing up I wanted a Chia Pet. Okay...sidebar...growing up I wanted a ton of stupid shit. The biggest and least stupid thing that I wanted was Legos. I didn't get those goddamn Legos until I was 18. At 18, tired of listening to me bitch ceaselessly each Christmas Day, my parents broke down and bought me Legos. I lost them. No idea where they went. I was 18...what the hell was I supposed to do with Legos? But it was still a funny present.
Okay...continuation of the sidebar...lots of stupid shit
Legos
Pet Rock
X-Ray glasses
Spud gun
Sea Monkeys...
Look...okay...pretty much the entire back page of any comic book published in the 70's I wanted. I got Legos, at 18. End of list.
Seriously? I was 6 years old. YEAH I wanted a shrunken head. YEAH I want a device that prints out money, and a spy pen radio, and ...and...and....
Anyway, I wanted a bunch of stupid shit when I was a kid. One of the stupid things I wanted was a chia pet. I don't think I really even knew what it was, but the song was catchy. I guess you plant seeds...chia seeds...on the outside of this ceramic object shaped like a sheep or a mustache or whatever and water it and it grows. But I am an anathema to plants, and perhaps my parents knew that, or maybe I never actually vocalized my desire for a chia pet, because either way I never got one.
I don't want a chia pet now. That's just to clear it up before I get it on this Christmas morning from my parents because they read the blog and decided that 45 was a good age to finally get me a chia pet.
It would make me really really really really happy if the outcome of suggesting this topic was that you're inundated with chia pets for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I wanted *everything* on the back page of the comics. Sea monkeys were the biggest disappointment of my childhood, I saved up months for those suckers!
Sea monkeys were a grave disappointment to many a child of that era. People who market to kids are cruel. And now I want to send Jim a Chia Zombie.
DeleteThey looked so fun! The dad with is his little microscopic briefcase. The mom in her apron. Was it...not like that?
DeleteNo, and there was no king with a trident either *shakes fist*
DeleteNow you can eat chia seeds in everything.
ReplyDeleteI really wanted a mood ring.
you can still get it!
DeleteOh Archie comics and sea monkeys... I never got any either. I think we *did* have a chia pet, but because my mom wanted it. Of course, I may be completely fabricating that memory, who knows. She DID have a pet rock - that I'm sure I remember. Really.
ReplyDeletei might just buy sea monkeys now so that I can experience the same disappointment everyone else did.
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