Jake Ryan, Eat Your Heart Out...and Have a Cupcake While You're at It.

We lit exactly Sixteen Candles at my house on Friday, count 'em.  SIXTEEN!  So that got me thinking about the year I turned sixteen (cue the wavy lines) ~ ~ 1983 ~ ~  turns out we had some pretty good ideas that year, ideas with staying power:
Motorola introduced the first commercially available cell phone
(for the low, low price of $3,995)

and Microsoft had a pivotal year, including the introduction of Microsoft Word and the mouse.



Sixteen Candles wasn't released until 1984, but we had plenty of otherfuture classics in theaters to keep us busy while we waited for it:
1983 Releases
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 
War Games
The Outsiders
Vacation
Trading Places
Risky Business
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
Cujo
Mr. Mom
Valley Girl
Scarface
A Christmas Story
The Right Stuff

My baby girl turning 16 has me thinking about driving too *gulp* so I leave you with this quote from one of my all time favorite deep thinkers:

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to redagain, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than abunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
-Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey