Stepping Stones??

I was on myspace this morning and saw a quiz a friend of mine, since I was in grade school, took which instantly brought me back to the 80’s. It was question number five on an 80’s trivia quiz, “name three actors from the Goonies” her answer “Sean Astin (shelly), Corey Feldman and Josh Brolin.” Yes, that brought me back indeed. I remember from 13-15 I lived and breathed Sean Astin, and saw the goonies on tv, 117 times in one summer. lol! I was a teenager what can I say? While still a fan of his, I left the ‘I heart Sean Astin’ shirt behind and grew up, but every so often I time warp back to my childhood.

I remember watching the Sound of Music every Friday when I got home from school, between 5th and 7th grade. I wore out the VHS tape (yes, it seems ancient….vhs tapes. Lol!). I remember asking my parents at least once a month to watch their slides from when my Dad was stationed in Europe. I think I made them sick of their own adventures, but I am constantly thirsting for knowledge and always dreaming about going to Europe…I do want to go someday. I went to a Catholic Private school, St. Martin of Tours, from Kindergarten to Eighth grade. I went to Hawaii to stay with family almost every summer when I was in school. In ninth grade I had summer school and went to Hawaii late, but would ride my bike to SDSU to have lunch with mom and dad, while I pretended to be in the Tour De France on my way there. Lol! There’s just so much and so much keeps coming back to me that I can’t write it all down. We all have ups and downs in our childhoods, but ups and downs aside, I loved my childhood.

When people say the famous line “If I had it to do all over again” you usually hear them finish that sentence with, “I would, knowing what I know now”. Well I wouldn’t. I liked my childhood, but I wouldn’t want to relive it, regardless of what I know now or not. Every decision I make, affects another life and if I deviated from my life plan, knowing what I know, I might not be the same person I am now. I have my moments of being a complete, obnoxious moron, but 90% of the time, I am a good person, with a good heart, like a gazillion other people in the world.

I do, however, want to be more motivated to write more passionately, fighting through the ‘I’m too tired” restraints, but that will come and when it does, look out world, because I’ll be buzzing through the world like a whirl wind. =)