In a Minor State of Nostalgia...

Forget Memory Lane. This whole day I've been cruising down Childhood Fantasy Highway just after the 90s Memorial Bridge.

It's difficult for me to believe that 12 years have passed since the days when trying new Easy Bake Oven recipes and creating recess plots to outrun all the boys were daily priorities of my friends and mine. Primary concerns were determining which friend got to "be" Sporty Spice, having the best Mad Minute Math score, who, if not Ruthie, was hosting the next sleepover and making sure the school bus didn't leave me behind.

A few other things that just came to me, for the record,
-Disney movies (Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas, top 5)
-Hanson/Spice Girls/LFO/
-Skip-Its, Barbie, Pokemon, Nintendo, Furbys, Gigapets, Spinning fairies, WNBA ball
-Dressing my brother in ridiculous costumes and in turn, playing Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Donkey Kong, Pokemon and Transformers with him
-Being a proud member of brownie Girlscouts and the Olsen Twins fan club
-Constant desire to be the fastest, strongest and best at everything
-Fantasy mermaid escapades in the pool
-The Chelsea playground (getting chased, racing, the monkey bars, the caterpillar, the "big" swings, jump rope and concerts)
-Chester Fried Chicken runs after sporting events, always with dad of course
-Advanced spelling and grammar class (all 6 of us!)
-The big playhouse I grew up in that was what my dad had built as our home

Being a kid was fun, plain and simple. Because who cares about who the president is, how much the insurance bill was or what time Daylight savings occurs when Caleb keeps cutting you in the lunch line and you have 3 reading logs and a permission slip to get signed? Really.

We all have so many memories of our childhoods and when you get to thinking about it, it can quickly become overwhelming. At the same time, while we retain so many stories from the past, there is also so much that doesn't come back to you.

Wouldn't it be cool if the human brain had the capacity for remembering every single thing that ever happened to you within your lifetime? When I picture the future, I see development of a type of software that can be installed into the human human baby brain (without surgery of course) and will act as a drive on a computer, i.e. : Life of Stephanie Hannah Whittier

Life of Stephanie Hannah Whittier:\Childhood\1996\October\Wednesday the 14th\3:02:58 pm

And in that folder I'd find the memory of me getting off the school bus at the end Whittier Dr., only to trip on my way down and drop my purple L.L. Bean bag, sending papers flying out left and right.

Wishful thinking, but part of me doesn't see that being so far out of technology's reach.


I'm getting to the "Okay, I sound a little ridiculous" point, so I'm going to call this a post! More to come, of course. Stay classy, blog readers.