Category Archives: Childhood

Salem’s Lot & Sleepless Nights

Posted on May 19, 2012 by judisunshine

I have been terrified of horror for as long as I can remember. Ghouls, mainly, when I was younger, scared the heck out of me. And even at five, I could tell that part of vampires’ power came from their … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Movies, Supernatural :o | Tagged Adventureland, Beverly Cleary, Buffy Innocence, buried alive, Eerie and Creepy comics, Farmingdale, ghouls, Hempstead, Home Depot, horror movies, little brother scratching at the window, Long Island, made for television movies, Merrick, Nickelodeon, parents, peach paint, Ramona the Brave, Salem's Lot, Saw 3, suburbia, The Adventures of Black Beauty, The Vanishing, vampires | 6 Comments

The Dreaded Jelly Omelet

Posted on May 12, 2012 by judisunshine

So my little brother Eric turns 21 today! In honor, I am reposting a story that foreshadowed his shunning of eggs! In the Summer of ’92, Eric was one year plus a few months. I was almost 17. My mom … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Childhood, Family, Food, Miscellaneous, Women | Tagged 21st birthday, bicycle baby seat, big sisters, brothers, chicken fingers, cooking, Cooking for Kids, Deli-Boy, jelly omelets, recipes, Red Lobster, Survivor | 3 Comments

Cupcakes, Wine, or Beer?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by judisunshine

So we’re speeding towards that time of year To the day that marks that you’re not here ~ Azure Ray It’s been a year. Today, it’s been a year, since. I’d never lived in any other state in my entire … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, Women | Tagged Azure Ray, beer, Chip, Colorado, cupcakes, Doctor von Rockenstein, Grandmother, hardest day of life, JFK airport, May, Mean Girls, mother, New York, November, Oneonta, pizza, Townhouse Lounge Manitou, wine, yellow roses | 2 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 10: Two of a Kind

Posted on May 3, 2012 by judisunshine

Right off the bat, you sort of know what you’re getting into with this movie, because there are John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the root menu, smiling, with matching feathered hair and Olivia Newton-John in blue ’80s sunglasses. So … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, Music, Romance, Women | Tagged '80s, 1983, actresses, Airplanes, angels, Beatrice Straight, blonde wigs, cabs, Captain Kangaroo, carnations, carriage rides, Carrie and Big, criminals, Dawson's Creek, deep moral fiber, E.T., Edna Garrett, fate, feathered hair, fencing, fluffy hair, food fights, foxy, freeze frame, fried chicken, Gavin De Becker, Gene Hackman, Grease, Gremlins, GTA, Hallelujah chorus, headshots, high tea, Home Alone, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, inventors, jean jacket, Joey Potter's mugger, John Travolta, Just Shoot Me, karaoke, loan sharks, Manhattan, montage, movie epiphanies, Mr. Carosi from Saved by the Bell, mustaches, nutcrackers, Oliver Reed, Olivia Newton-John, pie in the face, pink and gray color combination, pink suit, Plaza Hotel, police, Poltergeist, portraits, punished spontaneity, refusal to date Batman, relationships, Richard V, roommates, root menus, sexual tension, Shakespeare, shout outs, soundtracks, spinectomy, SSCS, Stephen King, suit jackets, sunglasses, Sunshine, The Gift of Fear, The Merchant of Venice, throwing marshmallows off of buildings, tight pants, Turbo, Two of a Kind, TWoP, waitressing, Weird Al, what really matters in life, Zack | 1 Comment

Some Movie Remakes That I Think Are Cool

Posted on April 19, 2012 by judisunshine

So like five years ago at Boulder Creek, my friend Jay accused me of acting like a fuddy duddy because I was worried that kids on wheelies were going to fall and kill themselves on the sharp-edged fireplace in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Buffy, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, TV | Tagged 000 Corpses, 1985, 1994, 21 Jump Street, 30 Rock, Angles, Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Boulder Creek, Brea Grant, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, butthourt, childhood, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, Colleen Dewhurst, Diane Keaton, early '90s, Elizabeth Taylor, Father of the Bride, fireplaces, Footloose, fuddy duddy, Funny Games, Gabriel Byrne, get off my lawn, getting older, Grease 2, Halloween, Halloween II, haterade, High school, hijinx, hold your horses, Hollywood, House of 1, Jaden Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Jonah Hill, Joss Whedon, Kevin Sullivan, Kimberly Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Larussu, Little Women, Megan Follows, movie remakes, Naomi Watts, Never Been Kissed, nostalgia, Passion perfume, period pieces, Poltergeist, Prince Edward Island, Ralph Macchio, restaurants, Richard Farnsworth, Rob Zombie, Robbie Williams, snow, Steve Martin, Sunrise Mall, Susan Sarandon, swans, tense expressions, terrible blender arguments, The Devil's Rejects, The Karate Kid, The Strangers, Them, Tina Fey, too soon, Trekkies, Trini Alvarado, uphill battles, Vampire Diaries, violent movies, wheelies, white lights, Winona Ryder, You're all right | 2 Comments

Jeans & Genes

Posted on April 13, 2012 by judisunshine

Did I ever tell you that I refused to wear pants when I was a kid? True story. Not that I was a nudist, though I really didn’t prefer clothes and in the ultimate of ironies, I threw a FIT … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Family, Miscellaneous, Women | Tagged 1982, A&S, Alexander's, Amy March, Ataris, Beth March, childhood, disappointing presents, dresses, flowing and curly hair, grandmothers, Home Alone, jeans, Jo March, kids, Laura Ingalls Wilder, lollipops, mall escalators, Mary Ingalls, Meg March, mothers, Nellie Oleson, pants, parental authority, Ramona Quimby, second grade teacher Miss Markey, skirts, Star Trek, Sterns, TJ Maxx, Wonder Woman Underoos | 3 Comments

The Gift of Fear

Posted on April 7, 2012 by judisunshine

I thought about posting the following link at the end, but I’d rather people buy this book, than read my blog. Truly. And no! I am not in book cahoots with Gavin De Becker (I could only wish!). I just … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Friends, Going Out, Sports | Tagged 1991, cheerleading, cheerleading uniforms, cool geek toys, creepy dudes, fundraising, Gavin De Becker, get away, Keds, no nonsense suntan hose, not trying hard enough as a kid, Olympic Sales Club, scrunchee socks, The Gift of Fear, Tri-County Flea Market, uniforms, youngster | 7 Comments

Today I Am Home

Posted on March 30, 2012 by judisunshine

So my new apartment is in a house that was a small hotel back in the early 20th Century. Wait, do you capitalize “century?” Either way. Now it’s divided up into three apartments. My place RULES, but the walls are … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women, Work | Tagged Amethyst Cream, Annie, apartments, Baldwin, bang, Benjamin Moore, boarding houses, clunk, Colorado Springs, drunken "Glee" singalongs, exes, Full Bloom, furniture from the garbage, Hempstead, historical buildings, hotels, How I Met Your Mother, Jamaican Aqua, landlords, Lemon Yellow, Lily apartment, Long Island, Manitou Springs, marriage, masking tape, memories, Merrick, Morning Sunshine, move outs, Moving, Oneonta, Plainview, purple walls, relationships, shenanigans, staying home from work, sweep, tenants, vacuuming, voyeurism, Warbucks mansion | 8 Comments

13 Movies I Can Watch Over and Over (and over…and over…)

Posted on March 25, 2012 by judisunshine

13. Back to the Future “It’s the Libyans, Marty!” From the beginning, where Marty is a wailing, misunderstood guitarist, to the end, where he reunites with Jennifer before she was Elisabeth Shue, “Back to the Future” is awesome. Michael J. … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o | Tagged Across the Universe, Aerosmith videos, Alicia Silverstone, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Heckerling, Angelina Jolie, Annabeth Gish, Annie, Back to the Future, bingo, Black Keys, Black Snake Moan, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Breckin Meyer, Brittany Murphy, childhood movies, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Clueless, Craig T. Nelson, Donald Faison, Elizabeth Banks, Evan Rachel Wood, Gia, Gogo Yubari, heart ripped out, Heather O'Rourke, Holly Hunter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jane Lynch, Janis Joplin, Jeremy Sisto, Jim Sturgess, Jimi Hendrix, JoBeth Williams, Julia Roberts, Kill Bill, Lacey Chabert, Lili Taylor, Lindsay Lohan, Lizzy Caplan, McLovin, Mean Girls, Michael J. Fox, Mila Kunis, monkey brains, movies, movies that have aged well, Mystic Pizza, Nikki Reed, orphans, Paul Rudd, Poltergeist, Quentin Tarantino, Rachel McAdams, rewatchability, Role Models, Samuel L. Jackson, scary clowns, Seann William Scott, Short Round, snakes, Spanish language lab, Stacey Dash, The Beatles, The Kind Diet, Thirteen, Tina Fey, Uma Thurman, wipe your conscience, Zach and Miri Make a Porno | 13 Comments

A New “90210,” 15 Years Later

Posted on March 23, 2012 by judisunshine

Last Saturday, the day after my reunion (woohoo, more on that another time though), I managed to finally, after 15 years, catch the episode of “90210” where Brandon uses Kelly as a decoy at some college government thing because Josh … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, TV, Women | Tagged belly shirts, Beverly Hills 90210, Brandon Walsh, Brenda Walsh, Change Partners episode, cheating, Claire Arnold, college, dating, DEA, double standards with sex, Dylan McKay, Generation X, Generation Y, High school, Kelly Taylor, Muntz, Steve Sanders, unfriendly to ass years, Valerie Malone | 2 Comments

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