Category Archives: Childhood

Used to Be

Posted on March 17, 2012 by judisunshine

I used to be a cheerleader. I’d dreamed of being one for as long as I could remember, but definitely no later than at 10 when I started reading Sweet Valley High. It was everything I loved in the world … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Childhood, Friends, Miscellaneous, TV, Women, Work | Tagged Benjamin Bratt, cartwheels, characters, cheerleader, chicken fingers, college, community theater, costumes, depression, exercise in embarrassment, existential crisis, fat lip, fundraisers, glamour, going through the motions, High school, Josh-U-AH!, junior high, junior year, laps, M&M sales, middle school, Modern Family, moving in unisonsquad, Nassau Community College, NCC, NCC theater, no sadder phrase, Rachel Greene, reahearsals, slow learner, stagnation, stationery, student, supherheroes, Sweet Valley High, Tate Donovan, tedium, theater, theatrical highs, uniforms, used to be, waitress, yelling | 3 Comments

A Star In Somebody Else’s Sky

Posted on March 15, 2012 by judisunshine

Just sometimes, it hits me. This place had a long history before us, has a long future after us. I keep thinking it’s a part of our lives, but, really, it’s the reverse. For a little while…I don’t know. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Miscellaneous, Women | Tagged apartments, change, Colorado, Dragonfly Inn, Gilmore Girls, homes, houses, letting go, Lorelai Gilmore, Moving, moving on, New York, Sookie St. James | 3 Comments

3 Awesome Memories from My High School Senior Lounge

Posted on March 13, 2012 by judisunshine

When I was in 12th grade, we were given a senior lounge. Whose idea it was to give a bunch of 17-18 year olds their own unsupervised classroom I don’t know, but let me extend a slow clap. Because it … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, School | Tagged 12th grade, Dazed and Confused, entertainment of the chaste, fires, High school, Matthew McConaughey, senior lounge, senior year, South Shore Christian School, spinning, Spot the Looney, SSCS, washing machine | 5 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 21: Like Father, Like Son

Posted on March 12, 2012 by judisunshine

“ICMN is just a front to watch all your favorite movies under the veil of irony,” my brother Eric texted me before when I told him of my illustrious viewing choice for this evening. And he’s not wrong, at least … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, School | Tagged '80s movies, 7th Heaven, Autograph band, blondes, Bloody Mary, brain transference serum, Cap'n Crunch, Carol Seaver, Catherine Hicks, celebrities, cheerleaders, chief of staff, Chris Hammond, Cocoa Puffs, curly hair, doctors, Don Johnson, Dr. von Rockenstein, Dudley Moore, freeze frame, frog dissection, Funny Games, getting a C, giving birth at truck stops, Grey's Anatomy, Heather Locklear, High school, high-speed car chases, hospitals, ICMN, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Jack Hammond, Jaguars, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kids Incorporated, Kirk Cameron, lettermen jackets, Like Father Like Son, Linda Ronstadt, Margaret Colin, martinis, Merrick New York, Michael J. Fox, montages, Motley Crue Wild Side, mumbo jumbo, Northwestern University, Ozzy Luth, panthers, Pegasus, Peggy Sue Got Married, Principal Snyder, red Jeep, red jeeps, Rick, Sean Astin, shoulder pads, speeches, surgery, Sylvester Stallone, Tabasco, Teen Wolf, The Baby-Sitters Club, tinkly piano music, Tri-Star, Uncle Earl, wiseasses, yuppies, zombie video games | Leave a comment

5 Reasons To Watch Funny Games (2007 Remake)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by judisunshine

Spoiler alert! Though I think one could watch “Funny Games” and enjoy it after reading my blog, I do give potential spoilers for the movie! 1) The Soundtrack/Score I’ve always had a predilection towards metal and other scary sounds that … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Books, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Friends, Going Out, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Theater, TV, Women | Tagged 1987, Adventureland, Alanis Morrissette, awesome kid actors, Balls of steel, Bonehead, Brady Corbet, classical music, Devon Gearheart, Devon Gearheart is a prodigiously awesome actor, emoticons, every woman should read Gift of Fear and Tomato Nation, Funny Games, Funny Games 2007, Gavin De Becker, Gift of Fear, idyllic vacation spots, IMDB, Michael Haneke, Michael Pitt, Naked City, Naomi Watts, Naomi Watts 'cause she is a fucking rock star, Naomi Watts acting the hell out of all of it, score, Soundtrack, sympathetic character, T. S. Eliot, Tm Roth | 5 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 5: The Beastmaster

Posted on March 8, 2012 by judisunshine

Right away, you know that “Beastmaster” is going to be an awesome movie. Nothing says action and suspense like still photographs of animals. The anticipation is great; the tension builds… …and here is Rip Torn! Obviously. He’s pissed with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Childhood, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o | Tagged Alyson Hannigan, Bargaining Parts One and Two, Beastmaster, Buffy, Dolph Lundgren, eagles, ferrets, golden locks, Harry Anderson, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Just One of the Guys, Kim Cattrall, lord of the rings creatures, Mannequin, Midge, photographs of animals, Rip Torn, Static-X, Tanya Roberts, That '70s Show, The Rural Juror, tigers | 4 Comments

Goodbye, Barbie.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by judisunshine

When I was almost six, my family moved to a new neighborhood, and I made friends with a girl on our block whom I’ll call Laura. She and I were very different. For one thing, she was born into that … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Friends, Miscellaneous, School, Women | Tagged Barbie, BarbieGate, BFF, cops, eery scooters, fighting, friends, growing apart, growing up, jack wagner, Kelly Kapowski, Life, Like a Virgin, Monopoly, soap operas, The Young and teh Restless, Virginia Avenue, Yahtzee | 7 Comments

They Will Only Make You Feel Ugly

Posted on February 29, 2012 by judisunshine

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. ~ Baz Luhrmann I bought my first beauty magazine — an issue of Teen — in 1989, the summer before ninth grade. It was time, I understood, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Childhood, Food, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Restaurants, Women, Work | Tagged attempts to be demure, bad photos, Baz Luhrmann, Beauty magazines, blue eyeshadow, boots, browns, Cosmo, diet pills, embarrassing pics, floral vests, jewel tones, lack of interest in purses, long skirts, pearl-buttoned blouses, pissed off canaries, plums, puffed sleeves, straight bangs, Taffy Sinclair, Teen Beat, Teen Magazine, The Wizard of Oz, touch of sun, waitressing, weight loss, yearbook pictures | 3 Comments

The Exercise Videos of My Life!

Posted on February 27, 2012 by judisunshine

I love going to the gym. I really do. I love the elliptical, and saunas, and steam rooms are pure bliss on Earth. I can spend HOURS there. But there are two problems with the gym. One is that, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Food, Lists, Miscellaneous, Sports, Women | Tagged aerobics, Bally Fitness, Billy Blanks Boot Camp, Billy Blanks Tae Bo, business casual clothes, Callanetics, Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease, cheerleading practice, Cheryl Tiegs, Cindy Crawford's Shape Your Body, conventional job, DVD, Elle Macpherson, exercise, exercise videos, Jennie Garth's Body in Progress, jumprope, PhotobucketThe Sports Illustrated Super Shape-Up Program, physical success, Rachel Hunter, the gym, VHS, Winsor Pilates, workouts | 12 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 7: The “Beverly Hills, 90210” Graduation!

Posted on February 16, 2012 by judisunshine

Okay. What you need to understand about “Commencement,” the “90210” high school graduation two-parter, is that it was really a big deal at the time. I remember trying on prom dresses and in the dressing room the radio commercial came … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Friends, Going Out, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, School, TV, Women | Tagged 90210, 90210 Graduation, Beverly Hills, Commencement, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night | 4 Comments

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