Who misses being a pre-teen? I DO!!!

So I have no classes today. What a dilemma! Whatever shall I do?!
The answer, dear readers, is simple.
DISNEY DAY!!!!
Being born in 89 I was just the right age to appreciate Disney at it's best. The first film I ever saw in a cinema was The Lion King when I was 5(ish) in 94.
It.was.AWESOME! You know how, when you're little, your parents make you go to bed at some stupid hour like 8pm? Well Dad took me out to see The Lion King and the film started at like 630. When we came out of the cinema the sun had gone down and so it was dark outside and there were lots of big people and HOLY CRAP I WAS HANGING OUT WITH BIG PEOPLE AT NIGHT TIME!
I felt so grown up being out of the house in public at night time and the whole way home in the car I was singing the songs but you know how little kids don't quite hear things right? Yeah well I couldn't remember all the words so I just kind of made it up and it must've been awful because the memory of what I actually said has been permanently swiped off my mental slate as the child mind is so good at doing with traumatic experiences.
My Dad clearly got sick of me singing my made up lyrics so he eventually bought me the cassette (yes you read correctly, cassette) which then got stuck on repeat till I saw the next Disney film and started mangling those lyrics instead haha.
By some blessed miracle, our butchering of the amazingly epic Disney songs did not put Dad off them for life. Every year for our birthday we'd get taken to whatever Disney film was currently showing at the local cinema (RIP Hoyts 5) and then for Christmas we'd get that film on VHS haha.
Because of this we now have quite an extensive collecting of post-1990 Disney VHS films.

Be right back, Hunchback of Notre Dame just ended, time for The Lion King.

MY WORLD JUST ENDED. The Lion King is missing!
The case is there but it's empty... where the hell is the tape!!!

Ok...it's ok... just breath.Everything is going to be cool. We'll just have to pick another film instead. Anastasia.Not Disney but still pretty epic.
Also it's a perfect example of what I was just talking about. Anastasia came out in 99 and for my 10th birthday Dad took me to the movies and said we could watch a film of my choice.We'd already seen Anastasia but hey I was a little girl and it was a film about a girl who discovered she was a Princess, what more could I ask for? We bought tickets and went to the cinema. We were the fist ones to arrive and I spent the next 5 minutes runnig up and down each seat row debating which would gain me the most advantageous viewing point.The film started and we were still the only ones in the cinema.Freaking sweet. I did not remain in one seat for more than about 10 minutes. I changed seats faster than Quagmire changes sexual partners.
At one point I was sitting about 5 rows in front of Dad and I thought it was an awesome idea to sit on the back of the seat instead of in the seat causing my little curly head to block a tiny circle of the screen from his view.Excellent.Great Success.

Three guesses what video I got for Christmas =D It has written on the label "Jessica, Xmas '99"
hehe MINE!

On the next 3 day weekend I'm getting everyone I know together and we shall revive our childhoods in style with a non stop Disney marathon. When I say Disney, I mean pre-2005 non of this Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, High School Musical crap. I refuse to watch that rubbish. Disney in it's hay day with the epic hand drawn animated films with epic ballads and choral scenes and jizz-tastic scores.That is the stuff childhoods are REALLY made of

By the way apologies for how technically basic this blog is but I'm not exactly technically savy haha. I like to think this will weedle out the people attracted by all the flash and whizz-bang and leave the people who give a damn about what I write.
Hopefully you guys/gals get some humour or enjoyment out of it?

Till next time darlin's

*Update* just found Mulan which Dad gave to HIMSELF for Christmas and Hercules which Dad gave to my 2 brothers and I for Easter.Seriously?Easter?Who gives their kids a VHS for Easter?Apparently my Father. God Bless him