[HPFGU-OTChatter] I feel so old....

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

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From: "Mary Jennings" <macloudt at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] I feel so old....


> :::::bounces up and down:::::  Ooh, freaky!  I was describing
these cartoons
> to an English friend just the other day.  I watched Saturday
morning
> cartoons on American channels (from Plattsburg and Vermont, I
think) when I
> was a kid in Montreal.  You're right, they were just wonderful,
though the
> American history ones didn't help me any in school, of course.
Imagine what
> kids today could learn from these.

Some kids must be learning from them because everytime I go to
the video place to rent them, they are out with another customer!
I suppose I should really just go ahead and buy them outright!
Who put them out anyway?

> >I should bring in my Grammar Rocks or History Rocks
> >videotapes and make these guys watch them!

Yeah! :)  "I'm Just a Bill" is what got me interested in how
government works... and I still hum "Conjunction Junction" from
time to time when I'm writing a research paper for college (I'm a
non-trad student... a senior at 41 years old!)

> They'll learn more from these than any textbook!
>
> >Then again, this is the same guy who said "I wasn't born
> >when Return of the Jedi came out.  So Star Wars didn't form
> >my childhood like it did yours."

Heck, Star Wars had nothing to do with my childhood.. I was
already 15 when the first one came out.  But I must say that I'm
enjoying my second childhood with Harry Potter!  But, honestly, I
sometimes wonder whether my children are having as fun a
childhood as I had... looking at some of the kids, teenagers and
college students I know, I begin to doubt it and I feel bad for
them not having had the GOOD Saturday morning cartoons, and the
thrill of staying up all night to get to see the opening
performance of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and being able to run
around all over the neighborhood without having to worry about
predators of various types and and being able to trust their
neighbors and all.

> I'll tell you how I found out the hard was that I was no longer
a
> teenager...I heard a song on a Golden Oldies radio station that
I can
> clearly remember being in the charts.  It was "When Will I See
You Again" by
> the Three Degrees, and I can still see myself sitting next to
our huge
> wooden radio listening to this song.  I was about 25 when I
heard it as a
> Golden Oldie, and I was thoroughly depressed for the rest of
the day.

Oddly, I felt more like I was an old person when I was in my 20s
and hearing songs I sang and danced to being called "oldies" (and
mine were country music, which doesn't get as old as fast as pop
music does) than I do now that I'm a full time mom with five kids
and am meeting with traditionally aged college students on a
daily basis.  I'm twice as old as they are, but somehow I think
I'm having a LOT more fun with life than they are... these "kids"
are all so blinking serious about everything and it seems wierd
to me!  I suppose it might be because they are all heading out
after graduation into a bad job market and are worried that they
might never make their dreams happen.  But somewhere along the
last four or five years, I came back into the belief that I CAN
make my dreams happen and that I don't have to be like grumpy
Severus Snape while I'm doing so! :)  Perhaps C.S. Lewis was
right in his idea that we get to a point in our lives that we are
ready for fairy stories once more...

> >Gee....where's the line to pick up my Social Security
> >check?  Wait...can't find my walker.  So nevermind.
>
> And then we can go shop for some nice cardigans and woollen
pleated skirts,
> OK?  By the way, I love your blue rinse ;)

Nah... make them khaki capri pants, with vibrant aloha shirts
with jet skis and speedboats and surfboards waiting for us! :)
Or mountain climbing gear, or rainforest hikewear, or wizards
robes and magic wands. :)

Bernadette
(glad to be of a generation that still seemed to know how to have
fun, despite what the rest of the world was doing, and hopes to
be as lovely as Minerva McGonnagle when she finally, REALLY gets
old...)