unico_love | Nostalgia for Xena: Warrior Princess

I just added Xena: Warrior Princess to my amazon.com wishlist. It doesn't seem to be available anymore, though I imagine I could get the set off ebay or something. I can't buy it now, but maybe if I'm more careful about finances sometime I could buy the whole series. I was just listening to the soundtrack of the first musical episode earlier. I at least have to get a copy of that episode! I used to be obsessed with it, but I can't find my vhs recording. I have a very wonderful memory of watching Xena while on vacation in Florida. It was a couple days before we went to Disney World and we were staying in this really sunny and beautiful suite hotel. We had already gone to the Downtown Disney-type shopping areas. I had been able to get my favorite very large and sugary cookies, and my parents allowed me to buy a Brian Froud book ("Good Faeries/Bad Faeries"). I must have been about 16 because our last vacation at Disney World before my father died was when I was 17 (he died a few months after our trip to Florida when I was 17). I had long hair and I remember my clothing (I still have most of it). This was a time when I didn't really have friends or socialization outside of my family, and I have PTSD relating to stuff that happened around this time, yet so much of the time I was content. I was so happy at that time. I could watch Xena, have milk and cookies, and look at the lovely pictures in my Brian Froud book. Not only that, but I had Disney World to look forward to! It was all so exciting and wondrous. Even though I had problems with my father, I have fond memories of him at that particular time, and I miss him now. I wish life were still so simple. I am still easily pleased and contented, but human relationships are so much more important to me now. Maybe due to former deprivation of human contact or the choice of having real friends. I know I could feel that way again if I could just get my interpersonal relationships sorted out, but that might yet take awhile.

Maybe someday I will own some of Xena. And maybe I will be able to buy another Brian Froud book. I know those cookies are still at Disney World;-)