Journey through Faerieland

Well I started getting bad obsessions again, but then my thoughts returned to Tori Amos:-) Ah, Tori. I have a book to read that I'm FINALLY going to start soon. And I'm going to post the poem I wrote today. Some cd's came in for me at the library and I will probably pick them up on the way home (I'm thinking I'll go home Thursday, but I have to talk to my mother -- longer than that and I need to do wash here). I love getting new, positive topics to obsess over. I'll probably play my Nintendo DS game "My World, My Way" as that's always good when I'm having trouble concentrating. Michael is at the dentist right now and I just finished eating a bowl of granola. We finally watched another episode of Hercules last night because we finished Fruits Basket. The nights have been calm.

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1. Jem series
2. Labyrinth
3. Stardust
4. Moonspinners
5. Sailor Moon Season 1

I've been listening a lot to the Jem and the Holograms songs a friend sent me. They are so catchy and there are so many of them! There seems a song for every occasion and I catch them playing in my head at appropriate moments. Even though it's a children's show the songs can extend beyond a child's experience and fit just about anything, if the song is just considered subtle. I do have some favorite songs, like "Deception," "Flowers," and "Set Your Sails."

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;-)