A Whole New World

[synapticjava]

So the other day me and Jess and another girl were outside smoking and we were talking about Disney movies, and me and Jess started singing songs from all of them. Circle of Life, A Whole New World, Colors of the Wind, etc. Well, they've been stuck in my head ever since. But last night while I was trying to sleep, the Aladdin song came onto my brain radio. And it triggered some more memories. I realized that if it were not for my Grandma I wouldn't know half as many as those damned annoying songs. I remember spending every weekend with her and Grandpa when I was a kid. Every time a new movie came out she would buy it and we would watch it that night. I remember staying there on the weekends before Christmas when all of her villages and decorations were out and her Christmas tree was up. The family is so huge, the presents were stacked up in the dining room, front room and the parlor. And that Christmas smell - cinamin and cranberry. And popcorn and backing nutcakes (her equivilant of fruit cakes). And the thermostat set at about 90 and seeing the first snowfall from the parlor window. And walking the Victorion Walk in Geneseo every year no matter how cold it got, because there was always plenty of Hot Cider and warm blankets. Watching White Christmas every year in December and July. And eating supper at 4:00 in the afternoon and ice cream at night and staying up to watch the news and going to bed and getting up and going to church, back when I didn't question everything or know anything. Right now I think this is about the best memory I have. It's so vivid right now. And it feels like it was sooo long ago. And it really reminds me how much things have really changed. Now there's a big gaping cavern between the people I used to be so close with. And I know it's only because I'm not comfortable around them anymore. It's kind of saddening the way things have turned out. *but* The memories make me so happy because they show me that I did have happy times. That there was a time when things weren't so complicated. Another bag dropped.

Comments

[tabaqui]

NOw see, that made me think of my own childhood memories of xmas... going out into the snowy woods to find a tree, and decorating it, and the anticiapation of THE DAY winding higher and higher... cookies and friends over and our stockings hanging up and the same lovely candles and little funny elves and plastic garland every year...
*sigh*
Lovely times.

And you know...I hope you can sometime come back around to that, because the memories are just as sweet when you make them as an adult.
*hugs*

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

heh. *g* I love Christmas so much. I think it's the one time every year where I can look around and see everything I want and love.

I can't wait till I have my first "grown-up" Christmas in my own place.

[tabaqui]

Yah, xmas is my favorite holiday, too.
*sigh*
I hope it snows this year! White xmas is always better.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

We almost *always* have snow. Hell, one year it snowed on halloween. *le sigh* Now I'm getting all those christmasy feelings. you know what i'm talking about.

[tabaqui]

I know!
It hasn't snowed on Halloween here for a while but my childhood is full of memories of trick-or-treating and just FREEZING in my costume.
Oooh, yeah...xmas!!
Yay!
I always wish for more money, i see so many cool things i want to get for the family and all the cousins and stuff...
*sigh*
I wanna be rich at xmas! Too many cousins.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

for real! I always see so many things I think would be perfect for this or that person. Right now I'm getting all excited thinking aobut Halloween. I love it. Maybe this year I'll have a party.

[tabaqui]

Heee.Yeah.
Party!
We just go trick or treating. Fun fun. Last year the wind was like to blow you down the street. Hopefullly not so bad this year.