What I miss about growing up (late 90’s/ early 2000’s)
Halloween had it’s fun in TRICK or TREATING and pulling pranks and visiting a haunted scary place, not in spending it at a club.
Every girl wanted to be Blossom from the powderpuff girls but i wanted to be Buttercup xP.
Du du du du du Inspector Gadget!! 
Sagua and Dragon Tails <3<3
Neighbors were actually close friends of the family.
I remember watching Boy Meets World and thinking to myself that I’m grown up because I’m not watching cartoons xD
The show So Weird was the COOLEST, edgiest thing on TV (for a 6 year old).
Even though it was pretty new, Even Stevens Pwned!
"Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?" was EPIC
Buying educational computer games was actually FUN!
Me and my cousins would break our see-thru Nintendo controllers in the bottom because it was so cool that we could see "the insides"
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was the deepest game ever.
Lisa Frank made you popular.
My entire family and kindergarten class can vouch to me being Britney Spears’s number 1 fan.
My grandparents taped Britney Spears’s concert for me while I was watching "Crossroads" in the theaters on opening night.
Anastasia made me cry (several times).
I would jump in my bed several times pretending I was Ariel as I kept rewinding the Little Mermaid just to hear the song "Part of Your World".
Every girly girl in 1st grade liked pink, every tomboy liked baby blue, and there was always one weird girl who liked yellow.
I didn’t know one girl who didn’t wanna be blonde. Come on, seriously?
SAILOR MOON!!!!!!!! (I was Sailor Jupiter because she had a cool pony-tail)
The Wild Thornberry’s made me realize that I wanted to be an explorer and find tribesmen who will give me the gift of talking to animals. And i wanted to look just like Debbie.
I tried to get rid of my bangs so I thought cutting them off was the solution lol
Overalls were the best thing to wear because of the buttons!
I miss oldschool Shakira <3
Asereje ja de je LAS KETCHUPS! lmao
Everytime I would listen to my dad’s music in the car I would always want him to replay "The Cowboy Song" (which is Bon Jovi’s Dead or Alive)
I thought Kane from WWF was evil
Xena RULED!
My first celebrity crush was Nick from the Backstreet Boys.
Evanescence put me into a neo Gothic stage for months.
Me and my cousin would argue whether Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne was better.
I wrote Avril Lavigne a fan letter in 5th grade with upper and lower case letters because I thought she would think it was cool -__- she never wrote back but she sent an unsigned postcard. FAIL
Everyone had a scooter. It was the best.
I didn’t understand everyone’s fascination with Ricky Martin but it was HUGE.
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary.
Did anyone else love going on fieldtrips to the Planetarium?
I was so disappointed when Britney changed -__- but I loved it when Christina did!
"So I creep, yeahhhh i just keep it on the downlow, cause nobody’s supposed to knowwwww…" TLC FTW
Nobody in Elementary had an idea what the song Oochie Wally meant but everyone was singing it.
Missssss Maaaaaaa rrrryyyyyyyyy MACK MACK MACK
I was still a kid when hip hop/pop/rock all began making their "new millenium" transition (don’t know how to put it in other words)
Blues Clues with STEVE. I always wanted a thinking chair
Okay so there’s a whole lot more obviously, but listing them all would be imposssible (and tiring). If you want you can just share one memory of what you miss the most about your childhood (:
’60s-early ’70s in San Diego:
Playing in the canyon with my friends until dark and pretending not to hear Mom’s dinner bell.
Pickup baseball and football games in the street.
Climbing the big tree in the backyard and looking over the "big" world out there over the tops of our yard.
Laying in my bed on summer nights, smelling the jasmine outside my open window, knowing tomorrow we were going to the beach
Laying in my bed on summer nights hearing them test Atlas missile engines at the Convair plant in Kearny Mesa. In those days it was all open space between our house and the plant, and the sound carried.
Laying in my bed on summer nights listening to the elderly couple next door getting drunk, getting mad at each other and throwing dishes at each other.
Summer FREEDOM.
Driving with my family up the old Pacific Coast Highway in the days before Interstate 5 to see my grandparents in L.A.
When Orange County actually was orange groves.
Climbing the fence at my elementary school on weekends to run around the halls knocking over the trashcans and jamming bubblegum down into the drinking fountains.
Riding in my Dad’s MG on Saturday mornings to go fishing, sitting on his lap steering while he worked the pedals.
My brother and me helping Dad build an addition to the house.
Throwing rocks in the pond, trying to bomb the goldfish.
Catching polywogs in the canyon and putting them in our backyard pond, then when they turned into frogs, listening to them croaking all night.
Keeping a scrap book of newspaper articles on the beginning of the space program.
Building and flying model airplanes.
Hiking everywhere, being away from home all day.
Getting in trouble for saying, "bitchen" at school.
Going to airshows at North Island and Miramar.
Setting fire to stuff in the backyard until my Mom caught us.
Seeing the USS Bunker Hill anchored across the bay, knowing what had happened to her during the war.
Grunion hunting at La Jolla Shores.
Bonfires at the beach.
Hitchhiking to go surfing at Windansea and Bird Rock and Trestles.
Thinking the Beatles were a big deal, then realizing I liked the Byrds better.
Finally realizing that Duane Allman was a genius, and that I had to learn how to play guitar.
Seeing Jimi Hendrix at the Sports Arena.
Jazz at the Catamaran Club in Mission Beach.
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