We were pretty strange children growing up. When you have five kids in a family you often have to find creative ways to entertain yourself, and we surely did that. For instance, we loved to memorize movies. We would watch a scene in a movie, then stop the tape (yes, they were tapes back then), repeat back the lines that were said in that scene, then play the next scene, and so on. I guess we were dorks, but it was fun! The best movie to do this with was The Princess Bride. Yep, I still have it mostly memorized. I also went through a little 'thugette' stage and I literally did the same thing with my Snoop Dog and Dre tape in the sixth grade. Yes, it's still memorized. I'm not ashamed to admit that I can sing 'Nuthin but a G Thing' like nobody's business. By the way, there are still some people that listen to tapes....Effie Fulton....
Another one of my favorite childhood memories was making a play or concert in our rooms. We turned our bunk bed once into a castle and performed Snow White. I was Snow White (of course) and my sister was the evil witch. She was way too cute to play a witch, but she loved making the 'scary' witch faces while she 'beed mean' to me. My brother played the prince, of course, and he rode up on his toy At-At (yes, from Star Wars) to save me from the 'evil' witch.
When I got a little bit older, I turned myself into Janet Jackson and performed a Rhythm Nation concert for my family. My brother took care of the sound and lights, and I put on a perfect Rhythm Nation outfit (dark clothes, hat, etc.) and lip synced to several songs from the tape.
I still have not yet gone to see a Janet Jackson concert. It's on my bucket list.
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