Teenage Melted Ninja Turtles

It's August 1st and the countdown is on!! Also this is a late reminder to make sure you don't forget to pay your rent and stay away from the grocery stores because something tells me it's going to be pretty busy in there today lol. If you're an 80s baby and you weren't into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, on behalf of the heroes in a half shell, I suggest you kick rocks with Bible time sandals on because I don't WHAT you could've been doing in your life more important than that lol. Ninja Turtles was the last cartoon character toys that I owned just about the entire collection of. I had it all man. It was kind of ridiculous too. They used to sell them with different poses that you couldn't move them out of. Like just the arms or legs might move in one direction but they were different ones so you just HAD to get all of them. I had most of the posed Turtles, Foot clan ninjas, Shredder, Krang, the Technodrome, the Turtle van, the Neutrinos, their car, Rock Steady and Beebop, Master Splinter, I...had... everything! I even had the semi costume which consisted of the face cover, the shell and Michaelangelo's numchucks. I know what you're thinking. You think that Michaelangelo was my favorite turtle but you're wrong. My favorite turtle was Donatello. He was the smartest of the group and a dope weapons builder. Also, his weapon was arguably the best in the video game. The second video game that came out for Nintendo. The first game was trash and I never beat it. I don't know anybody who beat that game lol. The thing was that the toy version of the bo staff was garbage. It was short and super flimsy so the next coolest weapon was the numchucks. I really ran home from my bus stop everyday to watch after school. I was a latch key kid so my parents weren't home from work yet when I got there. I was definitely supposed to be doing chores and homework before anything else but there was never a time that I didn't watch Ninja Turtles right after school unless one of them was home sick which totally cramped my style hahaha! Unfortunately I lost just about all of my Ninja Turtles collection when our family had that house fire. I'd gotten a lot of that stuff for Christmas and the fire happened like 6 days into January. Sucks right? I did enjoy them for those couple of weeks though. I may have had like one or two action figures left. That hurt man. All the ones that I had gotten for my birthday and then Christmas all up in smoke... literally. My brothers had gotten a bunch of wrestling action figures and lost the majority of those too so honestly I felt worse for them than I did for myself because I felt like I'd be ok but they were in kindergarten and 2nd grade. I was only a 4th grader but I was the oldest so I probably felt more grown up than I should've lol so when one of the kids from my class gave me a bag of toys from his family, I made sure to let my brothers know they didn't have to share the wrestlers if they didn't want to. Not that I didn't want to play with them too but I thought that if they felt like the action figures belonged to them, it would make them less sad about the ones they lost. A kid's logic. Anyhow, I was a super Ninja Turtle fan but after the fire I stopped collecting the toys. I think after that, I stopped collecting toys period as far as the entire roll out of things. I started wanting other, more grown up kid things but also I didn't want to deal with having all of something and potentially losing it all again. That doesn't make any sense but again, a kid's logic.

Since we're on the subject and I'm not sure if I ever brought it up before, I had another fire as an adult and that was probably much more of a traumatic experience. I really got to see it from my parent's point of view that time and it sucked. I actually am not going to write about that today but I'm bringing it up because my therapist pointed out how I was still dealing with the trauma of that situation. I again lost just about all I had owned (material wise) which is a humbling experience to say the least. Of course you're thankful no one was hurt and everything like that but it's still a lot to deal with. So from that time even to this day I carry a back pack around with me. It's like my version of Batman's utility belt. I've got all kinds of things in there that would help out in various situations along with things I don't want to lose. I also keep random clothes, sneakers and things in the trunk of my car. Not a big deal to some but the reason I do it is that I'm afraid if something ever happened, I'd have to start all over again and that sometimes scares me to the point of severe anxiety. I don't know... I just feel like if I keep some things on me, I get to control what I lose to some degree. Like I don't have to lose it all or possibly lose my mind in the process. Feel me? Ok, well that's enough of that lol. I really want to end on a good note because I really don't feel very sad today and I want to keep it that way. I hope that Friday Jr has been good to everyone who reads these.