Now Playing: Peter Pan

2003 was really an uneventful year in movies and my life. I was in fifth grade and had Mrs. Livingston as my teacher at LCH. . . . And that's about it.  Let me think. Nope, that's all I got.

Look how young he is!

Holes came out that year (a great book, by the way) which I really enjoyed. I particularly liked Shia LaBeouf, because I always watched him on Saturday mornings on the show Even Stevens, and there he was on the big screen! Good for him.  That was also the year of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which - let's face it - was completely awful. But I loved it! Another TV show I watched on Saturday mornings had come to the big screen and had very catchy songs and promised that I could be a rockstar when I grew up. Who doesn't want that?

Perhaps the movie I loved the most was Finding Nemo. Such a fun, colorful, entertaining, heartwarming film! I love that movie to this day, and I will freely admit that fact to absolutely anyone.  Come on, you cannot beat Dory! She's fantastic. I probably got to be annoying when I went around every day chanting "It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, the tank is clean. . . OH NO! The tank is clean!" For some reason I just thought that was the funniest thing. I love that movie.

In the summer I went and saw From Justin to Kelly with Brooke, and I think I found a runner-up to Rocky and Bullwinkle for worst movie ever to be featured on the big screen.  My family and I are avid American Idol fans, and the very first American Idol (Kelly Clarkson) along with the runner-up (Justin Someone-or-other) were the stars of the movie, so of course we were going to see it! . . . Even by my ten-year-old standards, which you can safely assume were quite low, I thought it was miserable and, frankly, embarrassing. No one wants to start their acting career with something like that. Yikes.

December found us in Las Vegas once again, for the third and last installment of The Lord of the Rings and a new challenge to find something good for Jerry, Mom, Madelyn and I to watch. That year Mom chose Peter Pan, the new real-live-people version. M and I were actually pretty happy with this choice, as I recall.

Oh man. I fell in love with that kid who played Peter. I was enthralled by him throughout the movie, and I just knew that when I grew up I would meet him and marry him and we would live together happily ever after, the end, forever and ever. I was pretty excited. I had gotten to that age where it was sort of ok to start liking boys, and he was so dang cute. Just beautiful. (Actually, to be honest, in the first scene I thought he might be a girl. . . he's kinda girly looking, you know? Anyway.) Now that I think about it, I think I was just caught up in the magic of the film, because he really did look, like, pretty. That's weird.

All righty. That's all I've got for 2003. Like I said, not much excitement going on. Life was just life. The next year things got pretty adventurous though. Stay tuned.

And so it goes.

Love, Me