Alien Tea Shoppe

I drafted this post, oh, about six months ago.  I decided it was time for a little something more upbeat, so I'm pulling this from my draft vault.  It's frivilous, it's fun, and we can all take a trip down memory lane together to see the crazy antics I got up to in my younger years.  So, here goes... That's probably a better title than what this post is intended for, but I'm feeling a bit happily nostalgic tonight. It started with viewing this bit by Buzzfeed two days ago entitled, 32 Extremely Upsetting Facts About the Class of 2017 .  Tonight I was brought back to the same place by these two Buzzfeed collections; The Typical Day of A Kid In The Early 90s  and The Typical Day of A Teenage Girl In The Late 90s . Now, having been born in 1980, I officially became a teenager in 1993 and by societal standards I was "too old" to watch cartoons.  While I know what societal standards are (even then), I never really followed them.  Not because I wanted ...

So, I think I have lightly hit on the fact that I attended a private Catholic school in my youth.  Today I saw a Buzzfeed thing about that very subject, so now's the time to dive in, I suppose. Religion was already weird in my family by the time I was born, or even by the time I attended the aforementioned school.  Everyone had different religions or no religion or had switched religions.  Some could find a common foothold with someone else, but most times there were a lot of arguments. My mother attended a private Catholic boarding high school and on Halloween 1978 she converted to Catholicism from her childhood religion of Presbyterian.  My father and his sister, unbeknownst to each other in the moment, converted from non practicing Baptists to Mormons; he while at college & she while in Germany, where her then husband was stationed.  Even my mothers sister converted to Anglicanism in her twenties.  My sister was baptized Presbyterian and then follow...