I think Minnie Mouse would probably make an excellent shopping buddy

I've mentioned before that I'm a Disney nut. In addition to the Winnie the Pooh characters I have always held a fondness in my heart for Minnie Mouse. Perhaps it is because from an early age I have always been the tomboy with a group of guy friends, so I can appreciate a girl who runs with the boys, or perhaps it is my fondness for red backgrounds with white polka dots. Who knows? I do know that from the age of 5 to probably about 12 I always had the same white sweatshirt from Walt Disney World that had Minnie Mouse on it. I think I wore through 4 or 5 of them before I could no longer find one in my size. I have searched high and low, but I can't find an image of this sweatshirt on the Internet anywhere and due to the fact that I think I look like a troll in all childhood pictures over the age of 4 you will just have to take my word for it that this sweatshirt was awesome!

For a few years now I have been on the lookout for a replacement shirt, but unfortunately I am picky (some may say crazy). I have Minnie Mouse criteria. She has to be wearing the red, white polka dotted dress of my childhood. Not the vintage blue skirt, or just a red skirt, and surely not the pink, white polka dotted dress from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. An added challenge is that until further notice this shirt has to be plus sized.

I may not have found my dream shirt yet, but until I do I can make due with looking at these each day:

Photo from Amazon.com


Photo from Amazon.com

Every time I look down at them they make me smile. Even when I take my checkbook out to balance it!

In addition to my divine bag and wallet I've recently rediscovered other Minnie Mouse favorites. While fooling around on Itunes one day I found this:

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This was one of my favorite TV specials!!! In fact it is the first time I remember truly enjoying Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". Our VHS copy bit the dust long ago, but fortunately Youtube was created and there are other nostalgia hounds like me out there!




This got me thinking about another Minnie favorite

Photo from Amazon.com

I hadn't thought about this album for years, but boy did my friends and I listen to it a lot. Interesting anthropological note though; this album came out in 1990, when I was 10. My friends and I still loved it because back then , at ten, you were still a kid. You weren't as worried about being trendy. Christa's voice doesn't hold up as well as it did in my memory, but the songs are still catchy. I've added it to my ipod because I know my students will love it. Some of the ballads are perfect for rest time :0).

Minnie was pro- girl power waayyy before the Spice Girls!