I have made a revelation.

For the past six years or so I have been at odds with myself. It all started with a simple trip to Goodwill during my Sophomore year of High School. Sitting in the toy bin was one Jurassic Park toy. It wasn't even a particularly good one. It was a Re-Ak-Attack Dilophosaur. It was the line Hasboro bought from Kenner, and all us JPToys fans agree, that Kenner had the far superior line of JP toys. But ever since then, I have been a collector of collectible toys for children. All the while a little part of my brain chastising me in the background.
"You're too old of this."
"It's time to grow up.'
"Act your age."
And so on. And I wanted to! Believe me. I want to act like other people my age. I don't want to care about this stuff. Or stuff my brain with random useless knowledge about the JP line. Like a foreign toy company Dakin was the original toy company for the movies. But they passed. I have the few toys that they did put out.
See? Useless.
And for awhile there I thought I was getting better. My scoping of Ebay started to wain, and it helped that Goodwill finds were getting few and far between. I think the last time I found something JP related was when I was still in Chemeketa.
I thought, "Yay! I'm getting older, and now more mature!"
ERRRR! Wrong!
I have found a new obsession.
Those would be The Monster High dolls. I know! Me? Collecting dolls?! Oh and not just that, I "play" with them too. Well, mostly I just brush their hair. But there is something soothing about it. LOL
And right now I have a pretty impressive collection. My favorite doll I have at the moment is Abbey Bominable. Just because her personality is so funny.
Anyway, this brings me to another point, why wasn't stuff like this popular when it was age appropriate for me? I was tortured beyond measure for loving dinosaurs, and the Dark Side of stories. If you get my drift. And now, there are tshirts with dinosaurs on them meant for little girls! I sigh at the unfairness of it all.
But I guess this is just something that I need to finally come to grips with. I will never be my age. The closest I got to acting my age is taking down all my SN posters off my bedroom walls. And I kinda liked it. My room looks bigger now.

So, "Hi, my name is Lydia Atsma and I love children's toys, and I love collecting them." There. I said it.
Actually, I'm not the oldest collector I know, go on Youtube, mothers, yes mothers, will buy two dolls, one for their kids and one for themselves. LOL So I'm not totally alone. LOL
And I've also figured something else out. Toys are more adults anyway. There's no way I would give a six year old a MIB Lost World Thrasher. Well not because the toy is now about 13 years old, but because all those pieces they would lose! No, toys are really for adults. I just talk about it more than most do. LOL