Throwback Thursday: I've got a Crush on You

Today's Throwback Thursday topic is "Elementary school crush"  I was a pro-crusher in Jr. high and a bit of high school.  It was actually hard for me to make guy friends because I would always end up having a crush on them.  I have countless journals full of "but so-and-so is so cute and I can't stop myself from thinking about him all the time"  However, elementary school was a different story.  Only one man had my attention.

He was tall and muscular, pretty popular, really cared about the environment (that was a big deal to me as a kid), and he could totally rock an early 90's mullet.  His name?  Captain Planet.  Yes, I had a huge crush on a cartoon character.  I would kiss my Captain Plant lunch box daily, and had or wedding planned down to the napkin rings.

C'mon!  Who couldn't love this hunk?!

My hopes and dreams were shattered on the bus on the last day of kindergarten.  A much older and wiser second grader informed me that cartoon characters could not marry real life people because there was a force field separating them from the real world that could only be broken if  "Cartoon God" and "Our God" agreed.   Who was I to disagree with the big kids?  I mean, they had been in school a whole two years more than me.  I was devastated.  It was my first taste of heart break.

 The following year, I asked my mom for a new Barbie lunch box, because my little heart just couldn't handle the harsh truth.  Little did I know that real heart break just gets worse.