1980's in Review

Here is a summary of my first five years of my life from Monday, 1985-02-11 to Sunday, 1989-12-31.

I was born

my mother, Marilyn Kathleen Morehead Arnold Cunningham Hunter Rasp Mitchell

my father, Donald Melvin Rasp Arnold

my family

my older sister, Katie Jean Arnold

my one and only older brother, Richard Schuyler Arnold

friends

Kyle Vanderzanden

my brother saved my life from the car accident

Seattle trip

siblings called me an alien

All Dogs Go To Heaven

I remember watching All Dogs Go To Heaven, a cartoon film about dogs going to Heaven and Hell. I saw it originally when I was 4 years old, or so.


Friday: 17th of November: 1989
4 years old
163 Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden.

In 1988 or 1989, when I was 3 or 4 years old, Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden moved next door to us to unit 162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA. They had a small loud-barking dog named Quincy that I was always scared of. He lived from like the 1980's until 2005 or so. I was friends with Kyle until like 2008 or so. His dad (Mike) had at least one divorce and was drinking. Mike was raised Catholic but then he asked Christ to save him in the year 1994 or so. Mike would take Kyle to church and to Creation Fest sometimes. Kyle liked the song Jesus Freak by DC Talk I think, but Kyle may not be Christian, but his dad, Mike is. I never really talked to Mike until the past few years. I started going to church with him in 2008 maybe and then 2011 and 2012.

They had a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I saw bits and pieces of the film Indiana Jones. They had cable for a few years. Kyle had a arcade machine in his room. It was classic. We would play hide and seek. Sometimes, one of us may hide on the top of the arcade machine or in the closet, or in the bathroom, or behind the couch, or under the bed in his dad's room.

1989
4 years old
162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Alien

Alien

I thought I was an alien when I was four years old in the year 1989 because my older brother and sister would mention how hard it is to understand me, that I must be an alien, that I must be from another planet for how out of this world that I am, for how strange I am.



1989
Four years old
Forest Grove, Oregon, USA
Joey Arnold

Honey I Shrunk The Kids (film)

We may have seen the film Honey I Shrunk The Kids in the big screen or at least on VHS eventually in 1989 or soon after those early days.