Apollo 13

Apollo 13.

Almost every year, our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim Williams, would drive around two hours from Warrenton, Oregon USA to Forest Grove to pick one or more of us Arnold family members, and they would usually drive us in their luxury car back to their house. That is four hours for them, there and back. They would usually come sometimes for the Independence Day holiday, which is the 4th of July each year.

They would also come sometimes for Christmas each year, which is the 25th of December of each year. I actually think they did come twice a year to see us.

In the year 1995, in July, when I was ten years old, they picked up just me, Joey Arnold, and I was so excited since this was always the highlight of my year.

They asked me what film I wanted to see in the big screen and I demanded for the Power Rangers; The Movie. Instead, i was like figuratively dragged into a big screen in I think Astoria, Oregon USA, and we saw the film Apollo 13, which stars actor Tom Hanks, and I was not sure what to think then, but now, and as I got older, I began to appreciate Tom Hanks and other things in life.


I almost drown at the beach one night. I am usually with them for a weekend each year, except for one year it was like 9 or so days.

I was not actually drowning.

I was full of sand. The waves were high.

I was with just Jim.

When we got back to their house, I showed Karen how high the waves are with my hands and she gave her scared to death face.

Sometimes, I would pick up golf balls with Jim at golf courses.


4th of July, 1995
10 years oldWarrenton & Astoria, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Bill & Janet Bailey

Bill & Janet Bailey.

My younger five year old sister, Crystal Ann Arnold, brought me to our park to meet her new friends, Bill & Janet Bailey, which was expected since she was meeting dozens of people from that moment on. This may have been the year that I met them, or it was 1994. Bill Bailey was my best childhood friend, which makes Tiffany Cumbo my second favorite, and Janet is possibly the 3rd favorite. I did Revolution Hawaii in 2007 - 2008. Janet ended up doing Revolution Hawaii as well some years after that. Janet follows Christ, but Bill and their sister Lisa Evers does not.

I kind of felt like we were enemies at first. They lived in trailer number 39. I lived in 163. I went to their trailer but was scared of their dog who kept on barking. Janet or Bill said that their father has a bow and arrow that he may use on me if I do not leave. I am not sure what was going on. They ended up going to our house that same day and I gave them a tour. I was friends with Bill until like 2004 or so. I last saw Janet in 2012 or so.

1995
10 years old
39, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Batman Forever

I saw Batman Forever in the big screen (in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA) in 1995. Afterwards, I ran over to the house of Tiffany & Michael Cumbo in a sleeveless shirt in order to impress Tiff with my guns, since I just finished watching a film with an acrobatic Robin who also strips to appeal to his female demographics.

1995

Dinosaurs, Spaceships, & Noah's Ark on the Moon

Dinosaurs, Spaceships, & Noah's Ark on the Moon


I started writing short-stories when I was ten years old in the year 1995, since I started reading and writing and talking better around this time.

One story was about dinosaurs.

One story was about aliens blowing up the earth. Some humans escape in spaceships to blow up the planet of the aliens and to find a new home planet to inhabit and repopulate.

Another story was about how Noah's Ark went to the moon from a huge wave. This may have been written in 1998 or so.

I also wrote the script to the hour-long parody film Power Ranger Kids.

1995
Joey Arnold
Forest Grove, Oregon USA

Star Trek Voyager

They said that the Star Trek Voyager was going to be better and faster than the Enterprise from the Next Generation (STNG). I was a fan of the STNG. I would watch Voyager at 8 or 9 PM on Wednesdays after Awanas.

Voyager premiered on Monday, the 16th of January 1995.

My mom would watch it with me as well.

We also watch Nowhere Man.

I later started watching Smallville sometimes.