My Preteen Love

In 1993 I was 12 years old and I had the BIGGEST crush on Jonathan Brandis. Honest to God, I loved him.

He was in all the Tiger Beat and teen magazines (along with the other love of my life, Kirk Cameron), and they were all over my walls.

Does anyone remember Sea Quest??? Because I do, and I think my mom does. God knows if we weren’t home five minutes before that show started it would be all out war.



Jonathan Brandis - Sea Quest Pilot



How cute was he? I love that smarmy attitude and rugged good looks.

My sister and I even fought over who got to like him, because we were not allowed to like the same guy. I mean come on, if I let her like Jonathan Brandis too what would happen the day he came to the door looking for a girlfriend??? Think about this people! It would cause MAJOR family drama.

So I came up with a plan. I would get Jonathan Brandis and Allie would get Jonathan Taylor Thomas. The trick to this was to make sure Allie actually thought that I liked JTT. She fell for it.

Now if you’re reading this and don’t understand why this was such an important thing, and why we couldn’t share….then you: A) never were a preteen/teenage girl and/or B) never had a little sister that had to do EVERYTHING you do.

Honestly, to truly understand the importance of this compromise I really think you had to be a 12 year old girl who was under the greatest of thinkings that one day you would be Mrs. Jonathan Brandis.

I think that torch flamed for a long time. While all my girlfriends were interested in those stinky smelly boys we actually went to school with…..my heart belonged to Jonathan Brandis. Ahhh the memories.

As cute as he was I can only look back on some of my childhood crushes and wonder what kind of drugs my mom was slipping into the Mac and Cheese.

Think about it. New Kids on the Bock??? Jonathan Brandis??? Kirk Cameron?? These pretty boys are a far cry from the guys I like now.

Oh well, to be young and obsessed. I sometimes wonder how rich I would be if I would have saved the money rather than spending it on the 20 Tiger Beat type magazines I bought a week.

I mean really, how many posters that have stple marks down the middle does a girl really need???



(by the way, the boss is out of town and I have already finshed all my work for the day, which means there might be about 10000000 more posts. Although I've said that before and then done nothing.....so we'll see)