{"id":7444,"date":"2014-02-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2014\/02\/15\/goodbye-to-my-biggest-fan\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:15:58","slug":"goodbye-to-my-biggest-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/goodbye-to-my-biggest-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to my biggest fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb140b1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Feb140b1.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Normally I wouldn&#8217;t trouble folks with my personal<br \/>\nlife but if there was anyone that is a foundation for this site, it was my<br \/>\ngrandmother who passed away this week at 91 years of age.&nbsp; She (and of course, my parents) is largely<br \/>\nresponsible for why I look backward with fondness.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">I was fortunate enough to read her eulogy and was glad<br \/>\nto share with people how much she meant to me and my family but I had to leave<br \/>\na lot out.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Today would have been her&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">92<\/span>nd<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;birthday and I&#8217;m going to spend it&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">celebrating many of the things she did that made me<br \/>\nwant to create this site in the first place:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/andrews-1024x676.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/andrews-1024x676.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">My grandparents owned a store in a mall, almost every<br \/>\nSaturday I was babysat there. I spent the majority of the day going from the Woolco,<br \/>\nto the hobby shop and then to the drug store to ogle the rack toys. My grandmother<br \/>\nwas usually good for $2, which was completely pissed away on what she would call<br \/>\n\u201cJunk\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She kept old catalogs in her house and if she traveled<br \/>\nto another country, she would bring me back their toy catalogs. It was kind of<br \/>\na weird torture looking at Big Jims and GI Joes that I would never own. It did<br \/>\nhowever spark my interest in foreign toys, is anyone seeing a connection here?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In college, when I was forced to sell my toy<br \/>\ncollection, she arranged the purchase of my two favourite MIB Mego figures<br \/>\n(Spider-Man and Captain America) and gave them back to me years later. I still have<br \/>\nthem, I will never sell them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">On my sixth birthday, she left me in the Eaton\u2019s toy<br \/>\ndepartment and told me to pick out one thing for my birthday. I spent what felt<br \/>\nlike an eternity pouring over the GI joe and Big Jim offerings. More than the<br \/>\ntoy itself (i forget what I chose), I appreciated just being given that luxury of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When I was 13 <a href=\"http:\/\/plaidstallions.blogspot.ca\/2012\/01\/nerd-therapy-session-adventures-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she knitted me a Tom Baker scarf<\/a>, she<br \/>\nalso sewed me a Jon Pertwee cape that I wore to my first convention a year<br \/>\nlater. I still have both, I never wear them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She bought me my first issue of Starlog and more<br \/>\ncomics than I care to calculate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">My first Ramones record? You guessed it, it was Road to Ruin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Christmas was incredible event at her house, some of<br \/>\nmy fondest childhood memories stem from those evenings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">When I got the Brick Mantooth figures in from China,<br \/>\nshe was the first person I showed. She&nbsp;approved&nbsp;but thought it was bad investment and well,<br \/>\nthe&nbsp;lady&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t&nbsp;dumb.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I filmed the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TkbH7uTQ6GA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Brick Mantooth commercial<\/a> in her<br \/>\nimpossibly funky basement.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plaidstallions.com\/fit\/jiggler.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of these<\/a> and now, I do I guess&#8230;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Rack Toys is still proudly on her coffee table.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">She always told me the truth, even I wasn&#8217;t going to like it and could present it in a manner that I couldn&#8217;t get mad at her.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">She was my enabler and I can\u2019t look at the majority of the<br \/>\nthings I blog about and not think of her. That will always make me smile and<br \/>\none of the reasons I\u2019ll keep going and will be just fine. I love what I do<br \/>\nbecause she loved me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for indulging me.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I wouldn&#8217;t trouble folks with my personal life but if there was anyone that is a foundation for this site, it was my grandmother who passed away this week at 91 years of age.&nbsp; She (and of course, my parents) is largely responsible for why I look backward with fondness. 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