The Crush

I've always been a girl who has had her eye on a guy. Whether it be someone i actually knew or someone that i saw on TV. I have always had a crush on someone. And when we think of crushes we think of ourselves when we are in grade school only. Well i have come to realize that at age 31 I still develop these crushes.

CRUSH HISTORY:

My first crush was when I was in 3rd grade. Johnny Gray was his name. He was my next door neighbor. He was an older man, a 4th grader. Johnny was a friend of mine and we would play all the time. I was one of the guys. I spent my entire Elementary carrier trying to get him to see me as a girl and more. It never worked. I will always remember him fondly as wearing his yellow football lace up shorts with tall tube socks and his chilly bowl hair cut.

My first Movie Star Crush was this man, Han Solo. Yes, his real name is Harrison Ford, but I didn't know that. He was charming, strong, brave and stubborn. The perfect combo. Till this day he gives me butterflies. And if there is ever a moment that i run into him on the street I know I will not be able to contain myself.

My First TV Crush was the Duke Boys. Bo and Luke Duke. Every Friday at 8 I would sit in my "I Heart the Duke Boys" Night gown and watch them cause a ruckus in Hazard. That floppy hair, tan faces, southern accents = Double the Crush.

In 3rd Grade I subscribed to BOP Magazine. I would find my crushes in there and cut out the posters and paste them all over my wall. I was obsessed. I was boy crazy for sure.
My top three crushes went as follows:

Ralph Macchio 3rd grade - 6th grade. After seeing him in Karate Kid he had my heart. Sure he was skinny and lanky, but that is what made him so attractive to my little heart. He was the underdog and he won in the end and got the girl. I remember him being from New Jersey and wondering where that was in relation to where I lived and how i could get there to find my own young Karate Kid. I had the script to the movie and would memorize it during reading time in 4th grade social studies. Watching him kiss Allie buy the water slide stole my heart and that is when i knew i wanted to kiss a boy one day. And if i played my cards right it could in fact be him. Bonzi Daniel La Russo, Bonzi!!

Kirk Cameron 3rd grade - present: Aw, the boy next door crush. Watching him grow up on Growing Pains made me into the woman I am today. His curly hair, witty attitude, and cool fashion made me his biggest fan. I was such a fan of Kirk that a group of girls and I joined his fan club. We would have sleepovers once a month, tease out our hair as big as we could get it, spray an entire can of Final Net on it, find the coolest florescent clothes we could find and take our pictures holding up a poster of him. We later would mail him the pictures. I am sure he still has them somewhere. I even practiced my kissing techniques on him. Yes, he was my first fake kiss. I never got anything from him in return until 2004. My boss at the time knew him manager. Called him and had Kirk on a conference call. Kirk was on the set of Growing Pains filming a reunion show. In a week I was sent a autograph photo of him made out to me. I cried when I received it. I guess some crushed don't die.

Corey Haim 5th grade - 8th grade: Bad boy crush. Corey was always getting into some kind of trouble so he was considered bad. I had to keep the posters of him on the back of the door to my closet. My mom wasn't a fan of me liking him. But there was something about his mouth that intrigued me. He was my James Dean. Oh Corey, if you would only stayed off drugs we could have worked out.

Adult Crushes:

Val Kilmer High School- College:
Who could forget Ice man. The cocky loose cannon on Top Gun. Finally my crushes were after men rather than boys. Val Kilmer really won my heart in Tombstone. I loved him as Doc Holiday. He still gets me when i watch that film. I think the crush stopped after seeing him in At First Sight. It just disappeared. But if I ever want to rekindle that feeling again I go back to his earlier, more lean and fit, movies. By the way, you looked good in the Batman outfit.

Jimmy Fallon 2000-2005: In real life I have always been attracted to funny guys, so how perfect that I am attracted to Jimmy. After watching him on SNL I always felt that we could be a perfect match. He would be the perfect guy to bring home to Mom and Dad. One thing that always got me about him was that he would always laugh at his own jokes and ruin the skits. This was something that we had in common which is why we were perfect for each other. He lives in NYC and one day I will meet him and he will fall madly in love with me. I am certain of it.

This Brings us to Present time.

Derek Jeter- NOW: I have always thought that he was cute while watching him play ball but over the past year I have developed a real deal crush on the man. He is everything that is attractive to me. Leadership, Strong, Athletic, well groomed, team player, smart, a hero. I get to see him at the stadium when I go and I am sure that will be the closest I will ever get to him. And that is OK with me. I feel that if I did meet him I would be so extremely uncool. But I will cheer for him in a distance and pretend that he loves me.