- asking my grandmother for cookies
- believing in Santa Claus
- chatting up all the cute girls on the soccer field during games
- Christina Kelly accidently slamming the car door on my pinky in the 3rd grade subsequently breaking it....no one realized it was broken...the school nurse gave me an ice pack and told me to suck it up....I did and my pinky healed and set...my right pinky is crooked
- eating churros at Disneyland
- eating sunflower seeds while watching cartoons and then throwing the shells behind the tv... because...I have no idea
- flooding the science building in 7th grade...wrong place, wrong time...cleaning it up with towels and sponges sucked ass
- getting "Suicides" at the snack shack after softball games....that sounds horrible....I have no idea what name they have for it now but basically it's when you mix all of the different fountain soda options into one
- jumping fences to retrieve balls
- making playdough food for my parents to eat
- making Snoopy Pancakes with my mom....neither of us know why I named them Snoopy Pancakes... basically it's mini pancakes...we still call them Snoopy Pancakes
- meeting Milo <3
- mom reading to me before bed
- my first robot...yeah it was just as awesome as it sounds...we played games together and danced
- playing baseball in the middle of the road... CAAAAAR!!.........GAME ON!!
- playing DEAD MAN DEAD MAN on the trampoline
- playing freeze tag / tunnel tag / hide and seek across the neighboorhood
- playing Marco Polo in the pool
- pretending to be Shakespeare and writing poems about death - then getting yelled at for writing about death
- putting on my batman costume and crusing the block in my motorized batmobile
- putting on my batman costume and pretending to waltz with Vicky Vale in the living room
- riding my simpson bike around the block
- running away from home by living under the kitchen table....my mom still makes fun of me for this...
- sitting on the bench during recess with all the other boys because we kept getting in trouble for playing soccer on the "big kid" field...fuck the little kid field!
- skateboarding around the block
- standing up to the bullies on my block by sneaking up behind them with a garden hose and unleashing sweet watery revenge...the whole sneaking up behind them involved jumping fences, ducking behind cars, tip toeing across bricks, crawling on grass....it was an amazing feat of stealth....and dare I mention I saved the two older cute girls on my block in the process?...yeah I was a regular 007
- taking an ice bath when I had 104 degree fever
- taking swimming & diving lessons in the summer at the community pool
- telling my softball coach he was an A-HOLE!...not exactly those words but he got the point
- Tita (other grandma) yelling at me for misbehaving and then pointing to the large 3D wood carving portrait of Jesus on the wall and say "He's watching you!"....but in spanish....that Jesus thing still makes me nervous when I'm sitting on the couch in the living room
- Tita making me after school snacks and then chocolate milk shakes before bed
- watching Sabado Gigante with Tita and cracking up whenever the grim reaper with a trumpet came out on stage...I really don't know what the character's name was or if he was a grim reaper, but I thought he was when I was little...he could also be described as wearing black KKK robes or a medieval hangman.... either way death playing the trumpet was the beginning of my love of dark humor
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