in a vaguely chronological order.

• eating chocolate soymilk with my froot loops; i hated it even then.
• the welcome basket we got when we moved into an apartment; it had these little white things in it that i think might have been yogurt-covered raisins. they were so good.
• going to the mall by our house right after we moved to georgia
  • how the arcade was dark and the only lights were the games and black lights in the walls, like in lazer tag, and i felt like i was in space.
  • walking home under magnolia tree; daddy picking one for me. they smelled so great back then.
• summertime with cindy.
  • getting two different kinds of those popsicles in clear plastic and cutting them both in half and sharing.
  • pretending to have a cooking show in the shed behind her house.
  • the time we thought that it would be a good idea to drink out of a mud puddle because it looked like chocolate milk.
  • having like fifty neopets accounts to get lots of advent calendar prizes.
  • lion role plays.
  • zoo tycoon.
  • simple plan.
  • when cindy and i made that stuff that is liquid but when you jump on it, it holds you up.
  • making whirlpools in her swimming pool.
  • that ron white DVD which we probably watched at least a hundred times and we still laughed at like every joke.
  • the time we painted my dad's grill.
    • i need to make a separate list for all of this.
• maggie.
• salem.
  • when we first got him and he'd lie down on his back right up against my side and sleep there all night.
  • whenever i'd go outside, crying, after a fight with my dad. i remember sitting on the ground and feeling so alone and he'd always find me and rub his face on mine, drying my tears.
  • his little meow.
  • the time he attacked shadow after she stayed out all night.
• watching zoom everyday.
  • always thinking that the knock-knock jokes were hilarious even though they were always really lame.
• staying up late to watch the sci-fi channel.
• when anaconda was my favorite movie; i watched that so much.
• that time that my parents made a scavenger hunt for me to find all of my birthday presents.
• when my parents surprised me with a bike.
• when we had willow and he was so fuzzy and orange so i would always pretend that he was mufasa.
• keeping a bunch of roly-polies. i put some dirt and leaves in with them but they always died anyway.
• when my favorite activity was ripping this giant ants in two and saying, "aw, man, my butt fell off."
  • that time the ant died with its pincers stuck in my hand and i washed and dried my hands like five times trying to get it off.
• when i stuck my finger in the hamster's cage and she bit me so i bled everywhere.
• when i used to wake up with a nosebleed and blood all over my pillow every night. only i didn't really mind because i always got to get up and take a bath and then eat something with just mom and it was good to be alone with her.
• when meagan used to pronounce 'f's like they were 's's. "i'm sinished."
• when we used to turn the bunk beds into a boat or a rocketship. we'd put sheets around the bottom of the top bunk and then bring a bunch of books in. i remember sitting and reading for hours. and using a bucket to transfer stuffed animals from the bottom to the top bunk or vice versa.
• when we used to sneak to jessica's house even though we didn't even really like her; we just liked the thrill of it.