• the happy glasses
• afghan in the woods
• Emily's VW bus
• going to Chipotle/Jimmy John's/Panera
• teasing
• sitting downtown Cherry Valley
• Bauman Park
• going to the skate park/smoking squares at the skate park
• California in the Summer
  • Audrey and Kelsey
  • Longboarding to the plaza
  • Coldstone cake batter ice cream
  • Surfing/Taco Bell on the beach
• adventures with Emily (usually involved the smoking of weed and then Taco Bell, Panera, Chipotle or Jimmy Johns)
• riding my bike
• my phone
• getting slurpees from the 7Eleven
• riding the bus home to my grandma's house and watching cartoons all afternoon
  • BraceFace
  • As Told by Ginger
  • 7th Heaven (I know it's not a cartoon)
  • Rugrats
  • Doug
  • Rocket Power
• scene shows
• the old B&N
• secretly meeting Emmanuel under the bridge downtown
• people
  • Lauren
  • Emily
  • E
  • Natalie
  • J
  • G
  • Mike
• eating Swedish pancakes with peanut butter whenever Kyle would sleep over
• my brother being a baby
• Emily going to Boylan
• the after school gang
• riding to school with Greg
• Camel Turkish Golds
• working at Culver's (sometimes)
• middle school friends
• having sleepovers with Steph
• being young and naive (thinking I would never try things that I eventually did)
• carving pumpkins on Halloween

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche