treasure hunting
i have a bunch of boxes of my stuff at my parents house that i haven't touched since i moved to college and they moved two years ago. i went through a bunch of stuff yesterday and found all this amazing stuff i forgot i had. a lot of it was junk i kept from middle school that i thought at the time was meaningful or something. i also found a whole stack of notebooks that i had forgotten about. i kept a journal starting about when i learned to write. so i read through all this crazy shit i wrote when i was seven and it is insane. i lived in some imaginary world. i also found this short story i wrote in eigth grade about my family and my life and it was striking how my family still acts the same as i characterized them in my story seven years ago. this stuff is gold. i also found a whole box of half finished art projects. paintings, blankets, sewing projects, candles, all this stuff i tried and got sick of before i finished it. i even found this pair of shorts i made that say 'dance kittens dance' on them. don't really remember the joke there.