When I Was A Child...
My biology final is today. If I study mitosis, meiosis, transcription, translation, DNA technology and baby giant pandas any more, I just might lose the very loose grip I have on my sanity. So, I've decided to take a page from foreverquatre and do a "When I Was A Child" entry. Hopefully, it will take my mind off the fact that I suck at biology.
So, without further ado...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD...
~I didn't wear clothes until I was five unless my parents physically forced me into them. Even on a Christmas Eve candlelight church tour in Massachuettes, I only wore a snowsuit because my mother told me Santa wouldn't come if I didn't.
~I made a brother out of boxes. When my mother was pregnant for my sister, the way she was carrying her and her heartbeat was typically assosciated with a boy. So, I imagine by surprise when my parents come home not with Drew Thomas, but Brittany Elizabeth! To cope, I made a brother out of various boxes. It went well and we got along famously until I took him swimming in my kiddie pool.
~I would sit for hours with my father's 197Os larger than life headphones on and listen to Dvorak's New World Symphony.
~I had a stuffed duck-billed platypus named Gooner.
~My sister and I invented a game called shovelball. We didn't have baseball bat and wanted to play baseball, so we created a similar game using a snow shovel instead of a bat.
~I could sing and quote word-for-word the Mary Martin verison of "Peter Pan". I still can.
~I could resist the Pledge of Allience at 26 months old.
~I potty-trained myself.
~I thought Michael Jackson was a girl when I saw the "Bad" video for the first time.
~My favorite episode of "Seasame Street" was the one were Snuffie takes a bath and sings about it. My mom video-taped it for me and I would watch it practically on a 24-hour loop. Then, one day "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was on TV and my dad decided to tape it. OVER SNUFFIE TAKING A BATH. I cried for days and I never saw that particular episode again. I might forgive my father on his death bed... ;)
~I sang "Material Girl" on my grandparents picnic table into a spoon. And my parents video-taped it.
~I went to the peditrican's office once (my family had military health care so we never saw the same doctor twice) and got an African-American doctor. I had seen African-Americans before, but never up close. So, when she came in the room, I freaked out. I started crying and told my mother, "Don't let that chocolate person touch me!" My mother mortified and started apologizing, but the doctor just laughed and said, "I've been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called chocolate before."
Anyway, I suppose I should go study a bit more. Any and all words of encouragment would be greatly appreciated.
So, without further ado...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD...
~I didn't wear clothes until I was five unless my parents physically forced me into them. Even on a Christmas Eve candlelight church tour in Massachuettes, I only wore a snowsuit because my mother told me Santa wouldn't come if I didn't.
~I made a brother out of boxes. When my mother was pregnant for my sister, the way she was carrying her and her heartbeat was typically assosciated with a boy. So, I imagine by surprise when my parents come home not with Drew Thomas, but Brittany Elizabeth! To cope, I made a brother out of various boxes. It went well and we got along famously until I took him swimming in my kiddie pool.
~I would sit for hours with my father's 197Os larger than life headphones on and listen to Dvorak's New World Symphony.
~I had a stuffed duck-billed platypus named Gooner.
~My sister and I invented a game called shovelball. We didn't have baseball bat and wanted to play baseball, so we created a similar game using a snow shovel instead of a bat.
~I could sing and quote word-for-word the Mary Martin verison of "Peter Pan". I still can.
~I could resist the Pledge of Allience at 26 months old.
~I potty-trained myself.
~I thought Michael Jackson was a girl when I saw the "Bad" video for the first time.
~My favorite episode of "Seasame Street" was the one were Snuffie takes a bath and sings about it. My mom video-taped it for me and I would watch it practically on a 24-hour loop. Then, one day "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was on TV and my dad decided to tape it. OVER SNUFFIE TAKING A BATH. I cried for days and I never saw that particular episode again. I might forgive my father on his death bed... ;)
~I sang "Material Girl" on my grandparents picnic table into a spoon. And my parents video-taped it.
~I went to the peditrican's office once (my family had military health care so we never saw the same doctor twice) and got an African-American doctor. I had seen African-Americans before, but never up close. So, when she came in the room, I freaked out. I started crying and told my mother, "Don't let that chocolate person touch me!" My mother mortified and started apologizing, but the doctor just laughed and said, "I've been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called chocolate before."
Anyway, I suppose I should go study a bit more. Any and all words of encouragment would be greatly appreciated.