Writer's Block: Summer Break

[redstargoddess]

How did you spend summers when you were a kid?

I played Barbies with my sister. We rolled them down the hill in their cars and watched entropy take over. Uh, played dress up with Star and Kay. Rode my bike.

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[betsywhitt]

I read in the basement on the cool tile floor.
My friends and I staged bike races, but pretended we were riding horses instead of bikes.
We stayed up late playing all-neighborhood hide-and-seek in the dark.

I was such a dork! =P

[blackhandgang]

So, by the time The New Adventures of He-Man came on TV, I used to have these immense imagination-fests When I was playing by myself both during the summer and at school. I had all the good guys on my team and we would fight all the bad guys. It pervaded my life so much that I imagined my bedroom could transform into the command center at the press of a button that was hidden under my bed. I would just lose hours in that little world and I would make sure that my family didn't know that I was a part of it, just like Adam from He-Man.

Other than that, I just explored the woods behind my house. I think I was born a transcendentalist, lol

[steelvictory]

I always went to spend the summer with my dad, stepmom, and sisters (San Antonio for two years, but Dayton, Ohio, the rest of my life). I read a lot, and watched all the tv I couldn't at my mom's because they had cable. Swam at the local pool every night, sometimes in the afternoon, too. Enjoyed being with my family who I saw (and still see) way too infrequently.

[chuntastic]

When we weren't moving to a new home or something my brother and I would put all our toys on our mutual skateboards and make these battle barges where Optimus Prime would call out the SDF-1 and battle it out for the fate of the world.

[funk_doctor]

Being a "youngest only child," I tended to just veg and watch TV, occasionally venturing into the world for baseball. After a while, I constructed buildings, cars, streets, sidewalks, etc., out of paper, making my own miniature town with tons of paper buildings and people. I was incredibly detailed, too, making miniature toilets and with movable lids and handles, doorknobs on the doors, trunks and hoods on the cars, etc. My parents thought I was gifted. Or autistic. Either one.