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when i was four my favorite bands were manhattan transfer, the beatles, and peter paul and mary, which i listened to on my pop's record player.
my favorite books were morris has a cold, there's a party at mona's tonight, and elizabeth and larry.
my favorite colors were pink and purple and my boyfriend's name was daniel. he was a very modern bloke and introduced me to mario 2 on nintendo. i took ballet and tap dancing and reading classes and i wore a tutu.
i loved playing dress up and lite brite and wearing a bathing suit to go swimming in the tub.
i hated brushing my teeth and loved the smell of my granpapi's pipe and my pop's marlboro reds.
my best friends were laura flora dora, whose mother was bette midler's voice teacher, and emily, who had hair past her butt.
we had a dark brown couch and i would lay on my pop's belly and he'd put a pillow on his chest for my head and we'd watch spaceballs.
my nose used to wake me up every few nights around midnight or so, when my parents ordered chinese food. we called it a nightmare snack, and i had already been eating with chopsticks for two years.
every saturday morning we went to nana's for brunch and she always had chocolate milk for my brother and me. my brother would have the honors of shaking up the chocolate milk to mix it and he always did a funny chocolate milk shaking dance.
one time i accidentally picked up the box that had nana's old dog nicky's ashes in it and started trying to open it. i got in trouble and then broke her bed with my head.
i also got in trouble that year because we were trying to rent out the apartment and i found a marker in the bathroom one day and thought that the white grout between the tiles would look much better in dark blue. that was the only time my whole life my moms ever gave me a patch-kie. she wore scrunched socks and reebok hi-tops with two velcros across the top and put my hair in a ponytail on the side.
and that's most of year four in a nutshell--some of it blends together with year five, methinks. i'm missing a few things...
my favorite books were morris has a cold, there's a party at mona's tonight, and elizabeth and larry.
my favorite colors were pink and purple and my boyfriend's name was daniel. he was a very modern bloke and introduced me to mario 2 on nintendo. i took ballet and tap dancing and reading classes and i wore a tutu.
i loved playing dress up and lite brite and wearing a bathing suit to go swimming in the tub.
i hated brushing my teeth and loved the smell of my granpapi's pipe and my pop's marlboro reds.
my best friends were laura flora dora, whose mother was bette midler's voice teacher, and emily, who had hair past her butt.
we had a dark brown couch and i would lay on my pop's belly and he'd put a pillow on his chest for my head and we'd watch spaceballs.
my nose used to wake me up every few nights around midnight or so, when my parents ordered chinese food. we called it a nightmare snack, and i had already been eating with chopsticks for two years.
every saturday morning we went to nana's for brunch and she always had chocolate milk for my brother and me. my brother would have the honors of shaking up the chocolate milk to mix it and he always did a funny chocolate milk shaking dance.
one time i accidentally picked up the box that had nana's old dog nicky's ashes in it and started trying to open it. i got in trouble and then broke her bed with my head.
i also got in trouble that year because we were trying to rent out the apartment and i found a marker in the bathroom one day and thought that the white grout between the tiles would look much better in dark blue. that was the only time my whole life my moms ever gave me a patch-kie. she wore scrunched socks and reebok hi-tops with two velcros across the top and put my hair in a ponytail on the side.
and that's most of year four in a nutshell--some of it blends together with year five, methinks. i'm missing a few things...