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I'm actually excited to do this. I'm not sure why but I've always liked looking back on memories that stand out in my mind but really don't seem all that significant. I've always wanted them in text. To others this will probably be a real...blast. Haha. You can skip over me on the friends page now, all my shit will most likely make no sense.
My first memory ever started in the Konovalski house. the stippicks were in town from Austin and I'm pretty sure all the cousins were there. Everyone was outside and a lot of the kids were crowded around the tree in the front yard. I'm pretty sure a lot of them were trying to climb it. Carolann was playing underneath it and she had some sort of little action figure that looked like a rabbit wearing a jogging suit. Looking back it was probably a toy that resembled the hare from the tortise and the hare. I tried to take it from her to get a better look at it. She coaxed it away from me and convinced me that if she didn't hold onto it that it would run away. She was holding it in one hand and jamming twigs into the dirt in the other. She had me completely confused. The rabbit was plastic it obviously wasn't real. How could it run away? i tried to help her with the twigs but she pushed me out of the way and explained that she was building it a cage and I could help her place the toy rabbit in the cage when she was done so that it wouldn't jog away. During this time I started to play along. We were pretending together. I don't think I had ever gotten the concept of pretending something was when it wasn't until that moment. If it were a real bunny I would fear that it might run away. If it were a toy I would leave it in the dirt and walk away. All up until that moment ofcourse. Carolann convinced me that the hare in the jogging suit had aspirations to run away from the Konovalski house and we had to stop him. So I placed twigs over the little cage she made to make sure that he wouldn't hop over. After that I remember pretending all the time with her. That the play tunnel in her old living room was really a swamp and we weren't people but ducks. That we were princesses in the Konovalski house and the back room was a castle. I even felt my first stab of jealousy with carolann on christmas when she got a princess dress-up set and I got a creepy life size mickey mouse pull string doll. We were two weeks apart and she was probably the first kid I ever came into contact with. Though we're cousins, we were close when we were little but we grew apart pretty fast. No matter how different we are and have been for quite some time she's the first person I remember for some reason and her influence on me was always more like a big sister.
My second memory involved my mom and dad. I was throwing a tantrum because my mom wouldn't let me wear my swimsuit. "It's October!" she kept yelling. After awhile she picked me up and carried me outside. My dad was sitting on the front steps there was a girl from next door who had a hula hoop and a tea set and she looked happy but I was pissed. My dad kept trying to get me to play with her. I had played with her many times before but I didn't feel like it. I tried to tell dad that she wouldn't let me wear my swimsuit but he didn't seem like he knew what was going on or maybe he was playing dumb and just kept handing me plastic cups and plates from the girl's teaset. As we sat outside I eventually started to play with her. There were kids from another townhouse down the street who were having a birthday party or something and they all started running out into the yard where we were playing. They soon organized a game of hide and go seek and I agreed to play under the condition that I get to be on my dad's shoulders. That way no one could tag me. We were running from everyone and I think the kids got a kick out of my dad playing too so everyone started chasing him at once. After awhile I think they got bored of it and started to play amongst themselves again. We kept running. Our townhouses had this dark courtyard that I was scared of but i insisted we go there becuase he was there and I guess I got a thrill out of it. There was an old raggidy looking mop hanging over someone's balcony in the courtyard. It looked like a dead sesame street character. I kept pointing and yelling at it "Monster! Monster!" my dad didn't understand what I was yelling at but he started to yell monster with me.
Those are my first two ever...and I've always thought about them a lot. I'm not going to have some crazy timeline of pointless memories but I wanted to get the first two in order at least.
My first memory ever started in the Konovalski house. the stippicks were in town from Austin and I'm pretty sure all the cousins were there. Everyone was outside and a lot of the kids were crowded around the tree in the front yard. I'm pretty sure a lot of them were trying to climb it. Carolann was playing underneath it and she had some sort of little action figure that looked like a rabbit wearing a jogging suit. Looking back it was probably a toy that resembled the hare from the tortise and the hare. I tried to take it from her to get a better look at it. She coaxed it away from me and convinced me that if she didn't hold onto it that it would run away. She was holding it in one hand and jamming twigs into the dirt in the other. She had me completely confused. The rabbit was plastic it obviously wasn't real. How could it run away? i tried to help her with the twigs but she pushed me out of the way and explained that she was building it a cage and I could help her place the toy rabbit in the cage when she was done so that it wouldn't jog away. During this time I started to play along. We were pretending together. I don't think I had ever gotten the concept of pretending something was when it wasn't until that moment. If it were a real bunny I would fear that it might run away. If it were a toy I would leave it in the dirt and walk away. All up until that moment ofcourse. Carolann convinced me that the hare in the jogging suit had aspirations to run away from the Konovalski house and we had to stop him. So I placed twigs over the little cage she made to make sure that he wouldn't hop over. After that I remember pretending all the time with her. That the play tunnel in her old living room was really a swamp and we weren't people but ducks. That we were princesses in the Konovalski house and the back room was a castle. I even felt my first stab of jealousy with carolann on christmas when she got a princess dress-up set and I got a creepy life size mickey mouse pull string doll. We were two weeks apart and she was probably the first kid I ever came into contact with. Though we're cousins, we were close when we were little but we grew apart pretty fast. No matter how different we are and have been for quite some time she's the first person I remember for some reason and her influence on me was always more like a big sister.
My second memory involved my mom and dad. I was throwing a tantrum because my mom wouldn't let me wear my swimsuit. "It's October!" she kept yelling. After awhile she picked me up and carried me outside. My dad was sitting on the front steps there was a girl from next door who had a hula hoop and a tea set and she looked happy but I was pissed. My dad kept trying to get me to play with her. I had played with her many times before but I didn't feel like it. I tried to tell dad that she wouldn't let me wear my swimsuit but he didn't seem like he knew what was going on or maybe he was playing dumb and just kept handing me plastic cups and plates from the girl's teaset. As we sat outside I eventually started to play with her. There were kids from another townhouse down the street who were having a birthday party or something and they all started running out into the yard where we were playing. They soon organized a game of hide and go seek and I agreed to play under the condition that I get to be on my dad's shoulders. That way no one could tag me. We were running from everyone and I think the kids got a kick out of my dad playing too so everyone started chasing him at once. After awhile I think they got bored of it and started to play amongst themselves again. We kept running. Our townhouses had this dark courtyard that I was scared of but i insisted we go there becuase he was there and I guess I got a thrill out of it. There was an old raggidy looking mop hanging over someone's balcony in the courtyard. It looked like a dead sesame street character. I kept pointing and yelling at it "Monster! Monster!" my dad didn't understand what I was yelling at but he started to yell monster with me.
Those are my first two ever...and I've always thought about them a lot. I'm not going to have some crazy timeline of pointless memories but I wanted to get the first two in order at least.