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sweetlemonrain in wb_unplugged

Smile!

Dec 07, 2011 05:25

Before middle school age, (like, when you were still a kid), what made you smile?

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anewdaysjourney December 6 2011, 23:00:00 UTC

Being able to babysit on the weekends, simply so I could stay up late and watch stuff like "The Midnight Special", "Don Kirschner's Rock Concert" and what is now known as the original cast of "Saturday Night Live"...

Yes, I'm old. ;)

anewdaysjourney December 6 2011, 23:02:01 UTC

Wait, you're talking before then? Gah, let's see if I can get the memory going again... ;)

Not a whole lot, truth be told. I was a very serious child. The kind who'd read the newspaper front to back, and found Barbies infinitely boring unless we were re-enacting the kidnapping or whatever was going on during the most recent Police Woman episode...

anewdaysjourney December 8 2011, 08:55:44 UTC

OK, OK, had time to think about it...

The Tootsie Rolls that Garry O would put in the bag with our fries at the drive-in down the hill from the house I grew up in.

Huckleberry soft serve ice cream in a cone, preferably eaten while trampling mint plants underfoot.

Scavenger hunts in the neighborhood.

Being allowed to walk down to the beach with a group of friends to spend the day getting fried.

Going to see the sisters on our block who were both widowers and sharing tea time with them.

My gigantic trunk of old prom dresses, beat up fur coats and the like that I used to play dress-up with.

Making birdhouses of my own design in my dad's workshop in the basement.

Stretching out in my sleeping bag on the porch swing during a lightning storm, watching the flashes and enjoying the storm.

Standing out in a chinook wind without a coat in the middle of the winter.

Better?

laura_seabrook December 6 2011, 23:52:25 UTC

Mostly TV: old films, Dr Who, Star Trek (Original series), the Avengers. I was a sickly child battling epilepsy and not into sport of any kind. I would draw: comics, doodles, anything.

Everything else was a burden.

octopus_fool December 6 2011, 23:55:35 UTC

Playing with my friends, books and finding an interesting bug, plant or rock.
Huh. Perhaps I haven't changed as much as I thought...

midnight_birth December 7 2011, 01:27:42 UTC

Everything.

princess_kessie December 7 2011, 02:28:13 UTC

Reading books - especially in the school library at lunchtime, away from the bullies. It was the only part of my day where I felt safe.

Now I can't even pick up a book without feeling like I'm back in Junior school being bullied - consequently I rarely read for pleasure anymore.