Things I miss...
 

about my childhood...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] riding my bike everywhere
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] shopping for new school clothes and supplies with my Mom
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the feeling on the last day of school, when the whole of summer is at your doorstep
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] building a fort out of a refrigerator box
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] finding my Unlce's old Playboys and the excited, taboo-like feeling from that
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] seeing my brother and sister as little kids
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] little green army men
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] driving back from my cousin's on Christmas Eve, urging my Dad to drive even faster so that we can beat Santa Claus to our house
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] going to double features at the local movie theater
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Little League
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the unimaginable sense of urgency when I heard the ice cream truck and didn't have a quarter

from high school

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] not a damn thing


from my college days...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] that exquisite yearning and build-up to still-new sex
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] literature classes
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] tennis team road trips
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] quarter beer night at St. George's Tavern, St. Augustine, FL.
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] St. Augustine
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] all-night Strato-matic football games
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] my white, 1981 RX-7
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] college girls in white shorts and tank tops

about Los Angeles...

[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The view of the Hollywood Hills from my apartment
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The Nuart and La Brea movie theaters
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The view of downtown on a clear day, with the snow-capped moutains in the background
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] eating crepes at the Farmer's Market on Third & Fairfax on a Sunday morning while reading the paper
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the sunday flea market on Melrose
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the amazingly diverse residential architecture
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] the Electic Lotus Indian restuarant in Los Feliz, and the restaurants in general
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The Pacific Ocean with the sun setting behind it

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in case it wasn't clear...you can list things you miss, too... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] NBC's Saturday morning lineup
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A steady group of people to play Madden with
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] When $100 was a lot of money
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Structure in my academic studies
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Old napster

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Man, I rode my bike freaking all over the place when I was 12-15.
Pretty incredible on some of the busy 2-lane back-road 'highways' with no shoulder that nobody got killed. Some close calls though.


I didn't know you could see snow-capped mountains from L.A.


first kiss jitters and stuff like that in H.S. were pretty cool.
Had some good friends when I was 16 or so.
somebody would score some wine-coolers and we were off to whatever drinking location we could come up with.

high-school crushes that were all-important at the time.
Usually accompanied by the feeling/smell of autumn.

sleep-over parties when I was 12 or 13 or so and we would drink coke all night and finally crash-out at 7 a.m. were good times too.


actually having hair on top of my head (back in the day I had a LOT of it)

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A big one from my childhood:

Excitement of opening several new packs of baseball cards.

Also: NBC Game of the Week with Vin Scully

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito


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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ABC's original TGIF line-up
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] American Gladiators
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Street Hockey
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Legos

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Being able to buy three things of candy per day and not give a [censored] about having to exercise it off.

The last day of school one is right on.

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From my childhood...
-My imagination. Everything is possible for a bored child, and the future is endless.
-Saturday morning cartoons. G.I. Joe, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Silver Hawks, Voltron, etc.
-Toys for all of the above.
-Christmas surprises. When I was 6 my stepfather's stepfather dressed like Santa Clause and brought presents to my house, I believed it whole-heartedly, it was awesome. The same guy ended up molesting my baby sister later and if I ever see him again I would in all likelyhood murder him, but it's still a nice memory, if a little tainted.

From highschool...
-Cutting classes and skipping homework. For the truly lazy man, not doing what you're supposed to is a joy in and of itself.
-Feeling like I'm not responsible for anything.
-Being in great shape and being good at basketball and football.
-Having goofy crushes.
-Having fun being lazy and silly with friends in the senior lounge.

From college, specifically freshman year...
-Finally getting away from home and highschool, being on my own and getting a fresh start.
-Living in the dorms, friends all around, girls just a floor above or below, wandering around meeting new people and making new friends and potential hookups. Hosting 30 person preparties in my dorm room and trying not to get busted by the RAs (I got busted 5 times and eventually got booted from the dorm).
-The haze of alcohol. Everyone's friends when they're drunk, everything's fun, nothing matters.
-Swarms of girls and guys meeting at huge parties with the sole purposes of getting drunk and hooking up, like schools of fish in mating season. Everything, everything being geared toward meeting and getting with more girls, funner girls, hotter girls.
-Making new friends pretty much every day, playing Madden and Halo for hours straight, getting wasted and watching Army of Darkness and Zoolander and Point Break, having wine parties, 40 oz parties, lingerie parties. Just fun all the time.

From New York...
-A city that accomodates my sleep cycle. No matter what you want, it's probably still available at 5 am.
-Manageable weather.
-Chinese restaurants that sell french fries.
-The feeling. Maybe it's just me, but the city gives me a really unique feeling when I walk alone at night (besides the need to keep my hand on my wallet). Something bright and pretty, yet hollow, and lonely. Hard to describe, but I love it and hate it.

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[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Wanting to grow up
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Walking through my neighborhood at 4am alone
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Not thinking about dying
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] The nervous feeling before playing a show
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Being bored
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Having friends ask out girls for you
[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Thinking that my parents would always point me in the right direction

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About my childhood-

*Listening to old records (The Carpenters) and singing with my sister
*Family vacations-road trips to Colorado to go skiing
*Having "best" friends
*My horses and traveling around the horse show circuits


College days-

*My waitressing job and the people I worked with
*My old apartment
*VW convertible and Jeep CJ7(with no heat)
*Nursing school and my friends from school
*Being totally independent and a "free spirit" (well that is what Utah called it)