Memories
-Last St.Patricks Day was my favourite ever! We went to a pub and they had a guy playing live… all the good songs…oldies mainly
and it was fun. I had died my hair red cause I had wanted to for a while and cause it was St.Patricks Day – i thought if not now, when!
So i had some fres red hair and i felt pretty Irish… which I am, so that always helps…
But then the guitar man started singing lady in red… and at first I was just singing along and not noticing – and then he started freestyling a verse about how the lady in red on St.Patricks Day had no idea this song was about her… and I was like no, not me…. is it – and i didnt wanna be assuming so I started looking around to see if there was another girl with red… and there wasnt
and he was singing to me!
I FELT SUPER SPECIAL!
so – that, plus good friends (including paul coming out for a coke with us finnaly) made for a great night
AS A KID… on Fulton (Various memories from that house)
As a kid (about 8-10 at the time) – at one point we lived in a house that had 3 stories. Mine and my brothers bedroom was upstairs on the third floor. The house was a bautiful old Danforth house. 3 Stories. Wood floors that both creeked and gave you slivers…
One time in that house we got broken into. I remember they took weird stuff and left some good stuff like jewlery… but tthats also what my mom said so I dont fully beleive that anymore.
anyways… this thought was probably a result of us being broken into.
I cant remember if my mom was working overnight shifts at this point – or why I thought this….but I used to think about if bad guys broken in, about having a box spring with a person shape cut into it so I coudl hide when they finally got up to the 3rd floor. I thought Id hear them coming up the creeky wooden stairs. The way I always thought about it I thought of a starfish shape – like you were all sprad out during a snow angel – just cut into the boxspring (ora maybe another matress) so that when they came I could hide under the matress and they wouldnt find me.
Another one…
One time (when i was like 8-10) I remember my dad stayedover to babysit us cause my mom was working overnight (which I guess solves the above quandry) and this was when his back was really bad and I remember he was staying on the sunporch on the 2nd floor – just down the hall from my room (when we lived on the 2nd floor of that house). I remeber I woke up and my dad was on the floor in the hall calling me and I remeber something about socks, maybe he was throwing them to get my attention. And I remember he yelled at me cause he said he had been trying to get our attention for something like (i feel like) an hour. His back was seizing up and he had to go to the hospital. I had to call 911 and the ambulance came and the paramedics lifted my dad down the stairs and he was a big guy and I remeber they were having a hard time carrying him and so they keppt accidentally hitting the stretcher on something – maybe the stairs – and I remember my dad getting mad at them and saying something like “dont worry guys its not like I have a back injury”
I remember him being really mad
and i remmeber being really scared.
and i think we had to go and stay with our neighbours maybe Emilys mum or maybe Lee and the Dentist Vogul. I dont remember.
Christmas…
I remember I wanted a Magic Nursury baby for Christmas and I got one – but Christmas morning in the 2nd floor living room i remember just turing around from facing in on one of the beige love seats and opening my present and being happy but being too sick to be really care. and then i just rolled back. My dad was there for Christmas and i feel like he was sick too.
The basement…
I remember in grade 2 – i was in Mr. Plants class. andfor halloween (my favourite holiday) i wanted to be a running shoe. so my mom was awesome and let me we made these two giant running shoe shapes from boxes and i thik we used orange paper as the sole. and i think we spray painted it maybe in the basement…. i dont know but i remeber being in the basement trying on my running shoe. and we had ribbon that were the laces and they hung over my shoulders so i coudl walk around. I remmeber feeling really cool. it was the BEST costume EVER!
I remember we got hampsters once. Both of us. and they came in boxes with those wood shavings or whatever… i remember one time – one or both of them ran away and they got into the basement and we knew they were there cause they had eaten the dried corn that went on a sorta fall writhe that hung on our door.
TURTLES
i remember we also had turtles. i think we got them for free from someone. i think we had 5. I feel like they all died fairly soon. If i think hard about them i can remeber this feeling i had when i was looking at their tank as it need or was being cleaned in the kitchen on the counter. i remember wondering at them. Maybe we got them from Lee and the dentists maybe.
BRIEF THOUGHTS THAT NEED TO BE EXPANDED ON ABOUT FULTON AVE.
Shoes from Lee
Emily my neighbour, my best friend, the reason I came to know the Lord
Alisha babysitting
Pretty Woman and the Magnets on the VCR
Cheers – the last episode
Shea and Daniel – Living in my kitchen
Ross saying “I doubt it” about my pretty new blue shiny comforter and Shea’s muddy shoes
Leah through the lane.
The lawnsale – Bye Bye dolly
The Palm Tree Hair episode
The MACINTOSH computer – Playing Carman SanDiego
Grandpa bringing poli-sausage
Grandpa bringing GIANT chocolate easter eggs
Eating macaronni and cheese at the kicthen table
one of Matt’s friends saying he didnt drink juice with pulp
Skip it out front
Charlotte down the street
Kim saying that he grandma warned her that little girls so missing on their way to school – and bad things happen
my first time being allowed to walk to school by myself
going on the roof with Emily
Dennis’ white tennis shoes
Going to visit Dennis’ GF and her girls… Her name was Joan. They had a four seater louge swing.
Allie and Patrick – I was going to marry Patrick – Allies said she was going to be my sister in law.
Rosemary babysitting and teaching me the two princes song and also the “peace on earth – was all it said” song
the kids table at some family gatherine
watching thelma and louise with Jeremy and Brenda – I had to pee and it was one of the last scenes and Brenda took me.
Brenda gave me her “Royal Blue” feather down Gap jacket… it wasmy favourite and I couldnt wait until it fit.
Giant plastic Christmas bags for the Christmas we had in the downstairs living room.
Matt getting hockey equipment… again
Getty Merry and Marrietta
Doing magic nursury babies packages in the bathroom.
Shaving my legs for the 1st time in grade 5 – because Katie Mulrouney who was in grade 6 was like – I cant beleive you dont shave your legs.
Being sick and sitting on the floor of my moms room with a red pan.
My moms new black comforter with Pink roses.
Playing with my moms soft arms. Chubby mummy (innocently crushing im sure)
waking up late one night and finding my mom playing with my barbies… she was using them as models for some practical designes she had for her gerentology class. I remember her waking a wardrobe with little hangers… i stayed up and helped her and it was nice.
Completly Random Thought
If I was a lady in the Elizabethan Era I think I would have liked to be called Lady Whicksteed… it has a nice ring to it, and sounds classy.
and I would wear a summer dress and you would take me out to the beach or even just to hang around downtown, anything really – just as long as you were with me.
