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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

I remember babysitting for a family that always wanted me to videotape "Law and Order" for them. I guess this was before you could set your VCR to automatically tape something. Anyway, the thing that makes me laugh is that I was about 15 at the time, which means that show has been on the air for 13 YEARS!
I remember getting sick one night because I ate WAY too many chocolate chip cookies made from Pillsbury's refrigerated dough. It took a long time for me to eat that kind of cookie again!
I remember watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" while laying on my great-grandparent's living room floor.
I remember a high school boyfriend dropping me off after our first official date. We were standing on my porch doing the "do we or don't we" awkwardness thing. We were 15, so his brother, who we double-dated with was sitting in the car watching us, and we (rightly) assumed that my little sister was watching us from behind the sheer curtain in our front window. He announced, "I feel like a sitcom," and kissed me, despite all the onlookers. I thought he was the coolest thing ever. Ah, high school love...we broke up about 4 months later.
I remember attending a Halloween frat party in college dressed as Pinnochio. I only had 2 glasses of the rum punch they were serving, but it must have been pretty strong. Luckily Jason was there to chase me home as I ran drunk down the streets with him yelling at me the entire time. I rememeber that he was fairly annoyed with my condition as he chased me home, but once we got there and I got out of my pinnochio get-up, he changed his tune entirely.
I remember attending a Halloween frat party in college dressed as Pinnochio. I only had 2 glasses of the rum punch they were serving, but it must have been pretty strong. Luckily Jason was there to chase me home as I ran drunk down the streets with him yelling at me the entire time. I rememebr that he was fairly annoyed with my condition as he chased me home, but once we got there and I got out of my pinnochio get-up, he changed his tune entirely.
I remember the chair that Katie and I referred to as the "torture chair". It was given this name because it was the chair that we sat in while we supervised each other calling up boys to ask them on dates. The torture chair did not bring either of us much luck.
I remember a girl named Liz that I went to school with. She was a pretty homely girl, and legend had it that her mom was very superficial and always on a mission to make her daughter look better. This legend was meant to explain why Liz's hair was always tinted green (we said it was because her mom dyed her hair too often.) Unfortunately, the green hair earned Liz the nickname "Lizard" when girls were talking about her behind her back.
I remember being a surprisingly good tennis player when I played on the high school team. Anyone who knows me now would deny the fact that I might have ever had any sort of athletic ability, but I swear, my doubles partner and I had winning records both seasons we played.
I remember walking from violin lessons at the junior high to vacation bible school at our church, carrying a violin case, in the Illinois heat & humidity of July. Nasty.
I remember answering an ad for a sales job. I went to the orientation to find out what the job entailed and decided through the course of the day that the whole thing seemed shady and not a company I wanted to be involved in. After the orientation, the boss called each of us individually into his office to hire (or not, I guess) us. When it was my turn, I told him that I didn't have a good feeling about this job and I wasn't interested. He was pretty insulted and spent a lot of time and energy trying to change my mind. It was one of the few moments in my life where I've been in a situation where I've wondered if the loose canon I was alone with was going to lose control of themselves. I had my weapon picked out, and my escape route planned.
I remember being in Chicago late one New Year's Eve. My boyfriend and I took the train back home and were stuck in a car alone with one very drunk man who kept insisting that he was a preacher and wouldn't it be fun if he married the two of us right then and there (I was 18). We spent the entire time politely fending off his offer, and hoping that he didn't turn belligerent.
I remember playing in the "Fun Band" at my grandparent's senior citizen's retirement trailer park in Florida. I was about 14 when we went out to visit them, and my grandma really wanted me to play with their band. I think I was given a tambourine or some such rhythm instrument.
I remember that my entire family loved Grandpa Ollie's homemade fudge. We would all stand around the kitchen while he cooked it, waiting for him to empty out the pan so we could all pounce on it with our spoons and scrape it clean.
I remember my dad attending the Indian Princess group with my sister and me.

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

I remember the first and only blind date I ever had. He was a guy named Soren, who tried to impress me with his musical knowledge of complex time signatures, and used a Sting song to illustrate said knowledge.

Saturday, June 05, 2004

I remember having to clean the castle in the Bourbonnais Children's Museum because I was the smallest volunteer, and the castle ceilings had to be less than 4 feet tall.
I remember getting thank you notes in the mail from people who saw me perform.

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