Taco Bell
The Sanlot
Pop Rocks
Sour Straws
and
My hetero life mate Erin
A recipe for a good night in. For the record The Sandlot is one of the greatest movies ever made. But that night made me really miss some things.
I'm not complaining about my life at present. I have 3 of the best friends I could ever ask for, I go dancing every saturday night, I'm 3 months and 19 days away from graduating high school, 3 months and 21 days away from my 18th birthday, I've got a job, a car that is "for my use" and a big comfy bed.
But there is a lot about my past that I wish i had held onto.
I miss living in Seattle. I miss weekdays with Cassidy and the rest of the Fab Four and weekends with my sister climbing trees. I miss my guardian angel Jetta. I miss getting a cup full of gummy bears for going shopping with my dad. I miss dancing on his feet. I miss friday night dinners with Grandma and Grandpa, I miss Grandpa reading me Winnie the Pooh until I fell asleep on his chest. I miss Grandma's mac n cheese and lemon meringue pie (not together of course) I miss climbing the wooden spider web at my dad's house. I miss my dad's roomates taking me and Rachel to Gameworks and hanging us by our feet off the porch when we switched their gum for pieces of soap, I miss running the dogs at marrymoore park, I miss how amazing it felt to sit on my dad's shoulders, I miss art projects with Aunt Susan, summers at the Daybreak Center Pow Wow, collecting sea shells at discovery park, and shirley temples at Casa Ya Betcha. I miss breakfast at the Honey Bear Bakery, walks at Greenlake, Bernie's Bagles, lemon chicken at Raja Malaysia and visiting my favorite Orangutan at the zoo. I miss beach trips on Widbey Island, seeing Titanic in the movie theater, making perfume that gave us allergic reactions and the monkey bars with Cassidy. I miss Stella's Pizza and friday night Pho. I miss fight night at PT's house, riding bikes in the alley, the homeless guy at texaco with the dog named Freeway Friend, my lesbian neighbors who let me eat all of their plums in the summer, playing sonic the hedgehog, and warm nights listening to PT play music on the porch with Debbie's kids. I miss mudbaths, pillow fights, trips to the Lewis and Clark Theater, and breakfast at Kettle's with Danielle. I miss days at Lake Tapps and the pool, making up dances, and weeks doing nothing with Erin. I miss Dan's barbeques, playing tetherball, and trying to keep up with my dad and uncles on hunting trips. I miss family camping trips at the Sinlahekin, taking pictures, making up irish accents, and swimming in the lake with Rachel. I miss basketball practice, and saturday morning games. I miss pizza parties and being undefeated for three years. I miss Mr. Wirtala's 5th Grade class, I miss riding bikes to Sids for sourpatch kids and water balloons, going to Frank Love to swing, I miss volleyball, soccer and karate, going to stipek on the last day of school, walking everywhere cause i had no other choice. I miss catching tad poles watching the hummingbirds, and picking blackberries. I miss going to a show everyother week, recognizing people from the last one i went to, being on capital hill late at night, flirting with merch guys, the feeling of the base moving through my whole body, mosh pits, and getting bruised. I miss talking to my sister for 3 hours on the phone about everything, locking ourselves in the room we used to share forever painting our nails and watchi 
ng the Cosby Show. I miss wednesday nights at Cassidy's house, sneaking her friends in, dinner at Yanni's, trips to Freemont to climb the troll, hot tubs and cold showers. I miss getting stoned at the lake, eating whole loaves of bread in toast with Sherece, falling asleep on Mac's floor with the boys around me, asian food for breakfast, snow days on my bedroom floor with hot choclate, horror movies and my two best friends, saturday nights at the skatepark getting drunk with people that cared about me, getting yelled at in korean for getting home late and plastered, all nighters on the phone with Sherece. Nights on the docks at Alki with a boy, cuddling and making out while trying to watch Pirates of the Carribean, football games dressed up, crew drives, days spent on white sand beaches, nights playing doubles ping pong with "Miami Vice" and "Jew Fro"and so much more.
ng the Cosby Show. I miss wednesday nights at Cassidy's house, sneaking her friends in, dinner at Yanni's, trips to Freemont to climb the troll, hot tubs and cold showers. I miss getting stoned at the lake, eating whole loaves of bread in toast with Sherece, falling asleep on Mac's floor with the boys around me, asian food for breakfast, snow days on my bedroom floor with hot choclate, horror movies and my two best friends, saturday nights at the skatepark getting drunk with people that cared about me, getting yelled at in korean for getting home late and plastered, all nighters on the phone with Sherece. Nights on the docks at Alki with a boy, cuddling and making out while trying to watch Pirates of the Carribean, football games dressed up, crew drives, days spent on white sand beaches, nights playing doubles ping pong with "Miami Vice" and "Jew Fro"and so much more.I don't necessarily want all of those things back, but i want the people and the feelings back. It's so weird how much life changes from year to year. I never really thought that I've changed a lot from year to year, but remembering what I used to do regularly and what I do now, I must have. I think I've changed for the better but why do I have to lose people to do that?
long but sweet.
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