16.7.11

Dear Aaron Carter, I want your candy...

THINGS I MISS FROM MY CHILDHOOD:
  • Coloring my hair with sharpies in a cabin during the fall retreat.
  • Thinking it was ridiculously cool to walk around in pajama bottoms 95% of the week, while carrying a giant yellow Carhartt boombox on my shoulder.
  • Pretending body pillows were canoes from Pocahontas, and thumping down stairs (AKA waterfalls) until my body couldn't take it anymore.
  • Thinking that I had my parents so fooled by having my Dixie Chicks cd in my walkman, when I was really listening to the radio playing Blink 182 and 50 Cent.
  • Turning cardboard boxes into airplanes and pretending to fly around the world like Amelia.
  • Sneaking out of service and sitting in the church elevator with stolen wafers from communion.
  • Lying on Leah's top bunk, which was 5 inches away from the ceiling, and discussing all of the boys she liked based on the colors of the clothing they wore most often, because I couldn't keep the names straight.
  • Making seating charts before movies so we all strategically and sneakily wound up next the males we had crushes on.
  • Bulleted ListSpending all of our designated Lunch Money, given to us by our parents, on DDR and Cinnabon frosting at Oakland Mall.
  • Playing Mario and Pretty Pretty Princess at Debbie's house till wee hours of the morning.
  • Whooping Lloyd's butt in the epic Kid Survivor VBS by standing on one foot for over 15 minutes while being sprayed with a super soaker.
  • Going out to eat with my parents on pay day and rotating who picked which restaurant we would grace with our presence.
  • Choreographing dances to BSB's "Bad Boy" and Aaron Carter's "I Want Candy" with Jenny in her driveway.