Oh, about the hanging toys: My family has a tradition of meaningful Christmas tree ornaments -- things that represent stuff in our lives that year. So, one year, my father did some skydiving. My mother mocked up a skydiving ornament, out of an action figure and a hankerchief and some string. But to get it to hang properly, the string has to go around the poor guy's neck, too. Oops.
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 11:22:29 am PDT #316 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jun 02, 2006 11:23:47 am PDT #317 of 10002
We used to make bows and arrows out of old bike innertubes and broomsticks. Actually had real arrows, though I'm not sure where they came from.
bon, just hope that there isn't a stupid-tricks allotment in life. So much easier to live this stuff down when you can say "I was only 5!"
bon bon - Jun 02, 2006 11:28:08 am PDT #318 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
bon, just hope that there isn't a stupid-tricks allotment in life. So much easier to live this stuff down when you can say "I was only 5!"
Ha! Right? I can't believe that I was so inhibited as a kid; I can believe I made it all back via the wonderful world of alcohol. It's just like being a kid again!
Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2006 11:30:12 am PDT #319 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In the never ending story of Sophia's cat-mauling, I just got off the phone with my Dr, and he is giving me 5 more days of anti-biotics.
You know, I don't really have any really good memories from childhood. I mean, I have memories, and I know I had fun, but I can't pinpoint anything from when I was under, say 11 years old. I did enjoy skiing around my neighbors fields, but I think I may have been older.
sarameg - Jun 02, 2006 11:33:19 am PDT #320 of 10002
It can't hurt to be cautious, Sophia.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 11:48:16 am PDT #321 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously, Sophia, you don't want to end up like my aunt!! (In the hospital on IV antibiotics for a really long time.)
Vortex - Jun 02, 2006 11:48:41 am PDT #322 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I remember how we used to jump off the porch roof into the snow when we lived in Kansas. It was after a blizzard, and there was 4-5 feet of snow on the ground. AWESOME.
libkitty - Jun 02, 2006 11:50:19 am PDT #323 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Unfortunately for my cousin, it was summer and there was no snow. Poor guy. Jumping off porches and roofs into snow is fun.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 11:54:07 am PDT #324 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Stupid Fossil won't let me order a watchband off their website -- they want me to send the whole watch in! Bleh. I guess I need to go to a department store, since the Fossil store didn't have the right size band.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2006 11:58:05 am PDT #325 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My main memory of those really cold and snowy winters in the late 1970s are of the whole family shoveling the damn driveway every two hours because the wind kept forming chest-high drifts.