It’s been almost a year since my last post and last time I recapped the year before. Instead of doing that this time, I thought I’d jot down some things I’ve been thinking about recently. I saw a lot of family over the holidays and it really got me strolling down memory lane. All from my childhood. Some memories are fun, some not so much, but I thought it’d be neat to write ‘em down and share them with the world wide web. Be warned that all of these are completely random and I’m just going to list them out in no particular order…
I remember …
- When I had to share birthday parties withmy brother. Our birthdays are a month a part, but we had one party and a giant cake that said “Happy Birthday Chiumo and Daisy”
- Going to Disney World. I’m not sure exactly how old I was, but I was little. I remember wearing a white shirt with a yellow ringer collar. I remember going through a tunnel with a bunch of colored lights and holding my Aunt Sai’s hand. I also remember being lost (Despite people telling me that never happened)
- Having to be a my parent’s restaurant from morning till night and my best friend there was the dish washer Arthuro. I had a orange plastic fish and he use to let me put him in the drain of the big dish washer and watch him go up and down with the water level. (I was sad when Arthuro left)
- Also at the restaurant, we had a customer who was a regular. She had a bunch of kids and they were all boys. She said she wanted to take me home with her and I was terrified of her. I called her Fat Teacher. (I don’t know why) I would hide in the back store room if I ever saw her coming up in the parking lot. I am still scared of her…lol
- Sometimes I would go to my friend Lisa’s house to hang out. Lisa had some friends that lived a couple houses down from her and we would play with them. One day for some reason we decided to have a war with them. I got in a fight with this girl Mimi. She was bigger than me. She picked me up and body slammed me. It hurt. I lost that fight.
- A lot of days I stayed home with my brother. My neighbor Deniss would honk the horn on her bike when she wanted me to come out and play. One day I was outside playing and my brother told me to come in and I didn’t listen. He got mad and punched his fist through the window.
- The first day of 6th grade I had to ride the bus to school. I had never ridden the bus to school before. But the bus actually stopped at my house cause I lived on the corner. That morning the girl who lived acrossthe street also came out to ride the bus. I didn’t know her name but we were both nervous about the first day of middle school so started talking and we became friends. We would hang out pretty much every day after that… but I think I didn’t learn her name was Robyn until about 2wks later. (Not cause she told me, but because I saw it on one of her papers)
- One day Deniss let me borrow her bike. (My parents never let me have one till I was like 16. I had a car by then) Anyway, I took the bike and rode it down towards Andrea’s end of the street. She was sitting on the curb with Crystal Young. Crystal let the air out of one of the tires. I walked the bike home in tears cause my feelings were hurt. Why did she do that?
- Speaking of bikes, one day Robyn and I decided to ride our bikes to Stop & Go. It had rained earlier and the rode was wet. We decided to race. When we said “Go”, I started to bare down on the pedals, but the bottom of my shoes were wet. My feet slipped off the pedals and I ended up flowing end over end over the handle bars. I flew about 4ft in front of my bike and scrapped up my knees. Robyn was cracking up and me being me didn’t want to show pain. I toughed it out and rode on to Stop & Go. When we got there I had blood soaking through my jeans and running out the bottom. I still have that scar on my knee. That was the same day our brand new big screen tv was delivered to the house. (Isn’t it weird the things we remember?) The box it came in was huge. Robyn and I played fort in it.
- Since my parent’s were always at the restaurant, Miko would pick me up from school. Sometimes the windows would fog up in the car when it was cold out. Miko use to tell me that I was fogging the windows up because I talked too much…lol
- The name of my parent’s restaurant was Jin Bo Restaurant. One day Wayne Dolcefino came in and I had to seat him. He asked me if I was “Jin Bo”…. I don’t like Wayne Dolcefino…
- My parents made me get braces for my teeth. In order for me to get them I had to have NINE teeth pulled out. I had them all pulled out in one appointment. I got 4 shots of novocaine (sp?) in the roof of my mouth. NOT FUN.
- When I got my braces off I had to wear a retainer (bottom and top). During band, I would take my retainers out and put them on the stand… GROSS!
- One day Andrea and I went to Target on Spencer in Pasadena. There I noticed this weird dude who was dressed in Atlanta Braves attire. After Target, we went across the parking lot to Blockbuster. While in line I noticed that same guy there as well. I told Andrea “I think we are being followed.” As soon as the guy’s attention was diverted I signaled to Andrea to head towards the door to leave. As soon as we did, the guy came running after us. We jumped in the car and sped away. I think we must’ve drove an extra half an hour before going home to make sure we weren’t followed home.
Alright it’s getting late and I’m getting tired. I’ve got a bunch more… I’ll jot them down another time. Nite Nite.