• climbing (and falling from) trees and finding secret bases in shrubbery with hatto
• watching hatto play crash bandicoot and hamtaro, and pretending that we were playing multiplayer pokemon
• playing pokemon co-op minigames with ayaka and miyabi
• iron beads and jewelery crafting with ayaka and miyabi
• parents giving me infinite canvas space to draw on
• playing bugdom on my aunt's blue imac
• playing with lego and pokemon figurines with my sister
• doing a whole magic show with my cousins to our mothers
• modifying our beyblades in lucy's backyard shed
• watching lucy play crash bandicoot and sims on gamecube
• thinking "god is dead" when lucy showed me a south park movie
• shouting along to 'blink-182 - I wanna fuck a dog in the ass' in toni's bedroom
• making mix tapes (CDs) with toni & courtney and being introduced to ACDC
• playing AoE (that came from a cereal box) with my sister with a ton of cheats
• going on lots of walks with courtney's dog. one time the dog escaped their back yard and made his way all the way to my front door
• getting to frequently visit courtney's big family, being introduced to runescape
• girl scouts with courtney
• my dad taking the family out to local towns frequently for a vacation
• fishing with my dad a lot
• my mother making our family a great lunch and dinner every single day
• the one time my mother was absent and my father making me ramen
• "helping" my mother make her banana bread
• setting up & playing minecraft alpha with my little sister
• our parents gifting my sister and i each generation of pokemon games as they came out
• getting to see and play with my big extended family during holidays
• being overpowered by ocean waves and feeling like i was gonna die
• getting to play dragonnest with my sister sitting next to me in my bedroom
• exchanging paper love letters with my cool crush in 6th grade
• my friend group turning up and reacting to the scheduled (as stated in one of his letters) event of me being kissed on the cheek by him after school
• being in a fun trio friendship with an extreme tomboy and an extreme girly-girl, and making our own website on piczo
• trying to tune cool emo layouts on bebo and myspace, others coming to me for layout help. we discussed it like serious men talking about crypto
• theorycrafting sims with rida
• my parents allowing me to have a cool flip phone and $50 phone credit which i would use all on habbo hotel
• not being kicked out of home when i ran a $600 internet bill after i reinstalled maplestory twice
• being temp. banned from using my laptop when i was discovered asleep with it in my bedroom because i was sneakily msn-chatting my crush at 2am
• being allowed to have emo fashion tastes and having the bathroom smell like burnt hair every day from using the hair iron