For my 8th birthday my mom caved in after all the bugging and had a small birthday party for Dan and I. Our birthdays are relatively close to each other, so we combined the party, half Dan's friends and half of my friends.

To start we had to purchase supplies. We went to toys r us and got all the fun little plates and whatnot. We also had to get food and cake as well.

From the looks of it, it looks like we invited Nick Caputo, Noel and Kevin Stalker, Scott Vogt, Jason, Chris Smith, and Blake Peters. We had a lot of fun that day. I remember playing foose ball downstairs and playing video games. But not a whole lot more. Mostly just being a kid goofing off.

But theres one thing I remember of this most was that my mom was not happy about spending 50 dollars on all this stuff. We didnt have much money growing up and this was asking a lot it seemed when I recall her putting stuff away at the counter of Toys R Us. It totally didnt affect me as a kid (even . . . Read More..

Speaking of random memories (lellel)... heres one...

Back at the hendricks house, my brother Dan and I used to have these blue metal shades on our window.

These were of super poor quality and I distinctively remember the shattering noise you would make when you would close them.

As well as the noise made when the wind would hit them.  Many times we would be goofing off and would run into them, thus bending the crap out of them.  They probably lasted me a good 10 years or so.  Just looking through old photos helped me remember them.

On my window sill I used to keep various banks and cars.  I also put my pinewood derby car on there too.  Pinewood derby is an event that boyscouts and cubscouts do to make their own cars and race them down a ramp.

Other things on my window sill were these dead sea animals that my grandma gave me.  One was a shark, one was a starfish and the other was an octopus.  They were preserved in this blue . . . Read More..

This one time a bunch of band people played some full contact football together.

We had done this in the past at Burt Elementary School Playground

When I was a freshman in College I met a girl at media play (a entertainment store that was later bought out by Best Buy). 



I purchased a dorky movie (Final Fantasy: The Spirits within) and had a
great conversation about video games and final fantasy with this red
headed girl.



She was cute and for sure fun because she likes dorky video games and all.



I got her phone number and we had like one conversation for an hour or so.



But soon I heard from people (not sure who exactly) that she was a
married woman.  She was ONLY 18 years old too.  In fact, she was
married to my friend Ryan Morency.  Obviously they later divorced. 



But I just was shocked that a married woman was pursuing me and I was
pursuing her as well.  We went out once and played pool I think.  I
recall just never calling her again after I learned of this thing.



Ryan, if you ever read this, I apologize and never knew she was your
wife.  I think it was close to the end of your . . . Read More..

One time in our AP Biology class, our teacher Mr. Mandley had us discect a cat.

I am sure this is nothing new to most high schoolers and I guess this is a common memory among people going through school.

But I guess I will just explain some of the things I remember just for my own documentation of what went on.

We all gathered in groups of 4.  My group was Millicent , Jessika , and I cant even remember the 4th person that was in our group now.  I think it was another guy.  He was kind of in one of those other clicks if I can remember right.  He even used to play this Neo Geo handheld a bit in class.

Anyway, we got our corpse of a cat and we named him Quequog.  (After the character in moby dick).  Our cat wasnt just any old cat.  This fucker had the most obscure and large organs as well as skin that is as tough as a pigskin football.

We first had to skin the fur off of it and that I can recall took an entire class period.

The rest is just . . . Read More..