One time at our house in birdland, Kevin and I were shovelling in front of the house. We had these small, cheap red metal shovels with wooden sticks and a red plastic handles. Kevin must have been shovelling near me because he brought his shovel back and poked me in the eye. I remember crying and making my way up to the front door and that I was crying blood. I guess that Kevin just missed my eye.
I remember going to Dr. O'Neil's office before it was at Clarkston Medical Group and getting some stitches. I was laying down and I remember feeling something really cold touching my eye.

Back in the dizzay our family would drive up to Suttons Bay each summer.  Suttons Bay is just south of Traverse City, I believe.  That is where John and Derek lived.  They are Bill Conrad's kids and Bill is one of my dad's best friends.

I remember one year that we bought these toys from Kmart or something.  They were little hollow, round, squishy balls that had a hole in them so you could use them as squirt guns.  The strange thing was that they were faces of horror movie characters.  I had one of Jason from the "Friday the 13th" series and one of Freddie from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series.  I used to watch those movies a lot as a kid - disturbing huh?  But somehow the squirt guns were good clean fun.

I think that we lost the Freddie toy in Lake Michigan.

Back when I was in 10th grade I biked practically every day up to Kim Deacon or Ashley Halleran's house or to Music Master. I was growing my hair out and it was almost shoulder length. I wasn't quite a skater because I couldn't skateboard - I was what was called a poser.

Anyway, I was biking one day down Snowapple as I usually do and this G-Dawg yells out "Freak" to me. I took offense because I really didn't think I looked like a freak. I think I cut my hair really short that summer.

Atari is one of the greatest systems around.  Sure the graphics sucked, but the gameplay was one of the best.  Any of you new gamers who only play your XBox 360 definitely need to check this system out.  Get an emulator and download the 2 meg zip file of ROMS.

Many of my first memories occured while playing the Atari.  Sure nothing really happened but that was really significant, but kids just like having fun.

I remember playing with my neighbor Jason a bit.  I can even remember watching my mom play her favorite game, Mega Mania.  I also remember going over my uncle pauls and playing superman and spiderman in his basement.  In elementary school I remember going over to Chris Wade's house and playing Haunted House.  Riddle of the Sphinx is a game that my Dad used to play with us.  

I also remember shopping for them when the Atari was going out of style at KB Stores.

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In 5th grade our teacherMr. Kowalski asked everyone to create a new product and to market it on a commercial that we would star in. How ingenous was that??

My product was called "Crusty Crunchies Dog Snacks". I loved being creative and I had so much fun making this all by myself. I vividly remember the day we put all of this stuff together.

During the big day of the commercial shoot, I had Liz Grant go into a room and we came up with the commerical. It was baiscally a knock off of another commercial.

The rules for the shoot of the commercial is that you only get three takes. On my first take, the class laughed sooo hard and there was so much noise that I decided to try again. And yet again the class ruined it. The third time was a charm, but when I finished the commercial I turned my head and smiled, but totally missed the camera (SEE VIDEO)!! It was hilarious.

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