Every single 1st day of school for the year or semester, my mom would sing the "School Days" song to me to wake me out of bed.

"School Days, School Days, good and golden rule days.  Reading and writing and arithmatic, all to a tune of a hickory stick."

Although annoying when I got into College.  It always marked something new and exciting.  It was cute too.

The first days of elementary and middle school were probably the most fun.  I was always excited to see all my friends again.  What do you remember about your first days of school?

Things were always tough, you would have to learn all new lock codes for your locker and you would dread the teachers you got stuck with who had a reputation for everyone disliking.

I have a feeling that I might sing school days to my children because tradition is a good thing.

Back in the day, Garbage Pail Kids (GPKs) were the hottest thing. I remember that they were banned from school and I can't remember why. I don't know if it was because they were such a big distraction or if it was because they were so gross. Well, one day in the midst of they hype, my Dad came home with a whole box of 5th series GPKs! Kevin and I were so geeked. I think we got the whole set from that box. Sometimes Dad would come home with the coolest of surprises.

In 1985 I asked Santa for an Atari. I had played it at My uncle's house and some friend's houses. On Christmas morning, I received a Nintendo instead. I think I was initially disappointed because I had never heard of a Nintendo and I wanted an Atari. However, as soon as my dad hooked it up and started it, I was wowed. I remember playing Super Mario brothers and remembering that this was the arcade game I played last time we went to Florida. I distinctly remember dying on the first mushroom when I played for the first time.

My dad went all out, buying the deluxe package for the Nintendo. It contained R.O.B. the robot with the game "Gyromite", the gun with "Hogan's Alley" and "Duck Hunt" and two controllers and "Super Mario Brothers". You just can't buy a package that cool anymore. I was instantly hooked and I am still a gamer to this day.

I remember that we were the first people I knew to have a Nintendo and my friends wanted to come over to play it all the time. Way to go Dad!

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My First memory ever was at the greatest place on earth. Disneyland!

I obviously dont remember everything from it. But I do remember being at a parade at night.

I dont know why this sticks out to me as the earliest memory I have in life, but for some reason it feels the faintest and oldest one I have.

This could have been when we went to Florida and my grandpa Renne first met me. This was in 1983. It was either on this trip of the one in 1985 when I had my first memory.

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I have been thinking a bit about the things I used to do in my back yard at my house growing up. There is not one story that completely sticks out to be written as a full memory so I will try to bullet the things that happened in my yard so I wont forget some of the fun things that happened there.

• The first big memory that happened here was the time my brother fell off of the tree in the back yard. It was very early on in living at that house, maybe a few months after we moved in. He was in a cast for a while.
• We even had a second tree pretty much in the neighbors yard next to us that we would climb around.
• If you cut through the house be hind us a bit, you can get to this small little patch of woods where we used to hang out once and a while.
• One time near our shed in the back, a kid next door threw a large rock and hit my brother in the head. He probably got a small concussion or something. My dad was so furious and he

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