When I would go over my Aunt Patz's house, every single time I would leave I would ask for a glass of water with crushed ice.  We never had a sweet fridge like they had and it loved chewing on the crushed ice.

Apparently my grandpa Renne loved chewing ice as well and I still love chewing on ice to this day.

Now whenever I go over there, I do it just for fun.

I also remember one time lellel gave my brother and I all of his garbage pail kids to me and my brother for nothing.  He just didnt want them anymore.  When we were at the door... I am sure I was drinking crushed ice water.  My mom made us give them back to him.  I am sure he is happy that he got them back.

I remember my brother used to have this 7 1/2 ' long GI Joe aircraft carrier toy.  The thing took up his entire bedroom and we used to be able to stand on it.  It cost over $100 and was the envy of everyone who came over.  Definitely, check out the pic for this one.  We used to play with our Joes on that for hours.

I can't remember the year exactly but it was the year of my dad's high school reunion. One of his friends came from out of town and brought his kids. His daughter was a couple of years older than me. I think her name was Krista Birkelo or something.
I think Kevin must have been there and I think John and Derek were too but I'm not sure. We were all playing video games in my room. Through the course of the night, I fell in love with her. As a little boy, this happened to me a lot of times with a lot of girls; unrequited love with some random girl and dreaming of her for the next few weeks.
Anyway, nothing happened because I was just a little boy and she could not have possibly had any interest other than to be flattered. But afterwards I went around telling my friends and my cousins that we kissed. I think the lie grew bigger with time and some people were told that I copped a feel.
Well, nothing actually happened other than me maybe fooling some people for a few moments. . . . Read More..

I remember going to Ryan O'Connor's house when I was a kid. The only thing I can remember about it is that his house was in Birdland and that we used to play 8-bit Sega Master System at his house. I thought it was the coolest thing that he had that and I always wanted to go over there and play it. I haven't seen Ryan in years but I saw his brother Justin recently and he said that Ryan was in Seattle or something and doing well.

When Dan and Dave used to live in Waterford, there was this party store within walking distance of their house.  We used to walk up there all the time and load up on candy to eat as we stayed up all night playing video games.  On one occassion we went there and I don't know why but I stole some Bubilicious gum.  It is strange that I remember that to this day.  I can still see the interior of the party store in my head.