Band Camp was tons of fun for Dan, Dave and I. Band Camp '96 was a great time cause that was the first time love bloomed between one of the Renee boys and I- Dan (Dan the man is what my family still calls him). I remeber having an awesome cabin of girls and we'd sneak out everynight and smoke cigarettes because we were cool. The guys used to sneak over from their side of the camp and hang out with us. Dan and I just kind of fell right into, I liked him and he liked me, there really wasn't any discussion. Unfortunately it didn't last long because of stupid Kim, my best friend, and her green envy issues. And I was easily influenced by her, so of course I turned into a bitch and we broke up. I was saddened for a long time about it. Then I think Dan started dating...shoot I can't remember her name...Melissa Bugg that's right. I was PISSED. It was my own fault though. Young love, full of mistakes. But we got over it, and no matter how far apart we are he'll . . . Read More..

After my parents divorce, they got back together after about a year and were basically a little bit of a cute joke within the extended family cause they would always say "Oh yeah and bring the boyfriend."  So eventually my parents plan this huge trip out to Vegas to get remarried on what would have been their 25th anniversary had they stayed together.  We brought a ton of our family from both my Dad's side and my Mom's side and everyone who wanted to go was invited.  This is the one trip that I can honestly say that my parents went all out in.  I love family trips and hope to have a big one overseas someday.

I remember waking up butt early because my mom had to get to the airport 3 hours early before our flight.  I remember Dan and I playing a couple of classic old school games on his laptop in the airport.

Once we arrived in Vegas we checked in and wandered around for a few hours.  We had lunch at a . . . Read More..

I remember when my brother and I were playing basketball with the guys and we were all pretty competitive. My brother was being a little bitch on defense and was pissing me off. I got so mad I just all of a sudden punched him in the face. All of a sudden his eye was bulging. I could not believe I actually did that! Wow, I was a little crazy. I guess I just got him back for when he punched my teeth out when we were little. His black eye was crazy. I felt really bad. Looking back on it, it was just good old brotherly love.

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.