- climbing (and falling from) trees and finding secret bases in shrubbery with hatto - watching hatto play crash bandicoot and hamtaro, and pretending that we were playing multiplayer pokemon - playing pokemon co-op minigames with ayaka and miyabi - iron beads and jewelery crafting with ayaka and miyabi - parents giving me infinite canvas space to draw on - playing bugdom on my aunt's blue imac - modifying our beyblades in lucy's backyard shed - watching lucy play crash bandicoot and sims on gamecube - shouting along to 'I wanna fuck a dog in the ass' in toni's bedroom - making mix tapes (CDs) with toni & courtney and being introduced to ACDC - playing AoE (that came from a cereal box) with my sister with a ton of cheats - playing with lego and pokemon figurines with my sister - doing a whole magic show with my cousins to our parents - going on lots of walks with courtney's dog. one time the dog escaped their back yard and made his way all the way to my front door - getting to frequently visit courtney's big family, being introduced to runescape - girl scouts with courtney - exchanging paper love letters with my cool crush in 6th grade - my dad taking the family out to local towns frequently for a vacation - fishing with my dad a lot - my mother making our family a great lunch and dinner every single day - the one time my mother was absent and my father making me ramen - helping my mother make her banana bread - setting up & playing minecraft alpha with my little sister - our parents gifting my sister and i each generation of pokemon games as they came out - getting to see and play with my big extended family during holidays - being overpowered by ocean waves and feeling like I was gonna die - getting to play dragonnest with my sister sitting next to me in my bedroom - being in a fun trio friendship of me, an extreme tomboy, and an extreme girly-girl, and making our own website on piczo - bebo, myspace, habbo hotel - my parents allowing me to have a cool flip phone and $50 phone credit which i would use all on habbo hotel - being allowed to have emo fashion tastes and having the bathroom smell like burnt hair every day from using the hair iron - theorycrafting sims with rida