- 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