Okay...really? About me. I've been wanting to do a whole story, but, one of my character traits is procrastination. SO...I thought that I would just roll with it and do it. Starting from earliest memotries to latest. Will be random thoughts, but, thoughts and experiences and memories, none the less.~I was adopted at 3 weeks old...Thought it was 9 weeks...have you read my blog?
~Original name was Barry...
~Ran over our own dog, Rags, and buried him in the backyard...
~KINDERGARTEN
~Took the bus to and from school...Benjamin Rush Elementary...
~Fell in love with the girl in the Cowgirl outfit, Shari Rolfes...
~Learned about the paper-cut by sliding the edge of a piece of paper across the bridge of my nose...
~Found my first best friend, Dusty Dial, he called me Shorty, and the friendship lasted until at least 5th grade. We were tight...
~Had a make-out contest on the way home on the bus with Me and Shari(see above) and Dusty and Kim Delaney...
~Don't remember who won...
~Started playing soccer with the Lake Washington Junior Soccer Association. I was on the 'Bobcats' and my coach was Harold Reynolds...
~1st GRADE
~Took the bus to school, but, walked home...
~Was in TOTAL love with my teacher, Ms. Shensky...
~Had a plan to whisper a secret into her ear and instead give her a kiss on the cheek...golden plan....never happened...
~Kicked a girl(Tammy Smith), at recess, got in trouble, felt horrible, never have I touched a girl in an angry way again...
~Wore a jumpsuit with the Sesame Street characters on it, that I cried, kicked, and begged my parents to buy me...wore it once and never again...
~Learned I was leaving Benjamin Rush and transferring to Ben Franklin at the start of my second grade year...
~Still playing on The Bobcats...
~2nd Grade
~Took the bus to and from school again...
~Ms. Toyogi was my teacher the first part of the year, but left to have a baby and Ms. Henry to over...
~Still on The Bobcats...
~Don't remember much about this year of life...
~3rd Grade
~Ms. Gerken was my teacher...
~Keri Mix was my crush, and that lasted aaaallll the way through elementary....
~Discovered some of the 'fritos' in my lunches looked like sleds...
~Still on The Bobcats...
~4th Grade
~Was in a 4/5 Grade combination class with Mrs. Nakagawa...
~Was is a love triangle with Kimberley Delaney and Julie Morgan...
~Had the hots for Dana Hayes, though...
~Keri, still untouchable...
~Todd Davis and I became pretty good friends...
~Decided to play the drums...
~Craig Novics(sp)...sometimes cool, sometimes a dick...
~Still on the Bobcats
~5th Grade
~Mr Perrigo, the teacher my Mom did NOT want me to get...
~Discovered a NEW best friend, Tyler Kopet...
~~Wiffle Ball World Series alternateing betwen back yards...
~~Wanting to go to his house JUST to play Space Invaders on his Atari...
~~Having the hots for one of his little sisters, Heather...(His Mom was hot, too)
~Got busted for chewing gum in class...petty, but, the way Mr Perrigo handeled it pisses me off to this day!
~Got into a fist fight with my other best friend, Todd, over a basketball at the end of recess...said he wasn't going to nark, but, he did...
~Keri Mix...asked me once in the gym as she stands in line behind me, 'didn't you wear that shirt yesterday?' I said yes, she said gross, and never have I done that again, I SWEAR!
~Still on the Bobcats...
~6th Grade
~Mrs. Matson was my teacher from HELL...
~I went up to her desk to ask a question, she poked me right in the belly button(in-ey) and it sent a volt of electricity right to the head of my penis! OUCH! WTF?
~Asked Tina Turner(her real name, anyone remember?) to be my square dance partner...discovered how DRY hands can be...gross...
~Watched Tyler take on Jeff Wright(Lillaburg) in the back yard of someones house just to be broken up and kicked out...was entertaning for a few...
~Dana Hayes broke up with Barry Davis and was pressured into asking her to be my girlfriend....she was to hot, couldn't do it....
~Thought Jacob Johnston was the COOLEST because his wide leg pants covered his WHOLE shoe...
~Ran for student council Vice President...I won!
~~Shari Rolfes, my kindergarten lust was President...
~Learned what a blowjob was...oooh, gross, why would a girl do that? little did I know!
~My new neighbor and eventually best friend moved in next door, Dave Roach...
~Still on the Bobcats...
~7th Grade
~New school...new meat(yeah, cuz I was a playa...)...Saw my 'Super-Chick'...Sundi Strietzel
~After a couple of months correspondance with a T.A., found out that Sundi 'would' like me to ask her out...'
~I finally found the courage and asked, 'Sundi, will you go out with me?' She said YES!
~She was in my homeroom class, her locker was about 6 or 7 down from mine and the ONLY time I talked to her was ON THE PHONE!
~Pathetic!
~Eventually, while talking to her on the phone, she said she had heard that the only reason I was going with her was so that I could get POPULAR!
~I broke up with her that night...'twas NOT true!
~Got high for the first time with Marc McClure and Dana Weitz...WHOA!
~Met and started getting to know Todd Green...
~Jazz Lab band is where I found the best drummer in the world...Todd!
~Still on the Bobcats
~8th Grade
~Seriously? I don't remember much...
~Summer after 8th grade...
~Summer Jazz Camp in Leavenworth, Mountain Home Lodge...Oh MY!
~Smokin' at the lower rehearsal space late at night, seeing someone comin' down and runnin' for the bushes...
~DON'T MOVE...Damn mosquitos...bite,bite,bite...
~Robbin' the Water Slide Park of many snacks...
~Hearing a bear grunt for the first time, scared the hell outta me, 'twas close...
~Still on the Bobcats...
~9th Grade
~Gary Evans had left Rose Hill Junior High and moved on to Lake Washington High...DAMN!
~Tom Wilson was the NEW Jazz(band) instructor...
~Jazz retreats and Poulsbo Jazz Festival. First time Rose Hill had lost that festival in many years.
~Missy Falkin was my new interest.
~Got caught chewin' tobacco. KODIAK! Suspended...
~'Slumber' party at Lance Timmermans. Snuck out of the house, went thrashin! No-Doz and weed don't mix...
~Stole MAJOR goods from the 'student store' the next morning(Saturday) during a Wind Ensemble practice...
~Got ratted on and busted and suspended.
~High School
~Honestly people, these years are really a blur...AND THAT SUCKS! My memories of High School are going to be all run together.
~Holy SHIT! Polly Belleville! I drooled over the thought of her for the next 3 years! It took me until my senior year to talk to her. Got to know her little sister, Amy, at a river rafting trip with Overlake Christian Church Youth Group.
~Hated High School! Loved skipping classes and seeing the teachers during lunch.
~Tried acid for the first time, at home, by myself, and started laughing at the local news.
~Finally aquired my Dad's 1969 Camero. Put it into a pole on State Street in Kirkland, April 30th, 1988. Damn, I LOVED that car.
POST High School
~Disneyland with the Bellevue High School Jazz Band(they needed a bassist and came callin')
~Two hits of acid while having freetime going on rides at Disneyland WHOOAAAA! (don't do drugs, drugs are bad...um-kay?)
~Flew back early to audition for 'Soundsation'(vocal jazz choir) at Edmonds Community College.
~Got into a cover band with my best bud, Todd, called Gemini Sky.
~Played one show in Seattle at a bar while we were underage.
~Enrolled at EdCC taking Soundsation, Jazz band, Music improv., and Music Theory.
~Met Scott Bensen at EdCC and he introduced me to Alice in Chains and Mother Love Bone, LIVE AT Oz in Seattle(last I heard it was DV8).
~Met Lisa Frost(sound tech for Soundsation) whose boyfriend was a singer in Soundsation.
~She liked me, I moved in and he moved out after finding us naked together.
~He moved back in, was okay with it(I know, very weird), Lisa and I were dating but the ex thought they were still an item.
~Got into a fight with the ex at a New Years Eve party(Dec. 31-Jan. 1, '89).
~The ex came to class with a black eye. Everyone knew what happened and who did it.
~Got re-aquainted with a 'church friend', Lori Lee. She had a 5 month old baby boy.
~TOM LEYKIS!! WHERE WERE YOU?
~The beginning of my life dating single mothers! AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
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~I have much more to go...do you really wanna know? Send me a message...I WANNA KNOW!
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~I WILL continue...it gets good later...
Ravid's first snow Part II
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