grizz3rd

1) There's this one that pops up now and then, and it's in my profile under my 'most humbling moment', but I think that I would have to go with my Father's rose garden in our first home. He made a maze-like pattern in the back yard, and the smell was overwhelmingly fragrant. There was a bird bath right in the middle, and I remember watching the birds drink out of it in the hot summer days. There are pictures of me standing in the middle of the garden, wearing a little pink dress. I remember it being SO large - the garden - but looking back at the photos, it wasn't that big at all. It just goes to show how big the world seems when you're small.

2) My Cabbage Patch doll. I loved to smell her hair. She had blonde pigtails made of yarn. I miss her.

3) Oh, yeah. I went to lots of summer camps, but I loved every one of 'em. (It'll be our little secret, but I even went to Band Camp...hehe). My favorite would have to have been H.O.P.E. It was an environmental awareness camp that was on Whidbey Island. I can't remember what it stood for, but it was an amazing camp! I did some serious soul searching at that camp, and I broke through some difficulties that I had to face growing up, such as dealing with an alcoholic father and a bipolar brother. We were there for a week at a time, and I met some really awesome people. I was really into the G.R.E.A.N. club, and stuff like that growing up.

4) My family lives in South Carolina, so growing up I always flew from Seattle to visit them every summer. I remember the summer that Hurricane Hugo hit, and I was there!! I was only 9 or 10, and I was sitting in a wading pool, you know the blow up kind...I know, those are for little kids. How stupid do you think I felt?!? Anyway, it was like 110 degrees outside, and the sky was blue, and all of a sudden, everything turned black, and the wind started to blow. I looked off in the distance, and there was this funnel-looking thing forming in the sky, and it was touching the ground. I'd heard of Hurricanes before, but I'd never been in one. I think I wet myself in that wading pool, and I went running and screaming back into the house. I never sat in a wading pool again after that...I was afraid of getting struck by lightning.

5) I would have to go with my Father because he was my inspiration. He helped mold me into the woman I am today. It was difficult growing up with him, and it wasn't until a year before he died that I was able to really get to know him, but he has had the most profound impact on my life to date, and I don't know where I'd be if it weren't for him. Luv ya, dad.

the reactions to my journal about the sg astrological signs has led me to a new theory: most of us mostly notice our own signs. interesting....