I've decided to relocated my "Remember Whens" from my tblog, to here, on Diaryland. I probably won't be using my Xanga or Tblog accounts any longer, though I might just update them on occassion. So, here are the Angela Remember Whens, starting with one I just remember. =D
---I remember when I spent the night at your house, and, when we woke up, there was nothing to eat for breakfast. So, we decided to walk down to Brookshire Brothers, and the donut shop. After all, it wasn't -too- far, and it was a pretty morning. Well, we got to the donut shop without anything unusual happening. It was on the way back that the sky started to get dark. At first, it was only drizzling lightly, but, it started to rain harder. By the time we got back to your house, it was -pouring-, and we were soaking wet. My mom came to pick me up while my clothes were still in the dryer! hehe... So, I had to stay there, waiting for my clothes to dry. Funny stuff...
----I remember, being on the trampoline in my backyard, making up odd, childish routines to our favorite tape ever, the Spice Girls! -hums "Spice Up Your Life"- Those were good times. In fact, those were probably the best times ever. Thank you, for that Angela. I love you for that. Not in a lesbo way, though! -grins- I'm -so- not like that!
----I remember sitting in the backyard with you, Kelsey, and I, reading a fictional book about a witch and her spells. We cast spells on each other, 'member? That was somewhat funny, actually.
----- I remember, being in my house, with you, Cody, and all of your brothers, trying to decide on what game to play. I wanted to play Titanic. hehe... I'm still considering marrying your brother just so I can legally be your sister! lmao. The brings me to another memory...
--- I remember, sitting on the curb across the street from my house, and picking open the scabs from one of our own various/multiple small wounds. Of course, you know the rest. And from that day on, we've been sister, by blood, and by something much, much deeper. I don't care what anyone says; we will always be sisters
---- Oooh! Some funny ones, now, because I'm starting to get tears in my eyes. Remeber when you tried to teach Kelsey and I multiplication? You got so angry because we didn't understand. You did manage to teach us how the alligator eats the bigger number, though! I'll always remember you as 'little Angie', standing in front of the huge chalkboard in my playroom, and trying to instruct me on the more complex(well, they were complex at that age) aspects of math.
---- I remember... -giggles- when you told me that you had a twin, but that you had been born in America, and your twin had been born in France. That's not the funny part. The funny part is, I actually -believed- you! LMAO. That's something I will never, ever forget.
--- On a similar note, remeber when you told me there was an alligator in the pond behind your Grandma's house, and you rode it once? And I believe -that-, too?
---- Another one slightly similar. Remeber when we were obsessed with the movie Harriet the Spy? And so we decided to spy on people? And you told me that you had a 'spy teacher' named Dr. Pepper? I wanted him as my spy teacher, too, but you said I couldn't, because no one was supposed to know about him. You were such a deceitful child! -grins-
--- I remember climbing on the roots of the big tree in my backyard, pretending that we were mermaids.
---- I remember being completely annoyed by the next door neighbor, Joshua. Do you remember him? You can't -possibly- have forgotten Josh! -giggles- And then you saw him, years later, and he turned out really hott? Man...
---- I remember swimming in my pool, in the backyard, and my mom freaking out because you had to turn your bathing suit around.
--- I remember all the times you've walked with me, and stayed at my Granny's house to keep me company.
---- I remember when we snuck off to the creek, thinking that there was no possible way we could get caught. We knew that we would be in -huge- trouble, but we thought it was impossible to be caught. And then, a guy from the -newpaper- saw us crawfishing, thought it was cute beyond belief, and decided to take our pictures? And then our pictures ended up on the front page the next morning? -giggles- What a way to get caught!
--- I remember walking down to Robert's, once again, completely aware of how much trouble we would be in if we got caught. I bought Skittles, and you bought a Pay Day. We sat beneath the tree at Grace Lutheran, and invented commercials. We ended up getting caught. -grins- Go figure.
---- Oooh! Remember when we 'went adventuring' and ended up walking to my Granny B's house, 3 miles away from my house? And then, we got caught when my mom drove by? -giggles- We might not have gotten caught if I wouldn't have waved at her. Man, was I in trouble... We really need to go and see if our initials are still carved into the bridge(s)/fence. If not... We need to take another walk. -smiles-
--- Remember when we went down to the creek, at the very edge of my Grandpa's property? And we decided to go in it? In the summer? When the snakies like to come out? Luckily, we didn't see any snakes. -That- time. lol, more on that soon. We were just walking along, wading in the water, playing around, all that good stuff. -giggles- "THERE'S SOMETHING COMING OUT OF MINE!" Remember that? That was hilarious. I nearly fell off the tree that I was... erm, sitting on. It was such a cute frog, too! And then, you were going to swing on a vine, and you accidently -flashed- me? And you didn't realize what was going on, so you didn't even try to pull your bathing suit top up! LMAO. Well, we were walking in the semi-deep water, minding our own business, when I saw -it-. That... that... thing! It had a long snout, and really sharp, pointy teeth. I freaked out. Remember? And you told me it was a sand shark, and that it would probably try to eat my toe? -I- thought it was a baracuda. We found out later that it was a gar, but I still think it looked like a baracuda, more than anything. Anyways, back to the story. Man, some of these need a whole blog to themselves! Anyway... We both thought it was dead. So, I threw my gum at it. It didn't move. We turned around a big stick to get it with, so we could take it home. -giggles- We're so dumb. I love it. Well, we turned back around, and the water was really murky. When the water cleared, the -thing- was gone! We freaked out. I thought it was coming to get us, to eat our toes. I need my toes. =P That was a seriously fun afternoon. And then, on the walk back to my house, we saw the drunked cowboy that my Uncle left behind to drvie the tractor? hehe... "I'm going to heaven, in the mornin...." He sings really badly, but he was kinda hott. -grins-
--- I thought I would make a break between the "first creek memory" and the "second creek memory." Remember when we painted the guest bedroom in my house? You came over to help. We wrote our names all over the walls, and "decorated" each other, and each other's clothes. After that, we had to wash off. So, we decided to go the pond. -giggles- It turned into mud wrestling. My first mud wrestling experience ever, and I lost horribly. -pouts- Well, we'll just have to do it again so I can -beat- you! OMG! We're repainting the guest bedroom again, and I'm going to force you to help. But, anyway, we ended up literally -covered- with mud. Mom wouldn't let us into the house until we were hosed down! Now we just have to try Jello wrestling! -grins-
--- Now, for the "second creek memory." Being the dumb-a's that we are, we decided, that even after our run-in with the baracuda/sand shark/thing, we were going to go back to the creek. Everything was going fine, we walked really far down the lake, far past my Grandpa's property line. Everything was going fine, until we passed by this big dam-type thiingy. I heard something slithering in the leaves, so I glanced over just in time to see a black moccasin disappear. That freaked me out. I told Angela, and we decided to turn back, suddenly really apprehensive. We had walked back a little way, when we both heard something on the bank. We glanced over in time to see -another- black moccasin. This time, it slithered into the river, and started to -chase- us. I'm not FiretrUCKING kidding, peopple. You have no -clue- how freaking fast a black moccasin can move in the water. Especially when it's -after- you! Angela shoved me, to get to move, and I started to run. I tripped on an effing rock. When I fell, I thought I was dead. I seriously believed that I was never going to get up again, that the snake was going to bite me, and that I was going to die in the creek. Angela didn't seem to think the same way. She hauled me onto my feet, yelling, "GET YOUR EFFING ASS UP, KATY!" She was behiind me, so she was actually closer to the snake than I was. I ran. I seriously hauled ass. It was a struggle, running in water like that. Then, Angela tripped. I thought she was going to die. But, she got up, and we kept running. I ran until I fell. The snake didn't get either of us, it had disappeared. Needless to say, we were pretty scared. We walked back to our "tanning spot," saying prayers and singing hymns. lol. We got back to the tanning spot, and just sat there, not knowing what else to do. We did -not- want to climb back up the grassy, leafy, steep, full of snake-hole hill that led up to my Grandpa's property. So, we were stuck. We sat there, talking about our lives, both convinced we were going to die. We lamented over the fact that we had to die virgins, and decided that if we did live, we were going to call Terrel as soon as we got to the house. -giggles- That would have been truly hilarious. Angela said she saw a big, brown snake on the other side of the creek. I thought she was going crazy; I only saw sticks. About ten minutes later, a -HUGE- brown snake slithered through the water on the other side of the creek. I screamed. She was very smug about it, after all, she had been right, and I had been wrong. We looked over at the other dam-type thing, the place we had to pass if we wanted to get back to a trail that would lead up straight up the hill, to a pasture. It was -crawling- with snakes. Seriously. You could see them winding in and out of it. It still gives me goosebumps, I had nightmares about if for a long time after that. Well, we survived, of course. I'm so thankful for that. It made me realize what a gift life really is. There's nothing like almost dying with a person. It brought me closer to Angela than I ever thought I would be. And there's no other person I would have rather been down there with.
--- Now, on to better, somewhat less frightening memories. I remember when we watched "The Ring" at your house, because I wasn't allowed to watch it at my own. It wouldn't have really been scary, except for the fact that someone was trying to break into your back yard! And then Steve didn't believe us! Duchess did, though!
--- I remember when we went to the All Night Skate, and it -sucked-. Completely. So, we decided to leave at 12:00, midnight, after paying fifteen dollars to get in. We had your brother pick us up, and we went back to your house, and played Tetris. Your brother and Cody, who were also at your house, were joking around. They asked us if we wanted to go for a drive. We both thought they were kidding. They weren't. So, we went outside, and drove around the neighborhood at 90 mph in Cody's car! Then, we did a 360 at the Grace Lutheran playground. After that, we each got to drive. Then, we went out on the back roads, drove to goodness only knows where, and almost raced some dude in a sports car! That was so much fun. Kinda scary, really thrilling, and so much fun.
--- Ah. I remember when we decided to walk to Filbert's house. Your brother didn't fall asleep until 2:00 in the morning! So, we snuck out of the back door, and started walking. You made me paranoid by making a comment on how you wished you had brought a knife when we passed the ghetto. We got kind of lost, and didn't know which street Junior's house was on. So, we wandered onto Dark Street. Aren't we intelligent, venturing onto Dark Street in the middle of the night? It was creepy, too, because there was a guy outside with a chainsaw. The road was a dead end. He started the chainsaw, and spark flew off of it. We -ran-. When we finally did find Junior's house, he wasn't home! So, we started the walk back. When we passed the donut shop, it smelled like donuts, and we were hungry. So, we decided to wait there until they opened. They opened at 5:00, and we got there at maybe 4:30. So, we sat in the parking lot of Brookshire Brothers, just waiting for the donut shop to open. They never did! We got so pissed, because we were there until 5:30, and they didn't open. I still think we should complain. We finally got back to your house, snuck back in, and collapsed from sleep deprivation at 6:00 in the morning. -grins- It was awesome.
More coming in the next entry!