#43. Recall your favorite childhood game.

I don't have a specific game like hide and seek that was my favorite.  My favorite "game" as playing pretend with my brother and my friends.  I have very fond memories of Nick and me playing in our weird van shaped pop-up tent.  It was a blue and red van shaped tent that attached itself to my twin sized bed.  I remember we would pretend that the van was our home, kind of like the Boxcar Children books.  We used to put on a lot of plays (which explains why he's an actor now).  Unfortunately, I don't remember what any of our plays were about.  I do know that every time we put one on, I had to wear my bellydancing outfit that Aunt Cassie made for me.  Mom also told me about the time we had a wedding for my Poppels and Nick asked her, "smoking or non-smoking," instead of, "bride or groom."

And of course, I remember when Ashlee, Nathan and I used to play in their basement with Barbie dolls and the various other toys they had.  I made a Drew Barrymore Barbie by cutting off all of her hair and having her flash everybody (this was around the time she flashed David Letterman on national television).  We also had a Howdy Doody looking doll that we named Green Pickle Chimichanga-changa.  And the MC Hammer doll became MC Hammer Hammer, with an emphasis on the last Hammer.  We were and still are strange people! 

#1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.

I'm dog-sitting for one of mom's friends, so I figured while walking Peanut I could look for things on the sidewalk and in the neighborhood.  Here's what we found:

4 newspapers wrapped in plastic (which I picked up and put closer to their owners doors)

tons of Live Oak pollen (it looks like a cross between moss and a caterpillar)

a crushed Diet Coke can

petrified dog poop (I am nice enough to pick up Peanut's crap!)

dog paw prints embedded in the sidewalk

a mailbox shaped like a train engine

a mailbox with a roadrunner painted on it

4 unfriendly, barking dogs behind chain link fences

1 friendly dog running free in her/his yard

a yard that smells like baby powder

several houses with fake flowers "planted" next to mailboxes

#70. Do nothing

#37. List all of the places you've ever lived

This is going to be a short list:

Seabrook, TX (birth to 2 years old)

Joplin, MO (2 to 17)

San Antonio, TX (17 to current)

I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing that I've lived in so few places.  I would eventually like to move out of San Antonio.  I think I'd like to live in Austin for a while and then maybe venture out to Oregon.  It's so beautiful there but I'm not sure I could handle living in cold weather again.