I just CAN'T GET ENOUGH
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lauralhmore on the 10 Things meme
Meaux
My mother grew up in the same house I grew up in. Her father, who was neither an architect, engineer, nor an electrician, designed the house and helped build it. His wife was a school teacher at Meaux Elementary and my mother was one of her pupils, eventually. My mom's road led all over but finally back there, with two children and one on the way. She bought the house from her mother, and I went to the same school that she did, in the same house. It doesn't even have a zipcode and was becoming suburbified even when I was a child. It's pronounced "Moe" btw. The school was originally the Tigers but by my tenure we were the Junior Patriots (high school of course being the Patriots).
Giving away things
We all saw Fight Club, but "the things you own end up owning you" means shit to you till you have to move any distance at all. Moving 3000 miles is all the more reason to become a minimalist. I sold my television and a few pieces of furniture, but the rest I gave to a couple of newly-graduating college friends. And I mean, I had everything, divan, bed, bookshelves, cookery, dishes, you know. I even gave away all my clothes that wouldn't fit, as well as my gerbils.
The Ex
Freshman year of college, my boyfriend told me he was thinking of getting involved with someone else that he never met. To make myself feel better I started fooling around with a friend of ours and didn't tell him. For a while.
Four months later I drove to my high school's graduation. My dating person couldn't make it, but the ex was there. I told him that I liked the new guy so much better and was finally happy. In revenge he called up my parents and told them we had had sex.
Siblings
I was the second child and had an older and younger brother when my mother went into labor, I was five and about to start kindergarten. I was hoping, oh how I was HOPING, that my new sibling would be a girl. So when my grandmother got off the phone and started singing, "It's a little boy blue, it's a little boy blue!" I was crushed.
HOT-LANTA
Atlanta was the closest city to Durham that actually had an arena. Well, ok, Charlotte and Chapel Hill did as well, but no one ever came there. So Thanksgiving 1997 - or rather the day before - we drove to Atlanta to see U2, then immediately drove back. Wow, that sucked. Same thing with BTE and PSB, really. Those two were both in smaller venues, we got pretty close in and could see the lead singers' sweaty foreheads. All three were very very good shows.
Meaux
My mother grew up in the same house I grew up in. Her father, who was neither an architect, engineer, nor an electrician, designed the house and helped build it. His wife was a school teacher at Meaux Elementary and my mother was one of her pupils, eventually. My mom's road led all over but finally back there, with two children and one on the way. She bought the house from her mother, and I went to the same school that she did, in the same house. It doesn't even have a zipcode and was becoming suburbified even when I was a child. It's pronounced "Moe" btw. The school was originally the Tigers but by my tenure we were the Junior Patriots (high school of course being the Patriots).
Giving away things
We all saw Fight Club, but "the things you own end up owning you" means shit to you till you have to move any distance at all. Moving 3000 miles is all the more reason to become a minimalist. I sold my television and a few pieces of furniture, but the rest I gave to a couple of newly-graduating college friends. And I mean, I had everything, divan, bed, bookshelves, cookery, dishes, you know. I even gave away all my clothes that wouldn't fit, as well as my gerbils.
The Ex
Freshman year of college, my boyfriend told me he was thinking of getting involved with someone else that he never met. To make myself feel better I started fooling around with a friend of ours and didn't tell him. For a while.
Four months later I drove to my high school's graduation. My dating person couldn't make it, but the ex was there. I told him that I liked the new guy so much better and was finally happy. In revenge he called up my parents and told them we had had sex.
Siblings
I was the second child and had an older and younger brother when my mother went into labor, I was five and about to start kindergarten. I was hoping, oh how I was HOPING, that my new sibling would be a girl. So when my grandmother got off the phone and started singing, "It's a little boy blue, it's a little boy blue!" I was crushed.
HOT-LANTA
Atlanta was the closest city to Durham that actually had an arena. Well, ok, Charlotte and Chapel Hill did as well, but no one ever came there. So Thanksgiving 1997 - or rather the day before - we drove to Atlanta to see U2, then immediately drove back. Wow, that sucked. Same thing with BTE and PSB, really. Those two were both in smaller venues, we got pretty close in and could see the lead singers' sweaty foreheads. All three were very very good shows.
