1993
I think it was January that her stepfather found out that we had slept together. This guy was a huge ex Marine. He wanted to have a talk, so one time when I went over for a visit, we went for a drive and a car wash on the corner of North Main St. and Westwood Ave, up the street in East Long Meadow.
I remember he said he was shocked that I came over to talk, but I didn't know that avoiding the conversation was an option. lol
He ended up giving me a left-handed bow at the time, we used to shoot bow and arrow at the Agawam Sportsman's club. So I thought that was awesome.
I wasn't big into fooling around as a kid, but my girlfriends always were. I thought that's what you were supposed to do. lol
Bill Clinton President
I don't know why I remember this being such big news, I really thought that he was gonna make a difference. his presidency ended up being a joke.
World Trade Center Bombing February 26
This was event, this is my first memory of any type of terror event happening in the United States or anywhere for that matter, I don't remember focusing on thinking about bombing or extremists back in the 80s or 90s.
June/July
I went to go see Jurassic, just my dad and I. I remember listening to that song Jump (for my love) by the Pointer Sisters, on the way the Theater in West Springfield, I remember being more interested in listening to my music, than I was talking to my father about the movie or dinosaurs at that moment.
Looking back I was super high energy at this time and I was not living in the moment. I think my Dad read the Jurassic Park books, he liked to read.
(It sucks, I wish I got to see the 2022 Jurassic Park movie with my dad, but he passed away from cancer before we could)
I think about this stuff a lot, I feel like it's more than I like to admit. Whenever I see a dinosaur toy that reminds me of the movies, a commercial or a novel, I feel like there always something to remind me of the past. I started writing this in 2025 and there was another Jurassic movie released to stir those memoires.
August
I signed up for football and even went to a few practices I believe. Then while camping at the DAR state forest at the end of August, I was running around with the rest of the kids, then twisted my ankle, after jumping over a log and landing on a rock that was sticking up at an angle.
I think this is the same trip where I was jumping on the trampoline and then an adult told us to stop jumping in the dark and I tried to jump and run off into the night, but I ended up totally missing the edge, I somehow landed flat onto the ground, knocking the wind knocked out of myself, then forced to get up and limp away as fast as I could before getting caught. lol I got away with it, but I'm not sure it was worth it, it was fun but it sure did hurt. lol
After that experience, I don't think I'll jump on a trampoline in the dark ever again. lol
After getting home my mom took me to the doctors and I was given an air cast, I'm not sure if I had signed up for football before I twisted my ankle or after, but I still played.
September
One time before football practice, a bunch of kids tried to "initiate" me onto the team and rip my underwear off, I Complained to the coaches and pretended that they cut my butt crack when they ripped them off.
I didn't have to jog during practice for the next couple days, I pretended that I had a scratch on my butt crack, but I was really feeling physically weak and pathetic. lol I didn't want to deal with guys trying to rip my clothes off in the locker room.
Football practice was brutal. I pulled a muscle in my neck doing pushups with my helmet on, I remember my right arm going numb after I got hit during a game, I felt so physically weak and pathetic, then we would play against teams and these other kids would be like gorillas, I was up against guys that were 100 to 200 pounds heavier than I was.
I was 150 pounds at that time, playing center for my varsity high school football team and I was a toothpick. it made me feel like this was not the sport for me. lol I always felt stupid inviting family members to my games, The team was terrible, I didn't feel like this was something that I was proud of and wanted to share with other people.
I don't even think I understood how the game of football was played at that point in time, I was just playing because I wanted to be a part of something, I don't think I cared what I was a part of and I know I don't care about football, I don't even watch it now. I only watch it when there are groups of people around, so I can socialize. Maybe I decided to play because my dad had played football in high school, but he had broken his leg at some point during practice or a game, then never got into any other sports in high school.
I was talking to April and Jen at this time, I remember how painful it was riding my bicycle over to the swings at Greenleaf and trying to pretend that my neck wasn't screaming at me. I loved riding that Huffy White Heat, that bike made me feel so inspired, I don't know if it was the speckled paint or it just reminded me of something futuristic. I even remember that it felt smooth to ride, and anyone ridden different types of Bicycles, will understand what I mean about the quality of a ride.
November
I rode my bike over to Tammy's and she was the yard with her family raking leaves. She had just gotten a haircut and it reminded me of my grandmother, she was upset because she looked thought she looked like a Q-tip, and I had the good sense to tell her that- it didn't look bad. lol I told her that she reminded me of my grandmother, then she said she was going to stick that rake up my ass. What I really meant was that her hair looked like she had gotten a perm, lol I didn't really mean that she looked like a 60 year old woman. lol
We rode our bikes her friends up the street after this, but I don't remember them being very sociable, These were not the dorks and geeks that I was used to hanging around with, these kids were a little rougher around the edges.
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