A Week of Lists: Monday

Things I liked to do before I grew up:

1. Outfit my dolls in leaves and vines in order to pretend that they lived in the “jungle” which was really the backyard bushes.

2. Draw "bows" on everything… especially a stick figure (which I would also draw) named “Betty Rose Bow”… a name I created that incorporated all things appealing to me at the time... and sounded so wonderful to me that I repeated it often.

3. Eat spaghetti and meatballs, with my cousins at my grandmother’s house. (I would still enjoy doing this today if it was possible)

4. Make my older brother laugh so hard at the breakfast table that the orange juice (or milk) he was trying to drink would, instead, spew from his nostrils. (also at my grandmother’s house... but not something I would still enjoy today... well, maybe)

5. Wear ponchos and red velvet shoes… but not necessarily at the same time... although, I definitely was not against an ensemble that included both.

6. Pretend that my older brother and I were DJs on a radio station while we were listening to actual radio stations.

7. "Design" beach houses for another character I imagined named “Sandy Shore”… who was not a stick figure… but who also wore a bow in her hair.

8. Imagine scenarios in which I was being “rescued” by a handsome boy who had fallen in “love” with me… usually someone a grade or two ahead of me in school… strangely, the appeal of this did not extend beyond my eighth grade year.

9. Wear knee socks.

10. Wear my hair really, really, really short… usually after cutting it myself... unfortunately.