Tuesday, January 26, 2010

   Trip down memory lane (it's a long road, feel free to change lanes if you want)

Hi everyone! *hugs*

Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post! *hugs you all* I loved reading all of your theories on 'wisdom' teeth ^___^ Makes me feel a bit better about it all (Oh, and Nana-san? I meant to reply to your comment on an earlier post- feel free to call me 'Deb' ^__^ Kitten is fine too. Truthfully, as long as it isn't 'hey you' I really don't mind XD)

Actually, that reminds me of a story. (Lol, sorry, I'm afraid this post may just end up being a string of random thoughts.) Anyway, there's a reason that I chose the username 'Kittenlark'.

When I was little, I did NOT understand my baby brother at ALL! I was the youngest of three girls, so to have a boy around was weird. One of the stranger things about him was that once he was a toddler, he really didn't seem to be able to remember ANY of our names!! He would literally talk to us by saying 'hey you'. It drove me crazy (I was only about six or seven, so I guess it was a bigger deal to me back then)

Well, one day I was playing with him and for some reason I was pretending to be a dog. You know, like crawling around on all fours and barking at him. He *loved* it and went along with it quite willingly...

And from that ONE game, he started calling me 'Puppy'. Not just the day of the game, but from that point on I was 'Puppy'. Cute, right? I didn't think so at the time ^^;;; It was mainly because (outside of that ONE game) I was *terrified* of dogs. The animals that I really liked were kittens and birds. So, I wasn't too thrilled that my little brother was calling me 'Puppy'.

LOL, the story doesn't end there (you really don't have to keep reading this. I'm just feeling exceptionally random right now *hugs you*) You see, my sisters started to realize that my brother was calling me 'Puppy'. And they were slightly jealous *^^* They didn't want to be known as 'hey you', so my sister (the one who is presently married) decided to try what I did.

She was probably thirteen at the time, and she went down on her hands and knees and started acting like a cat so that she'd get an animal name too!! LOL, well, you'd think that would work, right? Wrong. I still remember the scared expression on my little brother's face (scared of cats and not dogs? Or maybe he was just freaked out because usually she was WAY more 'dignified')

Well, I convinced him to pet her and she became known as 'Kitty' to him (Yup, she was known as 'Kitty' and I was known as a dog... I think it's cute now ^^)

The best part was that our oldest sister was a bit of a hermit at the time (couldn't stand being around us 'kids') ~.^ So we convinced my little brother to call her 'Bear'.

So, the three of us finally had names (even our friends who would visit made sure they had an animal name. One was Ducky, another Rabbit and I think one was Horsey)

Anyway, eventually my brother grew out of those names and started remembering real names. But he still remembers our animal names (and one of our friends who we don't see anymore, he still remembers her as 'Ducky')

Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, why I chose 'Kittenlark'. I like animal names. Wow, I could have just said those four words and summed this whole thing up. But, I didn't ^__^ *hugs whoever is still here*

I don't know why, but sometimes random stories like that will pop into my head. ^^; Anyway, back to the present, I'm going to be trying to post a bit more regularly and I've been around off and on commenting. My minds been a little .... I can't think of the word, lately.

I know I shouldn't, but I keep thinking about last year. In about two days it will have been exactly a year since the accident and I won't lie, it's been on my mind quite a bit. BUT, I REFUSE to let it freak me out! At least, no more than it already is. So, I've decided that for every bad thing that happened last year, I'll try to do something fun, happy or at least neutral thing on the day *this* year!!

That's one of the reasons I plan on posting more this weekend ^___^ You all are a HUGE part of the happy memories from last year and I'm sure the memories still to come *hugs tightly*

Oh, and *random* I found out that a singing group I like is coming out with a new song on Thursday, so that has me excited too ^___^ Have to focus on the positive ^___^

Anyway, you've suffered enough. XD I have no idea how long this post really is, but I've been noticing a lot of time passing as I type it.

Questions-

1. Do you have a favorite animal?
2. Would you want someone to use an animal name to refer to you? (that came out jumbled up, hope it makes sense)

my answers would be-
1. Yes. My *favorite* animals would be birds in general (except blue jays) It's for sentimental reasons almost more than anything else. That's another story though ^^ Not quite as happy, so I don't want to share it now.
and
2. Birdbrain? I don't know. I'm not sure I'd want to be called a bird... Puppy and Kitten are cute, but Bird? Seems strange to me...

Anyway, thank you so much to anyone who actually read all of this! *hugs again* I'll be trying to post pictures of the baby choir gown I made in the next post (I'd do it now, but I don't remember how my brother made it work last time, so I've got to get his help ^^;;)

I hope all of you are well and staying a whole lot warmer than it is here!!! <3

Take care!

Have a great day!

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