Okay here is my fifty memories/events :-) Please remember that many of these occurred in my YOUTH, misspent, etc. Thank you
Anoisblue for the idea and the challenge.
1. I cracked my chin open 6 times as a child.
2. I have lived on the streets of both Seattle and San Francisco.
3. I have survived having six parents, two moms and four fathers.
4. I have moved 50 times (at last rough guess) all before the age of 16.
5. When I was four I watched my mom turn a trick through a bedroom keyhole.
6. I smoked crack with three black transvestite prostitutes who were all size 1's.
7. I worked 10-12 hours a day selling flowers on a street corner in Sacramento when I was 14.
8. I gave a baby up for adoption when I was 17.
9. I graduated from High School with honors even though I completely missed the bulk of 3 grades. and won the graduating classes "special honor" for history.
10. I've been to a real biker party.
11. I have white water rafted in 4+ water on more than 8 occasions.
12. At a party when I was 13, a girl OD'ed on heroin. I was the third person to see her body in the bathroom.
13. I won the ACES Invitational "Best In Show" for poetry and creative writing in high school.
14. I breastfed my son until his third birthday and I think it was one of the best things I've ever done.
15. I camped out in front of the federal building for 5 days at the beginning of the "Gulf Conflict."
16. I was the President of the Gay and Lesbian Youth Association of Los Vegas, even though I consider myself predominantly heterosexual.
17. I stole a $115 hat from Nordstrom's.
18. I hung out with Jimmy Cliff before and after one of his shows.
19. I sold communist newspapers in front of the Pike Place market when I was 16.
20. It took a 10-year block of sobriety for me to figure out that I wasn't my parents and although I am plenty OCD, I'm not an addictive type of person .
21. At the age of five, I carried a loaded gun and shoved it into a woodpile nozzle first as a favor for my aunt who was high on something and wanted to hide the gun from my uncle.
22. I discovered a dead body on a street corner while tripping on mushrooms with two climbers from Colorado and a girlfriend.
23. I married a girl in a neo-pagan ceremony.
24. I once had a six-foot boa shit all over me.
25. My father kidnapped me when I was five.
26. I was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz when I was in third grade in the school play.
27. I went to bars on a regular basis as a young teen.
28. I have been mistaken as a prostitute while walking to school along the "strip" in Los Vegas.
29. I am an NSACA endorser.
30. I almost drowned when I was 8 in our apartment swimming pool.
31. I threw a cat off our balcony when I was two. (Don't' worry it survived).
32. I ate pork for the first time when I was 13.
33. I saw the Grateful Dead for the first time when I was 6 weeks old.
34. I have lived communally.
35. I once hung out in a tee-pee in the middle of the woods for over a week
36. I've been chased by a pissed-off bull.
37. I kept the Sabbath for most of my childhood.
38. I have checked my mom into a mental institution on more than one occasion.
39. I have had 4 sinus surgeries.
40. I gave birth naturally, twice.
41. I am a certified parent educator.
42. I went to college for six years and gained an ECE degree but never a BA.
43. I have worked for the school district for 12 years.
44. My best friend killed himself three years ago.
45. I was the star witness in a crowded courtroom case when I was 6.
46. I have an intense fear of flying that requires medication when I travel.
47. I have lived with a man twice my age.
48. I have run from police, twice.
49. I have been stuck in a car with a crazy person high on crystal meth. while going over a snowy mountain pass.
50. I have attended six births as a labor support person.
Wow, all that therapy and medication has really paid off! This was a cool excercise. I kinda breezed through it, so I'm sorry if it's a bit jumbled. I'm remembering all kinds of things now. I may have to do a part 2 sometime.