catherine_street mon uow victoria 050325 ... mon uow i called it the junkie house. 050325 ... mon uow a beautiful old victorian heritage house 050325 ... mon uow it was big and sunny 050325 ... mon uow i remember getting my new room, a big new room to share with my sisters needles in the closet, and studded leather clothes and things the closet getting cleaned people saying 'junky' and 'junkies' and junkie house me thinking yeah what a bunch of junk, glad it was getting all cleaned up... being told what 'junkie' meant... 050325 ... mon uow riding around the neighbourhood in the car, my parents giving us all the tour the lights of the legislature 050325 ... mon uow the price is right cereal, corn flakes, oatmeal 050326 ... mon uow 1987) 050326 ... mon uow sneaking off to the store with my older brother and sister and chickening out halfway there, letting them go on ahead up the road without me, crying walking back home, deciding to investigate on the way an old schoolbus, like the one my family had had, parked along the side of the road, looking inside, finding some older kids doing something taking off from the scene, crossing the road, a kid on a bike, talking to him asking me if i was new, him talking about glue getting in trouble for sneaking off to the store, even though i didn't get to the store getting in trouble for talking to a stranger, me arguing that he was another kid just a bit older 050326 ... mon uow staying inside 050326 ... mon uow the little doors, 'secret passageways' between the rooms, from a long gone time when almost every house had chinese servants 050326 ... mon uow playing, hiding, under the floor in the upstairs hallway, a carpet, loose boards, a crawlspace, flashlight and archie comicbooks being found 050326 ... mon uow the wonderful wood floor in the den and dining room, sliding and dancing around on it in my sock feet, tugging and being tugging around on rugs and rolling around laughing 050326 ... mon uow helping order pizza, waiting, and greeting saying "are you sure it's hot" just as a joke because it was always hot not eating my crusts 050326 ... mon uow visting my parents at their new office they were renovating watching cartoons and electrolux videos being taught how to draw a cute and funny looking dog by a salesman my mom had hired 050326 ... mon uow always_free 050326 ... mon uow saying goodbye to my mom she was going to toronto 050326 ... mon uow playing hello operator 050326 ... mon uow making tea 050326 ... mon uow finding the baton in the storage space under the house, learning how to twirl it playing in the backyard 050326 ... mon uow chinese food 050326 ... mon uow visiting my mom in the shoppe she was working in as a second-job loving looking at all the shawls and sweaters and jewellery, hearing about how they were made and who made them in south america all the wonderful dyes getting a little brown sweater playing with the shoppe-lady's son aaron in the loft above the boutique, eating yogourt with him and taking a nap, saying goodbye when we woke up 050326 ... mon uow playing with the candles at the greek restaurant, nice wind coming in through the open doors, eating spanikopita and baklava, getting mints from the greek guy 050326 ... mon uow kittens in the drawer, the cat had hidden to have them, i found them 050326 ... mon uow my dad taking my brothers and sisters and i to the nearby schoolyard one day, it was empty and felt unwelcoming with all the cement, but there were slides and i got to play, but then we had to go home, and i was told not to sneak off back to the schoolyard alone 050326 ... mon uow my dad never taking me back to the schoolyard not sneaking back there but running down the road and finding salt water, a beach being found by my brother and sisters, getting told not to go there, but going back anyway a couple times feeling scared by neighbourhood kids, running home 050326 ... mon uow my older brother and sister telling me they were robots, me believing them and getting scared and hiding in the backyard tree finding caterpillars on the leaves in the tree, collecting them all in my skirt putting them in one of the drawers of the dresser the kittens were in and closing the drawer tight waiting, hoping for them to turn to butterflies finding them all dead and stinky a few days later, some had escaped out the drawer and died on the floor, dehydrated cleaning out the drawer, the paper lining stained with their deaths thinking about what i'd done, feeling terribly guilty playing with the kittens 050326 ... mon uow my parents renovating the house when they weren't working me playing with the tools when they weren't renovating stripping old paint and wallpaper 050326 ... mon uow learning how to make godseyes, hanging them in the caterpillars' tree 050326 ... mon uow rubik's cube 050327 ... mon uow dictionary 050327 ... mon uow clawfoot tub 050327 ... mon uow looney toons 050327 ... mon uow neighbourhood tomcats fighting 050327 ... mon uow ghetto blaster 050327 ... mon uow dropping bottles out my window, running downstairs and outside to the cement walkway and walking on the glass with my bare feet and laughing cleaning out the glass and blood 050327 ... mon uow covering the stairs in big pieces of carboard, making a slide, riding down it on vacuums like they were cars 050327 ... mon uow learning the icup joke 050328 ... mon uow (stupid kids joke) 050328 ... mon uow *i think it was actually late winter 1985-86 to late summer 1986 that i lived on catherine street 050328 ... mon uow reading ingredients on labels 050328 ... mon uow gilligan's 050330 ... mon uow posters of the earth and the moon 050330 ... mon uow the smurfs 050330 ... mon uow who likes it hot by may garelick 050330 ... mon uow reading 'a lizard to start with' and 'the dog next door' with my sister 050330 ... mon uow the munsters addams family 050331 ... mon uow mr. t (and the a-team 050407 ... mon uow breaking a mirror "seven years bad luck!" 050413 ... mon uow turning kitchen stuff into toys, playing alone squeezing grapefruit, oranges and lemons picking out the lemon seeds adding demerara 050413 ... mon uow nightmares 050416 what's it to you? who go blather from