Saturday, May 31, 2008

Happy Birthday, Heidi!

I love you, big sister. For a little birthday laughter, thought I'd send you a few funny memories from over the years. ENJOY!!!



  • Ellen trying to sneak into your room on Woodland Drive, but then farting SUPER loud and waking you up
  • Ma Pig
  • Throwing crab apples into the porta-potties at Midway Archery (EW, why would we even do that?)
  • "I am bored with the zoo. When can we go back to the hotel and watch Jack Tripper?"
  • Your after-bar psycho moment whipping the biker chick's leather jacket to the pavement, then driving over it, reversing BACK over it, and squealing away into the night.
  • Your horrible job antics at previous jobs (companies withheld!!!): (breaking into HR and stealing your personnel file; then throwing the keys into a random empty desk)
  • They're blinking and beeping and flashing BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pause* I'm alright. I'm alright.
  • "I'll have a hamburger, a cheeseburger..." "You'll get nothing and like it!!!" (Judge SHMAILS)
  • Going to the treat stand at Palisades Park, and you *really* lighting the ends of candy cigarettes to make them look more authentic
  • Ting soda
  • Puppet shows out of paper plates behind the deacon's bench
  • Your childhood dream of wanting to own a school bus, because of the fun door. **NOTE ABOVE PICTURE WHERE WE ARE IN YOUR PRETEND BUS (AKA BUNK-BED)
  • "Dad, I would love to be a truck-driver. That way I could drive around all day, listening to music and smoking cigarettes."
  • Dad smashing your 2 Live Crew tape with a sledgehammer
  • Totally losing it and yelling at Mom for crunching on almonds
  • Riding those stupid, slow cars at Great America
  • Learning how to ride bikes in the Good Will parking lot (on the banana seat bike)
  • Calling Ellen "Ethel" for a good part of her life
  • Trying to sneak out of the house and then accidentally backing into the garage door
  • "I see Mary Kay's house, youuuuuu donnnnn't"
  • Hiding flashlights underneath the bunkbeds and then sneaking out to see if Santa came
  • Setting up "traps" in the gravel (peel-tops from beer cans) in hopes that Missy Apker would step on them with her bare feet.
  • "MOM! Jessica threw a pie in my face!"
  • Playing flashlight tag
  • Dad's coworker: "Hey Ron, did you know I saw Heidi kissing a black man on College Avenue this weekend???"
  • "It smells like poop." *pause* "It IS poop!!! AUUUUGHHHH!"
  • (in Mexico) "Mom and Dad, I need $20." "For what?" "Cigarettes." "You're going to buy POT, aren't you?" "No!" "Fine, if you just need the money for cigarettes, here's $5." "JUST GIVE ME THE TWENTY DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • A loaf o' bread, contain' o' milk, and a STICK O' BUTTA!
  • "So, why do you think they decided to give him a cleft palate for this role?"
  • Putting a special "bend" in the old maid card so that you could always identify it and never pick that one

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oh my gosh - your little stories made me laugh my butt off and I don't even know the whole picture! Brings back some good old 80's memories - banana seat!!! Thanks for the laugh - and Happy Birthday!