ye olde nostalgic rambles

it's stuff. that rules. (began as book-listing and evolved)

 BSC+Little Sister/Boxcar Children/Goosebumps [Fear Street]/Sweet Valley (Kids+Twins=best)

Downriver  (Will Hobbs)+my A++ 8th-grade picture book recreation; all the other 1000s that currently fill  our shelves...like the Fluke, card game rules, & Name Your Baby that're the exact same size+shape xD)
-Saddle Club/Pony Pals (SC books decent, had 3 or so; tv series okay)
·         Berenstain Bears
·         Clueless (Amber & her amazing clothes and Dandie Dinmont forever!) & y'know, all the little Mary Kate & Ashley party videos/mystery books & videos/movies, books based on TV episodes such as that Party of Five/Full House (the Stephanie+Michelle ones...)
·         Clifford
·         Arthur
Beatrix Potter
Busty Ppl All Around Town aka greatest ever
·         picture books, storybooks, beginning/easy readers (e.g., nutcracker, baseball ballerina, big bad bully)
BUNNICULA (Nighty-Nightmare best) & Howie's short series (not hideous 2016 cartoon)
·         Amelia Bedelia
·         American Girl
·         Henry & Mudge+Nate the Great
·         Bailey School Kids (& Triplet Trouble...Runaway Reindeer! ^^)
·         Sideways Stories From Wayside School

·         Scary Stories to Tell in tha Muthafuckin' Dark
·         Teeth Week (Nancy Alberts), Billy Baker's Dog Won't Stay Buried [spinetinglers! +in a dark dark room/all other spooky ghostliness], Mick Harte Was Here, Santa Paws, Interstellar Pig, Walk Two Moons, The Wishgiver, Mixed-Up Files {anything with a cool cover featuring realistic kids wearing/doing awesome shit, all classic youth books}
·         Down By the Bay
·         I Need a Lunch Box
·         There's a Hamster in My Lunchbox
·         There's an Owl in the Shower (Soul of the Silver Dog, Riff Remember, Fluke, To Dance With the White Dog, and all the others I also have right now)
·         Cages (Peg Kehret, w/ the dogs that looks like wirehaired Vizsla/Redbone/Beagle, purple/blue cursive title, pink bars, etc.)
·         Market Square Dog, I Want a Dog
·         Backward Bird Dog, Watchdog & the Coyotes
·         Junkyard Dog
·         A Dog Called Kitty
·         Misty of Chincoteague, National Velvet, Black Beauty
·         The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy; the Animal Ark+"Puppy Place/Patrol" rescue books
*Wishbones! <3
·         Pet-rified
·         Fire on the Wind, Marvin Redpost
·         hank zipzer; HP & Hobbit/LotR, o' course.
·         movie/TV tie-in [junior] novelizations (Homeward Bound 2, Oliver & Company, Pokemon chapter book adaptations, X2, etc., etc.)
Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales, SEVEN BLIND MICE; Dogzilla/Cap'n Underpantalones; Jan Brett illustrations (First Dog...& that "Wolves" book w/ sorta similar illustrations, very pretty...grey cover w/ central square & wolf face looking up, big title banner...) The green sign language alphabet book w/ gr8 hand illustrations.
·         Judy Blume (Tiger Eyes, Deenie)

• SHILOH (Season)


• Ribsy! (Cleary!)


• All Dr. Seuss +D
  

·         little women+all the [illustrated/] classics)...BEANIE BABY HANDBOOK (ROVER COVER), CATDOG TRIVIA BOOK, ANY OF THE "101 __ JOKES" ONES WE LOST SOMEHOW
·         all those plasticky-covered shiny elementary school picture books that smelled and felt soooo good (remembering a purple-covered one that was a Little Red Riding Hood version, the "Friendship" one that taught us how to spell "friend" [did that have a purple cover border too, or was the RRH one red or something? UGH!], the grey- and coral-colored grasshopper and ant workbooks...) The book about the kid wanting a dino who goes to that gigantic place to choose one...can't find it.
· junie b. jones, jigsaw jones, amber brown, disney fairies, rainbow magic, magic treehouse, geronimo stilton, warriors/survivors, etc. (very fave aisle while working in westfield library, reading there as often as possible...mainly in my junior/ya but occasionally breaking upstairs in adult x-3) Animorphs are okaaaaayish.
·         something queer, madeline, nancy drew/hardy boys, trixie belden, encyclopedia brown, etc.
·         gr8 expectations (why was I the only one who loved it??), my life as a dog (LOL JULES; it gave her a lifelong fear of Sweden--and didn't she hate My Left Foot too? xD)...interpreting/loving shakespeare & co. (hammy probs fave x3), dickinson, thief of time (KOKOPELLI+JOE LEAPHORN OF THE SENSITIVE NOSTRILS), scarlet letter, etc. bell jar, 1984, monkey house, yadda. Animal Farm--what grade was that? Or on my own...? Love the movie too. cannery row. my antonia. wrinkle in time. #etc4eva. others familiar bc read by other classes or w/e.
·         the cay ("You harborin' tings from me, Gustus??"--oh wait that's from "The Banana Tree" :o) FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON ;; tings be fallin' apart.
·         after the first death, a separate peace, catcher in the rye. circle of 3, beacon street girls. Avi's Nothing But the Truth, The Good Dog, etc. Anthem, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged. Novel w/ dog & cat & window w/ mountains outside? Dog-shaped book report in 6th grade. Lolita, everything else (esp. travel-themed.)
·         every book in our basement, parlor, my room, etc. 1000s. (early readers, picture/board/bath books, pop-ups + peek-a-boos [dad's & my "Peek-a-Boo Puppy" recreation!] + lift-the-flaps, children's dictionaries and encyclopedias, collections of poems and nursery rhymes and fairy tales, ma's 3d-paged puppet illustration ones, GOLDEN BOOKS!!!!!/ (e.g. Four Puppies, Noel, core classix, etc.)/Sound Stories (Berenstain Rummage Sale/Mickey Treehouse/B&tB etc.--101D, Batman?), 365 Stories, etc. Peanuts, Disney, Sesame Street, Toons, so on so forth. Mickey's book club (+Young Reader's Library) & the blue rack that used to be between Fred's and my room...followed by talking Oscar in the trash can, lol) Probably several thousand. All the characters, original books, nonfictions. Esp. my faves. Have shelf shots in Flickr. Photobucket, etc.
·         every book in the library that made me go, "AW I LOVED THIS!" Every single book/video/whatever ever on our shelves now or in the past . Endangered Odie/Masked Offender/Darkwing's Sinking Feeling in the rental trailer before ours. I SPY.
·         every good book we read in any class from elementary thru high school (or that i read for a report), and even the college english class w/ that awesome professor who liked me so much x~3 (Ashby? Think Asher was the woman...Alice in Wonderland/Thru the Looking Glass!) Oh, and the french film & lit/film comparison classes with smexy Russell <3 read and watched some goooood shit (Very Long Engagement, Do Androids Dream?, Ripley's Game, Wind Will Carry Us, Frankenstein.) other good college english w/ the lady professors, where i wrote excellent papers, read poetry and short stories... Maus+Watchmen. My scripts for a scene in the latter+"Grave Sitting" & "Precious."
·         the awesomely detailed, realistic covers these books used to have
·         aaaalllll the great short stories and plays!!! poems!!! discussions!!! how many things i translated/understood/enjoyed, found insightful and influential. (that one play we did w/ serwedes that i can't find, where it was like, two dogs and it was told from their perspective or something?? two dogs and the owner lady? ugh...it was awesome, and i had read ahead in the book and hoped we would do something with it, and sure enough he had the class divide into two groups and actually PERFORM it, and i was awesome as the lady...but why the fudge can i now not find it at all?!)
·         some summer reading/book report faves (Dracula, Ya-Yas, Ringworld, East of Eden, HoND, Les Mis, etc etc etc...)
·         caldecott/newberry winners...shel silverstein
·         faith and the electric dogs, sockathon
·         gr8 gatsby...How Science Works..."I Wonder" series (Why Fish Don't Drown, What a Rainforest Is), 1st Discovery books, DK/Simon+Schuster guides
·         mickey mouse book club with the blue mickey rack

True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Good Dog Carl the Rottweiler
Tikki Tikki Tembo (who died because nobody would just give him a nickname, and who I could've swore was Rikki Tikki); Gr8 Big Enormous Turnip
Call of Wild, White Fang, Illustrated Classics, Stone Fox
Starlight Barking/101 Dals, Charlotte, etc. etc. etc. Eileen Holland Wicca Handbook (blue/silver arch cover)

·         all the nonfiction books i don't happen to have anymore (not as many--still have most of those)

Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis: A Pedigree to Die For, Underdog, Dog Eat Dog. Susan Conant. Brave New World. Winds of Altair. These books & shit (made a buncha edits in the actual lj.) [+other movies mentioned in 4/21/17 'oitnb' entry, this tag]
·         sit-upons in havens' music class (the Danse Macabre video for halloween, peter & the wolf, the awesome orchestra section instrument posters, the "America the Beautiful" ones above the blackboard)
·         silva's science cart, crabby ol' mr. t's "art" and the steer skull i loved, tie-dying outside, field days (winning!)
·         picking up absent-day work in office. getting "i-got-caughts" for doing good things, dropping them in the i-got-caught fishy bin. big map on wall (Carmen Sandiego!), painting of cute Victorian-style cottage-house in front of stairwell.
·       book-a-trip around the world' reading program. #BookIt #IGotCaught
·         Scholastic book order forms and book sales (would always buy lots of cool books and other stuff...such as flowers and the little encased roses for Grandma that the boys would also buy, the fruit measuring spoon set, the fish-flying/swimming-in-forest folder, my neon puppies multicolor pencil, my first Spice Girl book...the Leo DiCaprio book--LOL) Red cookie cutter set, plastic fruit ice cubes & cube trays/molds. Classic chicken timer, tomato pincushion, etc.
·         fund raisers (friggin' Gertrude Hawk chocolates for Easter!! ALWAYS got the puppy...)
·         line leaders! assemble in 2 straight lines to walk down the hall to another class, hehe.
·       lakata's computer class w/ the cool design-a-scene program (distinctly recall the mountain background you could choose, among others.) bucholz's troll obsession. first day of kindergarten--joe dent did the stupid ugly "no teeth" lip-sucking thing and reeeeeeaaaaally turned me off. xD dan alvarez put things in his pants, drew butts on back of every paper (definitive class clown!)
·       color guard; tons of assemblies (always yay! well, almost always.) the recycling show. class moms such as mine would do the talent show at the end of the year. magic show where i got picked to do the plate-spinning, the one w/ the guy telling the scary stories and we all sat on the floor and he told the one about the finger reaching out of a trunk and scratching and omg it was sooooo good and terrifying...HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I JUST FOUND IT AND LISTENED TO VINCENT PRICE READ IT....THE GODDAMN CALAMANDER CHEST, IT'S CALLED. (NOT SALAMANDER!) OOOOOMMMMMMGGGGG. I LOVE THIS FINALLY-FOUND-IT-SO-I-CAN-PROVE-I'M-NOT-CRAZY FEELING. JUST LIKE WITH THE HIDDEN TREASURES CEREAL, PROFESSOR IRIS, ETC., ETC.) AND THE STORY IS STILL SOOOOOO SUPER-AWESOMELY TERRIFYING!!!! And speaking of Hidden Treasures, almost all the discontinued cereals of the 90s rock!! Sprinkle Spangles, and King Vitaman--where the HELL did that deliciousness go?!?! Dude, it's not as if we can recreate it ourselves!!
And the Professor Iris set of shows on TLC. Chicken Minute! Also--everything from Nick, Jr./NOGGIN and Sprout. Allegra's Window, Eureka's Castle, Gullah Gullah, Little Bill, Moose & Zee, Wonder Pets, Mr. Rogers, Miss Spider, Max & Ruby, Busytown (+THE PC GAME! ;), Ni Hao Kai-Lan, Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder, Olivia, Kipper, Rupert, Sagwa, Arthur, Martha Speaks, Shining Time Station, Fraggle Rock, everything. Face (Brr, brr, brr!) & Philomena Fly. Tickle U! (Yoko Jakamoko Toto, Gordon the Garden Gnome, Harry & His Bucketful of Dinosaurs, Gerald McBoing-Boing, Pinkie Dinky Doo, Maggie & the Ferocious Beast, Baby Looney Tunes...) Puzzle Place. Miss Spider!! Upside-Down Show! Oobi. Jack's Big Music Show. Et. al. SIZZLER w/ the skillet-face posters.
·         paul bunyan, babe, charlie brown, snoopy in APR ("all-purpose room," the cafeteria/auditorium...like kumpf.) scavenger hunts, gymnastics/obstacle courses (really rocked at those, track/field, archery, floor hockey, dodgeball, etc.), blue+yellow scooters, parachute.
All the shows we performed in Hehnly--pizza song (Dominos vs. Pizza Hut!), signing "Hero" by Mariah Carey, the various band and chorus songs...Kids Are Music! Let's Go Band! The American history musical, pics in memory book, memorized alphabetical states. ;}
·         CHICKEN FAT SONG. BIG FAT THE TOWN-CRUSHING LIBRARY CHICKEN PUPPET.
·         class parties!! writing out appropriate valentine cards to each person!!
·         squad leaders in gym for warm-ups
·         excitement over looking for your name before the first day of school to see who your teacher & classmates would be, comparing with ur best friends; then in middle & high school trying to coordinate ur schedules as much as possible, moving things around based on the people in the classes and lunch periods
·         first & last days of school...holidays, parties (class, pool, house, bowling, bdays [triumphant post-massive-foot-splinter gymnastics! xD])...summer vacations, travel (everywhere we went ever, all the infinite memories+photos of joy!!), meetups to hang out and play or work with friends...all the many, many key club/kiwanis activities, car wash...college clubs too (see linkedin)

Class trips, college classes/profs, assignments/projects/ideas from across two campuses...more infinite memories up the whazoo...preschool thru college...
·         taking turns being security guards/hall monitors

MoMA assignment (pick ur fave 2 pieces from the museum so I did Hopper's "Gas" and Wesselmann's "Still Life #30.")
·         "...cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza, peanut butter and jelly, or salad platter. How many people want...?" (you'd stand up or raise your hand to order the day's lunch of your choice. I almost always brought. Ma was always sending bloody egg salad and tuna, lol. The pizzas, PB&J, and salad platter were available every day. I remembering ordering cheese pizza and salad on occasion. The kid taking the tallies would read off of the day's strip and mark down the numbers by each one.)
·         DOL-Daily Oral Language!
·         daily journals!! ;D bump-reading!  "Cover ur textbooks."
·         80s & 90s in general--movies, TV, music, books, toys & games, fashion, trends (really, the 20s-90s rocked SO hard in all those respects.) So EVERY great show, film, band/artist/song, book, toy/game, fad, fashion, food/drink/grocery/toiletry, commercial, etc., that we lucky, lucky-ass little bitches grew up with.
·         all the thousands of wonderful, hilarious things all my friends and i ever did, our inside jokes/phrases and crazy antics and adventures...all my 100s/1000s of AWESOMAZING school/art class projects, papers, HOLY LOADED NOTEBOOKS/PADS (esp best covers+memorable obtainments/stuff within)..."Peter Gay," Peter Pants, our crazyass sagas, the 99999999999999999999999999999 things I wrote and drew and printed and mostly saved thank GOD
·         the way Clark and surrounding areas used to be--the uniquely MAGNIFICENT interiors of the old A&P, ShopRite, Windsor Diner, Woodbridge Toys/Kids 'R' Us, Rt. 22 Barnes & Noble...Rex Gene...Park Place, Casual Times... 

disney store when it was a wonderland of animatronics, cool carpeting, mix-n-match-figure+plush towers & big movie screen @ top of plush pile. yellow (i think? red? no, yellow?) crayola aquarium, other smaller ones+main. wee red plastic spatula spreaders. gummi savers in rows--wtf did happen, why bags?

The cute diner we used to stop at on the way to/from Koziars. ;;

chunky rainbow ring.crossfire.hands-down, etc.

·         all my many thousands of photos and greeting cards and papers, all of our yearbooks/memory books and other school-made ones...and the infinite beauty they summarize/represent (i appear sooooooo many times throughout the memory/yearbooks for various reasons....clubs, group & random shots, article bylines, stuff we submitted...)

• HITCHCOCK CASSETTE TAPES IN OLD-FASHIONED-RADIO-SHAPED CONTAINER RACK. LISTENING TO CLASSIC MUSIC AND OLD-TIMEY RADIO MYSTERY PROGRAMS WHILE DRIVING THRU THE WOODS AT NIGHT...DAD PARKING IN CEMETERIES, TELLING STORY OF OLD CANNIBAL COUPLE WHO'D ROLL BOULDERS IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND UR CAR TO TRAP U. RADIO ADS (BLUE COAL!)


• the card fuckin' catalog! MRS. RIZZO READING US STORIES. THE PUPPIES-IN-BASKET SCREEN IMAGE IN THE LIBRARY. THE LAYOUT OF THAT COZY LIBRARY FACING THE FAB TENNIS COURTS, WHICH ARE NOW SOME KIND OF ENCLOSED HOCKEY RINK. THE BIG CARDBOARD GIRL, CARD CATALOG, THAT NONFICTION HARDCOVER SERIES W/ A BOOK ON EVERY TOPIC+BIG PHOTOS ON COVERS, ETC ETC TEC. HEHNLY, KUMPF, AND ALJ IN THEIR ENTIRETIES. SCIENCE/BOOK FAIRS (PRIDE! JOY!), GENERAL STORE (PENCIL GRIPS UP THE WHAZOO!) OUR DOUBLE-TREE ISLAND BEHIND AMAAAAAAAAZING WOODEN+METAL PLAYGROUND (OUR "THE PLAYGROUND IS RIGHT" OBSTACLE COURSE GAME SHOW!), "MARILYN & CAROLYN'S" GREEN GYM DOORS IN FRONT OF WHICH I CREATED "DAISY MAE AFGHAN & FRIENDS" FLIPBOOK. 4-SQUARE, RED ROVER, TETHERBALL, DOING "WAKKO'S AMERICA" ON THE BLACKTOP MAP, ETC. EVERY SINGLE HALLWAY [INCL. OUR SPOTS], LOCKER, LIBRARY, CLASSROOM AND CLASS AND TEACHER--EVEN THE SHIT ONES. EVERY BLOODY DETAIL, EVERY EVENT/'SPERIENCE/ACTIVITY AND RANDOM MEMORY/THOUGHT.... I HAS PHOTOGRAPHIC/EIDETIC MEMORY, SO BASICALLY EVERYWHERE I'VE EVER BEEN (IN 'REALITY' AND IN THE ZILLIONS OF INSANE MEMORABLE DREAMS!!!)  FEATHERBED LANE ELEMENTARY...PLAYING WITH IRONING BOARD, KITCHEN SETS, ETC. SITTING AT THE HEHNLY LIBRARY TABLE LEARNING HOW TO DRAW THE CHAIN-LINK S THING. THE WAY THE CLARK LIBRARY USED TO BE--UPSTAIRS IN NONFICTION AISLES AGAINT WINDOWLESS WALL, SCOURING OLD DOG BREED BOOKS WITH THOSE BREED-SPECIFIC BOOK COVER IMAGES INSIDE THAT LOOKED LIKE YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF EACH DOG. I GODDAMN REMEMBER EVERYTHING, AND, IT, HUUUUUUURRRRRRRRTSSSSSSSSSSSS SOOOOO BAAAAAAAD. I WANT IT ALL BACK. I'LL EVEN DEAL WITH THE HORRIBLE PARTS JUST TO GET THE GOOD ONES BACK. EVERY ONE OF MY AWESOME ARTICLES OF CLOTHING (HAVE MADE THAT LIST SEVERAL TIMES LOL), TOYS, KNICK-KNACKS, BOOKS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH ME. ;___; homework notebooks. cute little old-guy's brick house on the corner with the yellow railing and few steps up to the yard that got turned into yet another fucking stupid bank. NO MORE BANKS. FUCK 'EM. ALL SHOULD BE 100% ONLINE LIKE ALLY. WASTES OF SPACE! No more pointless changes, I HATE it. stupid ugly bullshit development. if something ain't broke, don't fix it. Bastards. cute blue house in woodsy intersection on bonnie burn road. nice white house across the street with the beautiful yard that got turned into a huge hideous mausoleum "house" with a pathetic excuse for a yard. People have absolutely zero taste, I swear. And the old layouts of the B&N out on Route 1, the Clark library, A&P, ShopRite, Rex Gene, Windsor Diner, Summit Bank, BRADLEES...they are forever burned into my memory...I can walk through them, or at least areas of some of them, and they seem so...just...memorable and old and cozy and sometimes even creepy, but that's what made them so freaking awesome. So memorable.

Miss my lemon-scented lemon-shaped lemon fan with the lemon-wedge foam blades (think it came from Bradlees & they'd had other fruits as well?) ;; 
Photography-class photo of my precious high school locker: my beloved home base, surrounded by friends, toward the lovely uncrowded end of the hall, orderly and personalized/customized with decorations (magnets, Sesshoumaru-sama eatin' pocky, the Match Game quartet of Charles/Brett/Richard/Gene, etc.) *le sigh* Have all the developed pix & projects ofc. 8'-}

all the many many wonderful plushies we somehow no longer have even though we do still have a nearly infinite amount. x3 every single individual one of the millions & millions of minute details of every last trip & beautiful memorable place we ever went/shopped/stayed. every celebration, special occasion, party, gathering/visit/hangout. our gloriously perfect harmony ridge campground site, the whole wondrous place w/ the precious trailer & lake & outdoor fun & weekends up yonder with driving, worthington's, arnold's, yetter's, chatterbox, etc. etc. etc. also jumboland, dale's, apple valley, etc. in another direction. our gazillion pets+their names.
Disney & pink/orange/yellow pony+diamond ring Shrinky Dinks (made w/ Pa & Julie/Colin respectively. She had SD board game+Pretty Pretty Princess...) Got jogging Minnie+football Donald left. Few Perler masterpieces...the heart & happy face magnets...remember my Gill/Gurgle/Dory/Bubbles ones for sure...our huge kit lets u make anything. The Xmas 'round-tree train set. Tune-a-Fish shower radio. Our telescope.

Ceramic clownfish, clown/angel light string (found pic of someplace...) Plaid Sandicast dog bed. Pooka. Dory squeeze-light. All specific toys+shit I've relocated via Google/Pinterest. Fuzzy Kromfohrlander mum+pups. Fuzzy white dice. Fiber-optic cactus lamp, fake-flame torch. High school library officially renamed as "media center." Walkout. 

All our thousands of vhs/dvds...ones we retain, ones we somehow lost that i've either identified or not been able to ;; purple foam-covered baseball bat w/ black handle
Literal thousands of amazing, vivid dream locations/scenarios where each one reminds me of a dozen others and I just get endlessly lost in Dreamland. | Outsiders. Jane Eyre (Brontës, Austens.) Death of a Salesman, Streetcar, Glass Menagerie, Harvey, Orient Express, A Farewell to Arms Legs...

 

all the books, PC GAMES, etc...that i've listed already. z-windup key chains with dolphin, dalmatians inside. ALL MY YT PLAYLISTS (incl. ad jingles, my mini Pokemon cds, & loads more magic)
mickey face ice cream, mickey's parade ice pops. hidden treasures. sprinkle spangles. king vitaman. fruit string thing. squeezit. beeper gum. kool-aid bursts. (in lj entry beside very long list of all best candies ever...) dunkaroos+kid cuisine, etc. etc. etc. etc.
best toy lines=polly pocket and puppy in my pocket. melanie's mall. vidja games (marios & pokemon ofc, plus diddy kong racing/dk, starfox, yoshi, duck hunt, etc.) ofc myspace (b4 it went to total pointless shit like most things), friend/dogster, aim/aol/homestead (my page! keywords, etc.), geocities, angelfire, tripod, fortunecity,  diaryland/rings (lemongrass2), webrings, fanlistings (so many buttons on livejournal/deviantart), vampire freaks, jeeves, myfconline (Delilah_: '05-'14; 4 screenshots of my page...married 923, have the list+my journal entries as a text doc), animated lust rated pg (bombalurina's harem), elouai, ebaumsworld, neopets (gelert!), winmx, webshots, mapquest, putfile, gaia, soooo many forums & fansites & games w/ such intensity...etc. etc. etc. etc. see comments.
dollar-store fish snowglobes (red/orange/yellow fancy goldfish+green/blue marine angel.) snoopy-shaped squeeze flashlights (aviator+magician.) kool-aid sno-cone maker. dollar store w/ stone floor & balloons behind counter. old dark folding tables w/ fruit in center. lemon-limeade pitcher-shaped plastic tray. old clark shoprite, a&p, howard johnson, roy rogers...rt 22 B&N...windsor diner...rickel...rex gene...BRADLEES, Caldor, Garwood Encore Books+Pet Valu+pizzeria, Walden Books in strip malls, PayLess shoe source, Eckerd/Drug Fair?, BJ's/Sam's Club/Costco--bigass warehouse wholesale club stores, etc...all the details+special features of every place that used to be or that you used to go frequently, knowing which items were bought or shopped for at all the different supermarkets/shops (incl. PATHMARK, FoodTowns, ShopRites)...strolling infinitely down Memory Lane jumping from the detailed descriptions here to others there...
videosmarts/computersmarts. sexy bubble font. THE SEXY SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE-STYLE PENCIL CASES W/ POP-OUT TOOLS AND SQUISHY FOAM MAGNETIC COVERS. THE "TEN IN THE BED" GAME WITH RAINBOW PLASTIC BEARS. All the rope-jumping/hand-clapping/person-choosing rhymes, & song parodies celebrating the deaths of Barney and one's teacher and whomever. ^u^ Various memories @ Brewer.
precious fisher-price mcdonald's restaurant center. fridge, ride-on Little Tikes train set w/ green track+picnic table, faded-red-painted-blue Power Wheels Jeep.
keyboard computer toy that reminded me of blue fast food register w/ flat yellow keys. 8D mini/medium/large pianos/keyboards. minnie mouse townhouse (1990.) magnadoodle, etch-a-sketch, magic slate. my oceanic skydancer. that write-on electronic screen toy thing that was always with the typewriter and VideoSmarts computer in the pantry. Watch ring, white cloth daisy-chain choker... Talking family dollhouse (press dolls into floor spaces to activate. w/ little brown dog.) juice box holders: my red car, blue train, purple stegosaurus w/ green spots. pineapple can holder. all the fridge magnets--waffle especially. wonder world aquarium. sparkly cake sliced into 4 pieces+platter+plates, cups, knife i think? rub-a-dub doggie (Princess!)

lil' miss mermaid. ayaotd board game (& eeeeeevery one of our literal tons of excellent games, past & present.) puppy love videotape. mysterious "underwater world" one. being dentist to giant peed-on-by-beags barney plush by yanking out pebble "teeth." "save the president." "donald duck frees the slaves." donald duck enslaves the free." all of our home movies and films and tv/radio programs and cassette/camcorder tapes full of years of hilarious recordings, endless inside jokes...games where we were married/traveling and endless toy-play, vidja games, etc. into eternitah. Derf's Donald voice, all our/my shows & movies & songs, etc. our epic band+amazing hit songs, my solos...infinite creative, hyper-realistic make-believe games...
hot pink bunny-face foam bath mitts. bath books (esp. the thomas one.) foam letters/#s. two-tone plastic boats, oriental trading fish squirts (& ten million other cute things.) teeny-tiny sculptures of orange cat under newspaper in cozy purple tufted armchair+several kitties in bookshelf. NEON GREEN-YELLOW MUSHROOM CANDLE W/ TURQUOISE SWIRLS. ROYAL BLUE TOWER/STACK OF DOGS SCULPTED CANDLE. (+stone ring of dogs candle-holder) Red/orange/yellow striped happy-face candle. Barking 12-dog clock & everything else mentioned in my braggy "Tour My Room" cassette-recorded song w/ the mini-piano beat. XD

old sandicast doggos from o'johnnies--another truly epic store. FRENCHY THE APRICOT POODLE. color-change+gel pens. coral reef clowns/idol double-snowglobe (WHY DO SO MANY LEAK!) glass mirror thingy with seal+rwb snake in front. pink/orange heart stickers on doors in old house. jiminy cricket from snowglobe. berenstain bears treehouse set. puffy stickers (esp. balloons.) tick talk clock. my pal 2, Alphie robots. high chair suction-cup fruit dudes (orange, apple, pear.) swirly-goo skechers. water-filled neon orange sandals. orange, black, and powder blue/mint green noodly sandals. red flats w/ blue/yellow/green elastic straps. tamagotchis/nano-gigapets. all the beauteous plastic+play-doh food. all my beloved old clothes...such as rainbow concentric puffy hearts, yellow angelica "i'm the boss," "buzz off" bees, aquatic scene w/ 3-4 snap-on fish, jungly floral-print silky skirt, fuchsia bike shorts, ice-fishing polar bear sweater, gorgeous lavender/turquoise sweater w/ big face+forepaws of pretty white dog w/ turquoise crystals for eyes (paw prints on sleeves). hard rock tee+all the tons of clothes I no longer have, though I do still have loads as well. giant colorful snakes. inflatable booze bottles. rad two-tone plastic sunglasses from barrel in october's spirits. beloved royce mcclure lenticular coral-reef cup ma unforgivably tossed. along w/ other cups...b&tb from burger king (KIDS CLUB!), colorful animals (toucan/walrus etc.) from target/xmas animals (sherbet the penguin+snowman/santa/reindeer), elsa/anna, coconuts, tropical fruitatious h2omelon pattern+watermelon 1s, glitter/confetti water cups, b&tb waterful placemat, yadda yadda. I LOVE LIQUID-FILLED SHIT but Ma hated the cups bc they weren't machine-washable. xD; JUICE BAR PERFUME (GRAPEFRUIT! COTTON CANDY! GUMMI BEAR, ETC.!) BOTTLES SHAPED LIKE PEAR, PINEAPPLE, APPLE...remember them being in my 6th-grade locker.
HAPPY MEAL TOYS...have many, had oh so many more. See Pinterest. liquid-filled everything (floaty pens, drippy colored-liquid things w/ or w/o charms, squishy things, teething rings omg so pleasing, etc...) creepy crawlers. dollhouse playhouse, swing set, seesaw, pools, plastic jungle gyms. Little Tikes yellow cottage playhouse & Cube Climber! trampoline. fisher-price animal sounds barn/tons of fp+similar. shiny sky-blue mickey kid's jacket. k9 plush from six flags. mini plate/jug cabinet from small world ride. faucet illusion fountain. rubber ducky faucet cover. eeeeverything in the way-too-long "missing list" in my 3d mcclure notebook. Dx StarCastle! all plush and whatnot...pink foil hershey kiss/choco bar plushes+neon-blue-light navy kiss tee+glass kiss dish etc., bear in blue hanging basket, sheltie (caprice), fred's siamese cat. yellow smiley face w/ arms+legs+funky geometric pattern on back, like the green one i have--from crane game. very realistic ikea owl+moose+yellow camels w/ pinched-in eyes and red/blue humps. my white smiley face. my grape, fred's lemon, joe's watermelon, Sussex Spaniel mum & pup, mr. lemon ball (seen in Blank Check.) few lisa frank things i no longer have. everything in photos/videos as well as not in them. ;; everything ever that rocked. alarm clock radio. book of colorforms scenes. colored sand-bottle guys w/ googly eyes. barrels of juice/soft drink. fruit2o, fruitopia. swirly blue mushroom necklace. all backpacks--neon lime+orange personalized ll beans, green happy face, vinyl lisa frank cats/dogs/lavender picket fence (& max splash+dolphins+penguins cubic lunchbox), vinyl 101 dalmatians on royal blue w/ transparent pocket, etc. cobalt blue glass bunny w/ pinched-in "eyes" (semi-replaced by Mystic, the round translucent teal plastic one.) my original dory plush, tad, glass Dory...

Water Wigglies, the liquid bubblers, water tables, water beads, town/city rugs/playmats, Super Van City/Micro Machines/Hot Wheels/Matchbox (fave=shiny turquoise "Pa's Cadillac!"), dollhouse miniatures, my precious pink Waterful w/ Ferris wheel+yellow kitties (like the Berenstains' squeezy ones x Polly Pocket's), the coral reef handheld video game one, character straws & erasers & jelly-jar cups & mugs & puzzles (Mickey+Minnie on couch w/ Pluto on rug in front of fire, Garfield in sunflower), etc. etc. etc. Inflatable jungle gym-pool thangs. windsurfing mickey/minnie border bw pink+purple paint. then cartoony coral reef one on yellow. yellow & blue chunky knit quilts. minnie-&-me insert-your-photo books w/ cassettes (vacation/zoo/when we grow up, "Cupcakes & Lemonade," "Everybody Ought to Play the Ukulele.")
My Lenape and brontosaurus dioramas (so very detailed/creative/well-made/cute/cozy--except for the erupting volcano in the latter. Grape stem tree, river w/ canoe, wigwam, farm, etc.) ALL my 100s/1000s of pieces of exquisite school- or homemade artwork & projects, regular & holiday, whether we still have or not (had most for quite a while)...know we ain't got the green/yellow 2-tier ruffly candy dish or wooden ducky ring-toss w/ clear ring or plush home-ec Scotties (orange w/ purple ribbon+rwg plaid from shorts.) Linden National Wholesale Liquidators. Penguin race game. Victorian-house clips? Plaster Palace painted projects--green/purple/pink dog protraits on aqua, Victorian house, horse/unicorn head. Only still have dogs. ALL games...incl. desk/tabletop/mini/arcade ones, pinball... Tractor playground. Old Linden party supply store w/ concrete floor and balloons behind the counter...got the plastic pitcher tray+turkey/shamrock bowls there...etc. my primary-colored plastic bear bowl set in that baby pic on the floor. x-3 (everything you can see in old photos+home videos ofc, just thousands of precious things. many saved/pinned.)
Every single last shopping adventure, holiday, trip, memory...Grandma's cool bowls/pots w/ lil' mushrooms & whatnot, veggie-printed pot set, spoon rests w/ wooden utensils and dried herb thingies/plants suspended inside...her old two-family townhouse (pic of me leaning on dining table w/ traditional Easter bunny cake...F-P cash register...calling Pa's smoke swirls "Mickey's beanstalk" in the rec room...) Grandma Mary/Grandpa Fred's home w/ cozy kitchen (eggplant-shaped scrub brush!), rec/dining room, baffroom looking at the fun playground next door, bedroom w/ toy chest including precious barn. ALPHA CRITTERS.
Milford+Branchville houses. Watching Dumbo, Bambi, maybe Jungle Book, Barney @ Grandma's. Ulla leading the way home after some idgit left the gate open and she & Rusty took themselves a stroll around the neighborhood...my brilliant genius dog...could've easily jumped the fence but never did.../ Stealing Boz's neon-yellow comb from his back pocket while he was working here to piss him off. "SHUTCHYER FACE HIPPIE." "YOU'LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT." XDD UNFINDABLE RAINBOW-CATS BABY BOTTLE, MAYBE FROM PATHMARK?? (Solid-colored cats lying/sitting in band around bottom) BEST VALANCE=LIFESAVERS-IN-THE-CLOUDS. old sheet sets/pillowcases--rainbow, crayola, vintage pups/kitties, pood dreamin' o' poods, oliver, etc. two kind of nugger--chick'n, pretz. dalmatian/owl statues, bean bags/bb chairs. pretty blue/green neon seahawks lamp. watermelon-slice bag like my grape one. toon jelly jars (down to 1/4 Tom-&-Jerrys, also had looneys/pokemon ;; ) kokopelli pueblo trivet.
OMG THIS BRILLIANT COMMENNNNT 

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Ma’s tight light blue+yellow scattered watercolor floral Mandee dresses, my geometric blue/black/white print top. inflatable lime chair+pillow, inflatable goldfish pillow. "i wish i were a cheerleader" video+pompoms...still have shimmery baton. xp - still have tons of my artistic masterpieces but some were lost--like the incredibly excellent oil-pastel candy collages w/ Tootsie Roll going across...;; FIVE ALIVE JUICE. epic comforters (esp. reversible orange/fuchsia, & tropical fish ones.) New Beginning Tours w/ Grammy. Pumpkin/gourd napkins.

those "guides to owning a _" w/ the grid covers & uber-high-gloss images. the little '101 facts about puppies' or something that I had, the little book w/ the crate & cool food bowl pics? (yeah, found all those for the grimmages/"my stuff" pinterest board.) every cover now missing from my books thanks to me. xD; esp. all my tons of extremely-well-read dog+fish manuals. precious moments bathtub w/ pearly bubbles. my PRECIOUS scarecrow decal ("Happy Harvest" or w/e ribbon over farm scene w/ wheelbarrow of gourds+pumpkins, cornstalk, indian corn, barn, etc.)

Might continue in comments or eventually another entry. xD

I have just ever so many (talkin' 10s o' 1000s) exceptional tweets+pics on there (just like Pinsta+all the photo/file-storage sites)...;; Pour instance: Owned Xmas specials. +Halloween ones. +Easter ones. ! !! (these got turned into blogs but still)