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I just came back from the grocery store, and as is my custom I cart surfed back to the car. I got a few looks, which I ignored. But it started me thinking.
When, if ever, will I outgrow cart surfing (aka riding on the back of the cart with your feet off the ground)? Never, I decided. It's too much fun, and I like a certain amount of irreverence and immaturity in my daily life.
What childish things do you think you'll continue to enjoy for the forseeable future?
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That's the great thing about having kids, JT. You have an excuse to go back and do all the things you did as a kid, and even if you look stupid doing it, others understand because you're doing it with your kids.....
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Calling my mom when I don't feel good. Getting excited about Christmas. And Thanksgiving. And Easter. Dressing up for Halloween. My dad cooking me my birthday dinner-- and making me home-made ice cream. Feeling really special the first time I wear a new pair of shoes or outfit that looks really great.
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FG - I think the looking stupid is one of my favorite things about it.
Avadaru - I thought so, but now it doesn't look like I'm even gonna be in BR tonight. I'll be there sometime soon, though, and I'll let you know.
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Bouncing when I'm happy. Running with my arms outstretched just for the rush of it. Twirling. Coloring Easter eggs. Cuddling under a blanket while I watch a movie. Reading children's books. Coloring in coloring books. Smelling random people's roses when I go out walking.
I figure, if it was fun when I was four, why shouldn't it be fun now? I can just add to my list of things that are fun as I get older.
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I'd the say the top two for me would be reading comic books and watching cartoons. I still do both of those and probably will into the foreseeable future.
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trying to get as high as possible on the swings throwing a snowball at someone making a snowman climbing a tree making myself dizzy watching The Lion King fingerpainting late night swimming etch-a-sketch repeat everything someone says just to annoy them
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skipping calling my mom when I don't feel good(echoing ketchupqueen) The Murrays, O'Keefes, and Austins Cinderella running as fast as I can through an open field
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playing tag tickling making silly faces cartoons singing smelling flowers eating with my fingers playing with bugs staying up too late because you're so into the story you're reading playing video games running around in rain playing in puddles and/or mud sneaking cookies/treats before dinner time
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Calling my mom when I'm sick Having a teddy bear Dressing up in costume (i.e. for a book or movie launch) Chasing ducks when I feel sad Reading kids' and YA books
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digging in dirt swinging on swings riding waves seeing how high the waves can bury my feet/legs in sand before I panic/get knocked over picture books cloud gazing
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Looney Tunes the Muppets old episodes of Sesame Street talking to myself in public sneaking chocolate chips from the pantry coloring Holidays being a fangirl hatrack gatherings
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See, luckily, I don't think video games fall under the section "Childish Things."
My parents might think so, but I've part of the first generation to grow up with video games. As such, we kinda get to decide whether or not they are for kids only. I still play them, and so does almost every one of my friends. I'm thinking that's bound to continue for at least another 10-20 years before I totally retire. Kids have more time for video games than adults, but I don't know...
Swinging on the swing is definitely going on my list, though. I include the dismount as a vital part of the swinging. I also still love building sand castles (but only at the beach).
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Swingsets and other playground things. Rolling down hills. Splashing in puddles (on a particular type of wet day). Climbing trees. Crayons.
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Picking my nose Wetting the bed Being afraid of the dark Stealing cookies from the cookie jar and lying about it with crumbs falling from my mouth
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Eating ice cream for dinner, or breakfast for that matter. Building forts in the living room. Singing and dancing up and down the aisles in a grocery store. Disney movies.
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Laughing and conversing, with equal loudness, with my friends, in public. Shouting from hotel balconies, at eleven at night, in downtown Athens, making the woman down the hall mad (like everyone in Athens, including me, she had a 3:00 AM flight.) Okay, so the later I have only done once, but the former is my favorite pastime.
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Bouncing up and down when I'm happy. Running around with my arms outstretched just because I feel like it (especially when I'm running down a hill). Skipping. Crunching autumn leaves. Playing in the snow. Chasing squirrels and pigeons. Swinging on swingsets. Making faces at people. Running through sprinklers. Randomly singing and/or making strange noises. Eating animal crackers. Eating celery with peanut butter.
And does "cart surfing" mean riding around on a shopping cart while you're pushing it? If so, I do that too.
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Be courteous, kind and forgiving, Be gentle and peaceful each day, Be warm and human and grateful, And have a good thing to say.
Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike, Be witty and happy and wise, Be honest and love all your neighbours, Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
Be pompus, obese, and eat cactus, Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent, Criticize things you don't know about, Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.
Alternate last line: Go into a closet and suck eggs.
Courtesy of Steve Martin, Philosopher Extraordinaire
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Arkanoid! It's absolutely un-outgrowable. But my game broke, and I don't know of anywhere nearby that has it.
swings!
birthday parties
I'm not thinking very well right now, maybe I'll figure out what else I'm doing that's childlike a little later. And now, back to that homework.
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Laughing loudly over something stupid while waving my hands up and down with pure joy. Walmart hockey! Watching disney movies and children's movies. Reading children's books. laughing over my goofy rabbit painting the walls with random splotches of blue paint making up really stupid songs (though the lyrics are a bit raunchier than when I was a kid) picking up random leaves and rocks staring at snowflakes wanting to make a large snowman instead of just little ones. action figures really wanting to build a castle out of wooden blocks just to knock it over dancing around in a stupid uncool sort of way. video games collecting shells kicking around in leaves
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Eating cookie dough Pressing every button in the noisy toy aisle Playing with Legos Video games Giggling about farts Dancing like an idiot Playing with matches Getting dizzy on the merry-go-round at the park Popping bubble wrap Balancing on and walking along curb edges
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I forgot about cookie dough and cake batter. Mmm cake batter. And bubble wrap, that is some fun stuff. Making messes and not cleaning them up >.< And giggling over really just the stupidest raunchiest jokes.... raunchy in a childish way. Oh, and laughing about puns.
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Skipping, playing tag, playing hide-and-seek, talking to my mom like a little girl, popping bubble wrap and hitting back when someone hits me. Oh! And I'm still the queen of the monkey bars!
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Oh, yeah, choc. chip cookie dough! If I disappear from Hatrack, it's probably due to salmonella poisoning! (that's the one you can get from raw eggs, right?)
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Supposedly, according to my parents, I should have "outgrown" things including but not limited to:
Cartoons Fantasy novels Video Games(like DDR and Final Fantasy, which no one too young would understand anyway...) Sleepovers Science Fiction(it's a tragedy that my mother wanted me to get rid of Ender's Game. Even my signed copy, she wanted to get rid of. "It's just clutter." NO!!! Those are my prized possesions!) Manga Random foreign languages(like Japanese and Italian) Coloring books(which I use after exams to releave stress)
etc., etc. I find it ridiculous that I should have "outgrown" these things by now. I'm 17. I'm not an adult yet. Can't I have fun when I'm young? Does anyone else find this weird?
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Singing in public Playing board and card games (and not just bridge, poker, or pinnochole...) Doodling on scrap paper Reading comic books... Er, graphic novels
Oh, incidentally, old videogame afficionados: are you aware of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)? http://www.mame.netPosts: 3826 | Registered: May 2005
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