Top Summer Memories

 I almost just wrote blog post that I already wrote last year.  I was just going to write a list off the top of my head about what I "believed". Wow, I'm more redundant than I thought. Well, here's something else.

Top Summer Memories Off The Top of My Head

1. When I was 14, my friend Doug was over at my house and we walked about a mile to the nearest basketball court. It was July and hot as hell. We played one game and then sat in the shade and realized how stupid it was to play at 3:00 in the afternoon in July in San Antonio.

2. The summer after my freshman year in college, there was a week where my friend Eric's parents were out of town and we hung out there every day. It was so much fun, so many different people and friends came over, (only good clean fun, I'm sad to report)  - late nights, video games, movies, personal drama, cute girls came over, cruises for junk food, I stole part of Taco Cabana sign, just lots of fun.

3. My 21st birthday (not clean fun, but fun nonetheless).

4. Waking up the first day of the summer and feeling so good.

5. Lots of grill cheese sandwiches at home with my sister. 

6. Lots of TBS and WGN re-runs - Little House on the Prairie, Matlock, Leave it Beaver, I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, The Monkees, I was a little TV fiend at age 10.

7. My first two summers of college, almost every other day, we'd play basketball with a ton of guys after work. Good stuff. 

8. Dancing with my friends at Midnight Rodeo on Thursday nights.

9. Eating at a hole-in-wall Taco place at 2:00 AM after going out with the guys. The place had like five tables...really.  Reading the menu, I felt something on me. It was a roach crawling up my leg onto my crotch area.  I yelled, "Oh Shit" (sorry kids) and stood up and swiped it away. It scurried somewhere towards the kitchen. We still ordered and ate there. What can I say? We were hungry and drunk.


10. The Wondrous Adventures of Blueguy - the summer after my senior year I created my TV show with my old toys. My friends loved it, they are mainly terrible (I still have them) but that's what made them so good at the time. The next summer I made a few sequels but the magic was gone. 10 total episodes were made. I think two of them were halfway decent.

11. On a church camping trip around 13,  I asked for a sip of my friend Doug's newly opened 20 oz. Big Red, and proceeded to chug the whole thing. I have no idea how I did that or why he just watched in horror (all he had to do is just take it from me).