Childhood Home (the pictures)

OK, These are some pictures that outline my childhood. Warning: There are baby pictures! I apologize in advance for the terrible photography skills and dry captions. To start out with, I have 2 pictures of the pets that I grew up with. (basically between 1988 to 1996 I lived with 2 cats and a dog. From 1997 to 2004 we just had one cat and several small pets. I had a guinea pig and a hamster, and my sister and I shared small snakes and a ton of hermit crabs. The one thing that I can't explain is that loosing a pet never gets any easier. Whether it was a tiny little snake, or a cat that began life around the same time you did and shared a home with you for 20 years.

Simon (left) and Dinah (right) were our cats when I was a baby. We adopted Dinah when I was 2. Simon was amazingly friendly and easy going and was with us until 1997. Dinah was slightly skitzy, but otherwise friendly and lived for an amazing 20 years.

This is Scott as a baby and our black Labrador named Mickey. Mickey was mild mannered, and loving. She was with us until 1996.

This is my 5th birthday (as far as I've been able to tell). I'm in our basement which still has the exact same decor as the day it was finished in the mid 80s. The green bench behind me is belongs to the Piano which is slightly out of frame. We got a newer piano around this time, when I began taking lessons. I played for 8 yrs.

This is my dresser. It's literally been the chest of drawers that I've had since I was born.

This is a bookshelf that was in my room as a child. As you can see, now it's used for media storage.

This lovely thing is a toy refrigerator that my father built for my sisters. It's been in the same room for over 20 years now and it's mostly filled with baby books and random toys.

This is a layout of my bedroom as far as I can remember. From the top left to bottom right: Golden-brown is my dresser, dark blue is my twin-size bed, medium brown is my small book shelf, black is my old CD player, light brown are wooden crates in which I stored books, light blue is the toy refrigerator, and dark brown is a plastic storage bin for random toys.

This is the closet in which I used to keep my clothes. Now it's, again, just storage for random cloths and a lot of old toys from my sisters and I.

And lastly is what currently occupies the room. We call it "the computer room" but it's an office where my parents keep their files and my mother's computer. It's also storage for anything unsightly.