Do you know what the hardest thing for me is? change. and maybe that really isn't so weird, but it's not out of fear. Rather it's born of attachment. I get extremely attached to everything: people, items, habits, places. (this was the sentence where i explain why im like that, and i can't. so call this a blank). At any rate, if I've ever been attached to anything in life it has been 34c mariners cove. rd, my brother and my apartmeny in the harbors. We have had conutless memories in this place, more than i can count or describe here, but here are 34 (how am i really gonna do this with any kind of order? im not) of my fav, (that i can think of) comment and add your favs too!
10 Crunchwrap
I hate to bring this up only because my good buddy Khem is not like this now, but it was one of the really funny pranks in the house. Basically one friday he, 240 and I get messed up and we're in the living room partyin to b-more club music. We later get a ride to Taco bell where Khem gets 2 crunch wraps. when we return, we eat and continue our acting complete fools. (note: the song being played has the sample from Denzel Washington's role in training Day. you know "KING KONG AINT GOT S**T ON ME!!"). Khem eventually gets hungry but can't find his 2nd crunch wrap. "maybe you ate it" he begins to hear multiple times
"No! i got two of them! i only ate one. who has my crunchwrap?!"
after many minutes of searching, lo and behold, a crunchwrap appears near the kitchen floor where he thought he originally placed. This was also accompanied by a not-really-close-to-escaping Carl. In unison with the song in play "awww you muthaf***ers" Khem roars "CARL!!!!"
9 April fools
My favorite day of the year! little did i know how crazy this day this would actually be. Nor did i know i would be the fool today. Having a lovely AIM conversation while barely awake in my bed, I heard that barbaric knock, trademarked by your friendly neightborhood police. this would have been a weird joke to play, no party, broad daylight and no witnesses. But this was not a joke, i was really being arrested. Convinced this was not a joke, but also sure this could be cleared up, I cooperated. Upon arriving i realized it was all legit and i made my call to my brother. 4 hours later I wake up to the guard escorting me to a judge's room where my mom waited in the tears she used to plead me out of jail. Meanwhile, an actua trick WAS being played at the house. Apparently my buddy had decided to dupe his friends by faking and injury but it evolved into death before the girls heard it. Well his trick worked, too well in fact, and he kind of paid for it as one of the girls did not take the joke so well. Imagine telling my story in the midst of all this.......
8 Sunday Dinner
If there is one thing you know about my family, it is this. My mama can flat out COOK. i mean..SHE THROW DOWN!! Well one of our freinds had the idea to have a big dinner a la soul food and have everyone pitch in. It was great, evryone helped do something and my mama made her magic in the kitchen par usual and everyone caught the itis. No craziness, simply the best home cookin a Hampton student ever got in hampton
7 The Luther
Speaking of food, there is a big difference between my mother and I. We both have skills in the kitchen. the difference is i am a culinary mad scientists. ranging from the moniliths of sandwiches i make at work to making dinner out of pieces of the box ingredients and adding things to stretc it. Well this one took the cake. In my childlike impressionability, i was inspired to make the most devastatingly large sandwich i'd ever heard of.
1lb of ground beef (made into a burger patty)
5 strips of bacon
sauteed onions
a slice of yellow american cheese
all in between
2 KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS!!
The ingredients were rather inexpensive and the hardest part was fully baking the burger (too big for a stove). well, to be most correct, the hardest part was EATING this thing! I finished it over a spades game and spent 30 minutes practically immobilized on a couch, still slowly digesting the food
6 Valentines
One day my brother were introduced to a few great and beautiful women. They came over and often and we always had good clean fun. This was the spot the escaped campus to and they appreciated it plenty. They also noticed that we all were single (or going out w/ them). So to show how much they appreciated us, they made themselves our valentines and put on quite the show, from dancing, stories, and even a rap! To those fine women, i will never forget that night, and always love you all for it.
5 Hole in the wall
What do you get when you get a 6'6 185lb bully and a 5'8 175lb hyper defensive mouse. A 5'8 175lb body print in the wall. Those two play completely too much. smh
4 Kitchen
For all who have the harbors bottle graveyard, know who did it the best. it's documented on Facebook. the whole kitchen was full before the end of the spring 2007 semester. and that's throwing away doubles. btw, NOT happening in the new crib.
3 Tent
The truest wtf moment in the house. literally. 2 of our (at the time) lovebird friends decided to claim the territory the frequented the most: the dining room area. A verbal declaration would have been enough, i think. Not for my overrachieving friends. after a long day of classes i walk into my apartement to see...a tent. A tent the size of the dining room and just short enough to sit under the dining room light. It was practically its own biosphere, complete with AC, power sockets, food and bedding. It went down in less than a week...couldnt be serious for that long.
2 Hide and Seek
The first thing you do in a apartment? get furniture? hook up the TV? set up your bed? No. wait until dark, cut out the lights, get your friends, tell them to hide and count to 20. fun. you'll never fathom how creative, sly, or small your friends are unitl you do this. Little did i know i had friends short enough to fit under a sink; or wild enough to climb into the space above the closet; or slick enough to just step outside on the patio.
1 New Years
If there was ever a time to make a memory it was the beginning of the year. 4 years of wild, crazy nonsense. The new years party evolved from getting a few of the friends form the beach and having a little get together, to wild extravaganzas that included the stragglers in hampton, cases of wine, bowls of alcohol concealing punch, the good ol' stereo, someone drinking too much and random wild happenings. This day (or 2 days really) is where making it rain (Pacman Jones style; and woefully realizing what he did), tossing a drink on the wrong guy, locking onesself in the closet, the power lines being cut randomly and Stephen's suddenly clean room happen.
