What Is Your Most Memerable..uh... memory?

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

Chris asked me this, the other day...

my answer was this:

when I was really little, and I still believed in Santa... we were dirt poor.. so poor that we couldn't affor furniture, and I slept on an old chair cushion from an outdoor recliner.... (yes, I did have pillows and a blankets...)

we couldn't afford a tree, and nothing else, really...

mom had laid out cookies and milk, and sent me to bed....I went to bed thinking that I was happy to have my mommy, cuz that's all I was gonna get that holiday, anyways...

nothing was decorated, no tree, no gifts, nothing...

I wake up, the next morning and what do I see?

A foot tall, fake tree, "Merry Christmas" stretched accross one of the windows "Happy Late Birthday" accross the other one... and LOTS of presents, from all my mom's friends, and family... and mom showed me the plate of cookies and the cup of milk.. each cookie had a bite taken out of it, and the milk was half gone...

I was so happy...and VERY surprised...

Mom cooked my then favorite meal... Velveta cheese and eggs, with ketchup.

I think THAT's my favorite Christmas....

What's your's? and like the title states, it could be any event

[Destroit]

All of my Christmases and birthdays were my favorite....I was an only child who was lucky enough to have a summer birthday, so one came almost exactly six months from the other.

I can say last Christmas was nuts, for some strange reason Pest and I were a victim of a series of improbably and unforseeable circumstances which caused us to have to drink for 9 days straight. My right kidney began to fail about two weeks later...but damn, most intense and carefree holiday season EVAR.

[Rayne]

First would come each of my kids births. The last one being a bit fuzzy, but the other three, very clear.

Next would come Hawaii. All of it. ... well, once we got there.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

The day my dad brought my younger sister home from the hospital (she'd been born a month premature).

[Brenda Starrr]

For me, it has been the birth of my kids, the way that Jeff proposed, and watching my Dad die...

[Mean Salley]

My most memorable birthday experience was my 14th birthday. My brothers, sisters and I sat around the table. Had a little cake, had a little ice cream, and my mother said to my younger brother Chad, "Go upstairs and get Sean's present from behind my bedroom door.

So he runs upstairs and I'm thinking. Wow, I wonder if it'll be a new stereo system. Or maybe the GI JOE Tomahawk (So I played with GI JOES and Star Wars all the way up until college. Fuck You.), or perhaps, a fine selection of cd's.

I heard my brother say from upstairs, "NO WAY!" This got me going and I really thought my mother had outdone herself.

My brother came down the stairs with a big shit eating grin on his face, and a look of "Oh my God you just totally got pwned on your birthday, loser."

In his hand he held an object with a long wooden handle and a large, flat, squarish and slightly bent shape at the end wrapped in colorful paper. It strangely looked unmistakeably like a snow shovel. Chad laughed at me, and said, "Happy B-day loser." and handed the present to me. It looked like a snow shovel, it felt like a snowshovel, and when I smashed my brother over the head with it, it had a distinct, what-it-sounds-like-when-I-bonk-my-brother-over-the-head-with-a-metal-snow-shovel- sound to it.

I looked at my mother in despair. She looked back at me in that motherly sort of way and nodded and smiled warmly as if to say "You're welcome." And then she said to me these words that I shall never forget; "Well we got about 6 inches today so you'd better get out there before it gets dark."

She totally thought it was a great idea for a birthday present.

This is why I always celebrate my birthday on my own. That way no one can ruin it and make me feel like a shit-ball. That fucking crushed me. That was the winter that I ran away for 12 hours until I realized I left my money at home.

5 days earlier, my older brother got a snowblower for christmas, (as well as a shit load of other stuff too.)

[taysteewonderbunny]

My most memorable birthday experience was my 14th birthday. My brothers, sisters and I sat around the table. Had a little cake, had a little ice cream, and my mother said to my younger brother Chad, "Go upstairs and get Sean's present from behind my bedroom door.

So he runs upstairs and I'm thinking. Wow, I wonder if it'll be a new stereo system. Or maybe the GI JOE Tomahawk (So I played with GI JOES and Star Wars all the way up until college. Fuck You.), or perhaps, a fine selection of cd's.

I heard my brother say from upstairs, "NO WAY!" This got me going and I really thought my mother had outdone herself.

My brother came down the stairs with a big shit eating grin on his face, and a look of "Oh my God you just totally got pwned on your birthday, loser."

In his hand he held an object with a long wooden handle and a large, flat, squarish and slightly bent shape at the end wrapped in colorful paper. It strangely looked unmistakeably like a snow shovel. Chad laughed at me, and said, "Happy B-day loser." and handed the present to me. It looked like a snow shovel, it felt like a snowshovel, and when I smashed my brother over the head with it, it had a distinct, what-it-sounds-like-when-I-bonk-my-brother-over-the-head-with-a-metal-snow-shovel- sound to it.

I looked at my mother in despair. She looked back at me in that motherly sort of way and nodded and smiled warmly as if to say "You're welcome." And then she said to me these words that I shall never forget; "Well we got about 6 inches today so you'd better get out there before it gets dark."

She totally thought it was a great idea for a birthday present.

This is why I always celebrate my birthday on my own. That way no one can ruin it and make me feel like a shit-ball. That fucking crushed me. That was the winter that I ran away for 12 hours until I realized I left my money at home.

5 days earlier, my older brother got a snowblower for christmas, (as well as a shit load of other stuff too.)

LIke a lump on the head!

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

My most memorable birthday experience was my 14th birthday. My brothers, sisters and I sat around the table. Had a little cake, had a little ice cream, and my mother said to my younger brother Chad, "Go upstairs and get Sean's present from behind my bedroom door.

So he runs upstairs and I'm thinking. Wow, I wonder if it'll be a new stereo system. Or maybe the GI JOE Tomahawk (So I played with GI JOES and Star Wars all the way up until college. Fuck You.), or perhaps, a fine selection of cd's.

I heard my brother say from upstairs, "NO WAY!" This got me going and I really thought my mother had outdone herself.

My brother came down the stairs with a big shit eating grin on his face, and a look of "Oh my God you just totally got pwned on your birthday, loser."

In his hand he held an object with a long wooden handle and a large, flat, squarish and slightly bent shape at the end wrapped in colorful paper. It strangely looked unmistakeably like a snow shovel. Chad laughed at me, and said, "Happy B-day loser." and handed the present to me. It looked like a snow shovel, it felt like a snowshovel, and when I smashed my brother over the head with it, it had a distinct, what-it-sounds-like-when-I-bonk-my-brother-over-the-head-with-a-metal-snow-shovel- sound to it.

I looked at my mother in despair. She looked back at me in that motherly sort of way and nodded and smiled warmly as if to say "You're welcome." And then she said to me these words that I shall never forget; "Well we got about 6 inches today so you'd better get out there before it gets dark."

She totally thought it was a great idea for a birthday present.

This is why I always celebrate my birthday on my own. That way no one can ruin it and make me feel like a shit-ball. That fucking crushed me. That was the winter that I ran away for 12 hours until I realized I left my money at home.

5 days earlier, my older brother got a snowblower for christmas, (as well as a shit load of other stuff too.)

That sucks ass... I totally understand the whole birthday thing... I'll be 23 this year... and most of my family won't even remember.... and me not being there will be their excuse. no one remembers my birthday, except my mom... no one else...(that I'm related to, anyways) not even the family that I lived with... I haven't gotten much of anything for several birthdays in a row... This year, I keep getting told, will be different...

Know what I would have used the snow shovel for? burring the car with snow and then digging the yard up and putting that on top of the snow covered car...

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

My memory is odd. I can remember things very clearly that I are so trivial and important things are buried in the ashes of the past. So, it does not surprise me that the memory that sticks out the most if my brain is the "feeling" I had when I heard the news that my Father died... not the initial anger and despair... but the calm I felt later.

[DarkVampire]

The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Back when they used to televise the launches on tv. Me and my sister were home from school that day being sick.

9/11/01 watching the early morning news as the events unfolded. Seeing that plane crash into that building was like WTF? This can't be real.

It takes a lot of effort on my part to say this, it was a hard thing for me to experience and still is even to talk about it.

9/10/06 Seeing my grandmother in the hospital for the first time. Seeing her broken, skinny body with all of the tubes and what not hooked up to her. She had cancer. The last time I saw her prior to this, she was a little on the heavy side, able to walk and still full of spirit. The shock of seeing her like that drove me close to tears but I stayed strong.

9/11/06 8:30 PM Saw my grandmother alive for the last time. She was incoherent from being doped on morphine. Our eyes locked onto one another and I knew this was the last time I would see her alive. We didn't say anything but it felt like she was saying good bye with that look in her eyes. That has stuck with me ever since.

9/12/06 2-3 AM she died in her sleep.

I'm afraid my memories are negative.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Back when they used to televise the launches on tv. Me and my sister were home from school that day being sick.

9/11/01 watching the early morning news as the events unfolded. Seeing that plane crash into that building was like WTF? This can't be real.

It takes a lot of effort on my part to say this, it was a hard thing for me to experience and still is even to talk about it.

9/10/06 Seeing my grandmother in the hospital for the first time. Seeing her broken, skinny body with all of the tubes and what not hooked up to her. She had cancer. The last time I saw her prior to this, she was a little on the heavy side, able to walk and still full of spirit. The shock of seeing her like that drove me close to tears but I stayed strong.

9/11/06 8:30 PM Saw my grandmother alive for the last time. She was incoherent from being doped on morphine. Our eyes locked onto one another and I knew this was the last time I would see her alive. We didn't say anything but it felt like she was saying good bye with that look in her eyes. That has stuck with me ever since.

9/12/06 2-3 AM she died in her sleep.

I'm afraid my memorizes are negative.

That was very touching, thank you for sharing that. :grouphug :grouphug

I too, remember 9/11... I was the one that noticed that the second plane was gonna hit, and started screaming for everyone to look.... I'll never forgett hat day... I was in SC, and the way that the kids of family that lived there, were running, screaming through the halls, you'd think it had happened next to us.... : it still gets to me.. and even now, talking about that day.. I get a lump in my throat, and I get a little teary-eyed.. that was THE WORST day to be an empath.. hard to tell what was my emotion and what was emotion I was picking up on...

[TomCat]

For me, it has been the birth of my kids, the way that Jeff proposed, and watching my Dad die...

I'm going to stick with a few happy ones...since I have a photographic memory, and (just ask B) could go on forever...

My first "Real Weekend" with B, our wedding (especially the vows part), and the way that she looked "so confused/concerned" as I dropped to a knee to propose to her...that moment where the light went on in her head and she realized I was proposing to her, and that I didn't blow out my knee and fall down in the restaurant. As my good friend Gino serenaded her with his guitar. Everyone in the restaurant could instantly tell what I was doing...but her. I'll never forget that.

[Oh_My_Goth]

It was the week B4 my 15th birthday.....

We had the Christmas tree set up, but not decorated.....We always decorated it on Me birthday.....

It was an amazing tree, almost 7ft tall and at least 4.5 ft across.....

My brother Michael came home acting strange {which was not out of the ordinary}

He proceeded to tell us that these guys were after him, & they were threatening his life.....

My other brother Kelly was irate, he wanted to go after them.

Then a car pulled up in front of our house & Michael said it was them, Kelly proceeded to storm out of the house towards the vehicle.....

I was standing in the doorway w/ my Mom.....

The two passenger windows of the car rolled down and Two guns appeared.....It was like the guns were their own entity, you couldn't see the people behind them.....I yelled for my brother to run and he turned and ran back towards the house, I threw my Mom on the floor & we crawled under the kitchen table.....Thank G*D these fucktards had bad aim or my birthday & Christmas would have been fucked forever.....

We never decorated the tree that year.....We spent the next few weeks at my Mom's boyfriend's house{whom I could not stand}

& that was the last year we got a real tree.....

Turned out that the guys were after Michael 'cuz he was stalking their sister who he dated for like a month.....

Awesome ey?

I wish I had something heartwarming to say about the holidays, but I don't.....& You asked for the MOST memorable.

Don't get Me wrong, I still love Christmas & Me birthday, if I let crappy stuff ruin every day that surrounded it.....I would be one sad Mo-Fo

[IsleofRhodesEnt]

this past thanksgiving week.

New GF.

Thanksgiving in Maryland

wonderful people

Oysters Casino

Sam Adams Cherry n Wheat beer

good music

yeah...that was awesome

[Homicidalheathen]

good yule, getting the Barbie penthouse.

Bad yule...when I was 20 and on my own in college starving

[Brenda Starrr]

The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Back when they used to televise the launches on tv. Me and my sister were home from school that day being sick.

9/11/01 watching the early morning news as the events unfolded. Seeing that plane crash into that building was like WTF? This can't be real.

It takes a lot of effort on my part to say this, it was a hard thing for me to experience and still is even to talk about it.

9/10/06 Seeing my grandmother in the hospital for the first time. Seeing her broken, skinny body with all of the tubes and what not hooked up to her. She had cancer. The last time I saw her prior to this, she was a little on the heavy side, able to walk and still full of spirit. The shock of seeing her like that drove me close to tears but I stayed strong.

9/11/06 8:30 PM Saw my grandmother alive for the last time. She was incoherent from being doped on morphine. Our eyes locked onto one another and I knew this was the last time I would see her alive. We didn't say anything but it felt like she was saying good bye with that look in her eyes. That has stuck with me ever since.

9/12/06 2-3 AM she died in her sleep.

I'm afraid my memories are negative.

Oh God....yeah....I know what you mean.

I'm going to stick with a few happy ones...since I have a photographic memory, and (just ask B) could go on forever...

My first "Real Weekend" with B, our wedding (especially the vows part), and the way that she looked "so confused/concerned" as I dropped to a knee to propose to her...that moment where the light went on in her head and she realized I was proposing to her, and that I didn't blow out my knee and fall down in the restaurant. As my good friend Gino serenaded her with his guitar. Everyone in the restaurant could instantly tell what I was doing...but her. I'll never forget that.

LOL....And no one knew that we were seeing each other til we started talking about it a while later! What an awesome weekend that was, except for having to arrive a day late due to the tornado in MD!! The proposal is something I'll NEVER forget...ever. You TOTALLY had me fooled. And yes, the vows. We looked into each others eyes, knowing that we totally meant every word.

this past thanksgiving week.

New GF.

Thanksgiving in Maryland

wonderful people

Oysters Casino

Sam Adams Cherry n Wheat beer

good music

yeah...that was awesome

MD!!! I'm a Baltimore Girl, hon!!

[Guest Megalicious]

The birth of my awesome and amazing son.

The few days I spent, camped out in the GC, debating on wiether or not to have said son. I really got into some deep issues and personal reflection. I need it.

The summer I worked up in Big Bear (its a city in the mountains in S. Cali. When I SAY MOUNTAIN I DON"T MEAN HILL LIKE YOU GUYS HAVE HERE). The kids were awesome and I made some really great friends.

The 3 months I spent in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, doing Trail restoration for the Conservation Corps. Breathing taking beautiful, just me and a crew of 10. Waking up every morning to the smell of nature ... *sigh*.

Burning Man. Enough said.

Having Steven, who was like a brother to me, literally die in my arms.

The first time every dying my hair in "unnatural" color. Yeah, its didn't come out so well LOL ....

These are what come directly to mind. But there are more.

[DarkVampire]

Actually I do have a good memory or two.

2/6/89 Asked my first girlfriend out on a date, gave her a note in school.

2/9/89 Went out on a date with her.

Later on we both broke our virginity on Good Friday. Yes it was good.

[taysteewonderbunny]

this past thanksgiving week.

New GF.

Thanksgiving in Maryland

wonderful people

Oysters Casino

Sam Adams Cherry n Wheat beer

good music

yeah...that was awesome

Um. What are you doing drinking Sam Adams? Don't you know Chicago has distribution from one of my favorite breweries ever (the name of which, ironically, escapes me now). Try Red Bicycle or Enlightenment 1554. Are tasty.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Um. What are you doing drinking Sam Adams? Don't you know Chicago has distribution from one of my favorite breweries ever (the name of which, ironically, escapes me now). Try Red Bicycle or Enlightenment 1554. Are tasty.

psst - he was in Maryland at the time!

[taysteewonderbunny]

psst - he was in Maryland at the time!

Oh. Oops. Thanks.

[brandywine0880]

I guess Christmases as a kid were pretty memorable. Every Xmas Eve my mom and dad would take me to my aunt's house where the adults would party in the kitchen while we kids played until we passed out. I was a few years older than my cousins so I'd just lay in bed awake listening to the adults getting hammered and worrying that Santa was gonna pass me up because I wasn't at home in my own bed. Laying in my cousin's bedroom that night was the first time I heard of Pink Floyd because that's what the adults were listening to and I remember thinking what a weird name, because they sounded like men singing but had the color pink in their name.

Then like ten years later my mom and I were on our own during Xmas and we weren't really all that domestic so we didn't bother with making a Xmas dinner or anything. So on Xmas day we ended up driving around looking for a restaraunt to go to. The only one open was some real depressing coney island. Our waitress smelled like cigarettes and ...vanilla body spray, I really wanted to puke and cry it was quite depressing.

I think ever since Xmas 2000 I've spent the holidays trying to stay comfortably drunk.

[GOTHIKA]

my most precious memory was seeing my daughter being born & the father was there to see it; now its like my happiness is fading into the wind of hatred

[jynxxxedangel]

My most memorable memory was when my Mamaw (my dad's mom) took me aside when she was on her deathbed, and showed me all of the letters and pictures from when my dad was on his tour of duty in Saigon. She climbed out of her bed, which was no small feat, and took down a large box of documents from the top shelf of her closet. She laid them all out on her bed, and instructed me to read each letter.

A lot of my questions about my relationship with my father were answered..

I will never forget the things I learned that day, they brought me much personal peace.

[candyman]

Traveling to Latvia...fucking awesome and I hope to go back this summer