10 C...My First Mansion!

Hello, y'all!

After Putnam, we moved to a townhome off Rundberg Ln. My memories of this place are very limited. I'm not sure it's because we lived there for only a short period of time. Or did I block these memories? Huh, I'll never know I guess. One thing for sure I'll always remember is our number, 10 C. To get into our gated community, we had a clicker. Which I thought was the coolest thing ever! Another cool thing was our place was on the street with the play scape. It was literally right outside our door. You open our front door and there it was, a few hundred feet away from us. We were living large!

This was our first 2 story place. Any place with stairs was fancy to me, so basically we were in a mansion at this point. Downstairs was the small kitchen to the left, small dining room right next to it, and the living room straight ahead. Our kitchen had a bar with an area to lookout to the dining room. That was so cool! On top of there, was where Pudge and I had our pet fish. We used to over feed them and eventually they died, down the toilet they went. 

In the dining room, one particular memory lingers within me. Chef Boyardee's Beeferoni...blah! I can't go near that stuff anymore because the last time I ate it, was here and I got sick right after it. I threw up everywhere. So, now if I just see the can, I'm traumatized by that one experience, haha...good times! Next is the living room...a few memories pop up. Pudge and I used to play tea party. I had this miniature tea set! We'd fill the tea pot with water and drink out of the cups...so much fun. These next memories...goodness. Ones that are burned into my brain is watching movies. One being Pink Panther with Steve Martin in it. We had bad weather that day and the TV kept shutting off. It kept replaying the same scene over and over. The other was a bad movie, my first Rated R movie that I can remember. My mom let me watch anything as long I never did or repeated what was said in the movies. I remember sitting on the floor with my play nail/salon set. I was painting my nails and I remember looking up and seeing what was on the screen. It was a couple doing it...I remember being shocked/disgusted but then knew that was bad so I looked down. Is that bad that I can vividly remember that? Don't answer, haha bc I don't want to think about it.

Upstairs were 2 bedrooms, my grandma's/Pudge's and my parent's/mine. 3 BIG memories pop up, one being...my first imaginary friend, sort of. Those were very in at that time, I felt like everyone had one. I remember seeing that on TV, how characters had a made-up friend. I wanted one, yet didn't know how it worked. So, I faked it. I was like, I'll pretend to talk to someone and act out scenarios. My "friend's" name was Zachary. He only talked using the words Zachary. So there I was in my room going, Zachary zachary zachary zachary. I was so upset because I knew that's not how made-up friends worked and that I was doing it wrong. He only lasted that one day. But, what's interesting...I still do that to this day. I act out scenarios and talk out loud as if I'm talking to someone. I know it's weird but it just helps me with...idk. That's one of my things, scenarios...I play them in my head everyday, good and especially bad ones...mainly ones from high school and also the future(?)!

The next memory is a not so good one. I don't remember too much but obviously it's still stuck with me to this day. I just remember we(me and my parents) were asleep and then all of a sudden my dad was yelling at my mom. I got up really quick and I remember being frantic like I didn't know what to do: should I leave, should I get my grandma, or what? I was crying so much and just freaking out. I just vaguely remember my mom telling me to calm down or something because everything was alright. Clearly it wasn't because she looked upset. Plus, this was all in the dark so I could barely see anything. With my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I could just see my dad(angry as ever) near my mom (sad/freaked out). Then I think we went to sleep like nothing happened, with my mom cradling me to calm me down. This was my first time of many, where my parents faught.

The third memory I have is, ooooOoooOooo, paranormal...I think. One time, my mom and I were asleep at night. It was just us, because my dad was working out of town. Not sure if we heard something or what, but we both woke up. The bathroom in our room had no door, just a wide walkway (+ all carpet as flooring, which was so weird, lol). Anyways, we see a figure in the dark, our eyes were adjusted to the dark and we can both see it. 2 thoughts: We thought it was a towel that was hung there bc there was a towel rack. But, it was shaped like a person. So, we thought it was Pudge. Mainly because it was small, like a little boy. My mom called out to it and nothing. My mom pulls her phone(2005ish, flip phone?) out and takes a picture of it, with the flash on. I was so scared to see what it was, I buried my face in her back. She took the picture and there was nothing on the screen and now there's nothing there in the dark. So...who knows what it was!

So, yeah...this concludes my broadcast for tonight. I hope you enjoyed the blog entry today and the many memories I had there. What memories do you think I'll have at the next house...hmm.

Until next time,

Zelly :)