Avens ([info]practicallyfame) wrote,
@ 2006-06-10 00:10:00
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Current mood: amused
Current music:B-52s
Entry tags:childhood, imagination, lava, memories

Haha
This is Brok's fault, 'cause he reminded me...

When I was a kid we used to play this game called "The Floor Is Lava". Someone would yell "the floor is lava!" and immediately you'd have to jump onto furniture and get around the room or house without touching the floor. My mother liked to say it was to exercise my imagination, but looking back, it was just 'cause we were poor, so all I had WAS my imagination.

Me: "Hey Mum, I'm bored... can we get that new Nintendo system?"
Mum: "The floor is lava, kids!"
Us: "AAAAGH!" [jumps]

...

And when I was a kid - I used to play the B-52s really loudly whilst I jumped around. Don't ask why. But I'd just put the tape on automatic-switch-sides and listen to it over and over again until Mum made me go play outside.

I also used to make tents out of blankets and chairs. I miss that.


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[info]the__seeker
2006-06-10 04:47 am UTC (link)
I used to refer to myself as Morg and tie wool around everything. From time to time the females in my family go crazy about knitting, and my early childood was one of those times, so i'd swipe a couple of balls and make these huge, elaborate spiders webs that touched every peice of furniture in the room, then i would lie on the ground and growl at passers-by.



...i cant believe i only just remembered all of that. Weird. I also did the blankets-and-chairs thing. Or my brother and i would push two sofas face to face and hold wrestling matches on them. Whenever i played outside i would either scramble up to the highest possible point in the nearest tree, or build tiny cities out of sticks and stones, and dig little rivers and canals and lakes for them and fill them using the garden hose. I never destroyed them though, some would stay intact for weeks.

Then i started going to school, and my childhood was forever ruined. Le sigh.

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[info]practicallyfame
2006-06-10 05:22 am UTC (link)
We had a dead-end street next door to my house, my friends and I would draw a mini-street in chalk around the street (complete with blocks, a gas station, a parking lot, a police station, one ways, stop signs, and so on). We'd drive around with our bikes, someone would be the cop, and we'd have to drive around and obey speeding limits and stuff. Which, looking back, was really stupid. But we loved it.

My favourite thing ever though was being Harriet the Spy. I kept a notebook, climbed trees and wrote about what I saw up there. :-D

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[info]eggplant
2006-06-10 05:37 am UTC (link)
When I was 7, at my day-care, we had a parking lot where we could play kickball. One summer, all we did was we made the Pigeon Forge, Tennesee amusement park DOLLYWOOD in chalk (spokeswoman? Dolly Parton). You had rides and rollercoasters that you walked. People sold things in booths (we 'painted' rocks with chalk and traded them), and you could buy drinks (little cups of cooler-water) at food stands.

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[info]the__seeker
2006-06-10 03:03 pm UTC (link)
That settles it, if i have kids i'm never buying them toys!

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[info]eggplant
2006-06-10 05:01 am UTC (link)
I was babysitting my five-year-old cousin and we made a fort using three huge white sheets, several pillows, a big blue conforter, a couch, a table, and a recliner.

It had rooms. One for me to sleep and be the lookout. Another for my little cousin to sleep and be the OTHER lookout. And another for the KY-OH-TEAZE [sic]. We were bank robbers. My little sister (age 15, I'm 19) was making quesidillas, and we stole her cheese and hit it with the ky-owe-teaze. Then we stole my cat from my sister and turned it into a ky-owe-tea.

I'd babysit forever to keep myself young.

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[info]eggplant
2006-06-10 05:15 am UTC (link)


I also used to love to play post office. We had this toy that I am searching desperately for. We also had a huge matteress with two slots in it. I wrote letters that looked like: and we put them in envelopes that looked like: . We had a huge blue stamp, and then you stamped it. And god, was it fun.

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[info]chicken_foot
2006-06-10 08:53 am UTC (link)
.........I made dolls from wooden spools, pretended they were children in an orphanage, and took care of them.

..........ISN'T IT SAD THAT TODAY CHILDREN HAVE ELECTRONICS TO ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES! Each of you have an experience that involved creative thought and having read your journals for a long time----each of you are intelligent, possibly brilliant!
Perhaps economic deprevation is a positive thing. Those with more economic opportunities don't always have the opportunity to explore the depth of creative exploration brought on by necessity.

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[info]adigitalpimp
2006-06-10 10:01 am UTC (link)
Daniel Tosh called.

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[info]adigitalpimp
2006-06-10 10:02 am UTC (link)
Okay, so in all fairness I used to borrow from his act myself.

Was it even intentional, or did you just hit on a similiar joke by chance?

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[info]practicallyfame
2006-06-10 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Who's Daniel Tosh?

(I'm serious. No clue.)

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[info]adigitalpimp
2006-06-10 05:25 pm UTC (link)
One of my favorite Comedians.

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[info]drusilladom
2006-06-10 01:11 pm UTC (link)
I played both the lava game and made forts out of pillows/blankets. One funny game I used to play as a kid was actually with Katie (Martin) where we'd live in her tree house and pretend (don't ask me why) to be Jews running from the Nazis...Yeah, I had a weird childhood.

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[info]practicallyfame
2006-06-10 05:09 pm UTC (link)
OMG. Me too. (Jews running from Nazis). Ooooh, and pretending to be girls running from an evil stepmother. We'd climb out a window at the house and run around the backyard hiding in bushes.

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when I come to visit-
[info]cyclothemia
2006-06-10 04:12 pm UTC (link)
we could totally make a pillow/blanket fort. :)

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Re: when I come to visit-
[info]practicallyfame
2006-06-10 05:09 pm UTC (link)
OMG YEAH

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[info]mycorethoughts
2006-06-10 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Even those of us whose parents were relatively well-off enjoyed using our imaginations. ;-)

Like they say, buy a kid a $300 toy, and they'll spend hours playing with the box it came in.

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presents
[info]ryanhirschsucks
2006-06-11 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Parents: "well Ryan, do you either want a nintendo, or that surgery on your cat?"

me: "my cat!"

Parents: "Well, crap, we allready bought you the nintendo."

me: "cries."

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[info]empressith
2006-06-12 03:42 pm UTC (link)
My friend Sara did make a fort once for a few weeks. It was awesome. She's my age.

And the floor is lava is everyone's favorite game as a kid.

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