21: gift

i can't recall the first gift i ever received. i do remember a few from my childhood, mostly because i still have them now. one is a stuffed horse named jumper that i loved to desecration, where it still remains. another is a grey bunny whom i lost several times, but always managed to show up again a few months later at someone else's house. there was a windup micky mouse toy as well... i think this was probably the earliest. it had wheels and would move its hands back and forth as it traveled across the floor. i don't understand how anyone could be intrigued by this.

i played with k'nex a lot growing up. i think my kids will too. i also played with wooden building blocks. in kindergarten we built a tower out of blocks as high as we could. it probably wasn't as high as i remember it to be, because i was short. it doesn't seem so fantastic now. but back to my original infatuation: k'nex. they're awesome. i could build anything from racing cars to ferris wheels; i did. i still have them in fact, and fight off the temptation to play with them every time i go home. they're a pain to clean up.