The main events in our friendship
Well, since Trish composed this awesome list, I'm indebted to put it on the page...
The Early Years
Meeting at Boy Scout meetings
Sewing at Boy Scout meetings
Boy Scout Tag Sale
Clay class at Tokeneke
Birthday sleepovers (When our parents still let us have parties)
"He's got a camera aimed at us in the addition!" - Megan's 8th birthday party
The Barbie talent show
"Leg, leg-a-leg, leg" - Andrea Clark, Trish's 9th birthday party
The Gift Shop from Hell! (what was it doing in the rafters?)
Hiding from Danielle and Katie in the basement at Red Rose Circle
Those wonderful pictures we drew of people and kitties...
Trish trying to throw everything I own out and calling it cleaning
Tokeneke and Hindley
Playing The Legend of Zelda
Dress up in Megan's clothes!
The Middle School Years- Trish in Greenwich
Phone bills
"Hello, Smilyface Insane Asylum, Megan speaking, how may I help you?"
"You hang up first." "No, you." for 20 minutes
"Bye, Bi!"
1-800-(insert something dirty)
Watching Animanics on the phone
Nick at Night at two in the morning
SNICK!
"This is the phone police!"
"The magical elves took it!"
AOL!
"Can I go on AOL?"
"Where did Mr. Toast Boy go?"
Mark Stucky, the cow guy - "I'm the cow god, kneel before me and suck my milk."
Emily's house and that time on CompuServe
Six years of truth or dare; The question - "Who would you rather have sex with, Chris Anderson or the ugly, smelly swamp monster who..."
Trish's seventh/Megan's sixth grade sicko stage
"Jamie and Phil..."
Blowing up ants in the microwave with Emily
Singing (Trish can't stop! Help me!)
"Highlander!"
Volenteering (Jingle Bells- "Don't quit your day job.")
Antenni
The Varsity Club - Laser Tag and stealing tickets - "I'm the decoy!"
Deep-rooted fear of alien abduction - "They're going to abduct me!" and "There could be a gray right there."
Trick or treating - sugar highs and Danielle the devil
Native American sign langauge - "Buffalo teepee!"
"AMERICAN GIRLS!"
The American girl fashion shows
American Girl "testing" - "ECO, $22"
The American Girls display at 666 Fifth Avenue, NYC
"You owe me ten ribbons."
"Now the official ribbon length is this long, so I have to re-cut all my old ribbons."
Toliet paper rolls and tissue boxes
The Ouiji board
Seeing Clueless and going to the mall after
Ten dollars in change and buying doughnuts with it
Encounters and cow mutilations
"Do you believe there's a huge government coverup on aliens?" to the army guy
"Will you play army men with me?"
"Save the cow (and the goat)!" - Megan and Trish during Colin's army game
Plays, plays, plays...
Eric!!
"Amish Paradise" - "Weird Al" Yankovic and other Amish stuff
Our short-lived Theater Club and all the grandious plans.
"The CLUB club."
The Lea Leach Show:
"Look it's letting down a laser beam. It's flying away. Bye bye!"
"We're scary ghosts!"
"My shawl! I must've left it here during that film forgeries show."
"Help, I need cue cards! I'm melting!"
Megan coming to Central Middle School on the last day, and skipping classes (gym, science)
"I don't believe we've been properly introduced." - Carrie
"A whole new world..." and other Disney song interpretations
The hidden sexy messages in the movies
Disney conspiracy - they're trying to take over the world I tell you!
'96 Olympic gymnastics - Shannon's jealous, Nemov - "Clap for me!", Domi and Alexei forever, "Daddy, and World Champion."
My Godspell cast party, getting a ride home with Maggie's neighbor at 4:00am
"I'm never going to drink, it's more fun to watch everybody else get smashed." (hey, it lasted until the end of senior year Meg!)
The Carmel Years
Nick/Jer/Tas
Summer of Nick ('97)
The "conversation" with 'huggies' and 'snugglies' (you'll never live that down Megan)
Whatever happened to RTanglemop?
"Nrrff!" - Gavroche
The shadow affair - me and Nick
Me "stealing" Nick away
Threeway phone conversations until 3:00am
"Patricia I didn't hear the phone ring."
"Nick I want you." and Mom walks in
"May I please speak to Nick?" "No you may not." Megan and Mrs. Comparone, 1:00am
The guestbook
Mike, cult member #4
"Trish is God" and other various incarnations of Nick's webpage "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch"
The saga of Lake Compounce - "I just happened to drop by (second day)" - Nick
"Them? They were shorter than Mikey, they couldn't be more than twelve!"
"Remedial English boy."
Me stealing his guestbook and message board
"Oh damn, I clicked yes didn't I? Oh well."
What, Nick might be going to Boston too? Hmmm...
The Vampire Chronicles - "They're gay you know Nick." "No, they're just friendly."
The problems with Geminis
"Oh Tasy..."
Tas's "version" of Lake Compounce and me totally freaking out
"You were licking cotton candy out of his ear and gave them hand jobs on the ride." "WHAT!?!?!"
Tas... can he ever tell the truth?
Me going from hating Tas to loving him to death
"Trish, you are such a huge flirt, you flirt with everyone."
Me not meeting him
Absolute Truth:
"Pass." and "I'm not playing!"
Bestiality questions - "Those are outlawed!"
"Tas, Nick or Jer?"
Road trip to the Waterbury Mall we kept on planning
Silky vs. Rug debate
7 1/2" vs. 4"
"Break up already!"
"Cher's old and evil."
"How does it taste...?"
Jer rules, nuff said
Jer, our favorite person to talk to online
Nick beat us on the Purity Test... "Has he had sex? It has to be that model he's dating!"
Tas coming to the Tatums' for a week - he even cleaned the kitchen!
Aug '99 - me finally meeting Tas:
"Your hair is fabulous."
The non-alcoholic wine coolers
Visiting my old house
Absolute Truth for hours on the porch with Cher and Vengaboys
After 2 years... Megan and Tas end...
"He gets very honest when he's drunk, but I can't tell you what he said."
Darien prom '99 (to occur)
Carmel Stuff
Adventures in Patterson Park:
swimming
snapping turtles
the pond
daisy chains
planting goldenrod
the caretaker
those guys from Newton, CT (near Southington)
The Danbury Mall - You walking around with that stupid bear
Wiring the mall - "Free samples!"
Checking the arcades... just in case
The Halloween store, the million and one wenches, and Captain Condom
'98 Pops Concert - "I was rolling around in the dirt outside." - Ed
Assassins/Mission: Impossible
Gymnastics - Melissa and Troy, Melissa's guy friends
Breaking my ankle
School gymnastics - finally breaking all those records I said I would.
"Kill her Trish. I told you to kill her before."
Graduation parties (especially Ed's)...
Trish's Guys
My ever-lasting crushes (see Eric)
"I hate Chris, really, I hate him."
"I like Ed, like him Trish, he's awesome."
Stuffed animal guy
Junior year - "I have another senior guy for you Megan!"
Who was it all senior year...
All those guys I know and talk about - "Too many, argh!" (Megan implodes)
"You don't have a bear." "I could if I wanted one."
I own McDonald's and Pergaments
"Do the Pergament guys ever do work?"
It all started with Mike Clifford... (who I always seem to bump into when I'm home!)
Mike Clifford-Chris C-Andrew-Will-Paul-Doug-Dean (?)-Victor-John-Mike Cammorata
Stalkers #1-#3
"Stalker vs. stalker"
The military ball
Brewster prom:
puking in the limo
the infamous stretch hummer ("For the last time, it wasn't our limo!")
"Dance closer."
"Don't you want to sit down and talk for a while?" "No."
Cheesy dance queen of the cruise!
the ghetto music.
Andrew's scary - all those poems...
"Trish's only fault is her taste in music."
Dropping by your house with Will one Saturday
Sitting in the parking lot with Will for three hours, and Mom and Dad freaking out
Summer of '99 - hanging out with Victor and Pete Lefemina
"I can't believe you like root beer too!"
Victor's graduation party and meeting Peter
"Guess what! I finally have a boyfriend!" "WHAT!?!?"
The long and detailed descriptions of the hooking up... from both me and Peter at the same time...
"You don't even really like the guy!" "Uh, yes I do."
"I'm catching up Megan!"
My crisis over his virginity and ending up being right... the bastard... guess Tas was right all along...
Second day of college - "All these guys, and I can't go out with any of them!"
Breaking up with Peter when he was up here visiting me... "Trish, I could see it coming, you didn't like me having a long-distance relationship."
Jay for most of freshman year.
Musicals
Les Miz vs. Phantom
Our performance of Phantom
Guys and Dolls and Once Upon a Mattress
Ryan! (King and Harry the Horse)
Suzanne
Worshipping Kate
Cyrus, and that senior sketch
"Who would've predicted the Spanish Inquistion?"
Hanging out backstage for Guys and Dolls
Copies, copies, copies of musicals
What did I do with my Camelot tape? Instead it was The People vs. Larry Flynt
TV/Movies
The He-Man and She-Ra Movie!
The Last Unicorn
The Kilborne clan- "He's so cute."
"Can you get me a copy of Rainbow Brite?"
Trish and Spaceballs - watching it 1001 times - "How can you not have a copy of Spaceballs Trish?"
Watching Titanic and cracking up - "Well they were old..."
The Titanic plan (you still have to do that, hehe)
Internet/Computer Stuff
That first weekend, you and me working on your webpage
Have enough webpages Megan?
The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide
How could we live without Geocities?
E-mails of death!!
The infamous Nick Don't Look page
Mariposa and Equinox- "But Mariposa is so pretty, it means butterfly."
The never-ending search for ribbons and booties - if you don't have them, you're never going to have them
"My I-Mac's pink, not icky beige."
"You can't always dedicate the page to you!" "But Nick did!"
College and me discovering the magic of away messages... "Oh magic 8 ball, is Trish there?"
Other
Raistlin is the best! (he's my idol)
My love of Calculus senior year
Those diary/notebooks sophomore/freshman year
"Megan, how dare you have a $50 phone bill?"
Going outside on New Year's Eve 1998, "The Spirit of Christmas", and Colin and I setting off sparklers inside
free food at McDonald's, and me stealing Nerds
80's childhood!
Turning the Furby upside-down
My apocolypse and naked dreams - "What was I doing in your dream? Were you wearing clothes in this one?"
New Year's Eve 1999:
we're going to find something to do whether we like it or not!
watching all those high school prom chick flicks
playing with my Furby!
College Stuff
My first day agenda - "Unpack, join cult, get laid."
ZBT - Brandeis's "Zany Bagel Tasters" - "I like bagels, can I join?"
Trish's going to go away and become a total skank
"I want to go to college now! Nooo, one more year!"
this section to be continued...
Tales of Trish, Deroy, and North (aka Scheffres 1st)
"I want play!" "You're going to go hook-up at one of those UMass parties, I know you will, and you're going to bring me to one."