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What is an important item from your childhood, and where is it now....

    As Christmas is approaching quickly, and having turned 40 years of age this year, I was thinking that I have had 39 Christmas days, with the 40th happening in two weeks. I think back on all of the things I have received for Christmas, and what it would look like with every Christmas present I ever received was all in the living room on Christmas morning.          As I think back on all of the great memories and times spent with family, there are some presents that stand out the most in my memory. One was my first guitar, which I got when I was 14, almost 15, years old, and I still have it in my parent's unfinished basement, that is used for storage. I haven't played that guitar in years, but it's the one I first had, and spent hours upon hours teaching myself how to play. A couple years later, I got an electric guitar, and two years after that, I got a guitar pedal effects board so I could play different songs with different sounds. I now have a be...

Five things I saw today that I either liked or hated....

      So, my writing prompt from today was "Describe five things you saw that you didn't like, and a couple you did like. I am also timed on this prompt. so the clock starts now.     When I woke up earlier today, my dad was babysitting my cute little niece, Sophie, and they were playing a cute little game I bought for Elliot and me to play when Elliot was between three and six years old. I don't know if my dad was letting her win, but she kept winning, and her laugh was so funny, and so sweet.      I have been going in and donating plasma so that I can make a few extra bucks so that when I take Elliot to Disneyland in January, I will have a little nest egg of money for food and to let Elliot build a little Star Wars Droid at Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland, but the thing I hate most about that place is when they stick the needle in your arm, and even though it hurts for under a second, it still has a nasty sting. I am getting used to it now, but I hat...