Apryl goes to School

I may not remember important things like when I ate my last piece of cheesecake or where I was the day Martha Stewart went to prison, but I clearly remember my first day of kindergarten. Grandma Claudine took my picture in my new outfits everyday before I left for school. On the first day, I wore a blue dress with white circles and in each circle was a red flower and one green leaf. The dress had a white collar with a lace trim. I wore white tights and black patent leather shoes and carried a black patent leather purse that had a long gold chain. That dress met its fate in a painting accident later that day.

I thought each flower deserved more than one leaf, so while we were learning how to paint, I added green leaves to nearly every flower on the front of my dress. What?! The teacher said the paint would come out and I thought it would be nice to 'fix' my dress. Apparently, the paint didn't just wash right out and my mother gave that pretty dress to my teacher as a gift to commemorate my new found artistic abilities.

The other significant event I remember about the first day of school was the homework. Yeah, I know...right! The assignment wasn't actually meant to be a homwork assignment, it was supposed to be an in-class writing assignment. I just couldn't get it finished in time because everytime I made a mistake, I ripped up my paper and started all over again. Who knew this would be a foreshadowing of two significant aspects of my adult life: my innate ability to turn a simple task into a complicated one and my obsessive cumpulsion over seeemingly trivial matters. I think the most important thing I lerned in school that day was that even kindergarteners need erasers, whether for clothing or paper.

Decision to chronicle life experiences

So yeah, life has been pretty eventful so far. My brother, Carl calls me up one day and asks if I want to write a book about our life and what has happened so far. I agree that it could be interesting. We have lived through some crazy stuff. I know it may not be a bestseller and, in fact, we may be the only ones who ever read it, but I think it will give us a lot of closure and it may even be a very therapeutic experience. At any rate, it will be a great journey that we can take together. Anyone for a road trip?