Oh. My god. We could not have been weirder children. This was like a normal thing too. Oh, we have some friends over? Let’s dress up in all this random shit and hats and masks and fucking faux fur coats and go outside (into the actual woods, it appears?) and pose for pictures? 

I’m not even young in this (I’m all the way to the left…)

brittanycarr27:

I was just informed the other day that the Rosa Restaurant has closed! Hearing this news made me, as well as my dad, incredibly sad. For as long as my dad has lived in Portsmouth, he remembers going there with his father and the little Italian woman bringing him his food. He never did get the recipe for their sauce that he loved so much. I remember the bowls used for the salad were the exact same bowls we had at one point. I remember celebrating an art contest that I won there when I was younger. I remember walking across the street after a middle school dance at the Connie Bean with Sam Stellmach and her father, the manager, giving us some food to snack on. My dad and I were just talking about going back there, but now we’ll never get another chance. I’m so sad :(

Oh my goodness, I cannot believe Rosa’s is closed. I went here with my family ALL the time when I was little, the most memorable time being this one time when I was about 4 years old. After eating my spaghetti and meatballs (same thing I ordered every time), I was eating one of the standard round red & white peppermints that they give you with your check, and mine was just chilling in my mouth and I went to take a sip of my shirley temple, at the same time my mom gave me a horrified look because she knew exactly what was about to happen…as I swallowed my drink, I also swallowed my mint and it got lodged in my throat. I barely had time to grab my throat and before I knew it, my dad had stood up, grabbed me, and flipped me upside down, and whacked me on the back until that mint flew outta my throat…and I caught it in my hand. I literally remember this scenario like it was yesterday.

I did not eat those mints for a verrrry long time after that. But we continued going to Rosa’s and ordering their awesome pizzas to eat at my dad’s since they’re right across the street up until I moved! Gonna miss this place.

Sox game starts soon and I’m decked out in SF gear? 

I had this hat when I was probably 9, it blew off my head when I was on a Rye Harbor Whale Watch cruise, and I was the saddest. I was theeee biggest tomboy as a child and wore a baseball cap every day without fail. I had a solid collection, but I always had favorites. The SF one was a favorite. So that was a sad day. Neat story. Chris just bought this hat. And I bought this shirt the other day ($1 thrift find!) and decided I wanted it to be a tank top, but now it’s just super awkward fitting. (How do people make big t-shirts- it’s really only an adult small so it’s not that big- into nice-looking tank tops? Help me.)