Thursday, 06-29-00; 11:07 PM

19th birthday. Went out to eat, had some cake, slept a good deal of the day. No big whoop.

And now, The Official List of Crap Found While Cleaning Out Michael's Room (which is probably more amusing if you're one of us):

- dead watch battery
- countless empty pencil lead containers
- gum wrappers, some with animal tattoos on them
- school papers, from 7th grade
- an unopened spork
- half of a chewed-on straw
- 1998 Easter Nerds
- razors (randomly scatered in a drawer)
- bits of cardboard
- wee, plastic basketball hoops, from Taco Bell
- chunk of wall paneling
- "Shaq it Up to Rack it Up" POG {see here}
- "One Game to Go!" sign from the '96 MLB play-offs
- non-working fuses
- dry markers
- receipt for batteries, from 11/25/96
- Fanny May chocolate, from 1996
- Jurassic Park Command Compound instructions (c. 1995)
- non-winning Coke bottle cap game pieces
- tip of a pool cue (and elsewhere, the rest of the pool cue)
- commemorative medallion from the 1996 US Olympic Yachting Team
- Santa foil
- broken keys from Eric's "Leading Tecgnology" computer
- pumpkin carver
- used Band-aid from Michael's fifth grade shot
- teeth
- Return of the Jedi belt buckle
- gum, from a pack of '94 baseball cards
- a starfish
- "Soccer is a Real Kick!" pencil
- Mutant Trilogy: Special Edition video label
- 1993 St. Louis Cardinals pencil
- broken yo-yo
- plastic bag with a fuse inside
- Executor! (?)
- 1996 calendar
- staples
- green bear eraser
- Bill! (a finger puppet monster thing)
- Ren & Stimpy birthday card
- old TV control panel cover
- a round TUIT
- Jurassic Park and Star Wars action figure boxes
- boards, with nails in them
- mystery seed
- blank discs
- unused, expired single-use camera
- string
- Goosebumps toys from Taco Bell
- chewed, 7 mm pencil lead containers
- the pound key and 4 key from the Commodore 64
- a paper towel, with a container of broken plastic glue
- Biker Mice from Mars baseball bat
- water-hardened Playbill from the Les Mis 3NT, 02/99 (it got drenched in Michael's leaking closet)
- baseball cards, glued into chunks from getting wet
- bent, defaced David Justice card (in a plastic card protector) {see here}
- countless 8-tracks
- Michael Ball BBC ad
- "Squid Head" box from Venture, $2.79
- Michael's 7th grade planner
- "goat BP" water bottle
- Dino Bone Fossils
- broken pencil sharpener
- spider glitter
- piece of a Playbill (glued to the wall)
- EFX ad from Eric's hotel room in Vegas
- records (Lawrence Welk!)
- spider, on Michael's leg
- generic cream soda can
- darts & tips
- wheel to rolling storage container
- dental floss
- Pookie cartoon notebook
- Cardinals "score-at-home" sheets
- 7th grade schedule
- "Journey Captured" record
- "Protozoans" mobile
- Mom's belt
- Panasonic computer (c. 1984)
- CD holder, made by Michael in shop class
- Easter baskets
- PEZ collection
- many a plastic person (army dudes, fireman, cowboys, bikini girls, Bazooka Joe Gumrunners; also, animals, planes, etc.)
- laughing Poppin' Fresh
- dead batteries
- bag of nuts
- shredded paper bag, with hair
- broken headset speaker things
- decomposing roach
- mini-jukebox
- discs, empty boxes
- bottomless Dairy Queen cup
- broken remote to the old TV
- empty Aquafina bottle
- 2000 NCAA Tournament brackets
- 70's Peanuts thermose
- Whitman's Sampler Snoopy candy (Christmas, 1998)
- root bottle
- $30 worth of casino chips
- newspaper article we kept, because it looked like there was a giant ear of corn running through the streets
- newspaper picture we kept, because it looked like the guy in the photo had Chewbacca in the back of his head {see here}
- unopened mail from the US Soccer Foundation
- piece of the old bathroom door knob
- water, purchased in Indiana in 1998
- Glade plug-in
- glow-in-the-dark bouncing eyeball
- early 80's cayenne pepper
- empty Binaca
- teepee
- wooden flute thing
- chewed on piece of window blinds
- Beckett Baseball Monthly, July '96
- 1980's glitter baton
- drawing, by me
- the original Mutant, from The Mutant Trilogy
- two matches with tape
- The Pocket Book of POG ("It doesn't take much to go POG-wild!")
- Mega Eggs gum
- lightswitch cover
- three different tickets to the August 14, 1998 Cardinals vs. Pirates game

The amazing thing is that I bothered to write this down.

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