Sim City Millennium New Years

Sim City Millennium New Years

I missed the Millennium New Years of the year 2000 while playing Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) based video-game Sim City, which was made in 1995 for the SNES.

I use to see cousin Nathan Williams play this game at their house in Warrenton, Oregon USA. Nathan is the son of my mother's sister. Nathan would use cheat codes that would give him millions of dollars for building super cities of all your heart desires.

On December 31st (of the year 1999, I believe), I was playing Sim City. I was going to stop so I could count down into the next millennium , but I lost track of the time and it already a new century and millennium and year.

I comedically thought, and may have said something like, "Oh well, I guess I have wait until next year, or I mean until next decade, or I mean next century, or next millennium, and then I will be ready."

Cool Kid in 1999

Cool Kid in 1999.

I was playing basketball at our park, which is a few houses from my house, or I mean trailer. This is in my neighborhood, the Rose Grove, in Forest Grove, Oregon USA. I was playing with white-skin Randy, Joe, and brown-skin Hispanic Elder. It started raining. I slid in the rain with my sneakers but I made some shots. They would call me kid. They would see me do things and they would say cool. I was a kid. I was cool. You put the two words together and that is what they started calling me. Either Randy or Elder named me the Cool Kid. Later I would have other nicknames like Ghetto Joe, Joe Dirt, Tweety, Joe Cool. Randy, his brother Joe, and Elder did drugs sometimes. They may have went to jail a few times, or I am not sure.

June 1999
14 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

Family Trip to Warrenton

Family Trip to Warrenton.

My dad drove me and the rest of the family to Warrenton, Oregon USA, so we could see our aunt and uncle, Karen and Jim Williams, and their kids, Nathan and Allan. This may have been the year that my dad drove us the long way, through Tillamook, which took around four hours instead of an hour or two. My mom had to go to the bathroom. She could not hold it. We went to a lake with our relatives. We went to the beach. Later, dad drove me and our family to the Astoria Columns (a tower on top of a hill) in Astoria, Oregon USA. I got lost there when I was 10 years old or so. This was one of our last trips together as a family besides maybe the year 2004 or 2005 or so.

August 1996
11 years old
Warrenton, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Bhakti & Juya Sa

Bhakti & Juya Sa.

Brian and his son, Brian, and his other son, and his wife, lived next door to us, in unit 164. In 1993, Bhakti & Juya Sa moved in and they started climbing our tree. Their ancestors may have been from India or something. I would play with them all of the time. They lived with their sister and younger baby brother and mom and dad. They did follow Hindu or something. They started going to our Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon, USA. Their dad was abusive. In 1994 or so, they suddenly moved to their grandparents house, or relatives, in Seattle, Washington USA, in order to get away from their dad. The father may have sexually abused his own daughter.

They were one of my favorite childhood friends of all time, alongside of Tiffany & Michael Cumbo, and Bill & Janet Bailey.

August 1993
8 years old
164, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches.

Before I was Oatmeal, I was the Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches (PB&J) Boy, because I would always make myself some like a few each day and our neighbors would say something like, "Every time I see you, you are eating one of those." I may have been caught picking my nose a few times. Is tarted to stop that around this time in 1992 when I was 7 years old. The father, at the trailer next to us, in unit 164, built a play structure, which had a fort, swings, slide, and a few things like that. I enjoyed going there to play with the kids, Brian and Erin. Tiffany Cumbo started like dating Brian, which kind of made me jealous.

I was eating lots of spaghetti in 1991 when I was 6 years old. In 1992, when I was 7 years old, I started eating PB&J. in 1993, when I was 8 years old, I started cooking and eating pots-full of oatmeal.

1992
7 years old
164, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Spaghetti

Spaghetti

Before I was oatmeal, I was the Spaghetti Boy when I was 6 years old in the year 1991. The next year, I fell in love with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (PB&J). I would be playing in the front yard, near the big oak tree. My mother would call me through the kitchen window.

Spaghetti would get me into the house sooner.

1991
Six years old
Joey Arnold
Forest Grove, Oregon, USA

Humming

Humming.

I started Humming in 1988 when  was 3 years old, if not sooner. I could keep the melody but I was not able to talk or sing well. My younger sister was the opposite. She would remember the words to a song and sing it off tune. I can sing it on tune but with the wrong words. I was able to hum.

1988
3 years old
163: Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Loner

Loner.

The younger I was, the more alone I was. I was in my own fantasy world. I would pretend that my hands were people. I started playing the game Power Rangers in 1993 or so. In other words, I would play by myself. I would run around and pretend that sticks were spaceships. The older I got, the more I begin socializing with others. I was crawling in the dirt and on the floor early on.

1987
2 years old
163: Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal