Katie Gives Me a Guitar

Katie Gives Me a Guitar

This was for my birthday, the 11th of February 2009, when I was turning 24 years old. My older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, got me a black round-back guitar, that actually came from the then-boyfriend Forest. I think I had duct-tape on my glasses at that time. I met Katie and my younger sister Crystal at a café in Portland, OR USA. Forest was there this time, I believe. In April, I write and perform on guitar the song Animals Are Dying.


2009
26 years old
Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

Junior Year of High School

I was home schooled until I was 15 years old in 2000 when I started attending the public Forest Grove High School (FGHS) in Forest Grove (FG)), Oregon (OR), United States of America (USA). 

The older I get, the older I get. The older I get, the older I feel.

When my junior year of high school came along, I was feeling even older and more outgoing. For English 11, I had Mrs. Bennett, where I was able to sit next to the hot beautiful Katie Dober, who may have did gymnastics with my older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, or it is like Dober's aunt (who works at our high school, where we were able to see her) or relative who knows my sister as well.

I started going to school dances on Friday nights for the first time in my life.

Little Crystal Riding Hood

My older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, got me to play the big bad wolf in a bear mask from cousin Alan Williams (or at least he recognized it once), my younger sister Crystal to play the little red riding hood, and Lisa Evers as the mother and grandma of the little red riding hood, during the day after our dad came home with a camcorder for my brother's birthday which is on the 5th of February 1996.

We made the Little Crystal Riding Hood in the afternoon of Friday, the 2nd of February 2013.

Bill & Janet Bailey

Bill & Janet Bailey.

My younger five year old sister, Crystal Ann Arnold, brought me to our park to meet her new friends, Bill & Janet Bailey, which was expected since she was meeting dozens of people from that moment on. This may have been the year that I met them, or it was 1994. Bill Bailey was my best childhood friend, which makes Tiffany Cumbo my second favorite, and Janet is possibly the 3rd favorite. I did Revolution Hawaii in 2007 - 2008. Janet ended up doing Revolution Hawaii as well some years after that. Janet follows Christ, but Bill and their sister Lisa Evers does not.

I kind of felt like we were enemies at first. They lived in trailer number 39. I lived in 163. I went to their trailer but was scared of their dog who kept on barking. Janet or Bill said that their father has a bow and arrow that he may use on me if I do not leave. I am not sure what was going on. They ended up going to our house that same day and I gave them a tour. I was friends with Bill until like 2004 or so. I last saw Janet in 2012 or so.

1995
10 years old
39, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Star Trek Generations

Star Trek Generations.

My mom took me to the Forest Grove Theatre to see the film Star Trek Generations. I remember listening to the theme song to the television show Star Trek: the Next Generation (STNG) on Saturdays since like the year 1991 or so. I think it was on Saturdays and I would so while waiting for my dad to come home. My other siblings would wait for my dad to come home. My older sister may have done it the most, or it was my brother who was the most disappointed when my dad would stay drinking and gambling at bars past our bed times. This film included the crews from the two shows. Captain James Kirk works with Captain Jean Luc Picard to save the day.

1994
9 years old
Forest Grove Theatre, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Christ Entered My Heart

Christ Entered My Heart

When I was five years old, in the year 1990, I heard Pastor Dave Webber mention how Christ knocks, and I was thinking that Jesus was only knocking on the door of just my heart and nobody else in the world, now or ever. I was paying attention at the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, OR USA.

After church, at home, I asked my mother but she was busy with baby Crystal, my younger sister. My brother led me in the prayer to ask Christ to forgive and take away my sins and to enter into my life. We did this in our room. I was looking at the heater on the ground as I said the prayer.

1990
Five years old
Forest Grove, OR USA
Joey Arnold

Family Photo 1988

I remember holding onto my yellow binoculars as we walked to the Forest Grove First Baptist Church. It was me, my brother, sister, and mother. My younger sister was not born yet and my father was most likely at work.


1988
3 years old
Forest Grove First Baptist Church: Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal