People love memories. It's how we cherish them that makes us unique from everyone else. Some people keep photo albums, some people make scrapbooks. For me and Kelsey, my best friend and roommate, we keep our memories on a wall. Not like pictures, but items we find in our travels and outings together.
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This all started sophomore year of college. Kelsey lived one floor above me in the same big "33" room in Summit. She came across a particularly unusual paper sign and decided to take it and pinned it to her wall next to her huge vanity mirror. Thus began the Wall of Randomness. Everywhere we went from there on out, we looked for something to capture the excitement or adventure for the day in more than just a Kodak moment. Sometimes the items found us. Her wall grew and the time came to pack up the memories into a shoebox and find a new place to live for the next two years.
Kelsey and I moved into a house with a third person in May of 2006. I was enrolled in summer classes and Kelsey was working a pharmacy internship/rotation for the school in our home town of Wheeling, West Virginia. She came to visit me the last weekend of May for a local band's last concert ever. The minute she arrived, we discussed the continuation of the old tradition. Luckily, that night, it was a good one to remember. This started our Wall of Randomness which shoots up the staircase to the second floor and just to the point of the huge Mario Lemieux poster next to the bathroom door.
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It's now May of 2008. Kelsey and I are ready to pack up and move again. This time we have two whole years worth of memories to take off and shove into boxes. We spent $40 in thumb tacks (push pins as one of my former roommates always called them) and strained ourselves physically and sometimes legally to obtain some of the items on our wall.
We're drinking our Bud Lights, listening to the AOL Holiday Party Mix (it's so bad, it's good), We were being rowdy and sad at the same time. We started tearing down the items which started the wall...
The Most Unlikely Superhero
Our House
My Birthday
Where I Come From
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