Senior Memories
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One of the things I did when I was home last week was look at what I had in my parents’ attic. I was specifically looking for the Anne of Green Gable books, which I found, but I also found something even more exciting: my senior memory book. I stayed up late Thursday night just reading through it…I was so blunt!
Being a good blogger, I recognized that I had a gem on my hands. What follows are just a few of the things I found inside this book.
There is 370 people in my class at the beginning of the year…
This was on the first page. Yikes; already starting out on the wrong foot.
I say that because I think that she is a flake…
Advisor who? I say that because Mrs. B**** was a ditz who knew nothing.
I don’t think I’d say these things these days.
This page will be kind of dumb. I dream about all sorts of stuff, but I think it wants specific goals. I want to be a meteorology major at OU, as well as receiving my masters and doctorate. I’ll be able t o predict tornadoes with enough time to evacuate the effected [sic] areas ahead of time (okay – pushing it, but it’s a dream!). I will never get married until I am, and have no children, if not adopt them from a poor country.
Umm, what? I think I was saying I would never get married until I’m a big time meteorologist. Still, I always wanted to get married, but apparently I was willing to sacrifice that to be a top dog in the meteorology world. I guess I won’t be getting married, then.
I admire most of all Jesus and try to mirror him, though I do a horrible job. I suppose I also admire my parents, but don’t tell them that!
I would like to meet Jesus (and will someday) and also George Orwell [isn't he dead?], Nelson Mandella, Toni Morrison, and Collin Raye. I wouldn’t mind meeting Lance from N*SYNC, Will Smith, or Ben Afflick cuz they are so hot!
Oh, that makes me laugh!
My most embarrassing moment was probably when I “surfed” the bleachers after a pep assembly by tripping over Anne’s heel.
I forgot about that! It was so painful as I hit my, uhh, chest, on several of the bleachers as I was surfing down.
I really enjoy watching basketball of any kind, as long as guys are playing.
I hadn’t yet found my love of football.
[My brother] Riley is a big butt a lot, but only when he wants to be.
Totally true to this day.
The only thing that I remembered from the homecoming game was that it was rained out. All of the pit’s clothes were in the cargo van which was out by the field in a huge patch of mud. Once got it to the gate, it was blocked by the superintendent’s car, illegally.
Good times, good times. The only thing I remember about it now was that I cried.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am
That’s hilarious! I wish I had such documentation of my high school years.
And now I know what your most embarrassing moment was, too!
December 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Isn’t it amazing what we forget?! That’s so fun to go back and see what you wrote. lol!
December 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am
That was fun. Now I’ll definitely have to go looking for my memory book. It’s all I have of my senior year. My yearbook got lost years ago, much to my chagrin.
That part about surfing down the bleachers? I also had a pep rally “incident”. I was up at the top of the bleachers, and the pep band was above in the balcony. As the principal began to say a prayer to close, something went awfully wrong up in the balcony, and a drum fell on my head.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
How fun that you found this!
December 4th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
LOL…
I like this one: I suppose I also admire my parents, but don’t tell them that!
December 5th, 2008 at 7:11 am
What a cool find. I always wish I would have kept some kind of memory book/diary growing up!
December 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Yeah, I’ve tried to block out high school all together. Funny, I wanted to be a meteorology/storm chaser that went to OU too! I even emailed Gary England to ask him questions about meteorology. Too much math involved :) haha
December 6th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Oh that is too funny. I can’t imagine the dumb stuff I’d find in my memory book. I think I am embarrassed just thinking about it.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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Thanks for sharing…and providing me with ideas for my upcoming blog posts! I guess I’m sitting on some comic gems with all my old journals. Have to start pludering!
I’m commenting down by your list of Books Recently Read and saw Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I just wrote about that book on my book blog (Difficult Childhoods) and was happy to see you had read it. Oh…and I loved My Sister’s Keeper too. My favorite Picoult book.