Some of my favorite quotes are:
8/15/95 "I think I need to become a stronger Christian. I hope God helps me."
8/20/95 FIVE days later. "I got a fake ID today"
7/15/95 "So, Robin, Lydia, Jamie, Bill, Steve, Chris, and Aaron are spending the night. I wonder what we'll eat for breakfast." Huh???
7/13/95 "I need some time to heal this precious heart of mine." Oh someone help. I am laughin so so hard!! Precious heart of mine???? I wonder if the sleepover helped?
7/11/95 "He is not really my kinda guy but I don't want him to not feel accepted so I guess we can hang out." SOMEONE SLAP ME SILLY!!!!!!!!!
4/22/95 "I mean seriously how much do people really ever look at a biology grade when you go to get a job?"
9/21/94 "Janette really likes Dan. I think I'll break up with him for her. I mean we're not really an item yet. That's how good of a friend she is!" WHAT?
7/9/94 "Today at work I was responsible for a lady in a wheelchair. I forgot I had her, and when I turned around she was gone. Never did find her." Hmm
7/3/94 "I want to be a missionary."
7/12/94 "I want to a bartender."
6/16/94 "Woke up at 11. Called Allison to see if she wanted to go shop. She like had to be at work at 6. That would not be enough time. Going back to sleep."
April 1995 - "People need to chill. It is not like I got a tattoo or have an STD." I like how I put those in the same category.
But the thing that had me gigglin all night was the list of
99 Things I Want to Do Before I Am 40.
Why 40? Cause in my 18-year-old mind "40" and "Before I Die" were synonymous.
But notice the name of the list. Then notice the total amount of items on the list. That is all I am sayin.
Read and laugh at me as hard as I laughed at myself.
99 Things I Want To Do Before I Am 40
- Find my soul mate
- Make a difference
- Visit Paris
- Kiss in the rain
- Adopt a baby
- Own a cell phone (giggle)
- Graduate (high goal here - just graduate)
- Floss daily (huh?)
- Have a beautiful wedding
- Spend more on my honeymoon than I should
- Make someone proud
- Understand myself
- Eat spaghetti in Italy (spaghetti? really???)
- Climb the Statue of Liberty
- Go to a Yankees game
- Live in the mountains
- Hike a mountain (kinda goes w/ #16)
- Go white water rafting (that's how I'll get down from the mountain)
- Shoot a gun (in the mountains?)
- Ski in Colorado
- Camp in Yellowstone
- Play the piano
- Watch a lightening storm from the ocean
- Go skinny dipping
- See Niagara Falls
- Make a three point shot
- Go to a championship game
- Coach a team (so so specific)
- Change someone's life
- Sky dive
- Cry til I can cry no more(why?? why not laugh??)
- Have babies
- Be someone's boss (how bout first GET A JOB)
- Let someone have the week off, just cause
- Eat sushi
- Eat caviar
- Look sophisticated (not BE sophisticated, just look it)
- Be sexy to someone (anyone will do)
- Dance and smile (like rub your belly and pat your head?)
- Have an open home (for sale?)
- Sleep under the stars
- Still have my real teeth (WHAT??)
- Catch a fish and eat it
- Hold someone as they cry
- Stay up all night cause I don't want a moment to stop
- Drive a convertible (shoulda said OWN)
- Sail a boat
- Lead someone to Jesus
- Forgive
- Vote for president of the United States
- Thank a soldier (why I married IJ)
- Have a briefcase (giggle)
- Host Saturday Night Live (SWEEEEET)
- Kiss at the Empire State Building
- Surprise myself (like a party?)
- Shake the President's hand (dead or alive?)
- Hold my lover's hand (huh?)
- Write a book
- Kiss someone I shouldn't
- Go to Australia
- Slide into home plate
- Wear a skirt shorter than I should (uhm, hello college)
- Wear a bikini on my 40th birthday (uhm, nope)
- Smoke a cigar (while in a bikini?)
- Listen to someone who feels unheard
- Always spend Christmas with family
- Say I'm sorry even if I'm not
- Give away more money than I can afford to
- Paint a house
- Go on a mission trip to Africa
- Fly in first class
- Have a best friend forever
- Be a best friend forever
- Pet an elephant
- Say yes if my heart tells me to
- Play in a famous rock band
I think 77 should have been: Finish this list before I am 40.
Oh Lord. I was something alright.
Which was your fave?
22 comments:
I LOVE it!! I wish I had done something like that. I remember having a diary, but I don't know what happened to it. I wish I had kept some stuff like that.
I liked 'hold my lover's hand' because I'm trying to figure out how you'd even get to the 'lover' part if you hadn't so much as held hands. There are some gems there though.
I also found my college journal. Oh, the melodrama. Whoever said you should save your journals for posterity is nuts! I'd be so humiliated!
I'm picturing you literally scaling the outside of the Statue of liberty!! LOL This is great! Oh, and i had the same journal..the one with the bear in the window...ahhhhhh. Thanks for sharing!
I am so glad that we did #20 together and not #24...I am still cracking up at the breakfast comment...HI-larious...so glad that I didnt document my dorky-ness...cause Im sure there were some doozies... :)
By age 40 - #12."Understand myself" - so profound.
I wish I understood MYself - and I am on the downside toward 60!
~Mad
Still have my real teeth
Hahahahaha oh lord! I think MOST 40 year old have their teeth....I think.
It occurs to me you have done most of them. I think they tell us just how sweet of a young girl you were, well, except the sleepover and fake id part, but we will forgive you for those.
I'd still like to go to Paris!
nichole mc -- I KNOW!!!That is the exact pic I had on myself too...like the moutain climber on price is right. I wonder if I would also yodel.....hmmm
maybe #78
feather k -- you have also done #44 FOR me....cause you love me and all
dana -- what about the kiss someone I shouldn't part////LORDY BE!
Oh you are a brave and confident Gril! I was such a dork. I started a journal and burned it almost weekly!
I had a diary, too. But I dont know what happened to it. I figure one of my sisters will whip it out to use for blackmail one of these days. Because,I, too was a total dork. Imagine that.
GIRL. you are so crazy! :) said lovingly, of course :) :) i love this list. but what i love the most? is how you say, 'i want to be a missionary.' then two days later, 'nah, i wanna be a bartender.'
i love that you shared this. you constantly reveal so much of yourself and i am so thankful for that. you are so REAL. that's why i love ya!!
and you have done #44 for me as well...just glad we weren't doing #24 at the same time... :)
i so wish i would have known you back in the day.
this is classic!
Too funny, so how close are you to completing it? It makes me want to go find my journals, of course it scares me to find them & see what silly & crazy stuff I put in them.
But we were all young & naive once. I just wish we could be older, naive & still survive. Oh well.
Thanks for the laugh!
Thanks for including a cut by Eva Cassidy. She added the right touch to your "list of 99"
gramps
ah gramps -- you led me to her....have a beautiful day!!!!
How funny! I have a box that has high school notes and pictures and things like that! It is soo funny to read them! Although I don't know if me and my friends have changed much! We are still pretty much dorks!
I think "Floss Daily" is my fave...all those lofty goals- missions in Africa, lead someone to Jesus, make someone proud, make a difference...and observe good dental hygiene! I guess "Floss Daily" was to help you achieve the one about all your own teeth! I also love 74. The world is full of neglected elephants!
Oh this is so awesome - the fact that you have this is just so cool. Love the still have your real teeth - that is a good thing to want....
That is too funny!! I guess my favorite is still having your own teeth at 40...I'm not sure why you would think you wouldn't.
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