We had our housewarming party this past weekend and it went very well.
My parents drove from Grand Junction to attend. As a housewarming present, they brought all my junior high and high school yearbooks, letters, journals, all my college notebooks, plus a few items from childhood, including Holly and Heather Hobby dolls and my Cabbage Patch Kid, who was tragically named Merle Hara.
The most interesting box contains treasures I saved from my early high school years. Mixed in with magazine clippings of 1985’s most energetically pastel fashions was a list I made the summer before my freshman year of high school.
I must have checked the goals I reached. I’d like to congratulate myself for the complexion improvement and the BLAST I had at camp. It is fortunate I realized how to spell candystriping, or my summer may have been much different than intended.
Part of me snickers at Young Gretchen fretting over memorizing the map of my future high school. Hubby thinks my dude-meeting goal is hilarious. I gave up making lists of my goals a long time ago, unfortunately. There is great value in the act of expressing the direction you hope to steer your life. I admire the optimism of goal-setters and would love to feel the rush of making a checkmark next to a goal, accomplished.
originally posted October 2005…summers are for re-runs, aren’t they?
This made me laugh out loud multiple times, mostly because it is VERY something I would have done.
My favorite part is that you set a goal of brushing your teeth two times a day and were unable to check it off…
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I love that. I’m more of a list-maker than a goal achiever myself. Oh well.
Thanks for the laugh.
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What? You didn’t meet any dudes? The (haha) had me ha ha-ing. Great list. Perfect checkmarks.
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I’m lol that you didn’t reach your goal of brushing your teeth 2x a day, lol. So you managed to improve your complexion, but woah, don’t get too close cause your breath probably wasn’t as nice, lol. Too funny.
I so would have done something like that in my teen years. I actually categorized my friends in my yearbook, had a key made up and everything. Friends were ranked by “best friends”, “really good friends”, and just “friends”. what i crack up about is that I acutally made a “key” in the front of my 7th and 8th grade year books so I woudl remember what meant what. Of course, i don’t think I considered how my friends felt when they saw how I ranked them, lol.
I like reruns-yours are the best. Candy stripping, that would be some kind of job.
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My favorite are the things that didn’t get checked off the list. I think that we could be friends. At least the 1985 version of yourself could be friends with the 2008 version of me. Hopefully you haven’t changed your dental hygiene habits too much.
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The memorizing the map is my favorite part. How cute are you. And I love reruns!
Steph
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Just couldn’t get that “brushing teeth two times a day” in there, could ya, Gretch? It’s hard, I know:)
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I might just cross out the “meet some dudes” and make that my list for this summer.
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I absolutely love this post! Thanks for sharing it.
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